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MB leader, Mahdy Akef, sends his condolnces for his deputy Husain Al-Huwaidy’s death, he died in the Jordanain capital Amman after a long life filled with offerings on all different levels.
 
Akef said that words can not describe someone like Al-Howaidy’s character, and at a time when we have to part ways we say nothing but we are from Allah and to Allah we shall return.
 
‘we say to all Al-Howaidy’s compannions and students, walk on his footsteps, for he toke the Da`wah path for over than 66 years when he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 19343 and he was the best person to carry the group’s banner in and out Syria. We ask Allah to grant him His mercy and that his first fottsteps to the hereafter today would be his footsteps to paradise’. Akef added
 
Dr. Hasan Al-Huwaidy burial ceremony will be in Amman, after Asr prayers on Friday 16th of Rabi` Al-Awal 1430 A.H, 13th of March 2009 AD.
 
Al-Huwaidy was chosen to be the MB’s leader deputy, Hamid Abu Al-Nasr (May the mercy of Allah be upon them). He was born in, Deir Al-Zeir, Syria 1925 AD.He obtained his PhD in medicine 1952 and he also obtained most of the Islamic sciences when he was young on the hands of renounced scholars such as ‘Husain Ramdan Al-Khalidy’ . He joined Muslim brotherhood when he was still young and he witnessed the early generation like Mustafa As-Seba`y.
 
He was detained in 1967 in Deir Al-Zeir then was released then was detained again 1973 and put in Al-Mazah prison in Damascus.