After a desperate plea for his dying wife, a man in the "True North of India" encounters Christ — and now leads others to Him despite persecution.
The doctor’s words were blunt.
“Why have you brought a dead body here?”
Aamir’s wife lay pale and motionless in the hospital bed. She had been suffering severe blood loss. Without O-negative blood, the doctors said, she would not survive.
Aamir immediately offered his own blood. It was O-positive.
“It will not work,” the doctor replied. “Find O-negative. Quickly.”
In the mountainous border region where Aamir lives — an area often shaken by armed conflict and instability — rare blood types are difficult to obtain. At the local blood bank, officials refused his request. They said none was available. Even when Aamir offered money, they would not release any.
That night, he sat alone in anguish. He thought of his two children and what life would be like without their mother. In desperation, he cried out to God.
Around 2 a.m., Aamir dreamed.
A man clothed in white, shining like the sun, stood before him. The man held a book in one hand and placed his other hand gently on Aamir’s head.
“Son,” the figure said, “do not worry. I have arranged the blood for you.”
The next morning, a stranger approached him at the hospital. After hearing Aamir’s story, the man said, “I am the one who will get the blood. God sent me to you.”
Together they went to the blood bank. Four pints of O-negative blood were released — free of charge. Aamir’s wife survived.
Afterward, the stranger told him, “The One who appeared to you is Jesus Christ. He has shown you this mercy so that you would know Him.”
The man gave Aamir an Audio Bible containing recordings of the Gospels in his language. Though Aamir could not read, he could listen.
At first, he listened with doubt. He debated what he heard with religious leaders in his community. Yet the words of Christ unsettled him — the authority, the compassion, the power over life and death.
Gradually, Aamir became convinced: the man in his dream was Jesus.
He began attending a small underground listening group. In time, he confessed Christ as Lord and was baptized.
Today, Aamir leads 40 to 50 listening groups across scattered villages near the contested border. Believers gather quietly in homes and fields to hear God’s Word.
“The Word of God is not only for educated people,” Aamir says. “God chooses the illiterate also.”
When community leaders discovered his conversion, Aamir was expelled from his family home. He built a simple mud house and continued hosting gatherings there.
Later, armed conflict spread across the region, and his house was destroyed. Still, the listening groups continue.
In a place marked by violence and uncertainty, believers gather to hear Scripture spoken aloud — the same Word that first reached Aamir in his despair.
PRAY FOR AAMIR
• Pray for protection over Aamir and his family amid ongoing regional tensions. • Pray for strength and boldness as he leads dozens of listening groups. • Pray for new believers facing pressure from family and community leaders.
• Pray for additional Audio Bibles — especially in the local heart language — so more people can hear the gospel.
• Pray that those who oppose the message of Christ will encounter Him personally.
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