Ended with a song
Friday, August 17, 2007
APOLICE officer in a Muslim country wrote the following letter to a Sheykh describing the events that led to his return to Allah.
"Seeing accidents and crash victims was normal in my job, but one incident was different.
My partner and I had parked on the shoulder of the highway and began to chat. Suddenly, the scene shattered to the hideous sound of metal bodies. We turned to see what had happened: a head-on collision.
You couldn't describe the carnage. Two young men sprawled in the first car, both in critical condition. We carried them gently away from the car and rested them on the ground.
Quickly we returned to assist the owner of the second car. He was dead. Back we went to the two young men lying side by side on the pavement.
My partner began dictating the Shahadah to them, 'Say: La iIaha illAllah (there is no god but Allah)'
Their tongues wouldn't acknowledge. They started humming the hypnotic lyrics of some song. I was terrified. However, my partner kept repeating his instruction.
I stood watching, no movement, eyes locked. Never in my life had I seen anything similar to what was going on before me. In fact, I've never actually seen someone die, and never in such a terrible way.
My partner continued to instruct them to say the Shahadah but there was no use. The hum of their song came to a slow silence, slowly. The first one stopped and then the other. Not a stir. Dead.
We carried them to our patrol car, my partner no longer made any effort to speak. Not a whisper was said between us two as we carried the corpses to the nearest hospital."
Khutbah
"Seeing accidents and crash victims was normal in my job, but one incident was different.
My partner and I had parked on the shoulder of the highway and began to chat. Suddenly, the scene shattered to the hideous sound of metal bodies. We turned to see what had happened: a head-on collision.
You couldn't describe the carnage. Two young men sprawled in the first car, both in critical condition. We carried them gently away from the car and rested them on the ground.
Quickly we returned to assist the owner of the second car. He was dead. Back we went to the two young men lying side by side on the pavement.
My partner began dictating the Shahadah to them, 'Say: La iIaha illAllah (there is no god but Allah)'
Their tongues wouldn't acknowledge. They started humming the hypnotic lyrics of some song. I was terrified. However, my partner kept repeating his instruction.
I stood watching, no movement, eyes locked. Never in my life had I seen anything similar to what was going on before me. In fact, I've never actually seen someone die, and never in such a terrible way.
My partner continued to instruct them to say the Shahadah but there was no use. The hum of their song came to a slow silence, slowly. The first one stopped and then the other. Not a stir. Dead.
We carried them to our patrol car, my partner no longer made any effort to speak. Not a whisper was said between us two as we carried the corpses to the nearest hospital."
Khutbah
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