Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, a Guyanese man was fatally stabbed outside a northwest Toronto mosque last Saturday, according to the Canadian Press.
Reports said that he spent his last hours as he did countless ones before — volunteering at a northwest Toronto mosque and helping those in need.
Zafis, 58, was remembered by friends and family at his funeral on Wednesday as a “kind, gentle soul” who, even on the day he was killed, handed out food to the hungry and worked to keep his fellow worshippers safe, the report said.
“He was an incredible man,” Zafis’s nephew, Zahir Zafis, said through tears.
“He never had any negative thoughts or words.”
Several hundred mourners gathered in the parking lot of the International Muslim Organization in Etobicoke to say goodbye to Zafis, just metres away from where he was stabbed to death on Saturday evening, the report said.
