Draft:Sa'id Ramadan

Template:جعبه اطلاعات شخصیت Sa'id Ramadan is one of the well-known figures among the members of the اخوان‌المسلمین, at the regional level and within international organizations. He was the mastermind and skilled operative of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the world, especially in اروپا and آمریکا. He was the son-in-law of حسن البنا, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. He established the Islamic Center in Geneva (سوئیس) and continued the publication of the Muslim magazine as a replacement for the Al-Shihab magazine, holding its ownership and editorship. He was one of the founders of the Muslim World League and the founders of the جنبش الدعوه اسلامی in Europe.

Sa'id Ramadan

Sa'id Ramadan was born and raised in مصر, in Tanta, Gharbia Governorate. He was one of the activists and sympathizers of the اخوان‌المسلمین who, from the beginning of his entry until his death, had numerous activities, the effects and results of which are still visible years after his death. Dr. حسن حثوت says: "From what I remember, Sa'id Ramadan was, in my opinion, one of the orators of the 20th century, as he was a student who came from Tanta to enter the Faculty of Law. He was a speaking orator, and many students came to him and he began to speak. So I went to Professor حسن البنا and said: Let Sa'id Ramadan reside in your house so that he may obtain a Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate, and then communicate with the people and become a preacher for the Brotherhood. The sentence I said to him was: One scholar for advocacy is better than a thousand soldiers."

Education

He obtained his high school diploma in مصر and his Bachelor's degree in انگلستان in the field of law, and then studied law at دانشگاه قاهره and gained fame there after joining the Muslim Brotherhood. He received a Doctorate from the University of Cologne, آلمان. He moved to Geneva in 1958 and studied law there.

Moral Characteristics

• In terms of personality, he was a likable, kind-hearted, benevolent, very intelligent, humorous, and attractive individual.
• He was one of the most prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in the world who managed to leave a name for himself everywhere in the جهان اسلام, and is very well-known and famous in پاکستان and اندونزی and مصر and شام.
• He was amazing in activity, and we know no one more active than him among the preachers of اسلام, and he performed حج many times. During the Hajj days, he met and visited people every day, conversed with various strata, and participated in various sessions from morning until night, guiding and advising people with patience and tolerance. For this reason, most days he would stay up until dawn with fatigue. He was diligent in conversation and work, and for this reason, most of the time he did not have the opportunity to eat food and have sufficient sleep and rest. Nevertheless, he supervised the magazine Al-Muslimun and wrote articles. He was a man of the pen and writing. On most trips, he accompanied حسن البناء.
• Scholars and elders of the thinkers of the Islamic world have praised him and spoken of his high morals and abundant talents, and have offered praises. Among them was ابوالحسن النداوی, who met him in 1951 CE during al-Nadawi's trip to مصر, and afterwards they communicated through correspondence and telephone. النداوی loved him very much and respected him, accepted his invitation to write in (Al-Muslimun), and accompanied him, and the great Arab writer علی الطنطاوی was influenced by his activity, vitality, intelligence, and wit.
• Sa'id's enthusiasm for عبادت and his superior ability to participate in multiple sessions, having a strong memory, and his amazing ability to gain friends were among his other characteristics.

Activities

• After graduating as a lawyer, he practiced law.
• He founded an organization in Germany that became one of the three Islamic organizations there, namely the Islamic Society of Germany, which he led from 1958 to 1968.
• Leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood organization in the world.
• Secretary-General of the Islamic Conference Organization - Jerusalem in 1953 AD and thereafter.
• He founded the Islamic Center in Geneva and Switzerland and became its president. This center is considered the first Muslim Brotherhood center in Europe, and through it, branches were established and launched in other European countries.
• Member of the founding council of the World Muslim League; he was the one who proposed the idea of establishing such an organization and was himself one of its board members.
• He was one of the founders of the Muslim World League.
• One of the founders of the Islamic Da'wah Movement in Europe.
• He was trusted by Hassan al-Banna since his student days. As soon as he obtained his law degree from Cairo University in 1946 AD at the age of twenty, al-Banna chose him as his personal secretary, in appreciation of his qualities and praising his enthusiasm and sincerity. Then he managed the magazine (Al-Shihab), which is a monthly. Corresponding to 14 November 1947 AD, it was a legal magazine similar to Al-Manar magazine and in the field of research and Islamic issues, a comprehensive monthly published at the beginning of every Arabic month, and al-Banna was its editor-in-chief.
• The Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine was established in 1945 through the efforts of Said Ramadan, who was a 20-year-old young man. He gathered fifteen thousand Muslim Brotherhood members in Palestine, and in 1947, this number exceeded twenty thousand.

Activities in the Press

• In 1371 AH/1951 AD, he founded the magazine (Al-Muslimun) in Cairo and became its editor-in-chief. Al-Muslimun magazine is actually a higher school and perhaps at the university level or higher. This magazine was not just a newspaper, but a pioneering intellectual school in the Islamic Arab countries where its writers and preachers gathered and believing youth convened to exchange scientific information.
• When al-Banna published the newspaper Al-Shihab, Said Ramadan worked as a secretary for the editorship of this magazine, and his journalism experience began from here. The first Islamic newspaper given this name was an Algerian newspaper published by Abdelhamid Ben Badis. Hassan al-Banna was influenced by Ibn Badis and admired him, therefore he published the newspaper. The Cairo newspaper Al-Shihab, then Mustafa al-Siba'i published Al-Shihab in Damascus, then the Islamic movement in Lebanon published the Lebanese newspaper Al-Shihab. The name Al-Shihab is linked to Islamic journalism; wherever the word Al-Shihab is mentioned in the field of journalism, it undoubtedly comes to mind that this is an Islamic newspaper.

Conferences

He participated in many Islamic conferences and seminars, including the following:

• The Islamic Culture Conference, held at the invitation of Princeton University and the Library of Congress with the presence of a large number of scholars and Orientalists Muslims.
• At the UN session in the discussion on the effects of Jewish aggression, the issue of Algeria and Kashmir, he participated and presented three memos at the UN: one regarding the aggression of the treacherous triangle and that the body must bear full responsibility without compromise. Another was regarding the issue of the Muslims of Kashmir, and the third was regarding the issue of the struggle with Algeria.
• In 1956 AD, he visited Morocco.
• The conspiracies of the enemies of Islam prevented him from participating in the Mogadishu Conference (Somalia) in January 1965 AD.
• He visited the America and toured its cities, witnessing the oppression of materialism there. He met with priests there and delivered his sermons in churches in Virginia and influenced the listeners there and corrected their concepts.
• In response to an invitation from several Islamic organizations in universities, he spent most of April 1963 on a blessed lecture tour in Canada and the United States.
• He traveled to Pakistan to organize the first session of the Islamic Conference in February 1949.
• Through his determination and effort, the second session of the Islamic Conference was held in February 1951 AD.

Marriage

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In 1951 CE, he married Wafa, the daughter of Hassan al-Banna, and had several sons and daughters with her. She was by his side throughout all moments of life, in good and bad days, and even during exile; God granted them children, the most prominent of whom are: Ayman and Tariq Ramadan, who carry out many of their father's remaining works, particularly in Switzerland, where they hold citizenship.

Children

• Tariq Ramadan: (My father was chosen as the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in exile) He spent most of his life abroad and refrained from returning to his homeland, Egypt. This was because the rulers of Egypt were predominantly oppressors engaged in tyranny against the people; only the specific forms of their oppression differed. He preferred to live even his later years in the West with his wife and children, and dedicated his life to reading and writing.
• Hani Ramadan: Head of the Islamic Center of Geneva.
• Ayman Ramadan: My father was the best supporter and helper after God; he made every effort in raising me and his other children. He endured hardships for our comfort and well-being.
• Bilal;
• Yasser;
• Urwah.

Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine

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A few months before the death of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, whom Hamas considers its forerunner and leader, from August 3 to 6, 1935, a delegation from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood visited Palestine for the first time.

At that time, the issue of Palestine was already of vital importance to the Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian nationalists viewed the issue of Palestine essentially from a geopolitical perspective, as a Jewish state in Palestine was a permanent threat to Egypt. However, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Banna and his associates) viewed the issue of Palestine as an important religious and spiritual matter.

Palestine was not merely one of the many issues that the Muslim Brotherhood became interested in during the 1930s and 1940s. This fundamental issue was of concern to al-Banna to guide his followers towards understanding the transnational dimension and to transform a movement that was born with a limited Egyptian horizon into a Muslim world reality.

The Muslim Brotherhood lost a number of its Egyptian members because it prioritized the issue of Palestine over the issue of Egypt. On the other hand, they had the opportunity to clearly distinguish themselves from Egyptian nationalists. Therefore, propaganda in favor of the Palestinian cause formed the basis of the international success of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in the years 1935–1945.

After the establishment of the Syrian and Lebanese branches in 1937, the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch was established in 1945 through the efforts of Said Ramadan, who was a 20-year-old youth at the time.

Said Ramadan's activities were extremely successful: in one year, from 1945 to 1946, he recruited fifteen thousand Muslim Brotherhood members in Palestine, and in 1947, this figure exceeded twenty thousand.

The Palestinian members of the Brotherhood had received the original line from Hassan al-Banna and his son-in-law such that they strongly opposed any compromising positions with the Israel, regarding it as a usurper, and decisively rejected any peaceful settlement regarding the issue of Palestine.

Meeting with Ayatollah Kashani

Said Ramadan, during a trip to Iran, during the flourishing of the National Oil Industry Movement, met with Ayatollah Kashani and was influenced by his spirituality and honesty, and through an open letter, shared his wishes and ideas with him.

According to the late Jafar Raed: "Said Ramadan was warmly and sincerely welcomed in Tehran. He spoke to the Muslims of the world from Tehran Radio, and also delivered a passionate speech at a gathering held in his honor; but ultimately his mission failed, because when he had proposed to Ayatollah Kashani to act with generosity and fatherliness and not withdraw his shadow from the Muslim Brotherhood association and take it under his protection, Kashani had said: The Muslim Brotherhood association is a left-leaning organization and I am by no means willing to support an association whose creed and method I do not approve. This answer was very hard on Said Ramadan and for this reason, heartbroken, depressed, and disappointed, he left Iran".

Geneva

He traveled to Geneva, making it his headquarters in 1958. Then he obtained a PhD in Law from the University of Cologne in Germany, in the field of Sharia, and established the Islamic Center in Geneva in 1961, just a few steps away. Dr. Ramadan states: This center became the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood members expelled from Egypt, and then in 1964, he opened centers in London and Munich.

Works

1. Legislation of Islam;
2. Where Is Islamic Brotherhood?;
3. Light upon Light;
4. Saladin;
5. Thoughts Presented by the Scholar Ali al-Tantawi;
6. Road Signs Presented by the General Guide of the Brotherhood, Mohamed Hamid Abu al-Nasr.
7. He has hundreds of articles and speeches.

Death sentence

The judiciary of Egypt sentenced him to death in absentia due to his participation in a plot to assassinate Gamal Abdel Nasser, the country's president.

Death

Said Ramadan died in 1995 AD in Geneva, Switzerland, and his body was transferred to his birthplace and buried in Egypt.

See also

• Muslim Brotherhood
• Hassan al-Banna
• Exile
• Gamal Abdel Nasser

References

• Retrieved from website www.islamist-movements.com
• Retrieved from website ishrakat.com
• Retrieved from website www.alarabiya.net
• Retrieved from website www.albawabhnews.com
• Retrieved from website www.tasnimnews.com