He complained about the silence of the ummah, became a martyr and left.
He is the symbolic name of our Palestinian cause, which has endured difficulties for the sake of his cause, completed his physical disability with spirit and spirituality, and crowned it with martyrdom. Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, despite his paralysis in his entire body, lived a full life without failing to struggle in the way of Allah and to encourage others to fight in this way. His struggle is an example to all Muslim youth who came after him… Not only did he set a life with jihad, but he also set an example when he ended his worldly life by sticking to the phrase "to be a martyr in the way of Allah is our most lofty goal". Happy martyrdom…
The occupying Zionist state thought that by killing him, it would leave the Palestinian resistance headless and intimidate those who struggled to save the occupied homeland. At the end of the fearless and determined struggle, the occupying Zionism was forced to withdraw from Gaza. Today, Gaza continues the honor struggle of the Islamic world… Again, the resistance against the occupying regime continues in Palestine.
The life of Sheikh Ahmed Yasin
Ahmed Yasin was born in 1937 in the village of Al-Jawra, in the city of Ascalan, Palestine. Sheikh Yasin, whose father died when he was three years old, grew up under the auspices of his mother and siblings. In 1948, after the disaster caused by the Jewish occupation of a large part of Palestine, his family immigrated to the city of Gaza.
Sheikh Yasin, who fell on his head during a swimming activity, broke his neck bone and his whole body was paralyzed. Then he completed his secondary education at Al-Rihal Secondary School. He completed his high school education in Palestine High School in 1958. After graduating from high school, he took private lessons from some scholars. In addition to this, he trained himself very well with his own private studies. He was known as an intelligent and cultured person. After completing his private education, he worked as a teacher.
EFFORTS TO AWARE THE PUBLIC
After all of Palestine fell into the hands of the Zionist invaders in 1967, people began to look for someone to lead them in their struggle to save their homeland from occupation. Sheikh Ahmed Yasin played a major role in raising people's awareness of the danger from the invading Jews.
After establishing the Islamic Center in Gaza, he became well known and his name began to be heard all over Palestine. This situation greatly disturbed the occupation administration. That's why they questioned him repeatedly at the police station. In 1984, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin and many of his assistants were arrested. At the end of the investigation, Ahmed Yasin was sentenced to 13 years in prison on the grounds that he worked to overthrow the state of Israel and establish an Islamic state in its place. However, he was released eleven months later in a prisoner exchange between the Palestinians and the invaders. After this practice in 1985, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin again assumed the leadership of the Palestinians in their war against Israel.
THE FOUNDATION OF HAMAS
Ahmed Yasin led the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), which was the pioneer of the intifada that started on December 8, 1987. HAMAS has its origins in the Muslim Brotherhood community and Ahmed Yasin was a member of the Palestinian wing of this community. However, when it came to 1987, it was seen that there was a need for a resistance organization to organize the actual struggle against the occupation. In consultation with the general administration of the Muslim Brotherhood, it was decided to establish such an organization specifically for Palestine. As a result of this decision, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) emerged under the leadership of Sheikh Yasin. Sheikh Yasin, the spiritual leader of this organization, also acted as an engine in the continuation of the intifada.
HISTORICAL ANSWER FROM SHEIKH YASIN: “THIS COURT WAS ESTABLISHED BY INVASIONS”
The Israeli regime arrested Sheikh Ahmed Yasin again on May 18, 1989. Along with him, many HAMAS members were also arrested. This arrest was the practice aimed at stopping the intifada, but the occupying regime did not find what it hoped for. Because after this incident, the intifada became even more violent. After long delays, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was brought before the court on January 3, 1990 and tried on 15 charges. The words of Ahmed Yasin to the members of the court during the trial were as follows:
"This court does not have the legal right and authority to try me. Because this court was established by the invaders. Therefore, it is completely illegitimate and illegal."
YASIN REJECTED ALL OFFERINGS MADE BY ISRAEL
On October 16, 1991, the verdict of the court against Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was announced. An Israeli military court has sentenced the founder of HAMAS, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, to life imprisonment. The court of the occupation regime also sentenced Ahmed Yasin to fifteen years in prison for allegedly giving orders to kill and establishing an illegal(!) organization aimed at overthrowing Israel and establishing an Islamic state in its place. After convicting him to the said sentence, the Israeli administration wanted to negotiate with Ahmed Yasin from time to time and make him accept some conditions for his release. He once offered his release in exchange for announcing that he recognized Israel and viewed the signed autonomy agreements positively. Ahmed Yasin certainly did not accept this. He then abandoned the requirement to recognize Israel and offered to release it only on the condition that it accepts the autonomy agreements.
Ahmed Yasin did not accept this offer, and he frequently expressed that he did not accept the Israeli administration as a counterpart.
8 YEARS AT ISRAELI DUNGEONS
Sheikh Ahmed Yasin did not lose anything of his determination during his eight-year prison life and did not change his stance on not accepting the Zionist government as an interlocutor. He was a person who really took Yousef (r.a.) as an example. For this reason, he showed an exceptional example of patience. The suffering of the dungeon did not force him to compromise his cause.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made a bargain with King Hussein of Jordan and had to release Ahmed Yasin after the MOSSAD agents who attempted to assassinate Halid Meshal, the Head of HAMAS's Political Unit in Amman, were caught by Meshal's bodyguards and handed over to the police. Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was released on the evening of Tuesday, September 30, 1997, after spending nearly eight and a half years in prison, and was brought to Amman, the capital of Jordan, to be treated.
“I WILL BACK TO MY HOMELAND”
Ahmed Yasin had made his final bargain before he was challenged on suspicion of exile. This bargaining of his was also showing his determination in his case and his exemplary attitude.
Then in the hospital bed, despite the need for immediate treatment, "My removal from here will not mean that I am driven out of my homeland. I will preserve my right to return to these lands. Never be slack in protecting this homeland. The invaders can use your slightest weakness for their own insidious policies, do not allow this," he said to the Palestinians.
After receiving treatment in Amman for a while, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin returned to his homeland, Palestine, and to Gaza, where his family resides. The troubles and persecutions he suffered throughout his life in the dungeon did not daunt him. Because after his return to Gaza, he immediately took up his position as the spiritual leader in the Palestinian resistance and started to continue his struggle from where he left off.
INTIFADA OF AL-AQSA
Sheikh Ahmed Yasin continued his struggle after he returned to Gaza. For this reason, he was known as the spiritual leader of the Aksa Intifada that started on September 29, 2000. He was also constantly followed by the Israeli regime. Due to this pursuit, he had been the target of an assassination attempt before, but survived the attack.
While the Israeli army was trying to be effective, especially on HAMAS, with a large-scale attack launched on December 15, 2001, the mosque where Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was located was targeted by the Israeli army's missiles, but Yasin escaped unscathed.
On June 24, 2002, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was detained by the Palestinian Authority in his home in the Gaza Strip.
"In order to protect the national interests of the Palestinian people, it was decided that Sheikh Yasin be detained at his home starting from the previous day," an official said.
The official noted that the decision was taken by Yasir Arafat. In September 2003, the place where HAMAS leaders met was bombed by Israel, and Sheikh Yasin escaped with a minor wound from his hand.
THE DOOR TO IMMORTALITY…
Sheikh Ahmed Yasin was martyred in an airstrike on Gaza by Zionist Israel on March 22, 2004. Sheikh was leaving the mosque where he prayed in his wheelchair during the attack with missiles. As he left the mosque, planes of the occupation army's air force fired several missiles towards his clean and pure body. Missiles shattered the Sheikh's body and scattered it in all directions.
May Allah have mercy on him...