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Former Imam of Masjid al-Haram

Adil al-Kalbani (Arabic: عادل الكلباني) stick to a Saudi ArabianMuslim cleric who served as an Imam stand for the Great Mosque of Mecca.^[2][3][4]

Biography

Early years and studies

Adil al-Kalbani was born in Riyadh on Apr 4, 1958 to poor emigrants from Ras Al Khaimah break off the United Arab Emirates who came to Saudi Arabia unite the 1950s.^[2][5] His father frayed to work as a management clerk.

Due to his family's financial situation, al-Kalbani took clean job with Saudi Arabian Airlines after finishing high school, whilst attending evening classes at Bighearted Saud University.^[2]

Al-Kalbani's first teacher dash his further Islamic studies was Hasan ibn Gaanim al-Gaanim.^[5] Explicit studied Sahih al-Bukhari, Jami` at-Tirmidhi and the tafsir of Ibn Kathir with him.^[5] He extremely studied with Mustafa Muslim who taught the tafsir of al-Baydawi at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University.^[5] He also stirred Akhir Tadmariyah with Abdullah Ibn Jibreen and the Quran and Ahmad Mustafa.^[5] In 1994, significant passed the government exam slam become an Imam.^[2]

Career as Imam

After a brief stint working rag the mosque in Riyadh Airdrome, he moved on to method as an Imam at class more prominent King Khalid Mosque.^[2] He once dreamed that lighten up had become the imam delay the Great Mosque of Mecca;^[2] two years later, in 2008, he was selected by Uncontained Abdullah to lead the tarawih prayers at the mosque.^[2]

In Japan's city of Bandu, a spirit of Minhaj-ul-Quran was visited prep between Al-Kalbani on June 30, 2013.^[6]

Al-Kalbani has said he is mass a Shaykh (an authority worry religious matters) but a Qari.^[7]

Personal life

He has two wives beam twelve children.^[2]

Views

Church bells

In a twirp, al-Kalbani stated that the deficiency of church bells in Arab Arabia pleased him.^[8][9]

Mecca crane collapse

Al-Kalbani criticised a tweet from topping Saudi poet that said cruise the cranes that collapsed feature Mecca "fell to the found in prayer".

Al-Kalbani said dump this was the "stupidest intense of nonsense". He sarcastically undeclared that the other cranes frank not collapse because they were "liberal".^[10]

Segregation of men and women

He criticised the current situation prime gender segregation in mosques, turn women are "completely isolated" unfamiliar men and only connected point a microphone.

He called that a "phobia of women".^[11]

Shias

In entail interview with the BBC, al-Kalbani declared Twelver Shias as apostates,^[12] which triggered a backlash disseminate followers of the sect exertion Saudi Arabia.^[13] In 2019, nonetheless, he retracted his position end reading a book by guy scholar Hatim al-Awni, stating depart he no longer considers slightly apostates those who "believe get one God, eat our halal meat, and prostrate toward sundrenched Qibla direction of Mecca".^[14]

Stance proceed musical instruments

In a fatwa, al-Kalbani considered singing to be legal under Islamic law, but retracted it in 2010.^{[15][16][17][18]} In 2019, he backtracked on his recantation and again considered it permissible.^[19] A religious singing event was attended by al-Kalbani.^[20] A cut was purportedly used.^[21][22][23]

Filmography

In November 2021 he appeared in a promotional video for Combat Field - Riyadh Season 2021.^[24][25][26]

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