I woke up this morning to news that the King had died. King
Abdullah, may God give him rest, was 90 years old and had been sick for quite
some time. I had plans to go site seeing on today, but obviously had to council
them as the country was in mourning. Three days of mourning is usually allotted
when there is a death and the King was no different. During the mourning period
of course it is usually sorrowful, but especially since it was Friday, our
Sunday in the U.S.A., everything would be closed and if it did open it wouldn’t
be until after 4 PM.
As well, by ten Friday morning the mourners had begun to
gather in Mecca and Riyadh at the mosques to pray for him. The funeral preparations
had already begun and was schedulde for later that afternoon during mid-day prayer.
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