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The late scholar Dr. Yusef Al-Qaradawi traveled around the globe and met countless races and races, but his visit to Palestine and specifically to the city of Hebron, although it lasted for a few weeks, had a great impact on himself and was beneficial and blessed, as one of the residents of the area says..

At the height of his youth, Dr. Al-Qaradawi visited several Palestinian cities between the Nakba and the Naksa. He lived for about 3 months in the city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the summer of 1966, from which he made short visits to the rest of the cities.

The Sheikh's visit to Palestine came from Doha, as is the custom of the people of the Gulf who are looking for a moderate summer resort away from the hot weather of their countries.

The Sheikh was accompanied on his visit by his wife and 3 of his daughters, and he stayed for 96 days, according to Tahsin Al-Natsheh, 74, in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net.

According to Tahseen, the guest stayed in the house of the Natsheh family on the western side of the city, overlooking the Ibrahimi Mosque in the east and the green lands of Hebron, and on its balcony overlooking he wrote part of his book "The Jurisprudence of Zakat".

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi during a lecture in the city of Hebron in 1966 and to his right Sheikh Shukri Abu Rajab (Dr. Al-Qaradawi’s website)

Workshop

Contrary to the idea of ​​recreation or rest that vacationers usually seek, Al-Qaradawi occupied his time and turned Hebron into an intellectual workshop. He ascended the pulpits as a preacher, especially in the “Al-Qazzazin” and “Sunni” mosques in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque. He gave lectures in the offices of the clans and visited and visited their notables.

Al-Natsheh says that he attended most of his sermons, "which were long, but attractive, so that the worshipers would like it if it was longer."

He adds that he asked al-Qaradawi during the visit why he chose Hebron, given the presence of more luxurious options in the world, and his answer was "the beauty of the city, the piety of its people, and the spread of mosques in it."

The house of Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Issa area, west of Hebron 💚 pic.twitter.com/5FRIxGF9J1

— Yazan 🇵🇸💚 (@Yazan_Palestine) September 27, 2022

Dazzle with the green of the city

According to Tahsin Al-Natsheh, Al-Qaradawi was fascinated by the greenery of Hebron's crops, and asked him how to irrigate them. He replied that they depend on winter water only. Al-Qaradawi said, "It is the blessing of the place in the Holy Land."

About those days, he said, "Hebron is a city to which the soul rests, and where the Islamic fragrance is felt wherever it goes."

He added that he met "a number of honorable brothers, headed by the family of Abdul-Nabi Al-Natsheh: Haji Issa Abdul-Nabi, Dr. Hafez, Haj Abdul-Ghani and his son Haj Saleh.

He mentioned to those he knew, "Sheikh Shukri Abu Rajab (...) Fawzi Al-Natsheh, the poet, with whom I increased my relationship after that, after he came to Qatar as a teacher.

Sheikh Al-Qaradawi talks about his visit to Hebron in the sixties:

(I traveled from Jordan to the historic Hebron, which contains the tomb of Ibrahim Al-Khalil, peace be upon him.

— Yazan 🇵🇸💚 (@Yazan_Palestine) September 27, 2022

He said that his days in Hebron "were among the most useful and blessed days, and I gave more than one lecture on it."

At the end of the visit, Al-Qaradawi said, according to Al-Natsheh, "After spending more than two months in the beautiful city of Hebron, which is full of all the good meanings and noble feelings, and after we were filled with its air, we were filled with its food, we ate its water, we enjoyed its fruits, we prayed in its mosques, and we enjoyed the friendship of its people. And their good people, we started preparing to return to Doha, and this requires that we take a tour of the cities of the East Bank.”

“Israel is an intruder parasitic entity based on rape and aggression, and liberating the land of Islam from this strange germ in the body of the Muslim nation is a religious and national duty.”


Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, may God have mercy on him and forgive him.


And the photo below during his stay in Hebron in the summer of 1966. pic.twitter.com/oHi5P1j70Q

- Kamal Al-Jabari - Abu Jihad (@kamaljehad88) September 26, 2022

Big crowd in Nablus

After Hebron, Al-Qaradawi headed north to visit the cities of Nablus and Jenin, and gave a lecture in the city of Nablus, to which a large number gathered.

He continued, "Then its virtuous scholar, Sheikh Mashhour Al-Damin, invited me to his house, and he prepared for us the next day a lunch, to which he invited a number of men and people who were concerned there, and then I met the brothers in Nablus for a special meeting."

In the sixties of the last century, His Eminence Sheikh Dr. Yusef Al-Qaradawi, may God protect him, visited the city of Hebron in Palestine.

These are some photos of him with some of the notables of the Natsheh family in the city of Hebron.

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— Abdul Natsha (@NatshaAbdul) May 3, 2019

Hold the ending

He added that he visited Jenin and gave a lecture there, and then went to the city of Jerusalem, "and from it I turned my face towards the first of the two qiblahs (...) and the visit to Jerusalem held the conclusion for the cities of the West Bank."

Al-Qaradawi says that his visit to Jerusalem was his first, and he described the Dome of the Rock as "a wonderful masterpiece."

In Jerusalem, the sheikh tells that he met the head of the Islamic scientific body in the mosque’s precincts, Sheikh Abdullah Ghosheh, and visited the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque and prayed there, then the Church of the Resurrection, and the most important landmarks of the Arab-Islamic city.

He continued, "I saw the barbed wire barrier between East Jerusalem (under the control of Jordan at the time) and the West (under the control of Israel)."

The Palestine Scholars Association and its advocates are invited to participate in the mourning of Imam Dr. Yusef Al-Qaradawi and to hear his virtues on Wednesday at the Natsheh family office in Hebron.

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— Yazan 🇵🇸💚 (@Yazan_Palestine) September 27, 2022

Inattention and intrigue

About the people of Jerusalem, he said, "The people of East Jerusalem used to go about their normal lives, lunching and going, selling and buying."

But - according to Al-Qaradawi - they were "ignorant of what was going on around them, and the plots of the enemy that surrounds them by wrapping the bracelet on the wrist, and the occupiers of West Jerusalem were in perpetual work and constant vigil, continuing day and night, to build the future on the ruins of Palestine and the Palestinians."

Al-Qaradawi referred to his visit to the Al-Arroub refugee camps, north of Hebron, and Aqabat Jaber, in the city of Jericho, for refugees from the 1948 Nakba.

He also mentioned in his memoirs that his arrival and departure were from Jerusalem airport, "the planes used to come from Doha to Jerusalem. Then from Jerusalem to Doha."

Al-Qaradawi participated in convoys to break the siege on Gaza in 2013, and had previously visited the Strip in the 1950s.

On Monday, it was announced that the founder and former president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars had passed away at the age of 96, leaving more than 170 books, hundreds of lectures, episodes, and radio and television programs.

The Association of Palestine Scholars called the "Rabbani sign" and announced the reception of mourners this evening, Wednesday, in the office of the Natsheh family in Hebron.