Shaykh describing the events that led to his return to Allah. He
recalls:
Seeing accidents and crashvictims was a normal part of my day, but one
incident was different.
My partner and I had parked on the shoulder of the highway and began
tochat. In a random second, the scene shattered to the hideous sound
of metal bodies becoming one. We threw our heads back to see what had
happened: ahead-on collision, the result of a vehicle slipping into
the lane of the oncoming traffic.
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), La iIaha illAllah��
... their tongues wouldn�t acknowledge. They startedhumming the
hypnotic lyrics of some song. I was terrified. My partner had
experience however and he kept repeating his instruction.
I stood watching, no movement, eyes locked. Never in my life had I
seenanything similar to what was going on before me. In fact, I�ve
never actually seen someone die, and never in such a satanic 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 made no effort to speak.
Not a whisper between us two as we carried the corpses to the nearest
hospital.
"Has not the Time arrived for the Believers that their hearts in all
humility should engage in the remembrance of Allah andof the Truth
which has been revealed (to them), and that they should not become
like those to whom was given Revelation aforetime, but long ages
passed over them and their hearts grew hard? For many among them are
rebellious transgressors." Al Quran 57:16
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