Background
He was born in 1956 in the Matimdiyah area of Imbaba, in the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jizah Governorate in Egypt. Yaqcoub is the oldest of four brothers and has one older sister.
He was born in 1956 in the Matimdiyah area of Imbaba, in the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jizah Governorate in Egypt. Yaqcoub is the oldest of four brothers and has one older sister.
A number of his books are currently being published. He gained significant notoriety in the West after an alleged spout of antisemitism. Yacoub memorized the entire Qur"an at an early age, and learned about the study of Hadith.
He then lived in Saudi Arabia from 1980 to 1985, studying with Saudi clerics Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz and Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen.
In a speech delivered by Yaqoub, which aired on First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Rahma television on January 17, 2009, he stated (as translated by MEMRI) that: "We must believe that our fighting with the Jews is eternal, and it will not end until the final battle. You must believe that we will fight, defeat, and annihilate them, until not a single Jew remains on the face of the Earth.
As for you Jews—the curse of Allah upon you. The curse of Allah upon you, whose ancestors were apes and pigs.
You will not survive as long as a single one of us remains.
O Jews, may the curse of Allah be upon you. O Jews.. O Allah, bring Your wrath, punishment, and torment down upon them. You pigs of the earth! You pigs of the earth! How do I Repent? (a group of lectures) Nasa"ih lil-Shabab Tahtheeb Ghatha" First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Albab Lisafareni Ila First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Huda I"tinah (a collection of lectures) The Brotherhood, O Brothers The Sure Remedy for Discarding the Secret Habit The War against Smoking The Qualities of a Righteous Sister To Those who Abandoned the Prayer (lessons given in the 1990s) Seriously Devoted From Inside the Grave Khutbah The Basics for a Student of Knowledge (about obtaining knowledge and filtering out a group of the most important works in each area) Diseases of the Ummah (paper) Basics of Getting Closer to Allah A Story of Steadfastness and Dispensing with the Residue of Jahiliyah The Loved One"s Secrets in Ramadan Over 3,000 of the Sheikh"s lessons have been recorded on cassette and many of them are on Civil Defense and video.