Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, dies
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP)-Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia The great mufti died on Tuesday, serving the best religious figure of the kingdom for the quarterly century, which saw that the ultra -conservative Muslim nation socialized socially. He was 80s.
The role of Sheikh Abdulaziz’s great mufti made him one of the best Islamic clergy in the Sunni Muslim world. Saudi Arabia, which hosts the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina, is the landlords Annual pilgrimage It required once that Muslims with all powerful bodies were necessary once in their lives and to follow the explanations of the great muftis more closely.
Al Saud, who allows women to continue, is closely compatible with the ruling family. Opened Cinema Halls And in recent years, sheikh Abdulaziz, who has socialized socialized in recent years, condemned the excessive supporters such as the Islamic State Group and those in Al Qaeda. In addition, the great muftis made explanations as a form of Islamic form of Islamic form of sectarianly, which sees that the kingdom has separated gender, restricted music and follows other puritic quests for decades following the victim of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s state media reported the death of Sheikh Abdulaziz without offering a reason. Under the 89 -year -old father of the kingdom, King Salman, the powerful crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ruled the daily governance of the kingdom, participated in funeral prayers for the late Muft in Riyadh on Tuesday night.
“With the transition, the Kingdom and the Islamic world have lost a distinguished scholar who made significant contributions to the service of Islam and Muslims,” the Saudi Royal Court said. He said.
Grand became mufti in 1999
Sheikh Abdulaziz, who was blind as a young man, was founded in 1999 by the Saudi King Fahd. At that time, the kingdom remained separated and worked as a close policing by the committee to encourage virtue and prevent the people. These views can be seen in the previously reported interpretations of the Great Mufti in 2004, such as condemning mobile phone cameras.
Other statements focused on Christianity. At that time, Pope Benedict XVI’s 2006 speech, quoting a Byzantine Emperor, said that the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad were “bad and inhuman”. In 2012, Sheikh Abdulaziz, who answered a question about the Christian churches in Kuwait, said that it is necessary to destroy all the churches of the region ”. Those around him later tried to walk the explanations after he had anger from Christian leaders.
Sheikh Abdulaziz, Iran’s highest -level leader SAudi Arabia’s behavior after a crushing and confluence harshly criticized the Islamic faith of Islam. 2015 pilgrimage killed more than 2,400 pilgrims.
“We must understand that they are not Muslims, because they are very old to the grandchildren of Majuws and Muslims, especially the Sunnis,” he said. “Majuws” is a term referring to Zoroastrians and those who worship fire.
Saudi Arabia Changes
Sheikh Abdulaziz has always supported the Al -Saudi family family, which has long been intertwined between their reserves – especially in the society, especially in the community after the 1979 Islamic revolution sweeps Iran and established a Shiite theocracy.
In 2007, he rejected the “fake jihad of Islamic extremism. During the years after September 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia fought a militant rebellion in the kingdom. He also called the Islamic state group as “the number 1 enemy of Islam”.
Mü Mujahid, who declared himself, said only Muslims with the jihad version. ”
After the 2014 attack on Saudi Arabia, he added: uz We live in a safe and stable state under a single government that brings us together. ”
However, the rise of King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad saw the social stances of Sheikh Abdulaziz, especially in the confusion of men and women he once called “evil and disaster”. He also called women as “a dangerous issue that exposes women to evil ,, he said that girls under 10 years of age could marry and even chess gambling.
In 2018, Saudi Arabia ended the ban on drivingSomething that Sheikh Abdulaziz supports later. The assistant commission lost its effect while opening cinema halls and finding more jobs. During the Coronavirus pandemi, the people who ignore the social distance and other measures for “a great sin for a sin … that can lead to the loss of innocent lives or left people with serious complications,” warned.
The social push of Sheikh Abdulaziz’s swinging prince Mohammed decreased as he accelerated. In addition, the Crown Prince came because the arrest campaign on allegations of corruption has turned into a wider pressure on any perceived opposition or power base that could challenge its administration.
