However, Solahuddin Wahid of Nahdlatul Ulama argued that Gymnastiar’s strength lies in its sincerity. Time magazine once questioned whether he was merely a businessman who used religion as a means of profit. Ulil Abshar Abdalla of the Liberal Islam Network once called him a “Britney Spears in Islam”. His media enterprise had regular audience of more than 80 million people. Gymnastiar became popular by introducing a unique way of preaching by theatrical style with practical messages of Islamic propagation that can be commonly applied to everyday life.Īt the peak, he had a substantial number of followers, with several political parties nominating him as vice-president nominee and this scored approval rating of 91%. Yan Gymnastiar (born January 29, 1962), better known as Abdullah Gymnastiar or Aa Gym (lit: elder brother Gym), is an Indonesian Islamic preacher, singer, author, businessman and founder of the Da’arut Tauhiid Pondok Pesantren in Bandung. Abdullah Gymnastiar is a famous Preacher, who was born on Januin Indonesia.
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