{"id":8542,"date":"2019-03-29T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:32:01","slug":"new-zealand-rugby-player-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/03\/29\/new-zealand-rugby-player-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Rugby Player converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Blacks rugby player\u00a0<b>Ofa Tu\u2019ungafasi<\/b>\u00a0has accepted Islam following a visit with his Muslim teammate Sonny Bill Williams over the weekend to the survivors of Christchurch mosque\u00a0terrorist attack.\u00a0John Fontain wrote on Tuesday that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAllahu akbar today Sonny Bill William\u2019s mother and his teammate Offa Tuungafasi accepted Islam. May Allah make it easy for them and grant them firdous ameen. Podcast coming soon Inshallah.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>All Blacks<\/b>\u00a0player is originally from Tonga. Tu\u2019ungafasi and Williams spent time with some of the mass shooting victims at Christchurch Hospital; shaking hands, posing for selfies, and offering words of comfort. Tu\u2019ungafasi described survivors as an inspiration and prayed for their speedy recovery. He posted on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cVerily, with every hardship comes ease. Had the most amazing experience visiting the Muslim Brothers in hospital on the weekend\u2026May the Almighty bless you all with quick recovery. Love and Duas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Finder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Blacks rugby player\u00a0Ofa Tu\u2019ungafasi\u00a0has accepted Islam following a visit with his Muslim teammate Sonny Bill Williams over the weekend to the survivors of Christchurch mosque\u00a0terrorist attack.\u00a0John Fontain wrote on Tuesday that: \u201cAllahu akbar today Sonny Bill William\u2019s mother and his teammate Offa Tuungafasi accepted Islam. May Allah make it easy for them and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}