MUSLIM LEADER

-------- HASSAN AL BANNA --------

WHO IS HE ?

WHAT IS HIS CONTRIBUTION ?

WHY I CHOOSE HIM ?

I WILL ANSWER ALL THIS QUESTION 

Firstly, Hassan Al-Banna name is Hassan Ahmad Abdul Rahman Muhammed Al-Bana and was born in 1906 in Mahmudiyya, a village north of Cairo. His father Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Banna was an Al-Azhar graduate, Imam for the local mosque and a watch repairer. Hassan al Banna has seven siblings.Their names are Abd.Rahman, Fatimah, Muhammad,Abdul Basit, Zainab, Ahmad Jamaluddin and Fauziah.Hassan al- Banna has six children; Wafa,Ahmad Saiful Islam, Tsana, Roja, Halah, and Istisyhad.

Hassan Al-Banna grew up in an intellectual environment that supported a strict Islamic lifestyle. He was greatly influenced by his father’s devotion to learning and teaching.

At the age of thirteen he was already engaged in demonstrations against British authority in Egypt. He supported religious student associations that were dedicated on upholding the Islamic standards of moral behaviour. He joined Hasafiyya Brothers of Sufi order at the age of thirteen. At the age of seventeen, Hassan al Banna decided to enrol at a well established teachers college at Dar al-Ulum in Cairo. After four years of studying, Banna graduated in 1927, with over 18,000 memorized poems and immediately began teaching as an Arabic instructor in Isma’iliyya in Suez Canal Zone.

Banna throughout his life fought for two things; the unity of Ummah and independence of Muslim land from foreign authority.He spent his entire life dedicated to Ummah.Banna formed Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwanul Muslimin) in 1928, as a response and a protest to the declining state of Islam. He argued that the decline of Islam was due to the ineffective teachings of the scholars and their failure to preserve Islam in its purest state. Ihkwan included both political and social aspects. Banna Ikhwan was a salafi movement, a Sunni path, Sufi truth, a political organization and social idea.The organization was formed with six other people. Banna started the organization as a youth club by preaching at coffee house.The organization established mosques, schools, clubs, factories and welfares. By the end of 1930s brotherhood stretched throughout the Middle East and had more than half a million active members. During the 1942 elections government agreed to take action against alcohol consumption and prostitution upon Banna’s withdrawal from the elections.

Banna with the growth of the organization opened a new Jihadist branch within the Muslim Brotherhood; El-Nizam el-Hass. This new branch was found in 1940 to defend the Muslims against the Zionist movement in Palestine as well as the British occupation of Suez Canal. The new branch was developed underground to train soldiers for Jihad. During the Arab Revolt in Palestine, Banna sent troops to Jerusalem to fight against Jews.Hassan al banna also write some book such as the concept of Allah in the islamic creed, memorial supplications, letter to a muslim student ,message for youth and lastly, what we always read in the morning and evening which is al-mathurat. 

Hassan al-Banna is a great Muslim Leader.He gave inspiration to youth to keep strong and contribute to Ummah.This is 10 advice of Hassan al-Banna that you can hold to keep motivated:

1) Dear friends,immediately performing five times daily salaat once you have heard the calling of prayers. Try work on it according to your ability. It reflects your desire to perform your obligation. There is the source of success, there is the source of nusrah (help from God). Look at the Words of God begin with the order to hasten to perform salaat. Look at how God has ordered salaat to be apart of the Way, even in the battlefield in the moment of difficulties or easiness. 

2) Dear friends, recite and read the Quran. Try to understand the message. Be in meditation always and find the knowledge although a little that you could get. Stop wasting your time and living the life without any goal. Indeed Quran is the source of the ocean of knowledges. It is the source of guidance for me and for you. Read Quran may it becomes your salvator. Always read it and try to memorize it. Meditate and chanting His Names without feeling tired. You may find tranquility and peacefulness. Be a peaceful servants of Lord!   
3) Dear friends, try to encourage yourselves to speak in Classical Arabic. Start even only with a word. You had already speaking in Arabic for long when you perform salaat. Try to say a word although you do not understand it. Amongst the problem with us now is that we do not speak in Classical Arabic anymore, instead speaking in Dialectical Arabic or speaking in English when we communicate amongst each other. Classical Arabic suppose to be our communication tool.

4) Dear friends, do not quarrel amongst each other. Debate something only for the benefits of the nation. Be careful with quarrels as Satan always trying to deflect you into fragmentations.

5) Dear friends, smile always but make laughter less. Our holy prophet (saw) is a person who always smile but never have big laughs.

6)  Dear friends, we may make jokes and also be serious but make sure that they are in suitable times.  Without jokes, life is not interesting. But jokes could not be excessive.

 7) Dear friends, control your voice, check back surah al-Israa'. Do not pray in the voice which is too high or too low but in the middle of it.

8) Dear friends, avoid from mocking, back-bitting, slandering, and lower-estimating other congregations of your brethren. Talk only charity for everyone's benefit. We could only talk about something bad according to syar'ie (legalized way) only if it is for justice, removing evil, to warn fellow brethren about evil, declaring evil and wickedness so that people could avoid it.

9) Dear friends, expand friendship and amity among brethren. Be friendly and greet our brethren with prayers for peace each time we see them. The basis of da'awa movement is through love, amity, and friendship among brethren.

10) Dear friends, maximize the benefits that we could gain through the beneficial usage of time. Familiarize ourselves with schedule so that we may plan well our activities for daily life in remembrance to Allah. Be wise with time, time is dangerous than sword in the same time it is gold. Appreciate the time of your brethren and also respect your time. No wasting of times with useless speech but only beneficial matters for the nation and our civilization.