Ayatullah Sayyid Mahammad Baqir Al-Sadr

Born: 1353/1934

Martyred: 1400/ 9th April, 1980

A genius who charted new paths for his

academic pursuit; a revivalist who called

the people to return to Islam; a thinker

who equipped the Muslims with

ideological Ammunitions to fight

un-islamic'isms'; and a leader who

inflamed the youth's hearts with love of Islam.

For seven centuries, classifications of

the chapters of Fiqh followed the

system of Muhaqqiq Hilli; no one

thought that it could be improved, until

baqir Al-Sadr wrote his Al-Fatawi al-Wazihah. His Iqtisaduna

opened people's eyes to the fact that Islam had it's own economic

system totally different from materialistic systems of capitalism,

socialism, and communism. Hizb 'd-da'wah was established by

martyrs Baqir Al-Sadr and Mahdi Hakeem (with blessings of Muhsin

Al-Hakeem) to combat the Ba'thists' anti-Islamic onslaught; youths

answered their call and Islam began its manifest revival. This

unnerved the Ba'thist vicious regime.

They imprisoned Sayyid Baqir Al-Sadr and his learned sister

Bintul-Huda (Amina); and killed them after subjecting them to

utmost tortures.

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