
The child she was carrying then, Muhammad, will turn three in two months.
The boy, however, has never met his dad and as the authorities have declared all those on board the Boeing 777 legally dead, he never will.
“He was about 10, or 11 months old when he said his first word. It was ‘papa’,” Intan told FMT.
“I showed him a picture of his father and he just said the word. The thing is, we’ve never even told him that the man in the picture was his papa.
“God works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?”
Today is exactly three years since MH370 went missing en route to Beijing. Intan’s husband was a flight steward on the ill-fated flight.
The mind-boggling disappearance of the plane prompted a frantic search, covering thousands of kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean seabed, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. However the whereabouts of the aircraft are still a question mark, and with no new credible leads to work on, the search was suspended early this year.
That was heartbreaking news for Intan.
She said that while she had learned to accept her husband was now with God, she still prayed for answers if only to give her closure and so she could have something definite to tell her two children, including eight-year-old Iman, about what happened to their father.

“So I told her that it was possible, if she prayed and was a good girl,” said Intan.
Intan also told FMT that her family and her in-laws had been pillars of strength throughout her tough journey of single parenthood.
She cries less these days, she said, compared to the first two years after the tragedy but said the pain of losing the love of her life was still gut-wrenching.
“I have to be strong for my children. Especially as my son, who even though he’s only two, is very attentive.
“Even when he hears me sob, he will come ask if I’m okay, and why I was crying.
“Sometimes I am only having a flu,” she said with a small laugh, a welcomed break from her otherwise sombre tone.
“If he grows up to be like his father, then Alhamdulillah (praise be to God).”
Hazrin’s last words to Intan were “I love you.”
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