The death of the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, and a busy life path

The royal court in Oman mourned at dawn on Saturday, Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
In a statement issued by the Royal Court in Oman at dawn on Saturday, announcing the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, which was broadcast on the country's official television, and published by the Oman News Agency on its Twitter account.

The court also announced mourning and the suspension of official work for the public and private sectors for a period of 3 days, as well as the flags at half-mast for the next forty days.

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The Diwan of the Royal Court issues an obituary this morning, the text of which is as follows:
(Oh, the reassuring soul, *return to your Lord, contented and pleasing,* so enter into my worshipers of Arabia, and to my dear countrymen, to the two nations of the world.*)
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With hearts that believe in God’s decree and destiny, and with great sadness and great sorrow, mixed with complete satisfaction and absolute submission to God’s command, the Diwan of the Royal Court mourns, God willing, our master, His Majesty Sultan #Qaboos_bin_Said bin Taimur the Great, who was chosen by God to be next to him on Friday evening, January 10, XNUMX

The Diwan of Royal Court indicated that “Sultan Qaboos led a lofty renaissance that he established during the 50 years since he assumed the reins of power on the 1970rd of July XNUMX, and after a wise and victorious march full of giving that included Oman from one end to the other, and the Arab, Islamic and international world. as a whole, and resulted in a balanced policy for which the whole world stood in reverence

Respectfully,” according to the statement.
The text of the statement read:
"Oh, you are reassuring? And absolute submission to the command of God mourns the Diwan of the late Royal Court - God willing - Mawlana His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur, who was chosen by God to be next to him on Friday evening, on the fourteenth of Jumada Al-Ula for the year 1441 AH corresponding to the tenth of January of the year 2020 AD After a lofty renaissance that he established during the fifty years since assuming the reins of government on the 1970rd of July XNUMX AD, and after a wise and victorious march full of giving that included Oman from one end to the other, and extended to the Arab, Islamic and international world as a whole, and resulted in a balanced policy for which the whole world stood in reverence. and respectfully.”
And the statement continued: “As the Diwan of the Royal Court announces mourning and the suspension of official work for the public and private sectors for a period of three days, and flags at half-mast for the next forty days, to pray to God - may His power be exalted - to reward His Majesty with the best reward, and to cover him with wide mercy and good forgiveness, and to dwell in his vast gardens with The martyrs, the truthful ones, and the goodness of those are companions, and to inspire us all patience, solace, and good solace, and we only say what pleases our Lord, and His patient, steadfast servants are certain of it, who are satisfied with God’s decree, destiny and will (we belong to God and to Him we shall return).”

Who is Sultan Qaboos?
Sultan Qaboos bin Said is the eighth Sultan of Oman in the direct line of the Al Busaid family, which was founded by Imam Ahmed bin Said in 1741.
Sultan Qaboos was born on the eighteenth of November 1940 in the city of Salalah in the Dhofar Governorate. He began his first education in Oman and then joined the British Royal Military Academy “Sandhurst” in 1960, from which he graduated two years later.
Sultan Qaboos joined one of the British infantry battalions operating at the time in West Germany, where he spent 6 months as a trainee in the art of leadership.
After completing military sciences within the unit, he joined the study of local government systems and completed specialized courses in administration affairs.
In 1964 he returned to Oman and studied the sciences of Islamic law and the civilization and history of the Sultanate in depth.

“Big fixes”
Sultan Qaboos assumed the reins of the rule of Oman on July 23, 1970, and since that time has worked to establish major reforms in various political, economic, military, social and cultural fields.

Sultan Qaboos also received, during his busy political career, many Arab and international honors, including the International Peace Prize by 33 American universities, research centers and organizations in 1998, the Peace Prize by the Russian International Society in 2007, and the Jawaharlal Nehru Prize for International Understanding from India in same year.
Among the decorations that Sultan Qaboos received were the King Abdul Aziz Al Saud Medal in 1971, and the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Medal in Kuwait 2009.
Sultan Qaboos was known for his love of equestrianism, and he held many equestrian festivals and camel competitions, and his interest in protecting the Omani environment in its various diversity, which was evidenced by the establishment of the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation in 1989, which is awarded by UNESCO every two years.