Saudi Grand Mufti Al-Fawzan Deletes All Online Fatwas, Accounts and Content From the Internet
Key Takeaways
- Sheikh Al-Fawzan has deleted his official website alfawzan.af.org.sa along with all his social media accounts and online content.
- His Twitter account was approaching one million followers and his YouTube channel had exceeded one million subscribers at the time of deletion.
- A total of 11,783 fatwas, 1,944 lessons, 184 Friday sermons, and 578 lectures have been permanently removed from the internet.
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a senior scholar and member of the Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia, has deleted his entire online presence — removing his official website, social media accounts, and a vast archive of Islamic content that had accumulated over years of digital publishing.
His official website alfawzan.af.org.sa is no longer accessible. His Twitter account, which was approaching one million followers, has been deleted. His YouTube channel, which had surpassed one million subscribers, has also been removed entirely.
The Scale of What Has Been Lost
The deletion represents an enormous loss of Islamic scholarly content that had been freely accessible to Muslims around the world. The full extent of what has been removed includes:
- 11,783 fatwas
- 1,944 lessons
- 184 Friday sermons
- 578 lectures
The content covered decades of religious rulings, scholarly guidance, and Islamic education across a wide range of topics — all of which is now permanently gone from the internet.
Some users have claimed that the accounts were just fan based, but we crossed checked it with official website previously, Sheikh Fawzan had explicityly gave his official accounts (that are no longer online):
No Reason Given
No official explanation has been provided for the decision to delete everything. Sheikh Al-Fawzan has not issued a public statement explaining the move. The deletions appear to have been carried out across all platforms simultaneously.
