SHAH ALAM, Jan 18 — The Selangor Zakat Board (LZS) has distributed emergency aid and will channel death benefit to the husband of a woman who was allegedly beheaded by her son in Kampung Baru Pasir Penambang in Kuala Selangor on Saturday.
LZS, in a post on its Facebook account, said the assistance was hoped to ease some of the burdens on the victim’s husband and family.
“This couple is one of our asnaf recipients in Kuala Selangor. We still remember their cheerfulness at the zakat presentation last year,” read the statement.
Yesterday, the media reported that Selangor police chief Datuk Arjunaidi Mohamed confirmed that the 28-year-old jobless man who is suspected to have decapitated his mother last Saturday, was under the influence of drugs.
LZS, in the same post also said that drug prevention education and rehabilitation programmes require the involvement of all walks of life and should start from the early childhood education
“We at LZS pray that the husband and family members remain resilient in the face of this great test. May Allah place his wife’s soul among the pious,” it said.
— Bernama
