Shaheed Ayatullah Seyed Mohmmad 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. Webmaster Note: The above article was written before recent events in Iraq.  Ayatollah Hakim was the foremost Shia Muslim leader in Iraq until his assassination in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf at which he had led prayers (August 29, 2003).

Shaheed Ayatullah Syed Muhmmad 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.