Saudi Preacher 'Aaidh Al-Qarni' Moved to Intensive Care with COVID-19

On Wednesday, prominent Saudi preacher Aaidh al-Qarni was moved to intensive care in a hospital in Riyadh after his coronavirus symptoms "worsened".

Sheikh Al-Qarni was transferred to Al-Habib Hospital in Al-Rayyan district in Riyadh on October 24, after it was confirmed that he had tested positive for the deadly virus.

A big number of social media users  interacted with the news of Al-Qarni's deteriorating health, with massive calls for his recovery.

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Al-Qarni was born on 1 January 1959 in Saudi Arabia, He is best known for his self-help book La Tahzan (Don't Be Sad), which is aimed at Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

On 1 March 2016, Al-Qarni was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Zamboanga City in the Philippines, where he held a lecture at an auditorium of the Western Mindanao State University.

 He was shot by a man wearing a school uniform of the institution's engineering college as the cleric left the auditorium after the lecture.

The gunman was shot dead and authorities recovered a student's driver license and a local government I.D. identifying a man as a local 21-year old Filipino. The police did not rule out possibilities that these recovered items were forged and the university couldn't confirm immediately if the man is an enrolled student of the institution.

J. M. Berger of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University suspects that the attempted assassination has links to the militant group, Islamic State since Al-Qarni was listed as a target for assassination in the group's magazine Dabiq.