Moroccan soccer gamers prostrate earlier than Allah after defeat towards France, proceed their spiritual theme throughout Qatar 2022

On Wednesday, the Moroccan soccer gamers supplied ‘Sajdah Al Shukr’ which implies prostration of gratitude on the bottom after France defeated them in a World Cup 2022 semi-final match. The picture of their prayer went viral over the web.

“Morocco’s players pray and thank their travelling fans for their support after losing to France. This Morocco team may have not won the World Cup, but they won our hearts,” tweeted ESPN FC sharing the images of gamers kneeling to Allah on the bottom.

This Morocco staff could haven’t received the World Cup, however they received our hearts ❤️🇲🇦 pic.twitter.com/0xTkngqHZJ

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) December 14, 2022

The Moroccan gamers certified for the World Cup semi-finals for the primary time in historical past after they defeated Portugal, within the course of, turning into the primary Arab nation and first African nation to achieve the final 4 of a World cup.

Earlier, after the staff certified for the World Cup quarter-finals following a win over Spain, the staff members had been seen asking their followers and folks normally to embrace Islam. According to the stories, two gamers, Zakaria Aboukhal and Abdelhamid Sabiri, returned to their resort after the match towards Spain and broadcasted a dwell stream during which they invited the viewers to embrace Islam.

“Alhamdulillah. We have reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup and this has happened for the first time in history. This is all because of Allah. Allah-hu-Akhbar. Join us. Join us. Join Islam. Come. Come to the peace,” the gamers could possibly be heard saying within the video.

The duo additionally posted their images on Instagram later during which they raised their index fingers which signifies ‘oneness in God’ in Islam. Zakaria Aboukhal and Abdelhamid Sabiri additionally captioned the pictures they posted on-line and wrote, “Allah hu Akbar,” and “Freedom,” respectively.

World Cup of faith

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup matches, the host nation Qatar had made all of the preparations to introduce Islam to the brand new non-Muslim guests to the nation. It had put in quite a few digital boards at vacationer locations concerning the Prophet Muhammad’s teachings in additional than 30 completely different languages. Also, books about Islam and Prophet’s teachings had been distributed to the guests.

Further, on the Katara Cultural Village Mosque in Doha, multilingual female and male preachers had been chosen to convey Islam’s religion and ‘tolerance’ to vacationers. Workers and preachers from the Qatar Guest Centre had been posted on the mosque’s entry to greet guests and reply questions concerning the mosque. Hadiths and Prophet Muhammad’s statements, behaviors, or habits had been inscribed on the roads to draw non-Muslim vacationers.

It was additionally reported that round 558 individuals visiting Qatar for the FIFA World Cup had been allegedly transformed to Islam. Following this, even a number of journalists within the Arab world criticized the nation’s act of selling Islam to World Cup guests.

Liberal Egyptian journalist Khaled Montasser acknowledged that the willingness to make the most of the World Cup on this means indicated a way of inferiority that leads Muslims to attempt to promote their religion to the general public like low-cost objects on the market, which is narrow-minded and an insult to Islam itself. 

The journalists asserted that the World Cup isn’t designed for the propagation of Islam and that one of the simplest ways to develop the Islamic nation is to interact in tradition, science, trade, and expertise slightly than recruiting numerous new Muslims.

Further, Kuwaiti journalist Muhammad Al-Rumaihi contended that Islam deserves much more recognition and respect than that, whereas ‘Oraib Al-Rantawi, a Jordanian journalist and political commentator puzzled how Muslims would react if efforts had been made to transform Muslims to Christianity throughout a World Cup in a non-Muslim nation.

Reports point out that Dr. Zakir Naik, an extremist Islamic preacher who is needed in India, and Egyptian preacher Omar Abdelkafy had reached the capital Doha on the invitation of the Qatari regime, to interact within the propagation of Islam amongst World Cup attendees.