Hashim salamat biography

Salamat Hashim, the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) died on July 13 in Butig in the southern province of Lanao Del Sur, said the MILF political affairs chief, Gazali Jaafar.

“Chairman Salamat died of acute ulcer on July 13 and was buried on the same day,” he told a church radio station, DXMS, in Cotabato City. “The MILF central committee decided to delay the announcement to inform the relatives officially,” he added.

Hashim, 68, is to be succeeded by the MILF’s vice-chairman and military chief Murad Ebrahim, who will also lead peace talks with the government, Jaafar said.

“The death of brother Salamat will not stop the MILF from pursuing a peaceful, political and comprehensive agreement with the Philippine government,” Jaafar said.

The MILF has been waging an insurgency in the southern Philippines for the last 25 years to create a new Muslim state in the southern third of the largely Roman Catholic Philippines.

Peace negotiations delayed

Last month, the two sides agreed to a truce to pave way for the talks, which were suspended earlier this year amid a spate of bombings and attacks blamed by the military on the MILF.

President Gloria Arroyo had accused the MILF of providing sanctuary to terrorists.

But MILF chief Hashim publicly denied links to groups accused of terrorism including the Jemaah Islamiyah, allegedly linked to al-Qaeda, and agreed to the ceasefire.

Arroyo also suspended arrest warrants against Hashim and the other MILF leaders.

It was announced on Monday that the peace talks between the government and the MILF scheduled in Kuala Lumpur had been delayed but did not give any reasons.

Hashim joined the MILF in 1968 after working as a government librarian. The MILF broke away from another separatist group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which had opted for lim

What is the Sheikh's organisational role in the MILF?

Amir of the Bangsamoro Mujahideen and Chairman of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Would you please give us a brief outline of the Moro Islamic Front?

The MILF is the vanguard of the Islamic movement in the Bangsamoro homeland in Mindanao and the neighbouring islands.

Its emergence is the crystallisation of the widespread animosity and deep-rooted displeasure of the Bangsamoro people vis-�-vis the illegal and immoral usurpation of their freedom and self-determination.

The Bangsamoro territory, which is the ancestral homeland of the Bangsamoro Muslims, was illegally and immorally annexed when the United States of America granted the Philippines independence in July 4, 1946.

The MILF is the realisation of the ideas, efforts and sacrifices of Bangsamoro students in the Middle East who banded together and clandestinely organised themselves in 1962. Those students were kindled and unified by the common feelings concerning the usurpation of their legitimate and inalienable rights to freedom and self-determination, and that the usurption of Moro land was a plot against Islam and the Muslim people in the area. Furthermore it was a wanton design to destroy their identity and to liquidate them. Those students urged their counterparts in the Bangsamoro homeland and the Bangsamoro people in general to return to the fold of Islam and fight against the aggressors. They exhorted them to follow the path of Allah and launch Jihad in the Way of Allah. <

b) Methodology

The methodology of the MILF is complete submission to the Will of Allah. This is manifested and crystallised in the verse number 56, Surah 5: "I have only created Jinn and Man that they may serve Me."

The MILF makes sure that all its policies and activities are in conformity with the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah and i

BARMM, Philippines — Sheikh Salamat Hashim was a very serious leader of high intellectual caliber whose vision was to liberate his people from Philippine colonialism.

Salamat Hashim was born on July 7, 1942 in the municipality of Pagalungan, Maguindanao. He comes from a religious family of seven: four boys and three girls. Salamat’s first teacher was his mother. It was through that tutorial and guidance of his mother that at the very tender age of six he could read the Holy Qur’an and memorized many of its verses.

At the age of six he started his formal education in the Philippine Public School. He finished his elementary education in 1954 with honors and his secondary education in 1958 also with honors.

While pursuing his formal education, he enrolled in the village madrasah where he attended classes during Saturdays and Sundays. He finished ibtida’iyah at about the same time that he graduated from high school.

In 1958, Salamat joined the pilgrims from the Philippines in journeying to Makkah for hajj. He took this opportunity to stay behind and study in Makkah under the care of Sheikh Jawawi. He attended regularly the halakat held at the Masjidul Harem and enrolled at the Madrasatu As-Sulafiyah ad-Diniyah.

In 1959, he went to Cairo, which at that time was the center of political activism in the Middle East, he enrolled at Al-Azar University, the most prestigious institution of learning in the Muslim world.

He graduated from Al-Azar’s Maahad Al-Buuth al-Islamiyah as-Sanawiyah in 1963. Then enrolled at Sl-Azar’s College of Theology for bachelor’s degree program majoring in Aqidah and Philosophy and graduated in 1967.

Pursuing his scholarship inclination further, he took up his postgraduate courses in the same University and finished his master’s degree in 1969. He completed the academic requirements for a doctoral degree, but he was unable to write his dissertation because he had to return to the Philippines b

Salamat Hashim (Maguindanaon pronunciation:[salaːmathaːʃɪm]; Jawi: سلامت حاشم; July 07, 1939 - July 13, 2003), also known as Hashim Salamat, was a Filipino militant who served as leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. He is the founder of the group.

Early life and education

Hashim was born in Midsayap, Cotabato (now Pagalungan, Maguindanao) on July 7, 1939, to a religious family, one of seven siblings. At age six, he was taught by his mother how to read the Quran. In the 1950s, Hashim received formal elementary and high school education and was an honor student.

In 1958, Hashim joined the Hajj and decided to stay in Mecca to be mentored by Sheikh Zawawi. He was a regular attendee of the halaqat at the Masjid al Haram. He also underwent studies at the Madrasat as-Sulatiyah ad-Diniyah.

The following year, Hashim moved to Cairo to pursue further studies. He enrolled at Al-Azhar University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theology, majoring in Aqeedah and Philosophy in 1967, and a post-graduate masters degree from the same university in 1969. He also pursued a doctorate degree but was not able to finish writing his dissertation due to his decision to return to the Philippines to organize a Moro revolutionary movement.

Militant career

Hashim along with other militants including Nur Misuari founded the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the 1970s. Hashim later left the group in the later part of the decade to form the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Death

Hashim died on July 13, 2003, while in one of the MILF's camps in Butig, Lanao del Sur, due to complications caused by a heart disease and acute ulcer. The MILF only publicly confirmed their leader's death days later on August 5.Murad Ebrahim succeeded Hashim as leader of the MILF.

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