| His father used to work as a government clerk | Biography [ ] Early years and studies [ ] Born in in 1378 AH on the 25th of Ramadan, al-Kalbani is the son of a poor immigrant from in the who came to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s |
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| He studied , and the of with him | Due to his family's financial situation, al-Kalbani took a job with after finishing high school, whilst attending evening classes at |
Views [ ] Church bells [ ] In a tweet, al-Kalbani stated that the non-existence of church bells in Saudi Arabia pleased him.
1| He sarcastically suggested that the other cranes did not collapse because they were "liberal" | Mecca crane collapse [ ] Al-Kalbani criticised a tweet from a Saudi poet that said that the "fell to the ground in prayer" |
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| Shias [ ] In an interview with the , al-Kalbani declared as apostates, which triggered a backlash from followers of the sect in Saudi Arabia | MEE staff January 28, 2016 |
| He once dreamed that he had become the imam at the Great Mosque of Mecca; two years later, in 2008, he was selected by to lead the prayers at the mosque | |
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| Stance on musical instruments [ ] In a fatwa, al-Kalbani considered singing to be permissible under Islamic law, but retracted it in 2010 | Trabelsi, Habib May 12, 2009 |
Segregation of men and women [ ] He criticised the current situation of gender segregation in mosques, where women are "completely isolated" from men and only connected via a microphone.
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