Hassan Khaled

Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled (1921—May 16, 1989) was the leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community.Mufti Hasan Khaled

As a grand mufti, he presided over Islamic courts in Lebanon for 23 years, and served as Head of the Islamic Coalition, a body which included past and present prime ministers, Sunni parliamentary figures, and Sunni members of Lebanon's government. He was considered a moderate, and upon his assassination was named as the "father of moderation," as he worked throughout his career to bring unity to the warring factions of the Lebanese Civil War.

On May 16, 1989, a 300 pound (136 kg) car bomb was detonated next to Khaled's car as he drove through Beirut. Khaled and 21 others were killed. Some suspected Syrian intelligence agents were behind the assassination, others Israel.

Life

Hassan Khaled was born in Beirut-Lebanon in 1921, received his primary school at Al makkased Islamic schools in Beirut, continued study of intermediate and secondary education at the Institute of Azhar Lebanon in Beirut, and pursued his university education at Al-Azhar University, from the Faculty of Theology in Cairo, and obtained the certificate high (BA) in 1946. He started his public life after graduating as college professor for legitimacy in Beirut for ethylene logic, and then staff member at the Islamic Shariah Court and a moderate and objective preacher in mosques, he earned respect of Lebanese and Muslims in particular from various classes, as he had a significant impact in guiding the Islamic societies both in the direction of religious and social work, and in 1954 was appointed as Deputy Chief Judge of Beirut, then in 1957 he was appointed as a judicial Judge in the province of Akkar in North Lebanon, then transferred in 1960 to the legitimate District Court of Lebanon. The emergence of religious discourse during his childhood had a great effect on his thinking and avoided engagement and association with any political or personal party, his personal morality was the governor of his behavior to the narrower limits, Morality was his guide in his work and actions, but in his thinking he was left open and liberal, his Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science of speech and logic left a big mark in his way of thinking, and tolerance of free search and away from fanaticism, but he always ended upholding morality and moral religious adherence. the boldness in declaring right in the face of opinion leaders and executives without compromising or bargaining has been the trend pursued this practice from his early work assignments till he was unanimously elected by Islamic scientists, political leaders and opinion leaders in Lebanon as the Grand Mufti of Lebanon in appreciation of his dignity and integrity, the unanimity choice of for the post of mufti of the Lebanese Republic was on Wednesday, December 21, 1966.

Duties of the Grand Mufti in Lebanon

Mufti of the Lebanese Republic is the resonant to all Muslims in Lebanon at all religious affairs, and their representative at the official authorities in Lebanon and abroad. And he is the resonant to all religious officials and administrators in the Awkaf (Islamic Departments that manages Moslems’ Estates) and religious circles in Lebanon, he is also the superior resonant to Sunni clerics, issued directives to them all, which in addition to the above enjoys all other rights and privileges enjoyed by the heads of the other largest religious communities in Lebanon, Because of the impact of religion in thought, work and life affairs, the hearts of Muslims in Lebanon are attached consistently to Dar Alfatwa (Sunni Moslem Resonant, Headed by the Mufti of Lebanon), and prolong with strong desire to listen to what Comes out of his its guidance and counseling.

His writings

* Islam and its social and material interdependence in society.
* Legacies of the Islamic Sharia.
* Personal Status provisions of the Islamic Sharia.
* Tales of Ramadan.
* course of the Islamic call in Lebanon during the 14th century AH.
* marriage to non-Muslims.
* Letter of definition of Islam.
* Islam's position on paganism and Christianity and Judaism.
* views and positions.
* Madinah society before and after emigration.
* Muslims in Lebanon and civil war.
* Torah, the Bible and the Koran and science.
* martyr in Islam.
* Islam and its vision to after life.

Lightings of Islamic intellectual, cultural and social was formed by the many lectures, articles and research jurisprudence, religious, political, cultural and many other national positions had positive repercussions in Lebanon and the Arab and Islamic worlds. He also had a national role by being distinguished through chairing for many years the “Islamic Gathering” (a weekly political meeting that was held at Dar Alfatwa, headed by the Mufti in the presence of all Muslim political and religious leaders that gave its views in the Lebanese politics during the civil war in Lebanon), and through his chairmanship, and his participation in many Arab and Islamic conferences. A long and tender march of giving in many areas of religion, nationality, Arabism and Islamism, that stopped in on Tuesday, May 16, 1989, due to the big treacherous explosion perpetrated by the enemies of the homeland and the nation, that was detonated, while his convoy was leaving Dar alfatwa.

The treacherous hand took the life of a highly respectable scholar of the Muslim world, that gave his country and nation without borders, through his martyrdom he defended the unity of Lebanon's territory, and its people, and gave up his blood in defense of the Arabs and Muslims righteous cause. That incident was hardly condemned nationally and Globally,

Tasks

# Preaching and teaching in mosques in Beirut.
# Preaching and teaching in Makkawi and Majidiyah, and the Imam Ali mosques in the heart of Beirut for more than twenty years.
# He taught the subjects of logic and uniformity in Azhar- Lebanon-Beirut.
# Assistant prosecution Judge in the Islamic Courts in Beirut.
# Deputy Chief Judge in Beirut.
# Judge of Akkar province in northern Lebanon.
# President of the Courts of legitimacy in the province of Mount Lebanon.
# Assuming the post of Mufti of the Lebanese Republic on 11/12/1966 after unanimity scholars and Muslim leaders on his election in the lobby of the Dar Al-Fatwa.
# Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council legitimate in Lebanon.
# Chairman of the Islamic Gathering. (weekly meeting of heads of governments, ministers, MPs).
# President of the Supreme Islamic Council in Lebanon.
# Deputy Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of the Association of the Islamic world league in Mecca.
# Deputy head of the Islamic Charity Organization in Kuwait.
# Academy member jurist in the Muslim World League / Mecca.
# Academy member in the Organization of Islamic States / Jeddah.
# A member of the Islamic Research Academy in Egypt.
# Participated personally as a representative of Lebanon in many Arab and Islamic conferences or sent representatives in each of: Saudi Arabia / Egypt / Sudan / Morocco / Libya / Algeria / Tunisia / Arab Emirates / Qatar / Kuwait / Syria / Iraq / Yemen / Iran / Indonesia / Australia / China / France / Britain / Rome / Afghanistan / Ghana / Niger / Mali / Chad / Somalia / Uganda / Poland / Romania / Bulgaria / Soviet Union /and the United States of America.

Honors

* National Medal of Cedar-Lebanon-May 16, 1989.
* Grand Collar of the renaissance of the Jordanian-highest first-class medal in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-1967.
* High medal from the president-the Republic of Chad.
* Decoration from the Soviet Union on the research of the cessation of nuclear armament in August 14, 1974.
* Islam Decoration (Girdanov) – Poland.
* Received several medals from the United States of America.

Valuations

* Honorary doctorate in Cairo, after a lecture he delivered at Al-Azhar in the Hall of Imam Mohammed Abdo, during a dinner invitation from the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
* Honorary doctorate from the University Jin Ji, China.

References

* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0712F83E5A0C748DDDAC0894D1484D81 Partial article]

External links

* [http://www.hasankhaledfoundations.org Hassan Khaled Foundations (in Arabic)]