Abdesslam Yassine

Abdessalam Yassine (Arabic عبد السلام ياسين, ʿ Abd as- DMG Salām Yasin, born September 20, 1928 in Marrakech, † December 13, 2012 in Rabat, Morocco) was a Moroccan Islamic scholar. He was the author of more than 25 books on various subjects and founded in the 1980s, the Association for Justice and Spirituality. This association has, according to Amnesty International to the banned Islamist groups.

Life

Yassines descent was Berber - Arab. In his childhood he attended a private school in Marrakech, before he began his training at age 15 at Ben Youssef Institute, a secondary school for Arabic and Islamic studies. Only at the age of 19 years learned Yassine French, as in 1947 he completed a one-year training for teachers in Rabat. In 1948, he began his career in public education. He worked as an Arabic teacher in El- Jadida and Marrakech. In 1955 he became official inspector for primary education in Casablanca and was from 1956 to 1960 in Beni Mellal in the same function at the regional level active. Yassine returned in 1960 as director of the training center for primary school teachers back to Marrakech. In 1963 he worked as inspector for secondary schools in Casablanca. Between 1965 and 1967 he worked as director of the Center for Teacher Education in Rabat. He traveled to France (1959, 1961), United States ( 1959), Lebanon (1961 ), Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria ( 1968).

In 1968, he finished ahead of his long career as a civil servant due to an illness. Yassine joined in the subsequent time a spiritual teacher on. After his death, Yassine resigned from the Brotherhood to his teacher, to pursue a direction that coincided more with his concept of Islam, namely the reinforced commitment to the common good of society instead of living in seclusion. 1974 Yassine wrote an open letter titled Islam or the Deluge to the Moroccan King Hassan II, in which he strongly criticized the policy direction of the king. The king had him jailed without final judgment for a total of three and a half years, of which he had to spend two years in a mental institution.

In March 1978, Yassine was released from prison. In February of the following year he published the first issue of Al- Gama'a, from the to 1983 a total of 16 issues were published. Some of these issues, however, were confiscated by the Moroccan state power. The magazine was officially banned by the 16th edition. In September 1981 Yassine founded the Association Usrat Al- Gama'a (Community Family). The union was not officially recognized. In July 1982, he wrote an article in the 10th issue of the journal Al- Gama'a, which he titled Al- Qawl wa-l - fiaal ( The speech and action ) on the addressed to all heads of state of the Islamic countries Letter Morocco's King answered, which had been written on the occasion of the Islamic turn of the century. The issue was also seized. In November 1983, Yassine brought the magazine Al- Subh out ( The Morning ), which has already been banned after publication of the second edition. Due to a published article in this journal Yassine was the end of December arrested again and sentenced to two years in prison and a fine of 500 euros today.

In September 1987, the charity association took place under the leadership Yassin's the name Association for Justice and Spirituality ( Jama'at Al -Adl Wal- Ihssan ). Despite numerous reprisals by the Moroccan regime the association in Morocco gained increasing popularity. December 30, 1989, to a house arrest was imposed Yassine, during which he could only receive visits from family members. On 28 January 2000 Yassine published a letter entitled Memorandum to the claimant, which the new King Muhammad VI. was addressed, who had taken the son of his late father Hassan II was his successor in 1999. In this letter, Yassine criticized the miserable socio-economic situation of the majority population and called on the King to use the misappropriated assets to settle the debt. The house arrest was lifted by the King on 19 May 2000. On this occasion, Yassine was on 20 May 2000 in compliance with international media a press conference in which he drew attention to the continuing repression and arbitrariness of justice.

Objectives

Yassine was also founder of the school of the prophetic path ( Madrassat Al- Minhaj an- Nabawi ), the project is the re-unification of Muslims following the example of the Prophet Muhammad. His project has been worked out in detail in his more than 25 books, lectures, articles and letters. His project explains an authentic, yet modern and practical method of education and training to work for the reconstruction of the Muslim community. The foundations of his project can be summarized as follows:

  • The method of change should be progressive, flexible and forgiving.
  • It needs a theoretical background in order to be efficient in practice.
  • Violence and underground activities must be vehemently rejected and avoided at all costs.
  • Islam is not the sole property of the Arabs. So that message around the world in the most appropriate, mildest and most peaceful manner must be submitted.
  • To make changes, the Muslim man and a Muslim woman should start with himself, purifying their hearts and souls of the bad intentions and feelings and educate their minds by the perfect model of the prophet Mohammed - a model of grace, of peace, of human respect, equality and fraternity.
  • In a word: The aim of the project is to establish justice in society and spirituality in the hearts of its citizens. Justice and Spirituality mean peace with the Creator and the creatures, moral rectitude and propriety, social justice, prosperity and a decent life for all human beings - brothers and sisters in faith or in humanity.

Works

Yassine had published over 25 books on the spiritual, social and political issues. So far, a book has been translated into German:

  • Islamic reason appeal to the Modern (2000)
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