"When he learned that I had been reading a booklet about a boy who found forgiveness through Jesus Christ, my father tied me to a pillar of our house and beat me with a stick. The next morning he lovingly told me, 'We Muslims should not read such books. They are haram [forbidden]. Because their books are so persuasive, we too will become Christians if we read them. What then will happen to our family? It will affect our whole life." Qississ' father, a Muslim Mullah in southern India, didn't realize how prophetic his words would prove to be as he lectured his eleven-year-old son.