Aid al-Qarni

Shaykh Dr. Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni (also spelt al-Qarnee and ʻĀʼiḍ Quranī), is a Saudi Islamic Muslim scholar, author, and activist.[1][2]

Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
Born
Saudi Arabia
Alma materImam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University

Al-Qarni is best known for his self-help book La Tahzan (Don't Be Sad), which is aimed at Muslims and non-Muslims alike.[3]

Life

Controversies

Al-Qarni is on the United States do not fly list and was barred entry in 2012 and 2015 to attend a convention in Chicago.[4]

His book: (لا تحزن) "Don't be sad" is very similar to Dale Carnegie's book ("How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", 1948).

The 2011 published book: (لا تيأس) "Don't despair" is a 90% copy of the Saudi writer Salwa Al-Ódaidan (سلوى العضيدان) "Thus overcame despair" (هكذا هزموا اليأس) published previously, in 2007. After an unsolicited friendly complaint, the writer Salwa Al-Ódaidan turned to the justice that issued and confirmed the plagiarism, condemning "the thief" to financial compensation and the withdrawal of his book from bookstores.[5]

Assassination attempt

On 1 March 2016, Al-Qarni was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Zamboanga City in the Philippines, where he held a lecture at an auditorium of the Western Mindanao State University.[6] He was shot by a man wearing a school uniform of the institution's engineering college as the cleric left the auditorium after the lecture.[7][8]

The gunman was shot dead and authorities recovered a student's driver license and a local government I.D. identifying a man as a local 21-year old Filipino. The police are not ruling out possibilities that these recovered items were forged and the university couldn't confirm immediately if the man is an enrolled student of the institution.[7]

J M Berger of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University suspects that the attempted assassination has links to the militant group, Islamic State since Al-Qarni was listed as a target for assassination in the group's magazine Dabiq.[9][10] It was later confirmed the gunman was a Sunni Muslim.[11]

From radical to reformist Islam

In May 2019, appearing on a talk-show, he apologized for his previous "hardline interpretations" of Islam and called for a modernization of the religion. Previously associated with the radical Sahwa movement, he says that after reading interpretations of the Qur'an by classical scholars, after travelling to "40 countries" and having "read thousands of books", as well as meeting intellectuals, religious scholars and poets, he now embraces the reformist Islam of crown-prince Mohammad bin Salman.[12]

Books & Poetry Collections
  • أسعد امرأة في العالم (The Happiest Woman in the World (A Treasure Chest Of Reminders)) [13]
  • "La Tahzan (Don't Be Sad)"[14]
  • Taj Al Mada'ih (Poetry of Al Qarni) [15]
  • L Alah Al Allh [16]
  • Mamlakat Al Bayan[17]
  • Masareh Al Ushaq [18]
  • Mojtama Al Muthol [19]
  • Muhamad Kanak tara [20]
  • سلعة الله غالية [21]
  • Qisat Al Tamooh [22]
  • Siyat Al Qoloob [23]
  • Taj Al Madaeh [24]
  • Tohaf Nabawiya [25]
  • Torjuman Al Sunnah [26]
  • على مائدة القرآن [27]
  • Wa Jaat Sakarat Al Mawet [28]
  • Walaken Konoo Rabaniyin [29]
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gollark: I thought you were going to claim you didn't believe I did/said something.
gollark: Oh, were you just saying you didn't believe me?
gollark: Are you going to finish the statement you planned to make?
gollark: Definitely.

See also

References
  1. "Find an Islamic Center". Archived from the original on 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
  2. JARIRBOOKS.NET - Jarir Bookstore مكتبة جرير - كتب عربية وأكثر
  3. "Prominent Saudi cleric says will reject Nobel Peace Prize if offered to him". Al Arabiya News. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  4. Ata, Hussein. "Unpleasant news: Dr. Ayed Al-Qarni denied access to board plane". Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  5. "سطا على كتابها.. قصة المرأة التي أوصلت عائض القرني لباب السجن". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  6. "Philippines gun attack injures Saudi preacher". Al Arabiya. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  7. "Philippines probes attack on top Saudi cleric". Al Arabiya. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  8. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/sheikh-aaidh-al-qarni-saudi-preacher-shot-philippines
  9. "Leading Saudi cleric survives assassination attempt in Philippines". Middle East Eye. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  10. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2016/03/01/Saudi-preacher-injured-after-gun-attack-in-Philippines.html
  11. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/770668/student-tagged-in-cleric-attack-had-routine-life
  12. Ramadan Al Sherbini (8 May 2019), "Prominent Saudi preacher apologises on TV for years of ‘hardline’ Islam", Gulf News. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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