{"id":949,"date":"2017-11-25T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-11-25T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T09:21:27","slug":"the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writer of Saudi&#8217;s National Anthem Passed Away Yesterday At The Age of 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The legend who wrote Saudi&#8217;s national anthem, Ibrahim Khafaji, passed away at the age of 90 on Friday after a long battle with his illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"content__video\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kf8rigxW20U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>The Saudi poet passed away at King Abdullah Medical City\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>After a long battle with his illness, Khafaji passed away at the age of 90, according to <em>Sabq.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Funeral prayers for Khafaji will be performed at the Grand Mosque in Makkah after Friday prayers\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>(May Allah have mercy on his soul)\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>He was the first to write the Kingdom&#8217;s national anthem we know and love today\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>According to Saudi Gazette, Khafaji even took six months to complete the song&#8217;s lyrics in 1984. Prior to that, Saudi&#8217;s national anthem had just been music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"content__video\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPKbR9BmUU8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>May he rest in peace\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Verily to Allah we belong and unto Him is our return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legend who wrote Saudi&#8217;s national anthem, Ibrahim Khafaji, passed away at the age of 90 on Friday after a long battle with his illness.\u00a0 The Saudi poet passed away at King Abdullah Medical City\u00a0 After a long battle with his illness, Khafaji passed away at the age of 90, according to Sabq.\u00a0 Funeral prayers &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-25-at-12.08.34-PM.png?mtime=20171125090950","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-25-at-12.08.34-PM.png?mtime=20171125090950 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"<title>The Writer of Saudi's National Anthem Passed Away Yesterday At The Age of 90 - Lovin Saudi<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"The legend who wrote Saudi&amp;#039;s national anthem, Ibrahim Khafaji, passed away at the age of 90 on Friday after a long battle with his illness. .\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Writer of Saudi's National Anthem Passed Away Yesterday At The Age of 90\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-25-at-12.08.34-PM.png?mtime=20171125090950\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"639\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"357\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovinsaudi\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Writer of Saudi's National Anthem Passed Away Yesterday At The Age of 90\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"shereenahmedm\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"    The legend who wrote Saudi's national anthem, Ibrahim Khafaji, passed away at the age of 90 on Friday after a long battle with his illness. .\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/news\/the-writer-of-saudis-national-anthem-passed-away-yesterday-at-the-age-of-90\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovinsaudi.com\/images\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-25-at-12.08.34-PM.png?mtime=20171125090950\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Shereen Ahmed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}