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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Professor Abdul Somad alias UAS admitted that he was surprised when he visited FPI leader Rizieq Shihab at the Islamic Agrocultural Boarding School, Megamendung, Bogor on Friday, November 13, 2020.
Abdul Somad said he initially thought there would be no more people flocking to meet Rizieq because he had arrived in the country for three days.
“I thought there were no other people, it turned out that there were still a lot of people welcoming them,” Abdul Somad said in his speech at the pesantren last Friday.
Abdul Somad said that although there was fear for anyone who wanted to visit Rizieq, this did not discourage the congregation from welcoming him. According to Tempo’s observation, thousands of people were seen crowding the Gadog area when Rizieq visited the pesantren in which he had lived since 2017.
“Except for the people who spend their fear of Allah, they come and meet Habib Rizieq,” Somad said.
Rizieq Shihab went to the pesantren, which is often called Markaz Syariah, to lay the foundation for the construction of the mosque there. Information received by Tempo says that the mosque will be built on an area of 10 hectares with a 2-story building. It is estimated that the construction of the mosque will cost around 50 billion rupees.
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