The 34-year old volunteer who had been helping out in the burial of Covid-19 victims for a couple of weeks, was on his way to bury his mother after she succumbed to the virus.

It was a cruel twist of fate, and he wept as he recited prayers in the hearse that ferried his mother Patimah Ibrahim, 68, to her final resting place.

And no matter how difficult it was, Razak had to do the needful, as his father, Nordin Saeran, 70, and his six siblings could not attend her funeral, Harian Metro reported.

Razak, who is the youngest in the family, recalled the time Patimah had expressed her wish for her children to accompany her to her final resting place, should she pass on.

“Alhamdulillah, I got to grant her wish and to see her face before her final journey,” he told the Malay daily.

Razak, who was into his second week as a volunteer with the Selangor Islamic Religious Department’s PJC-19, was hit the hardest when he had to lower her body into the ground.

“It would be the last time I see her.”

Patimah passed away at 11.30pm last night and doctors only confirmed that she had succumbed to Covid-19 in the wee hours of the morning.

The last time he spoke to his mother, Razak said she looked weak but he didn’t expect her to die.

More so, he did not expect her to test positive for Covid-19.

“It’s real,” he says of the virus and hopes his grief would be a lesson to all.

“You need to get yourself vaccinated,” he was quoted as saying by Harian Metro.

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