Hours before Saudi Arabia celebrated"Flag Day"The Saudi flag calligrapher, Saleh bin Saad Al-Mansouf, who updated the method of writing the two testimonies and the sword on the Tawheed Light, died more than 50 years ago.
And Saleh bin Saad bin Abdullah Al-Mansouf (86 years old), nicknamed"Calligraphy of the two testimonies"He is the first Saudi calligrapher to write the word of monotheism with his own hand "There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah"And draw the sword on the banner.
And published "King Abdulaziz House" Through its social platforms, a video interview with the deceased, during which he talked about his memories with updating the writing of the two testimonies in the Saudi flag, how he wrote, and what tools were used in that.
And he said: "My writing of the two testimonies has been since the time of King Faisal – may God have mercy on him – in 1962, and I was the first to write that, praise be to God.".
Al-Mansouf used white dye to write at a time when technology and printing devices were absent, and he put his fingerprints on the Saudi flag.
And on March 1, 2023, the Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, issued a royal decree, specifying the eleventh day of March annually as a flag day and to be an official holiday.
