Calling Rani, who died yesterday, her “good friend”, she said the former Selangor PAS commissioner had showed her how to live with people of other faiths.

“Glad I am in town today so I could be at his burial. Cried my eyes out. He will be missed so dearly.”

She added: “In the mosque, the prayers mixed with sobbing ended with ‘ini hamba Allah yang baik’. I can testify that this is indeed true.”

The DAP MP for Segambut recalled in a Facebook post that Rani had always comforted her whenever she was attacked for her faith.

Yeoh said Rani, whom she labelled a “good, good man”, had even attended a simple ceremony in church when her daughter was born.

Rani had also led a delegation of Muslim politicians to a dialogue with church members when the Damansara Utama Methodist Church was raided by the Selangor religious authorities in 2011 following allegations of attempts to convert Muslims.

And even after Rani remained in PAS after Pakatan Rakyat split up in 2015, Yeoh said they had kept in touch.

“When my campaign billboards were vandalised recently, Rani messaged me to check on me.”

“Politically, we were opponents but Rani was first and foremost a dear friend. And I will remember him that way. You lived the high calling of public service so well.”

Rani, who studied medicine in Egypt, was Meru assemblyman for two terms from 2008 to 2018.

He was also Selangor PAS commissioner from 2011 to 2013.

He is survived by his wife, four children and 11 grandchildren.