The Secretary General Sheik Qais al-Khazali Biography

:his birth and
early years

Qais Bin Hadi bin Sayed bin Hassan Abd Al Al Harishawi Al
Khazali ( 20 Jun – 1974/ , 30/1/1394 AH ) he was born in Baghdad in Madinat
Al-Sader a place known for being the bastion of Mujahideen and revolutionaries.
He grew up there till he graduated high school, to get into the geology
department in

college of Sciences in Baghdad university.

A turning point

In 1994/1414 AH Shaik Qais and one of his colleagues were
discussing the explanation and the reasons behind delaying the Magrib prayers
for about (12 min) after the Athan ,the call to pray, in Imami Shiites school.
After this discussion, and further search and study into the matter he wrote an
academic and scientific research to clarify and declare the reasons for this
delay. Then he decided to head to Al -Najaf Al-Ashraf , where the eminent
scholars of Al Hawza to inform them of his research results.

There, Sheik Khazali met with most of the scholars and
Marji’s of Al Hawza and informed them of his research results. His last stop
was the place of Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr , who showed a great
interest in Shaik Qais’s research topic . he sat with Shaik to discuss it with
him for a long time and said “ this book represents a completion to my book ‘Ma
Wara Al Fiqh’ print the research and I’ll take care of the publishing expenses”

The encounter did not end at that, Ayatollah Al-Sader asked
Sheik Khazali to meet him in his House in Al-Hanana quarter on the same
day,when he went to visit ayatollah he welcomed him and gifted him a copy of
his book ‘Dia’ Al-Salihi’n” to express his appreciation and admiration of the
high spirit and passion of this young faithful university student. And he
commented on the research after he was briefed on the ,Islamic jurisprudential
discussions of Sheikh Khazali, who had not yet studied in the Hawza, saying “
MashaAllah your research can be an ijtihad topic , and it is complementary to
my book “Ma Wara Al-Fiqh”

Sheikh Al-Khazali’s research, which was admired and accepted
by the martyr Ayatollah Al-Sadr, explained the reason for delaying the Maghrib
prayer after Athan “the call to pray ” in the Imami Shiite school. This delay
is due to the time in which the sun sets which is not equal for all the
inhabitants of the same area due to the difference in the heights where they
live. A person may live on the highest building of a skyscraper or a mountain
or even beside the seaside … All of this leads to variation in the duration
of the sunset from one place to another, and because Islam is a religion for
every time and place, the researcher assumed that the Prophet “peace be upon
him” and Ahl al-Bayt “may peace be upon them” took In consideration the time
difference caused by the low and high pieces of
land from the sea surface, which leads to a difference in the time of
sunset (the absence of the sun completely), and after careful mathematical
calculations and extensive geological studies, Sheikh Al-Khazali concluded in
his research that the highest altitude that a person can inhabit is (7625)
meters above sea level, which is a height that does not require more than (12)
minutes for the sun to completely uncover ,and so people living in these
different areas are equal in the actual sunset and “the call to pray ” during
these minutes.

And it wasn’t long after that Sheik Al-Khazali joind Hawza
1414AH /1994 as The martyr Al-Sader showed him his support and encouragement
,he became a student of  Ayatollah
Al-Sader And devoted himself to Hawza’s teachings and holy Heritage

His Religious knowledge and studies in Hawza

 Since Sheikh Al-Khazali began studying in
Hawza and settled in Najaf to study at the school of (Imam Al-Mahdi) he studied
the wise teachings of Ahl al-Bayt, next to the holy shrine of Ali bin Abi Talib
“may peace be upon him.”.

And
among the religious scholars who taught him
:

Sheikh
Hussain Aufi / Arabic Grammar

 Sheikh Ammar Al-Khuzaie / Logic

 Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi / religious law and
principles

 Sheikh Abbas Al-Rubaie / Al-Luma’

 Martyr Sheikh Hussain Al-Harthy / Al-Makasib

Ayatollah Sayad Muhammad al-Sadr / Lessons in the
interpretation of the Holy Qur’an (Minna al-Manan) 

Assigning Sheikh Qais Al-Khazali to be the
representative of Ayatollah Al-Sader 1997 and Vice General-Supervisor of the
religious schools.

Sheikh Khazali’s scholarly
ambition did not stop even after getting arrested by the American occupation on
March 20, 2007 AD. After his release thanks to the strikes of the brave members
of Muqawama , Sheikh Khazali continued his Hawza studies later with the top scholars
and Marjis’ of Hawza in the holy city Qom, studying
jurisprudence of Al-Bahith Al-Khareig With Ayatollah Sayed Kazem Al-Husseini Al-Hairi, and
he studied Islamic jurisprudence and Awsoul with Ayatollah Sayed Kamal
Al-Haydari.

As Ayatollah Mohammed Al-Sader saw the great scholarly
qualifications and high morals of Sheikh Al-Khazali he assigned him to be one
of his representatives « 1997 » he was granted this same place by Ayatollah
Sayed Kazem al-Husayni al-Hairi (was given by his representative Sayed Noor
al-Din al-Ashkouri) and another from Ayatollah Sayed Mahmoud Hashemi
Al-Shahroudi.

His Role and duties in
the era of the martyr Al-Sadr “May Allah bless his soul”

Sheikh Qais al-Khazali
was not an ordinary student during the revolution of the martyr Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr
“may  Allah bless his soul”. He was the Vice
General-Supervisor of the religious schools and a member of the legal rights section in the office of the Martyr
Al-Sadr, with Sayed Sultan
Kalanter, Sayed Muqtada Al-Sadr and Sayed
Mustafa Al-Yaqoubi.

Sheikh Khazali was
considered one of the bravest students of the Martyr Al-Sadr (May
Allah bless his soul), till nowadays the other
students of the Martyr Al-Sader remember and tell the incidents and stories that show his role and courageous
personality. The martyr Ayatollah  Al-Sadr (May
Allah bless his soul ) knew that the increasing
number of students in Hawza Obliges the school to provide decent housing for them in the religious schools that
they already have , because the tyrant Saddam did not
allow them to build new schools (Hawza)
for students coming from outside Najaf to live in ,
but some schools were a den in which some security and intelligence agents of
Sadam  lived, especially in” Alqawam” school going there and conforting them to leave the
school means a great risk and a public confrontation
with unknown consequences with Saddam’s security and followers. Which made everyone at that time refrain from asking
these people to leave these schools.

However, Sheikh Qais
al-Khazali did not hesitate to go himself to conforont
them to vacant the school and so he fulfilled the wish of Martyr al-Sadr of getting back these schools from the tyrant’s followers . Even the martyr al-Sadr expressed great satisfaction with
this step and commented on it saying: shieck has such a brave heart , be aware
danger and attack should be expected for the upcoming month.)

:The Muqauama ..a living
embodiment of the Martyr Al-Sader’s School

After the end of the
battles of the “Najaf
Intifada” against the American occupation in
September 2004

.

Sheikh Khazali began along with his
Mujahideen brothers ,the students of the martyr al-Sadr, to establish the
Islamic Muqawama movement (Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq) that stanted against the foreign
occupation in Iraq and inflicted the harshest attacks on the enemy, which led
to the end of the military occupation leaving in a state of humiliation and
degradation.

After the operation in
Holy Karbala in 2007 ,which was
carried out by the heroes of “Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq from Iraq”, the American
occupation intensified its intelligence efforts as it was terrified by the brave and
daring operations of the Islamic Muqawama.

The intelligence agents of the American and British
occupation, with all their capabilities, would not have been able to arrest the
Secretary-General had it not been for their monitoring and surveillance
system that enabled them to listen to the phone calls of
one of his relatives, as they learned that Sheikh Khazali was in Basra for two
days, and they were following him, and at that time they knew that he was in
Basra.

Following Sheikh Khazali’s meeting
spot  with his group, the leaders of the
occupation forces debated whether to arrest the group or launch a missile at
their location, but they ultimately decided to arrest them.and so the occupation forces captured Sheikh Khazali with a
group of Mujahideen while they were in Basra Governorate on March 20, 2007, and
then he was transferred by a private military plane to Baghdad to spend the
first (124) days in solitary confinement, and then stay in cropper
prison in Majan. a period that allowed him to embody
the school of the martyr Muhammad al-Sadr “ May Allah bless his soul” inside the prison .He reflected
the mindset , thoughts and morals of his great
teacher, especially in Qur’anic contemplation, which
Sheikh Khazali had a long history of teaching it there.

Another prominent role Sheikh
Al-Khazali played in the prison was holding Salat Al-Jumma’ (the Holy Friday prayer)inside Cropper prison, uplifting
the spirit of jihad and resistance in the hearts of
the prisoners through his courageous
speechs , which coveyed Ayatoallah Al-Sader’s
speeches «  May Allah bless his soul » .

On December 30, 2009 The heroes of
the Muqawamq movement ‘Asai’b Ahlu Al-Haq » captured the British spies

 in the Ministry of Finance building in Baghdad
, headed by the computer expert, the British spy (Peter Moore), and demanded the release of the captured heroes of the Muqawama, and
on the head of that list was Sheikh Khazali.

Sheikh Khazali in
today’s iraq is working with his brothers the
Mujahideen and the Muqawama heroes ,Along with the Sadiqon bloc after
winning (15) parliamentary seats,

 has sought to reform Iraqi reality and work on
advancing it, especially after the historic victory over ISIS and its
supporters.