One of the most prominent scholars of Algeria is a call and a jihad. He was well-versed in jurisprudence, legislation, linguistics and literature. He headed the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars after the death of its founder, the scholar Abdel Hamid bin Badis. He harnessed his knowledge and pen to serve his country and to defend the Arabic language, and his bold stances were the reason for placing him under house arrest. until his death.
Birth and upbringing
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi was born on Thursday, Shawwal 14, 1306 AH, corresponding to June 13, 1889 AD, in the village of Ras El-Wadi, in eastern Algeria, and grew up in a well-established family in knowledge.
Studying and training,
he began memorizing the Holy Qur’an at the age of three at the hands of his uncle, Sheikh Al-Makki Al-Ibrahimi, who had the greatest credit for his upbringing and upbringing.
At the age of nine, he completed the memorization of the Qur’an, the Alfiya of Ibn Malik and Ibn Mu’at al-Jaza’iri, and the two thousand of al-Hafiz al-Iraqi in Biography and Athar, and after his uncle’s death, he taught his students at the age of fourteen, and continued to do so until he was twenty.
At the end of 1911, he immigrated to Medina following his father in disguise, fearing the brutality of the French occupation, and he passed on his way to Cairo and attended several science councils in Al-Azhar.
After his arrival in Madinah, both Sheikh Al-Aziz, the Tunisian minister, and Sheikh Hussein Ahmed Al-Fayd Abadi Al-Hindi followed them, and on their hands he acquired a narration and knowledge of hadith, and from the science of interpretation at the hands of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Askobi.
Intellectual Orientation
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi adopted the national Islamic trend, and defended this in his articles, books and speeches during the colonial days and after independence.
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After the Turks left Damascus and the establishment of the Arab independence government, the government invited him to teach at the Sultanate School, which was the only secondary school at the time, with the participation of linguist Abdul Qader 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 the city of Setif and built a mosque and a school there. He refused a job offered to him by the French authorities and was satisfied with trading with his children.
In 1931, the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars was founded, and Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi became its vice president, the scholar Abdelhamid Ben Badis.
In 1940, the French authorities exiled him 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 assumed its presidency remotely for three years, until his release in 1943.
In 1945, Brahimi was imprisoned in the French military and was subjected to various forms of torture. After his release in 1946, he established the Insights newspaper and took over as editor-in-chief. He also established a secondary institute called Sheikh Abdel Hamid Ben Badis.
Al-Ibrahimi 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 emerged from 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 the Arab governments to accept Algerian student missions 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's policy that besieged Islamic figures. One of his most prominent activities was delivering the first sermon in the Katshawa 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. A decision was issued to place him under house arrest, and he remained so until his death.
Publications
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi left dozens of books, including "The People of Faith", "The Wisdom of the Legitimacy of Zakat in Islam", "Consistency and Anomalies in Arabic", "Secrets of Arab Pronouns", "The Priest of Auras", "Ethics and Virtues", and others.
His articles were collected in the Insights magazine in the book "Uyoun al-Basaa'ir".
He has a "poetic epic" in the history of Islam, comprising about 36 thousand verses.
Death:
Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi died at his home, while he was under house arrest on Thursday, May 20, 1965.