Christian priest who converted to Islam performs Haj on King’s invitation

Ibrahim Richmond, a former Christian priest from South Africa, who converted to Islam recently, was invited to perform Haj this year by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Richmond accepted Islam three months ago after a ‘divine voice’ spoke with him in a dream. Thousand of Christians from his church followed suit and accepted Islam.

In a viral video, which surfaced on the internet in March, Richmond and thousands of his followers were seen pronouncing Shahadah

On Sunday, the Saudi authorities posted another video of Richmond on Twitter, in which he shared the experience that led him to accept Islam. He says, “I was a priest for 15 years, and I was the leader of the congregation in the church, which has 100,000 followers until I saw the dream.”

Richmond saw that he was “sleeping in the church in a very small room.” He recalls, “Then, I heard a divine voice, telling me: tell your men to wear white.” In the following days, Richmond has this dream over and over again. “Each time the voice grew stronger.”