CompassDirect.org (excerpts):  Christian loses livelihood and relatives for leaving Islam.  

Lahore, Pakistan - When Malik Pauloos of Bhakkar district, Punjab Province finally decided to trust a close relative with the secret that he had left Islam for Christianity, there was no question in his relative's mind that Pauloos's relationship with the family was over.  The family had been custodian of an Islamic shrine, the Pir Syed Karamat Shah in Kot Islam, for three generations.  Though Pauloos had moved to Karachi 20 years ago to start a scrap business, he continued fulfilling his duties to prepare the shrine for annual pilgrimages, but after he withdrew from it over time upon his conversion, shrine leaders were asking pointed questions about his adherence to Islam.  "I told him (the relative) to get the shrine people off my back, because I did not want to keep any point of contact with my past life," Pauloos, 36, told Compass.  "Although shocked, my relative said that he would first try and make my family understand the situation, and then they could figure out a way of letting me walk away peacefully."  Pauloos did not realize that, beyond disowning him, his family would file a police complaint against him, because as a murtad or apostate deserving death, he was said to have committed "blasphemy."  With authorities' help, family members are trying to track him down.  His father put up a notice in a local newspaper disowning him, he said.  Pauloos said that he left his business last month and came to Punjab, where he has been travelling from one city to another sharing his experience of Christ.  Pauloos said he does not regret trusting in Christ as Savior, even though he has lost a comfortable life, a successful business, and his Muslim family and friends are in hot pursuit to "kill the apostate."  

Commentary:  There are many testimonials throughout the internet of former Muslims who have given up everything - family, friends, businesses, properties, inheritances - everything to follow Christ, even at the risk of their lives.  Most of us in the US and throughout the world have nothing to lose, but everything to gain, to follow Christ; yet many still refuse the Lord for the temporary, futile pleasures of this life, or to worship satan, the pathway to eternal damnation.  In the book of Hebrews, we are reminded that the patriarch Moses, "Chose to suffer affliction with the people of God, than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season" Hebrews 11:25.  Many people live as though their lives on this planet are never going to end, as though they will never face God for the life they have lived, or their decision to live for the pleasures of sin for just a little while.  We shouldn't forget that the Bible says, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, whatever a man sows, he will also reap" Galatians 6:7.