Ayatollah Sayed Mohamad Baqir Al-Hakim
Ayatollah Sayed
Mohamad Baqir
Al-Hakim, was
born in 1939, is the
son of the late
Grand Ayatollah
Muhsin AI-Hakim
(who was the
spiritual
leader for the Shia in world in
the period
1955-1970). Al-Hakim
family is a
well known religious Iraqi
family loved
and respected by millions
of Shia Muslims
in Iraq and
throughout the
Muslim world. Since
the age of 25
Sayed Al-Hakim, who
was born,
brought up and studied
religion in
Najaf - Iraq (the holy city
for Shia in the
world). He was
distinguished
scholar and personal
religious/political
representative of
the late Grand
Ayatollah AI-Hakim
throughout
Iraq.
Sayed Al-Hakim
was a co-founder of the Islamic political movement
in Iraq
established in the late fifties, along with the late
distinguished
leader Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr and
other scholars.
Ever since Sayed Al-Hakim maintained close
association
with Ayatollah Al-Sadr up to the martyrdom of Ayatollah
Al-Sadr in
1980. In 1972 Sayed Al-Hakim was arrested and tortured
by the Bathist
regime. He was released after a wide spread popular
pressure on the
regime. In 1977 he was re-arrested following the
people's
uprising in Feb. 1977 in Najaf, and immediately sentenced
to life
imprisonment by special court without any trial. He was
released in
July 1979 following huge public pressure on the regime.
Sayed
Al-Hakim's association with Ayatollah Al-Sadr continued after
his release in
1979 when Ayatollah Al-Sadr was put under house
arrest. At this
point Sayed Al-Hakim assumed responsibility of
conducting
clandestine contact with Ayatollah Al-Sadr up to April
1980 when
Ayatollah Al-Sadr was murdered by Saddam's regime.
Sayed Al- Hakim
decided then to leave Iraq in 1980 shortly after the
eruption of war
between Iraq and Iran, Sayed Al-Hakim played a
prominent role
in the deliberations leading to the establishment of
the Supreme
Council of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (SCIRI) in
November 1982.
Saddam's regime
reacted violently to Sayed Al-Hakim's leading
political
activity in SCIRI and arrested 125 members of his family in
1983.
Subsequently 18 members of his family were executed.
Despite this
ordeal and the assassination of his brother Sayed Mahdi
Al-Hakim in
Sudan Jan. 1988, Sayed Al-Hakim continued his political
activities
against Saddam's regime. Beside his political activities,
Sayed Al-Hakim
is a leading member of several Islamic associations.
He is also the
author of many books on Islamic and political thoughts.
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