09/05/2026
إِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Dr Hassan Burhan
27 May 1975 - 4 May 2026
He wasn’t my uncle by blood.
But the name meant something. Uncle Hass. My dad’s friend from university, in our family before I was even a thought. He held me as a baby. A friendship of over 30 years.
When I started attending CEI classes as an adult, I found my way back to him and it was only then that I truly learnt who he was.
There isn’t one moment that captures him.
Every time, he asked. Every time, he listened. Every time, he gave advice, even when you didn’t ask. Every time, you walked away feeling listened to.
You don’t notice consistency like that until it stops.
And his stopped without warning.
Photos and memories. Fifty years. Doctor. Trustee. Son. Father. Husband. Friend.
He touched countless lives. Through medicine, faith, family. Patients who got years they wouldn’t have had.
500 people at his janazah. Muslim and non-Muslim side by side. Friends who hadn’t been in the same room in years. All there for him. He used to say we just need to be excellent human beings, not focus on our differences.
People have told me that he spoke highly of me, loved me, wanted the best for me. Something to hold onto.
Tears have been shed.
Hearts have been hurt.
What’s left is grief and the weight of his absence.
This world is but a temporary place, and when we are called back to our Lord, we must return.
May Allah grant Uncle Hass the highest ranks of Jannah, in the company of the Prophet ﷺ. May He fill his grave with light, and mercy beyond measure.
May He hold his family, especially his wife and two young children. May He grant them sabr the size of what they’ve lost.
May He hold his wife close, grant her strength to walk forward.
May his children carry the father they had, grow into everything he wanted, and be a source of light for him.
May He hold his mother, who has now lost two sons. May He grant her sabr no mother should ever have to carry. May He reunite her with both of them in Jannah.
May CEI grow into everything he envisioned.
May every life he touched continue to count for him, again and again.
اللهم اغفر له وارحمه
