A Tragic Story

michael_ital · Post by **michael_ital** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:26 am

Funeral for an angel

6-year-old hit by van laid to rest
By JACK BOLAND, TORONTO SUN

Before little Filsan Homeud Ali was laid to rest yesterday her grieving mother, Hodan, gave her a traditional final purifying bath and wrapped the 6-year-old in five white cotton swathes.

Outside the Jami Mosque on Boustead Ave., in the city's west end, her crestfallen father, Homeud, spoke lovingly about his talented daughter who was struck and killed by a motorist on Saturday in Scarborough.

"She was unlike any other kids her age," said Homeud, adding she overcame difficulties in speech due to autism and excelled at music and computer skills.

"Even though she was slow in speech she was very good with high-tech stuff. She was an advanced little girl," he said before her funeral that followed a midday prayer session.

"She was very playful. She liked playing the piano and keyboards," he said.

"She would teach us things we didn't even know how to do on the computer," said Homeud, who was consoled by family and friends.

On Saturday, Filsan broke free from her mother's hand and dashed into traffic on Ellesmere Rd., just east of Victoria Park Ave. and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.

"My wife keeps playing the tape over and over in her head. She is speechless," Homeud said.

She can't stop thinking about the tragedy, said Homeud, who was in Ottawa at the time of the accident doing humanitarian work.

He has no ill will towards the driver of the van who had no time to avoid striking his daughter, he said.

The Ali family's two other children, daughter, Emely, 7, and son, Hanad Ablis, 2, were in the care of Hodan's sister and not at the funeral.

+chilli · Post by **+chilli** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:02 pm

Am assuming she was Somali: Illahay aah u naaxristo

it happenes

Mystic_Angel · Post by **Mystic_Angel** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:04 pm

allah ya arhamu.

kambuli · Post by **kambuli** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:11 pm

Alla walaal Sad

Miskiintaas dembi ma lahayn oo waxay ahayd sabi... Ilaahay waalidkii dhalay haka siiyo samir iyo iimaan...

Salahuddiin · Post by **Salahuddiin** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:17 pm

Allah yarxamahaa

Everybody die in their fixed time and she was a child so insha Allah she will be in Janna. What is written to happen can never miss us and what is not written for us we can never get. Western mentality makes us scared of death when we should love our journey to the next world to meet our Creator. Ain't nothing tragic about that, only tragic thing is if we don't live our lives the way Allah commanded us, then the death is tragic beyond understanding for that person.

A fly's wing is more worthy than the world and whoever loves dunya will be among the losers. Real life is not yet.

qudhac-m · Post by **qudhac-m** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:19 pm

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto, yes its qadar allah and tragic

michael_ital · Post by **michael_ital** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:22 pm

"Ain't nothing tragic about that, only tragic thing is if we don't live our lives the way Allah commanded us, then the death is tragic beyond understanding for that person."

That is the truth, Brother. But what WAS tragic, was if you could have seen the look of grief on the poor chap who was driving the van.