Syeikh Ahmad Yassin

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SYEIKH AHMAD YASSIN

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SYEIKH AHMAD YASSIN

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SYEIKH AHMAD YASSIN (1938 – 2004)• Ahmed Ismael Yassin was born in 1938 in the

destroyed village of Al-Joura, Majdal district, near the present-day Zionist town of Ashkelon -- or Askalan in Arabic. Yassin's father died when he was five years old.

• The young Ahmed Yassin joined Al Jora elementary school and continued studying there till the fifth grade until 1948. In 1948 Nakba or the usurpation of most of Palestine at the hands of Zionist gangs the young Yassin was forced to flee at the age of 12 along with his family and thousands of other refugees southwards to the Gaza Strip after Zionist forces overran his village and threatened to kill its inhabitants. This nightmarish experience seems to have had a particularly strong impact in shaping the psychological build-up of a boy who would later on become one of the Zionists most trenchant enemies. His birthplace was bulldozed, along with nearly 500 other Palestinian towns and villages in 1948, following the occupation of Palestine.

• Yassin who survived the Palestinian Disaster (Al Nakba) of 1948 learned a important lesson that impacted his intellectual and political life forever, a lesson that says Palestinians can only depend on themselves and arm their people without depending on other nations or the international community.

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EDUCATION• Yassin graduated from secondary school in

the year 1957/1958 and managed to get a job as a teacher despite objection to his health condition. In 1959 he went to Egypt where he spent some time studying at Ain Shams University. There he received a college diploma and, more importantly, he was deeply influenced by the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood.

• In 1962, shortly after his return to Gaza, Yassin was briefly detained by the Egyptian authorities in connection with his activities within the Muslim Brotherhood in opposition to the regime of then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser. He was put in a solitary confinement cell for a month, until he was released after he was proved not to be involved with the Brotherhood. His detention period affected him significantly, and "rooted the hate of injustice" in his soul, as he said in an interview.

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WORK UNDER THE LIFE OF AGONY• In Gaza things changed and his family and he

lived the life of refugees, as most of the Palestinians at that time, tasting the bitter feelings of hunger and deprivation. He used to go to the Egyptian army camps near Gaza to gather the soldiers' leftovers and go back with it to his family.

• Yassin quit school between 1949-1950 to support his seven-member family working in one of the restaurants in Gaza, and then returned back to school. In 1952, Yassin was injured while playing sport, leaving him quadriplegic for the rest of his life. However, paralysis did not put an end to his ambitions. He worked as a teacher of Arabic language and Islamic religion then as a Khatib (preacher) and teacher in the Gaza mosques. He turned into one of the most vociferous and most famous Khatibs in the Gaza Strip following its occupation in 1967.

• Yassin thereafter worked as a teacher of Arabic language and Islamic religion then as a Khatib (preacher) and teacher in the Gaza mosques..

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POLITICAL LIFE• In his 20's, Yassin participated in the demonstrations that broke out

in Gaza to denounce the 1956 tripartite aggression on Egypt, and showed immense public speech and political thinking skills. He became actively involved in the calls opposing to an international supervision over Gaza, stressing on the need to regain Egyptian administration over it again.

• Working as a Khatib in Gaza was allowing him to spread the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood and to gather hundreds of supporters who later came to form the nucleus of Hamas. The message he spread was that the loss of Palestine in 1948 was merely a symptom of the stagnation of the Islamic Ummah. The solution he demanded lay in the reinstatement of Islam as a unifying political force by overthrowing all existing Arab secular regimes which he viewed as un-Islamic or anti-Islamic.

• After the 1967 war, in which the Zionists occupied all the Palestinian territories including the Gaza Strip, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin continued inspiring the Muslims and Palestinians from the Al Abbasi Mosque's rostrum, calling to the resistance of the occupation. He turned into one of the most vociferous and most famous Khatibs (preacher) in the Gaza Strip following its occupation in 1967. At the same time he was involved in gathering donations to help the families of the martyrs and prisoners, later to work as a president of the Islamic Complex in Gaza.

• Sheikh Yassin follows the principles and ideology of the Islamic Brotherhood that was established in Egypt in 1928 by the Imam Hassan Al Banna.

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YASSIN BEGAN TO WORK WITH MUJAHIDEEN

• n 1982, Yassin started to form local resistance cells under the code name Majd, with the help of some prominent Muslim Brotherhood figures in Jordan who financed his weapons purchases. Soon afterwards the Zionist occupation authorities found out and Yassin was arrested and sentenced to 13 years in prison for forming a resistance group and possessing "illegal" weapons. He also worked as a chairman of the Islamic Complex in Gaza before his arrest in 1984

• In 1985 he was released from Zionist custody as part of a prisoner swap between the Zionist entity and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, headed by Ahmed Jebril.

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THE SHEIKH FOUNDED HAMAS - 1987

• After his release, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in mid-1987, along with a group of Islamic leaders (including Dr. Abd al Aziz al Rantissi) in the Gaza Strip. Hamas aims to resisting the Zionist occupation in order to liberate historical Palestine. Hamas had a significant role in the Palestinian Intifada that broke out at that time, and was known as "the revolution of the mosques". Since that time, Sheikh Yassin was considered the spiritual leader of the movement. Hamas carried out a number of effective attacks mainly on Zionist occupation troops in the Gaza Strip, killing a number of Zionist occupation soldiers and officers.

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ARRESTED AGAIN• As the Intifada stepped up its

momentum against the Zionist occupation, so the Zionists began to think of a means to stop Yassin's activities, so Zionist soldiers raided his home on August 1988, searched it and threatened him of punishment to Lebanon.

• In 1989, two years into the first Intifada, Yassin was again arrested by Zionist occupation authorities. This time he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, charged with calling to armed resistance and charges of inciting to kill and kidnap Zionist occupation soldiers as well as founding of Hamas movement and its military wing.

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DISEASE BUT NO RELEASE• Yassin spent nearly eight years in jail where

suffered a number of other disabilities and diseases including loss of eyesight in his right eye due to Zionist blows during round of interrogations, in addition to weakness in his left eye, as well as chronic otitis and lung allergy, also caused by harsh detention conditions in the Zionist jails. He also suffered from chronic inflammation in his ear, lung infection and other diseases in his abdomen.

• On 13/12/1992 a commando cell affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, kidnapped a Zionist soldier and offered to set him free in return for the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and a number of other detainees in Zionist jails including sick and elderly Arab captives. However, the Zionist government refused the offer and stormed the house where the soldier was held leading to his death along with commander of the attacking unit and two other soldiers before the martyrdom of the three members of that cell in Bir Nabala near occupied Jerusalem.

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RELEASED BY FATE BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE

• In 1997, Yassin was freed from prison after the late King Hussein of Jordan insisted that the Zionist government of Benyamin Netanyahu release him in exchange for the release from Jordanian custody of two Mossad agents who carried out an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Khaled Meshaal, the head of the Hamas contingency in Amman. Yassin's subsequent triumphant return to Gaza significantly enhanced Hamas' status and granted the movement the position of "second among equals" vis-a-vis the Palestinian Authority.

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Yassin and Oslo Accords • Yassin vehemently opposed

the Oslo Accords, which he viewed as a "disgraceful capitulation" and "great deception". Indeed, the intensive construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, along with the continued confiscation by successive Zionist governments of large swathes of Palestinian land, seemed to vindicate his views in the eyes of many Palestinians.

Yassin Rejects the Civil War • Prior to the outbreak of the

second Intifada in September 2000, Yassin was placed under house arrest, his telephone communications severed by the PA, which was under tremendous pressure from the United States and the Zionists to "rein in" Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Hamas leader was always careful not to allow recurrent frictions with the PA to evolve into any kind of civil war, which he viewed as "the ultimate Palestinian red line". Believing that a divided leadership would undermine Palestinian interests, Sheikh Yassin sought to maintain good relations with the Palestinian Authority and with other regimes in the Arab world.

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YASSIN INSISTED ON PALESTINIANS RIGHTS

• During the ongoing Al-Aqsa Intifada, Yassin consistently held fast to the "robe of resistance". He argued that freedom is earned, not granted on a silver platter, and that that which is taken by force can be only recovered by force. He vehemently defended martyrdom bombings against the Zionist entity, explaining that they constituted the sole and only weapon available to the Palestinian people in the face of the enemy with far more powerful military capabilities that is hell-bent on exterminating and crushing the Palestinian people. He repeatedly demanded an end to all attacks targeting Palestinian civilians and un-uniformed Zionists. However, the Zionist entity consistently rejected all initiatives to that effect.

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FIRST ASSASINATION ATTEMPT• Thousands of cheering supporters turned out to

watch him vow revenge for the first Zionist attempt on his life in September 2003. This was mirror by millions of Muslims worldwide, having sent shock waives and new calls for Jihad throughout the Ummah.

• However, for a staunchly ideological movement like Hamas -- where the idea is more important than the leader -- it is unlikely that Yassin's death will seriously undermine the movement in any permanent way. In fact, he had already effectively stopped running the movement's day-to-day affairs several years ago due to his deteriorating health and relatively old age. Nonetheless, he remained until his death the most effective and eloquent spokesman of Hamas and the entire Palestinian Islamic camp, despite his severe physical disability.

• Sheikh Yassin lived ever since in his humble home in the Al Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City. He survived with minor injuries a failed attempt on his life by the Zionist occupying forces on September 6, 2003 while he was visiting a friend in Gaza. He was only lightly injured in his right arm.

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THE LAST MOMENT OF HIS LIFE• Sheikh Yassin performed his ablution, read

some verses from the Holy Qur'an and supplicated for God to liberate Palestine from the Zionist occupation.The wheelchair-bound spiritual leader of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas was then helped by two associates to Mujamah Al-Islami mosque, only 200 meters from his home. There he waited until the dawn Adhan [call for prayer] was raised (around 03:00 GMT).

• After prayers, worshippers flock to greet him and inquire after his health, as if they were giving him a farewell.

• The Criminal hand came down to destroy the silence of the dawn prayer. The aircrafts fired three rockets at the paralyzed man. They wanted to put an end to his beliefs. Instead, they rose over the clouds and showered down on those thirsty for water. Despite the thunder or treachery, the good people received the water gladly. Sheikh Yassin's death burned millions of hearts; but it also instilled his beliefs in millions of hearts. Sheikh Yassin’s beliefs live after his death.

• The founder and the spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed on the break of day (Monday March 22 2004) while being wheeled out after the early morning prayer from a mosque near his house in Al Sabra neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

• As soon as his bodyguards put him into his car, a Zionist Apache helicopter fired three missiles at the car he was struck by 3 missiles and died instantly, along with two of his bodyguards and five other bystanders. More than a dozen people were injured in the attack, including two of his sons. For most Muslims, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin represented a symbol of resistance against a evil Zionist occupation.

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BUAT ANAK-ANAKKU• Wahai anak-anakku, telah tiba

saatnya kalian kembali kepada ALLAH swt dengan meninggalkan pelbagai keseronokan dan kealpaan kehidupan dan menyingkirkannya jauh daripada kehidupan kalian. Telah tiba saatnya kalian bangun dan melakukan solat subuh secara berjemaah. Sudah sampai saatnya untuk kalian menghiasi diri dengan akhlak yang mulia, mengamalkan kandungan al-Quran serta mencontohi kehidupan Nabi Muhammad saw.

• Aku menyeru kalian wahai anak-anakku untuk solat tepat pada waktunya. Lebih dari itu, aku mengajak kalian wahai anak-anakku, untuk mendekat diri kepada sunnah Nabi kalian yang agung

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BUAT PEMUDA DAN PEMUDI• Wahai para pemuda, aku ingin kalian

menyedari dan menghayati makna tanggung jawab. Kalian harus tegar menghadapi kesulitan hidup dengan meninggalkan keluh kesah. Aku menyeru kalian untuk menghadap ALLAH SWT dan memohon keampunan dari-Nya agar Dia memberi rezeki yang berkat kepada kalian. Aku menyeru kalian supaya menghormati orang yang lebih tua dan menyayangi orang yang lebih muda.Aku ingin kalian tidak tertidur oleh alunan-alunan muzik yang melalaikan, melupakan kata-kata yang menyebutkan cinta kepada manusia dan dunia serta menggantikannya dengan kata amal, kerja dan zikir kepada ALLAH. Wahai anak-anakku, aku amat berharap kalian tidak sibuk dengan muzik dan tidak terjerumus ke dalam arus syahwat.

• Wahai puteriku, aku ingin kalian berjanji kepada ALLAH akan mengenakan hijab secara jujur dan betul. Aku meminta kalian berjanji kepada ALLAH bahawa kalian akan mengambil peduli tentang agama dan Nabi kalian yang mulia. Jadikanlah ibunda kalian, Khadijah dan Aisyah, sebagai teladan. Jadikan mereka sebagai pelita hidup kalian. Haram hukumnya bagi kalian untuk melakukan sesuatu yang boleh menarik perhatian pemuda supaya mendekati kalian.Kepada semua, aku ingin kalian bersiap sedia untuk menghadapi segala sesuatu yang akan datang. Bersiaplah dengan agama dan ilmu pengetahuan. Bersiaplah untuk belajar dan mencari hikmah. Belajarlah bagaimana hidup dalam kegelapan yang pekat. Latihlah diri kalian agar dapat hidup tanpa elektrik dan peralatan elektronik. Latihlah diri kalian untuk sementara waktu merasakan kehidupan yang sukar.

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BUAT SEMUA

• Biasakan diri kalian agar dapat melindungi diri dan membuat perancangan untuk masa depan. Berpeganglah kepada agama kalian. carilah sebab-sebabnya dan tawakal kepada ALLAH.