Indonesian youth seeking paradise leaps to his death

JEDDAH, 7 February 2003 — An Indonesian pilgrim jumped to his death from the ninth floor of a building in Makkah, thinking it was an easy way to reach paradise. But the man did not know he would end up in hell by committing suicide, which is prohibited in Islam.

“See you in paradise”, Rosali Sadi, 26, told his wife before throwing himself from the apartment building in Makkah, Okaz reported. “Sadi believed that a person who dies in Makkah will enter paradise and he did not hesitate to achieve that goal,” the paper said.

Sadi came to Makkah with his wife and aunt to perform Haj. According to the Arabic daily, he was making plans to achieve his goal of reaching paradise. “He committed suicide in the presence of his wife,” it added.