Mohammed
Atta's Last Will & Testament
In the name of God all mighty
Death Certificate
This is what I want to happen after
my death, I am Mohamed the son of
Mohamed Elamir awad Elsayed: I believe
that prophet Mohamed is God's messenger
and time will come no doubt about that
and God will resurrect people who are in
their graves. I wanted my family and
everyone who reads this will to fear the
Almighty God and don't get deceived by
what is in life and to fear God and to
follow God and his prophets if they are
real believers. In my memory, I want
them to do what Ibrahim (a prophet) told
his son to do, to die as a good Muslim.
When I die, I want the people who will
inherit my possessions to do the
following:
1. The people who will prepare my
body should be good Muslims because this
will remind me of God and his
forgiveness.
2. The people who are preparing my
body should close my eyes and pray that
I will go to heaven and to get me new
clothes, not the ones I died in.
3. I don't want anyone to weep and
cry or to rip their clothes or slap
their faces because this is an ignorant
thing to do.
4. I don't want anyone to visit me
who didn't get along with me while I was
alive or to kiss me or say good bye when
I die.
5. I don't want a pregnant woman or a
person who is not clean to come and say
good bye to me because I don't approve
it.
6. I don't want women to come to my
house to apologize for my death. I am
not responsible for people who will
sacrifice animals in front of my lying
body because this is against Islam.
7. Those who will sit beside my body
must remember Allah, God, and pray for
me to be with the angels.
8. The people who will clean my body
should be good Muslims and I do not want
a lot of people to wash my body unless
it is necessary.
9. The person who will wash my body
near my genitals must wear gloves on his
hands so he won't touch my genitals.
10. I want the clothes I wear to
consist of three white pieces of cloth,
not to be made of silk or expensive
material.
11. I don't want any women to go to
my grave at all during my funeral or on
any occasion thereafter.
12. During my funeral I want everyone
to be quiet because God mentioned that
he likes being quiet on occasions when
you recite the Koran, during the
funeral, and when you are crawling. You
must speed my funeral procession and I
would like many people there to pray for
me.
13. When you bury me the people with
whom I will be buried should be good
Muslims. I want to face East toward
Mecca.
14. I should be laying on my right
side. You should throw the dust on my
body three times while saying from the
dust, we created you dust and to dust
you will return. From the dust a new
person will be created. After that
everyone should mention God's name and
that I died as a Muslim which is God's
religion. Everyone who attends my
funeral should ask that I will be
forgiven for what I have done in the
past (not this action).
15. The people who will attend my
funeral should sit at my grave for an
hour so that I will enjoy their company
and slaughter animals and give the meat
to the needy.
16. The custom has been to
memorialize the dead every forty days or
once a year but I do not want this
because it is not an Islamic custom.
17. I don't want people to take time
to write things on paper to be kept in
their pockets as superstition. Time
should be taken to pray to God instead.
18. All the money I left must be
divided according to the Muslim religion
as almighty God has asked us to do. A
third of my money should be spent on the
poor and the needy. I want my books to
go to any one of the Muslim mosques. I
wanted the people who look at my will to
be one of the heads of the Sunna
religion. Whoever it is, I want that
person to be from where I grew up or any
person I used to follow in prayer.
People will be held responsible for not
following the Muslim religion. I wanted
the people who I left behind to hear God
and not to be deceived by what life has
to offer and to pray more to God and to
be good believers. Whoever neglects this
will or does not follow the religion,
that person will be held responsible in
the end.
This was written on April 11, 1996,
the Islamic calendar of zoelqada is
1416.
Written by MOHAMED MOHAMED ELAMIR
AWAD ELSAYED
Witness: Abdelghani Muzwadi
Witness: Almutasadeq Munir