Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

Assalamu alaykum!

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

Domla Yoldoshkhon Isayev worked at the Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Center.

He was an extremely humble, sincere and sociable man, utterly free of arrogance, modest and of beautiful character.

I met him once, when I went to the center.

I spoke with him on the phone several times.

I had been unable to become an online member of the Topkapı Museum Library in Turkey; I had filled in an application, but they were not accepting it. When I visited, it came up in conversation and I mentioned it to Yoldoshkhon aka. He immediately made a phone call. A girl named Sarra worked there, and right then and there, through her, he had my online membership in the library approved.

I was quite amazed: can there really be people who do good so easily and so selflessly?

For as time went on, I had stopped expecting any kindness from anyone, since those who do such good were becoming exceedingly few. A gloomy thought had even begun to take hold of me that no one in the world was capable of selfless kindness anymore.

Perhaps this is how people stop believing in one another’s selfless kindness.

I cannot say that I was close to the domla or dear to him.

I think he simply did me a kindness, as he did for everyone.

He has probably long forgotten it.

Today, on hearing the news, my heart grieved: Domla Yoldoshkhon Isayev has departed for the eternal world.

May Allah envelop him in His mercy.

I long to be like Yoldoshkhon aka in character, in humility, in modesty, and in claiming nothing for himself.

My Lord, accept Your believing servant of beautiful character, who trod carefully so as not to hurt even the earth, and treat him with kindness!

Forgive his sins and envelop him in Your mercy!

Ameen, ya Rabbal ’alamin!

P.S.:

A few short minutes of the domla’s talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNFJVwXHD-0