The Indian state of Kerala has the ignoble distinction of having the highest per capita of its Muslim population join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and now the terror organisation has confirmed that Najeeb, a 23-year-old engineering graduate from Kerala who had left the country in 2017 to ISIS in Afghanistan, has reportedly died.
His death was announced by the official ISIS mouthpiece, Voice of Khorasan with his picture. However, it did not disclose how and when Najeeb achieved shahadat while fighting for the cause of Islam. The magazine was full of his praise because he had died on his wedding night just like Hanzala Ibn Abi Mair, a follower of Prophet Mohammad.
But the article hinted that Najeeb was used in a suicide mission and that he had gladly volunteered for it. In the Islamic terror magazine, Najeeb was has been identified by his adopted name Najeeb Al Hindi and described as ‘an engineering student from Kerala’.
Najeeb was a resident of Ponmala in the Malappuram district of Kerala and was pursuing M.Tech in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore town.
After the publication of his photo in the ISIS magazine, his family in Kerala has identified him by his photo.
Najeeb went missing in July 2017 and his parents started to look for him and in August filed a missing person complaint with the police.
After some time, he sent a Telegram message to his family and informed them that he had left for Afghanistan to join ISIS’s Afghanistan chapter Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) and told his family that he was fighting kafirs.
In the Telegram message, he wrote “There is no meaning in living with kafirs and I have escaped from the world of kafirs and The Quran preaches non-believers as kafirs,”.
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