The famous Egyptian religious scholar Allama Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died at the age of 96.
Sheikh Qaradawi had been ill for a long time and was living in Qatar, his official website and Twitter account reported his death.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi was the author of hundreds of books and until his death, he was serving as the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He is also considered the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi had a special ideological devotion to the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maududi and Imam Hasan al-Banna.
Allama Yusuf Al-Qaradawi was born on September 9, 1926 in a village in Egypt, “Safat Tarab”, and for a long time he was active in the Muslim Brotherhood.
At the same time, he was offered various positions by the Ikhwani leadership, but he remained engaged in academic and intellectual work.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi was extremely popular in the Arab world, he also used to answer people’s questions and issue fatwas on Islamonline.net.
Allama Yusuf al-Qaradawi strongly supported the Palestinian jihadist movements.
Allama Yusuf al-Qaradawi was labeled a terrorist by some Arab owners based on his blunt stance against the West.
