To the righteous soul it will be said: "O fully satisfied soul!,Return to your Rabb(27) well pleased with Him and well-pleasing to Him.(28) Join My servants(29)and enter My paradise.(30)" (Al-fajr)
We have received with hearts full of contentment with God’s decree and destiny the news of the death of His Eminence Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the founding president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, may God have mercy on him, at the age of 96 years after giving and a life to serve Islam and Muslims.
Born in 1926 in a village in the Nile Delta of Egypt, which was still under British colonial rule, al-Qaradawi went to study at the prestigious Al-Azhar University based in Cairo. As a teenager, he was closely associated with it and the Muslim Brotherhood – two of the most important institutions of his day.
The deceased was a supporter of the Palestinian cause, including the book: "Jerusalem is the Cause of Every Muslim", and he was a strong participant in international conferences and events related to the Palestinian cause.
He is also - may God have mercy on him - one of the prominent figures of Islam in the present era in science, thought, advocacy and jihad, in the Islamic world, its east and west.
The Islamic nation has lost a great educator, and a verified scholar from among its loyal and virtuous scholars. We ask God Almighty to forgive him and have mercy on him extensively and pardon him, and reward him with the best reward, honor his abode, admit him to the Paradise of Paradise, and gather him with the prophets and the truthful ones, and the good of those are companions, and to inspire his family, relatives and lovers And his colleagues patience and solace, he is the best Lord and the best responder..
We belong to God and to Him we shall return
Monday: 30 Safar 1444 AH corresponding to: September 26, 2022 AD
Secretary General
Dr. Ali Alqaradaghi
President
Dr.. Habib Salem Al-Saqqaf