Abdullah, a Muslim security guard at TWG Tea shop in Leicester Square, heroically overpowered a knifeman who was stabbing an 11-year-old girl and her mother.

Hearing screams, Abdullah swiftly disarmed the attacker, pinning him down until police arrived.

“I heard a scream,” he told the PA news agency, The Guardian reported.

“I saw there was one person, roughly [in their] mid-30s or early 30s, and he was like stabbing a kid – I jumped on him, held the hand in which he was [carrying] a knife, and just put him down on the floor and just held him and took the knife away from him.

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Describing his actions as a duty, Abdullah’s bravery likely saved the child’s life. The attack, which appeared random, left the girl with serious injuries, though her condition is not life-threatening.

“Then a couple of more people joined as well, and we just held him until the police came, it took maybe three to four minutes for the police to arrive and then they just took him into custody.”

He added: “I just saw a kid getting stabbed and I just tried to save her. It’s my duty to just save them.”

Muslim Heroes

Allah tells us that “If anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of the whole humanity.” Quran 5:32

What Abdullah did falls in line with similar heroic acts done by some other Muslims.

Last June, British Muslim Kayfee Hameed rescued a severely burned man from rubble after a house explosion in Middlesbrough.

In August 2022, a group of Black Muslim teenagers were hailed as “heroes” after running into a burning building to rescue residents in East London.

Also in September 2021, a Muslim man in North Leigh, Oxfordshire, was praised for successfully saving his neighbors when fire started in their house.

Azz Mahmoud, a 37-year-old Muslim youth worker in Oldham, performed CPR for the first time ever to save a man’s life.