Ayat Qazweeni martyred, family announces

By: al-hodaonline

HOLY CITY OF NAJAF, Iraq: Illustrious Scholars of Aal-e-Qazweeni in Iraq have issued a statement assuring the martyrdom of their family guardian who was in Saddam’s detention since 1980. He was born in the holy city of Karbala, which houses the holy shrines of Hazrat Al-Imam Al-Hussain (AS) and Hazrat Abbas (AS), in 1900 in the home of Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Reza Al-Qazweeni (late).

The statement is as follows:

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Inna Lillahay Wa Inna Ilayhay Raje’oun

We, with deep grief and sorrow, announce the martyrdom of our respect worthy father Samaha Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Sadeq Al-Qazweeni, arrested by Saddam regime on 8 April 1980, as we have not found his sign in any of Saddam’s jails after the fall of devil regime.

Therefore, we declare his martyrdom and hope that may Allah made the blood of this martyr along with other martyrs, whom the ousted regime martyred, and who are from Ulama-e-Abrar and Mominaat & Momineen-e-Akhyaar a source of success for those people who are engaged in the struggle of achievement of their rights in the holy land of Iraq.

Wallaho Ne’mal Maula Wa Ne’man Naseer

6 May 2003

Sayyid Hashim Al-Qazweeni

Sayyid Murtzaz Al-Qazweeni

Sayyid Reza Al-Qazweeni

Sayyid Abdul Hussain Al-Qazweeni

According to eyewitnesses, Saddam regime arrested Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Sadeq Al-Qazweeni at midnight after raiding his house, and later torched his library consisted of rare books.

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