{"id":48158,"date":"2018-10-01T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48158"},"modified":"2018-10-01T20:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:55:45","slug":"renowned-muslim-author-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/renowned-muslim-author-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Muslim Author Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48159\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Hisnul-Muslim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Sa\u2019id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the author of the well-known du`aa and invocations book, Fortress of the Muslim (Hisnul Muslim), passed away early on Monday, October 1, at the age of 67.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSheikh Sa\u2019id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the author of Fortress of the Muslim, passed away on Monday, may Allah have mercy on him,\u201d Muhammad Al-Arifi, a Saudi author and scholar wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe funeral prayer will be this afternoon at the Al-Rajhi Mosque in Riyadh and he will be buried in Al-Naseem cemetery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sheikh Mishary Al Aafasy, a Kuwaiti Qur\u2019an reciter, also mourned the renowned Sheikh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- 300 x 250 Medium Rectangle --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"4941887379\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe all owe Sheikh Sa\u2019id bin Wahf al-Qahtani, the author of the useful book \u201cFortress of the Muslim.\u201d My sincere sincere prayer of forgiveness and mercy for him and sincere condolences to his family,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The late Sheikh was born in the village of Al-Areen, Qahtan in 1371 AH and 1951 AD. He used to work as the imam of a Saudi mosque. He wrote nearly 80 books, the most popular of which was Fortress of the Muslim which was translated to more than 40 languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was also mourned on Facebook by readers who read his books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis was one of my first books I read when I was reverting to Islam, life is so short and temporary, May Allah grant him Jannah,\u201d\u2018 Maliya Han wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/renowned-muslim-author-passes-away\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sa\u2019id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the author of the well-known du`aa and invocations book, Fortress of the Muslim (Hisnul Muslim), passed away early on Monday, October 1, at the age of 67. \u201cSheikh Sa\u2019id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the author of Fortress of the Muslim, passed away on Monday, may Allah have mercy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48171,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48158\/revisions\/48171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}