The Dead Victims of Christchurch Terror Are Not Dead, They Are Alive

Sarah Dee
11 min readMar 18, 2019

In fact, Muslims around the world are jealous of them

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Yesterday, someone shared this beautiful notes on a WhatsApp group which was written by a Chinese revert sister. It’s written for the killer who attacked Muslims in New Zealand. I stumbled on it with the goosebumps feeling in my heart; I couldn’t believe this revert sister could tell her feelings beautifully about what she had thought about this horrific tragedy for all the Muslim around the world, along with her own amazing reflection and her great understanding of Islamic teaching.

(I) Appreciate that you made the effort to find out the timing of our noon prayer.

Appreciate that you learnt more about our religion to know that Fridays are the days the men go to the Mosques for their congregational prayers.

But I guess there were some things you, rather unfortunately, didn’t get to learn.

Perhaps you didn’t know that what you did made them Martyrs.

And how you have single-handedly raised the statuses of our brothers and sisters in the eyes of their beloved Creator with your actions. And how, through your actions, they will be raised as the most righteous and pious of Muslims.

Perhaps you didn’t know that doing what you did…

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Sarah Dee

Introverted writer, illustrator, and learner in one package