Mentawai (VOA-islam.com)-morning, around 10:00 am, the sky looks cloudy Sikakap. Outside the home ground looks muddy. Trees and grass still wet after heavy rain throughout the night. Soon, it looks like rain will fall. Yes, grief washed Sikerei Earth.

Outside the house, the smell of corpses sting. The smell was pleasant to spread by the wind. Indeed, until Friday (29/10), the corpse is still lying on the roadside. My mind immediately thought of hundreds of residents of South Pagai which survive in the hills, in rain storm conditions. In addition to hunger, cold nights, they have to fight a disease that is now attacking.

It was true. Heavy rains flushed the Sikakap. Not just rain, but also storm. At the main post, journalists and volunteers had gathered. As usual, every morning we get ready for combing remote villages unspoiled assistance. That morning, a team of volunteers and journalists were heading Hamlet Pasa Puat in North Pagai. Village, all houses were destroyed. Lucky, there were no fatalities.

... "We were in the mosque there were about 50 people, while other residents having fled to the hills, a distance of one kilometer from the mosque. Looking at the mosque is not taxable at all, we were surprised. After that we realized this is the will of God, .. .

Travel by boat or long wooden boat. The ship was able to carry 12 people and a bit of logistics for the refugees. How many minutes of sailing, wave two meters ahead. Shipping was halted. After waiting about an hour, Daya dinakhodai boat which was continued for two hours sailing. Throughout the trip, the boat almost sank because water filled. We reached our destination around 17:00 pm.

From the beach, quiet hamlet Puat Pasa. Not the slightest sign of such a village. Residential flat on the ground. None of the homes standing. All down. Only one building stands firmly facing the beach. Yes, a mosque. Garin mosque is also survived. Zulfikar name.

Days went dusk. The rain has not subsided. Zulfikar seems prepared to perform the Maghrib prayer. In conversation, the 40-year-old man claimed to have been living in the village since childhood. Same old mosque that stood around 1960 ago. "This is the oldest mosque in our village. The mosque that was not original anymore, because it continues to be improved," said Zulfikar.

Zulfikar told, this mosque was not touched by the tsunami on that night. In fact, its location not far from the beach. While the houses of residents near the mosque, razed to the ground. The mosque is at the community shelter when a big wave coming.

Like a miracle, the sea water just reached the porch of the mosque. Outside the mosque, Zulfikar saw with my own eyes the waves reached eight meters. "We were in the mosque there were about 50 people, while other residents having fled to the hills, a distance of one kilometer from the mosque. Looking at the mosque is not taxable at all, we were surprised. After that we realized this is the will of God," explained the bearded man .

Zulfikar and 50 other residents not stop saying the greatness of God. Outside the mosque, the tsunami continues to hit as many as three waves. Nothing would expect, a tsunami escape from the mosque. "It seems, in the mosque split water, so the mosque floor was not wet at all," he recalls.
Quoted from http://voa-islam.com