Arif Hussain Hussaini

Arif Hussain Hussaini
Syed Arif Hussain Al Hussaini (November 25, 1946 - August 5, 1988) was an Islamic religious cleric, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, activist and scholar active in Pakistan. He is known as the Islamic Revolutionist leader of Shia Muslims in Pakistan and founder of Shia Islamist Movement Tehrik-e-Jafaria in Pakistan. He is known as Khomanei-e-Pakistan. He viewed as the evils of secularism, nationalism, liberalism and socialism, which he understood to be the influence of Western and Soviet imperialism.
Early life
Arif Hussain al-Hussaini was born on 25 November 1946 in the Village Piwaar of Kurram District, Parachinar into the house of Fazal Hussain Shah. His family belongs to the Husseini branch of Syeds, which trace descent to the fourth Shi'a imam, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn. The specific local branch name was Duparzai. Arif received his primary education at his home town government primary school and later went on to Parachinar to complete his matriculation. Later he got admission into the Madressa Jafria Parachinar from where he went to the Iraqi city of Najaf for further studies, where he also studied under Ayatollah Khomeini in Iraq. In 1973 he returned home and married, and a year later went to the holy city of Qom, Iran to join the Hauza Ilmia. In 1975 and 1977 he went on Haj. Due to his involvement in District Kurram and also for Madressah-e-Jaffaria in Parachinar, Abid Hussain al Hussaini called him for help.
He was sent back to Pakistan in 1977 to mobilize the Shia community, and also in that year was the first person to recite a majlis in Pashto, unusual in that the great majority of Pashtuns are Sunni rather than Shia. He also leveraged funding from the Shia Pakistani diaspora in the Persian Gulf to create the Alamdar Foundation in his hometown of Parachinar.
Leadership of Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan
In a meeting of 28 persons called in Bhakkar, Punjab, Arif Hussain was given the leadership of Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan, five months after the death of Mufti Jafar Hussain on February 10, 1984, in Bhakkar.
Assassination
Hussaini died in Peshawar on August 5, 1988. He was at the stairs of his seminary, coming down from his residence at first floor, when assailants opened fire at him. The attackers escaped but were later arrested the attacker were allegedly affiliated with Sipah-e-Sahaba an anti-Shia political party. Hussaini died of his wounds while being transported by ambulance to a local hospital.
His body was taken from Peshawar to his native village of Peiwar by helicopter. The former President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and special representatives of Imam Khomeini, Ayatullah Jannati, participated in his funeral rites. The Iranian government supported the construction of a mazar over his grave in Peshawar.
See also
Mufti Jafar Hussain
Syed Jawad Naqvi
Muhammad Hussain Najafi
Muhammad Nawaz Irfani
Sheikh Rajab Ali
Sheikh Ali Madad
Sheikh Fida Hussain Muzahiri
References
Works cited
Pakistani Shia clerics
Pakistani Shia Muslims
Pakistani Islamists
Pashtun people
People from Kurram District
Deaths by firearm in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
1946 births
1988 deaths
Islamic Dawa Party
Assassinated Pakistani people