A number of social media pioneers published alerts about the return of the journalist Ahmed Al Shugairi with a new program called "Ihsan from the Future", and promotional advertisements indicated that the program will be shown on MBC channels during the month of Ramadan, after a three-year absence from the screens.
Al-Shukairy’s followers waited for the program on the appointed date, but the Saudi media did not appear on the screen, but the network did not announce the program, and some thought that a change had occurred in the show dates, but he was searching for the episodes on the Shahid platform of the MBC group "A program of this name was not found, and at the same time, news spread that the program will be shown on schedule.
And there was confusion among the followers who did not receive an answer about the presentation of the program. And by searching through YouTube, some people arrived for a video called "10 lessons learned from the Corona crisis", which was considered by the followers as the first episode of "Ihsan from the Future" program, but Shuqairi did not appear in the episode, but his participation came only with voice comment, which is what He raised doubts about the fact of having a program for him this year.
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The April Fools
did not comment Al-Shugairi, nor the channel in which he used to present his programs, to what some called the trick or the April Fools. A clear answer.
After disappointing some people, the audience concluded that there is no Shuqairi program this year, and that the clip is a single work in more than one part published by Shuqairi on his accounts as previous individual works, such as the film "Ihsan from the Sanctuary," in which he dealt with the services provided by the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Such as cleaning and perfuming services, providing assistance to the pilgrims, and unknown aspects about the Zamzam well, as well as the film "Ihsan from Madinah", in which he covered aspects of life in Medina and the Prophet's Mosque.
"Ehsan from the Future" video may become one of Shuqairi's "Ihsan" films.
Al-Shugairi's isolation
Al-Shugairi decided years ago to stop providing more seasons for the “Thoughts” program, after he completed 11 seasons, during which he achieved audiences that exceeded expectations during his presentation years, and followed them with two seasons of the program called “The Cockpit” in 2016 and 2017, after which he would stop appearing in the media. Production and rendering programs.
Al-Shukairy, 46, decided to isolate a Pacific island in a simple house, without any means of communicating with the outside world except through a simple phone to communicate with his father, wife, and business manager, who told them not to communicate except in emergency situations.
The Saudi journalist described - during a television interview - the step being alone, after reaching the age of forty a few years, in which everyone retired for forty days, he fasted all of them and read 40 books and wrote two books, one of them titled "forty", as Al-Shugairi confirmed that he decided to isolate to study his reviews And the liquidation of himself and his mind from what he called "Alkalaei" and the contract, and Shugairi did not indicate his intention to return to the programs soon.
The Ramadan program’s rumor was not the only one. Al-Shukairy was exposed to several rumors during the past years, the most prominent of which was his death in 2017, which annoyed his fans, and the source of the rumor has not been revealed yet.