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The Mufti of Damascus, Sheikh Adnan Al-Afyouni, was killed as a result of “the explosion of an explosive device placed in his car” in the city of Qudsaya, northwest of the capital, on Thursday night, according to the Ministry of Endowments. from Syria.
Al-Afyouni is described as a cleric close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and he played a key role in the implementation of the conciliation agreements that the government concluded with the opposition and fighting factions in the countryside of the capital, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian authorities did not directly charge certain parties for the opium murder.
Who is the sheikh of opiates and what are the circumstances surrounding his murder?
The Syrian Endowments Ministry described Sheikh Al-Afiouni in its official obituary as “one of the most prominent scholars in Syria and the Islamic world,” and is the general supervisor of the “Al-Sham International Islamic Center for Combating Extremism. “.
Sheikh Adnan Al-Afyouni was born in Damascus in 1954 and received his initial education at its schools before moving to study at the Sharia Institute for Calling and Guidance.
Later he continued his religious studies at the College of Islamic Call, Damascus branch, and graduated from it. He also did his postgraduate studies in this field at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the Islamic University of Omdurman. From them he obtained diplomas and masters in Islamic sciences with distinction.
He held various positions in the field of religious guidance work and worked as a religion teacher in various mosques in Damascus and its rural areas.
He served as a member of the Guidance and Counseling Committee at the Rural Damascus Endowment Directorate, a member of the Magnet, Preacher and Religious Officials Examination Committee at the Damascus Endowment Directorate, and a preacher, imam, and director of the Sacred Memorization Institute Quran in the Companions’ Mosque in Qudsaya.
He also worked in the field of education, for which he held the position of Director of Qualified Education to teach Arabic to non-native speakers, and professor at the College of Islamic Call at the College of Fundamentals of Religion and the College of Sharia and Law , in addition to holding the position of Vice President of the Board of Directors of Sheikh Ahmed Kaftaro.
In May 2019, Al-Afyouni was assigned to oversee the management of what was called the “Al-Sham International Islamic Center to Counter Extremism,” a center that defines itself as including departments for the training of imams and preachers, for the sciences of Sharia, the monitoring and treatment of extremist ideas, a section to combat extremist thinking and another for scientific research. However, the Syrian opposition is accusing the center of being a front of the regime and accusing Al-Afyouni close to it.
Al-Afyouni had led the Eid al-Adha prayer amid a rare public appearance at the time of President al-Assad on September 12, 2016 at the Saad bin Muadh Mosque in Daraya city, and after approximately three weeks of control of the city by the Syrian army, which had been besieging it for more than four years, following an agreement with the opposition factions in it.
“Daria, by her living example, calls all Syrians,” he told Al-Assad and prayers.
Al-Afiouni’s assassination came as a surprise after it became rare for Damascus to witness similar incidents, after government forces, since 2018, managed to control neighborhoods in the capital that were under the control of opposition militants or ISIS, and Eastern Ghouta, which for years was the most prominent stronghold of the armed opposition factions. Near the Syrian capital.
Neither party has yet claimed the murder of opium.