Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the longest-ruling monarch in the Middle East, died at the age of 79 on Friday.
The Diwan of the Royal Court announced an obituary of Sultan Qaboos on Saturday January 11, 2020.
“To the people of the beloved homeland in all its districts, to the Arab and Islamic nations and the world at large. It is with hearts filled with faith in Allah and his Providence, and with great sorrow and deep sadness- yet with complete satisfaction and absolute submission to the will of the Almighty Allah, that the Diwan of Royal Court mourns His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, who passed away on Friday, the 14th of Jumada Al-Ula, the 10th of January 2020,” Royal Court said in the obituary.
It also declared three days of mourning with the flag flown at half-mast for the next forty days across the country.
Meanwhile, the state-run Oman News Agency said on its official Twitter account that the sultan traveled to Belgium for what the court described as a medical checkup last month.
He was born on November 18, 1940, in Salalah, the capital of Oman’s southern province of Dhofar. He ruled for more than forty years.
Under the reign of the late sultan, Oman became a tourist destination.
He was also credited for reforming his nation into a modernized country. He was credited for the return of television and radio broadcasting over the airwaves of Oman after 30 years.
He announced a “royal decree” that lifted prohibition on private television in 2004. And In 2009, five years after the royal decree, the first private television station began.
