A Priest in the Back of the Taxi

There is the account of a brother who was working as a taxi driver in the US. He said, "I was asked to drive a priest from Coronado Island to San Diego." Coronado Island is an island outside of San Diego, in the US, which was quite a long distance within the city. "And it was very late at night. So we had a conversation, and he asked me, 'What are you?' I said, 'I'm a Muslim.' 'Who are you?' He said, 'I'm a Catholic priest, and I'm here for a convention.'" So this brother said, "Do you know that our Qur'an has spoken about Jesus? Would you like me to recite to you some verses in the Qur'an about Jesus?" He said, "Yes, go ahead." So the brother said, "I went on reciting verses from Sūrat Maryam and translating them, and I kept on going, on and on and on, and the priest was silent, sitting in the back. It was late at night, and he was sitting in the back."

He said, and then suddenly the priest told him to stop — "This is my destination." The brother said, when he looked at him, he saw tears running down his cheeks. That is how strongly influenced he was by the verses of Sūrat Maryam. He said, "But the good thing after that: he gave me a hundred-dollar tip."

So people who love ʿĪsā, who love Jesus, when they hear the story of Jesus in the Qur'an, it's quite emotional. So it caused al-Najāshī to weep.

Praise be to Allah, may peace and blessings be upon the Holy Prophet Muhammad and his family and his companions.