One of the most prominent scholars of Algeria, a call and jihad, was well-versed in jurisprudence, legislation, language sciences and literature. He headed the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars after the death of its founder, the scholar Abd al-Hamid bin Badis. Until his death.
Birth and upbringing
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi was born on Thursday, Shawwal 14, 1306 AH, corresponding to June 13, 1889AD, in the village of Ras al-Wadi in eastern Algeria, and he grew up in a family of ancient knowledge.
Study and training
began to memorize the Noble Qur’an at the age of three at the hands of his uncle, Sheikh Al-Makki Al-Ibrahimi, who had the greatest merit in his upbringing and education.
At the age of nine, he completed memorizing the Qur’an, memorizing the millennium of Ibn Malik and Ibn Moat al-Jazaery, and the two millennia al-Hafiz al-Iraqi in biography and trace.
In late 1911, he immigrated to Medina after his father in disguise, fearing the oppression of the French occupation, and passed on his way in Cairo and attended several councils of knowledge in Al-Azhar.
After his arrival in Medina, Sheikh Al-Aziz, the Tunisian minister, and Sheikh Hussein Ahmed Al-Fayadh Abadi Al-Hindi, and on their hands augmented the knowledge of hadith, a narration and know-how, and a science of interpretation by Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Askoubi, and there he met the scholar Abdel Hamid bin Badis, the pioneer of the reform renaissance in Algeria.
Intellectual orientation
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi adopted the national Islamic orientation, and defended this in his articles, books, and speeches during the colonial days and after independence, and the post-independence government narrowed his criticism for its abandonment of Islamic principles, and decided to isolate him from the people and place him under house arrest.
The path
In the winter of 1917, Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi, accompanied by his father, went to Damascus in compliance with a decision issued by the Ottoman government to deport the residents of the city to Damascus, and not a month passed since his stay until offers to teach in private schools flooded him, and he went back to giving lessons at the Umayyad Mosque during Ramadan.
After the Turks left Damascus and the establishment of the Arab independence government, the government invited him to teach at the Royal School, which was the only secondary school at the time, with the participation of the linguistic professor Abdul Qadir Al-Mubarak.
Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein offered him to take over the management of knowledge in Medina, but he refused and decided to return to Algeria in 1920. He resided in Setif and established a mosque and a school in it, and he refused a job offered to him by the French authorities and contented himself with practicing business with his children.
In 1931, the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars was established, and Al-Bashir Al-Brahimi became the deputy to its president, the scholar Abd al-Hamid bin Badis, and in 1933 he chose the state of Tlemcen in the Algerian west to practice his activity, and in it he established the "Dar al-Hadith" school in 1937.
He was exiled by the French authorities in 1940 to the Aflou region in the southwest of Algeria, and a week after his exile, Sheikh Ben Badis died, and he was elected president of the Association of Muslim Scholars and presided over it from a distance for three years, until his release in 1943.
In 1945, Brahimi was thrown into a French military prison and endured torture, and after his release in 1946 he established Al-Basir newspaper and assumed its editor-in-chief, and he also established a secondary institute called Sheikh Abdel Hamid Bin Badis.
Brahimi contributed with his effort and knowledge in introducing the Algerian issue, and his activity in the presidency of the Association of Scholars was prominent through the establishment of centers and schools that brought out the leaders of the armed revolution, and he established 73 schools and books in one year.
He traveled to the Arab Mashreq in 1952, seeking with Arab governments to accept Algerian student delegations and to introduce the Algerian cause, and he visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Pakistan.
With the outbreak of the Algerian Liberation Revolution in 1954, he made an appeal to the Algerian people to support the armed revolution.
After independence in 1962, he was forced to reduce his activities due to the deterioration of his health and the government policy that surrounded Islamic figures, and among the most prominent of his activities was the delivery of the first sermon in a Kethawah mosque in the center of the capital after independence.
On April 16, 1964, he issued a statement criticizing the government's abandonment of Islamic principles during the era of President Ahmed Ben Bella, so a decision was issued placing him under house arrest and it remained so until his death.
Publications
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi left dozens of books, including “The People of Faith,” “The Wisdom of Legitimacy of Zakat in Islam,” “Exercise and Perversion in Arabic,” “The Secrets of the Arab Conscience,” “The Priestess of Auras,” “Ethics and Virtues,” and others.
His articles were collected in the Insights magazine in the book "Eyes of Insights".
And he has a "poetry epic" in the history of Islam, which includes about 36 thousand verses.
Death:
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi died at his home, while he was under house arrest, on Thursday, 20 May 1965.