VIDEO: Prominent Indonesian scholar dies whilst reciting the Quran

Video footage showing the moment prominent Indonesian scholar Shaykh Jafar Abdulrahman passed away while reciting verses from the Quran.

Shaykh Abdulrahman was reciting verses from Surah al-Mulk in the presence of Indonesia’s Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa, when he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest and could not complete the recitation.

He was later taken away by medics on a stretcher.

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