President Al-Zubaidi Offers Condolences on Passing Away of the Eminent Islamic Preacher and Thinker; Abu Bakr Al-Adani Ben Ali Al-Mashhur

The president Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), Deputy head of the Presidential Leadership Council, offered a cable of condolences and sympathy on the passing away of the eminent preacher and Islamic thinker; Abu Bakr Al-Adani Ben Ali, who breathed his last, on Wednesday, in a hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after a lifetime full of enlightening.

In the cable of condolences, the president expressed his sincere condolences, great sympathy, and deep agony to the offspring of the deceased, his siblings, and all his family in the city of Ahwar in Abyan governorate, Hadhramaut governorate, and the capital Aden, as well as all his scholars and lovers, as the president has experienced overwhelming sorrows in this major loss.

In his condolences, the president listed the remarkable feats of Al-Habib Abu Bakr Al-Mashhur, and his distinct contributions in inviting to the way of Allah and serving the true Islamic religion at the level of the South, the entire region, and the world, spreading the culture of peace, tolerance, middle-way and moderation, and serving 

Islamic scholars of Sharia sciences, as an eminent mentor for Islamic schools (Pickering Islamic Centres) and the educational and professional centres in the capital Aden, and the rest governorates of the South.

The president stressed in his condolences that the southern homeland in particular, and the Islamic world in general, have lost by the death of Al-Habib Al-Mashhur; the profound scholar, prominent sheikh, enlightened thinker, wise mentor, preacher, and religious jurist, who dedicated his entire life spreading the call to Allah, serving his Holy book, and prophetic sayings of His Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him.

To the end of the cable of condolences, the president prayed to Allah the Almighty to bestow His vast mercy on Al-Habib Al-Mashhur and abode him in His paradise, and grant patience and solace to his family, people and all his true-lovers.

"Verily we belong to Allah, and verily to Him do we return."

It is worth mentioning that the president Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, had, too, made a phone call to brother Mohammed Ben Abu Bakr Al-Adani Ben Ali Al-Mashhur, in which he consoled him for the passing away of his father, the preacher and the Islamic thinker, affirming the major loss that has been suffered by the whole Islamic nation, praying to Allah the Almighty to make his abode in paradise with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, the righteous. And excellent are those as companions!