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Story of Martyrdom:
On Friday, the
sixteenth of January, Ali suggested that he and his brother
Ahmad would offer the Friday Prayer in the masjid while his
other two brothers offered it in another masjid in case if a
bombing took place and one of them was injured. The mother
saw them off and supplicated Allah that they would return
safely. When they came back, she prepared launch, but Ali
could not eat because some of the neighbors did not have
something to eat. Therefore, he sought the permission of his
mother to offer them some food and she gave him permission.
He carried the food, distributed it to them, and came back
happily with his action.
When it was half
past three, Ali ascended to the upper floor, performed
ablution, and offered the `Asr Prayer. His neighbor called
upon him to accompany him to a nearby orchard owned by
“Al-Shurafa” family who entrusted him with that orchard
to take care of their animals. When Ali was about to go with
his friend, his father prevented them to go for fear of the
Israeli bombing. The empty agricultural lands are the target
of the Israeli air raids to kill moving thing because the
Israeli forces believed that they were used to launch the
missiles against Israel.
In the beginning,
the two boys obeyed the commands of Ali’s father (Abu
Ahmad), but their care for rendering the trusts back was
much bigger. So, they went to the orchard to feed the birds
with their hands and offer them some water. However, an
Israeli reconnaissance warplane was waiting for any move in
the orchard. As soon as they reached the orchard, it
launched one of its missiles at them killing Ali and his
friend. When Ahmad (Ali’s brother) went out to see what
had happened outside, the warplane launched another missile
at the same place. Ahmad was injured due to the shrapnel,
his left leg was amputated, and his right leg was smashed.
The mother of Ali
was not able to see her boy off because the warplanes were
still flying in the atmosphere of her house and above the
entire neighborhood. She feared that the warplanes would
target the house again killing or injuring more people, so
she saw him off in his aunt’s house and therefrom they
took him to his final destination.
Like all other
student in his age, Ali loved to play, but in the last year
of his life, he seemed more dedicated to masjids. He used to
attend the sessions of religious knowledge and exerted
himself in memorizing the Qur’an. His sister Hidayah was
helping him in that out of her love to him. She was like a
second mother for Ali because she reared him until he grew
up.
Ali was a student in
the second grade of prep school. He was loyal to his
friends, loved them, and preferred them to himself,
therefore, they lived on his memory ever after. However, he
was not good enough at school, so he hoped to learn a
profession that achieves good money for him to secure his
future as he wished to rebuild the house of his family in
order to suit the large number of his brothers, but he was
forced to leave before he could achieve any of these wishes.
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