When a devoted Christian from a wealthy Norwegian-American family discovers Islam inside a maximum security prison, the last thing he expects is for it to answer every question he carried since childhood. Maliky Click spent the first 19 years of his life attending church three times a week — Wednesday Bible study, Friday youth night, and Sunday services — yet a growing emptiness and unanswered questions about the Bible led him on a search for truth that would cost him his inheritance, his family ties, and everything the world told him to value.
A Childhood of Doubt Inside the Church
At just seven years old, Maliky walked into a church for the first time and witnessed people speaking in tongues, crying, running down the aisles, and rolling on the floor. It terrified him as a child and planted the first seeds of doubt. By age 14, while attending Bible study, he discovered what he saw as clear contradictions in the Bible — one passage stating that no man can see God and live, while another describes Jacob physically wrestling with God and defeating Him. When he raised the question with his Bible study leader, the only answer he received was “just have faith.” That moment marked the end of his inner belief in Christianity, even though he continued going through the motions for years afterward.
Finding Islam Behind Prison Walls
Every question that I had, he would smile and say ‘mashallah, it’s a very good question — here’s the answer.’ Not only does he have an answer, it’s good. Not only does he have an answer, it’s backed up by his book. Not only does he have an answer, it’s backed up by scientific proof as well. This might be what I’ve been looking for my whole life.
After falling into a rough lifestyle, Maliky ended up in maximum security prison, where a Turkish Muslim named Omar approached him on the yard and began sharing the message of Islam. At first, Maliky tried to defend Christianity with his Bible, but every argument he raised was met with clear, evidence-based answers from the Quran. When he finally opened the Quran himself, he was stunned to find the same prophets he knew — Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary — but presented with a clarity and consistency he had never encountered before. He read from breakfast until dinner without realizing hours had passed. The moment that sealed his conversion was witnessing Muslim prisoners prostrate in prayer during Juma — hardened men humbled completely before God Almighty, praying the way Jesus himself prayed — and he knew Islam was irresistible.
Prophet Muhammad Mentioned in the Bible
- Isaiah 29:12 states: “Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying please read this, and he will say I cannot read” — Muslims recognize this as a direct prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) receiving revelation in the Cave of Hira, where the Angel Jibreel commanded him to read and he replied that he could not
- Examination of the oldest manuscript versions of this verse reveals what appears to be altered lettering, with characters squeezed in to change the original sound and meaning of the text
- The original Hebrew letters, when read without the suspected insertions, phonetically resemble a reference that aligns with the Islamic account of revelation
- The context of the passage — a book given in a cave to an illiterate man — matches precisely what Muslims have believed for over 1,400 years about Prophet Muhammad receiving the Quran
- Jesus himself declared in Mark 12:29, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one” — affirming the same pure monotheism that Islam teaches, rather than a Trinity
Choosing Faith Over Family and Fortune
I choose Islam. If I have Allah, I have everything. If I don’t have Islam and I have a million dollars, what do I have? I have nothing. But if I have Allah, I have salvation. Becoming a Muslim and having Allah pleased with me and dying upon Islam — that is the ultimate victory.
- The ultimatum: When Maliky’s father learned of his conversion, he gave him a choice — abandon Islam or lose his six-figure inheritance, the family house, and all the land
- The immediate answer: Before his father even finished the sentence, Maliky replied “I choose Islam” without a moment of hesitation
- Written out of the will: His father went to a lawyer the very next day and removed him from the family inheritance entirely
- No regret: Maliky responded with “alhamdulillah” (all praise is due to God), grateful that out of his entire Norwegian lineage, Allah chose him alone to receive the gift of Islam
- A message to Christians: After 19 years as a Christian and over 31 years as a Muslim, Maliky knows both sides and urges sincere seekers to learn Islam from authentic sources rather than professional Islamophobes — because 20,000 Americans convert to Islam every single year, and there is a reason for that
This journey from church pews to prison yards to the prostration before Allah is a testament to what happens when a sincere heart refuses to stop searching for truth. The evidence for Prophet Muhammad in the Bible, the preserved miracle of the Quran, and the pure monotheism of Islam continue to draw thousands of people every year from all backgrounds and all walks of life. If you are searching for answers the way Maliky once was, visit thedeenshow.com to request your free copy of the Quran and call 1-800-662-ISLAM to have your questions answered — because the truth has a way of finding those who genuinely seek it.
