May Allah reward all Muslims who sincerely worried for my son, all those who wholeheartedly supported him and us. When I read your comments about Sayeed's Martyrdom, for me, as his mother, this loss becomes easier. Because your support preserves my faith.
And only now, I clearly realize that all that Sayeed tried to propagate was not in vain. And his first intentions, when he for the first time read Russian translation of Quran, are coming true.
I do not have a talent to express my thoughts as clearly as my son did, and I don't actually need one. But for the sake of justice I cannot be silent when the headlines and the information in Russian media are full of made-up stories about his life, starting from his school period up to the "Nevski Express".
When it comes to time when he was a kid, even then in the kindergarten which Sayeed was attending, the kindergarten teachers asked me to pay attention to him, because he seemed very unusual child to them, and even back then he puzzled them with his unchildish questions. And, do I even need to speak about his school, when in the 6th grade he already had such a deep knowledge of history, and in other humanities subjects likewise, and what the teachers tried to teach there wasn't equal to his knowledge. He was interested in school only when there was something he could learn from his teachers, the rest of his time he spent in the city libraries.
The unique ability of his memory has puzzled me many times. I even asked him once: "I don't understand, how you do it, how can you read books on different subjects, all at the same time, and be able to retell the pages full of dates and names, and not in general terms?" And Sayeed replied to me: "I'm more amazed by the fact, that I may repeat same names and dates more than ten times, but people still do not remember them!"
And this was said not because of his pride, meaning "look how smart I'm"! No! He really regretted it, and it seemed to him that he is doing something wrong, or that he is not delivering his lectures right.
So, when he read the translation of Quran for the first time he said: "Now, I know what I want in life. I want to embrace Islam, I want to learn about this religion and spread it to other people, so everyone can live in justice as it is written in this Book."
And this was in Buryatia, when he was 17 years old, and he almost immediately started to perform namaz (salat), at the beginning not the way it should have been done, because back then it was almost impossible to find any literature on this subject.
He had only a small booklet with a description of namaz (salat), and it wasn't hard for him to memorize it. The same year, he started to search for people who can tell him anything about Islam, but he could not find anything except of a couple of books from the library.
So, after we talked things over, we decided that we need to address a mosque, and the closest one was in Irkutsk city, and he went there. I've got to hand it to the Imam of that mosque, he immediately responded to Sayeed's wish to study the religion. Of course, imam was pretty much surprised, because it was for the first time when a young man from Buryatia approached him with an intention to be part of this religion and also to start studying it.
The imam directed him to Moscow Islamic Institute, so with such clear and sincere intentions he started his way to knowledge.
After he has studied there for 2 years, he continued his education in Egypt. After his return from Egypt in 2003, Sayeed continued to study and work in Moscow. And in 2004, he underwent 4 months study course of Arabic language in Kuwait.
He was not alone there, a big congress with participants representing many countries, was held there. So, the ignorant journalists who do not posses any information about Sayeed's life, need to stop to ascribe to him a "special training" in some kind of made up "special training camps" in different countries.
And in 2007, Sayeed performed Hajj to the sacred house of Allah. And that is it for Sayeed's foreign trips, too bad that the Russian media wants to invent something else.
I'm providing this information only for the justice regarding my son. And of course it mostly concerns Russian media. Because, no matter how hard they try to sniff something out about his personal life, they are not succeeding. And the silence from the part of close to Sayeed people, makes information hungry journalists invent stories.
The media is trying to ascribe to Sayeed something incredible, mentioning the last names of our neighbors who have never existed in real life, the stories about him changing different religions, and many more other things.
Therefore, I would like to reassure all the followers of Buddhism and Christianity that Sayeed did not "betray" your religions, because he has never practiced them.
If anyone is worried by the fact that he is well educated in many canons of different religions, it is only because of the knowledge of an educated person with wide interests and excellent memory.
With the same passion he could talk about ancient civilizations, people and even tribes, it was very interesting for Sayeed. He was searching for the purpose of life, the reason why a man was created, and praise be to Allah, he has found it only in Islam. So, don't even mention about him studying in a Buddhist school or a Turkish lyceum (when the Turkish lyceum was opened where we lived, Sayeed had already gone for knowledge to Moscow).
Therefore, you Russian journalists, leave the Buryat lamas without Sayeed's company. Moreover, if we speak about his ancestors, they are from Irkutsk Buryats who also have nothing to do with Buddhism, and his grandmother from father's side is Kazakh.
It may seem strange to some people, but for those who were born and raised living in Siberia, there is nothing strange in a big quantity of mixed marriages, because the population here in its majority are the descendents of once deported to Siberia people of different nationalities.
And this concerns me as well; we are all Russians according to our passports, but I'm not actually Russian myself. So, I would like to "disappoint" all the spiteful critics regarding the phrase "father is a Buddhist, mother is a Christian". I was never a Christian, and also was looking for truth in this life and when searching in the books about religions did not find anything intelligible, until I came across an article by A. Men "The Son of Man", you should remember him; he was the Christian archpriest who was slain with an axe.
So, this article brought me to Islam, even thou it may sound very odd. And the author writes that Jesus (Isa) when addressing God in ancient Aramaic language called Him "Ellah"!!! And I went hot and cold all over from the truth that the name of God is Allah, and Jesus also called Him Allah. And when finally I realized the truth then everything found its right place and the heart was soothed by the knowledge. And this happened 2 years before Sayeed embraced Islam, I was asking Allah, and making prayers to make my son become a Muslim, and Allah has heard my prayers, and He actually until these days answers all sincere prayers. Allhamdullilah!
Of course, for us, Sayeed's family, it is a great loss, because he indeed was a beloved son, brother and husband. And he has left his comfortable life in the Moscow apartment at the time when indeed we were living in prosperity and harmony. And this proves once again that he had to make a very tough choice at that moment. He understood that he will lose everything and also make us lose everything, but he did not abandon his choice until the end.
This little information is all that I wanted to share for the sake of authenticity and in order to expose the journalist's lies around name of my son.
Umm Sayeed
Source: IA Hunafa
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