Some of the leading figures of the Nusayriyyah

The Nusayriyyah have political and religious leaders. As for the political leaders, they now occupy the ruling family in Arab Syria so that you will not find any governmental department except that its head is a Nusayri. As for their religious leaders, here are the names of some of them in Syria and Lebanon:

Al Ustadh Ibrahim Jamal – Latakia.
Ibrahim Sa’ud – Jabalah.
Ibrahim Salih Ma’ruf – Homs.
Ibrahim Harfush – residing in Latakia.
Ibrahim Hassan al Najjar.
Ahmed Eid al Khayr – al Qurdahah – residing in Latakia.
Salih ‘Ali Salih – residing in Damascus.
Dr. ‘Ali Sulaiman al Ahmed – Latakia.
Al Ustadh Muhammad Badr al Shamiyah – Latakia.
Muhammad ‘Ali Ahmed – al Qurdahah.
Mustafa al Sayed – ‘Umrah – Safita – a graduate from Al Azhar University.
Al Sheikh Ibrahim al Kamil – Tripoli – Lebanon.
Ahmed ‘Ali Hulum – al Shabatliyah – Latakia.
Al Sheikh Ahmed Muhammad Ramadan – Safita.
Ismail Shahud – Latakia.
Hussain Sa’ud – Jabalah.
Hassan ‘Abbas Al ‘Abbas Baysin – al Musharrafah – Masyaf.
Habib Salih Ma’ruf – Homs.
Hamid ‘Amudi al Tarabulusi – Homs.
Hamdan al Khayr – al Qurdahah.
Hassan Muhammad ‘Ali ad-Dallah – Jabalah.
Haydar Muhammad Haydar.
Salman Khalil al Waqqaf.
Rajab Sa’id Khalil – Mufti of the Baniyas area.
Salman Ahmed Salman – Hamin – Safita.
Salman Hassan – Latakia.
Sulaiman Ahmed Khidr – Jabalah.
Salman ‘Isa Mustafa – Harisun.
‘Abdur Rahman al Khayr – al Qurdahah – residing in Damascus.
‘Abdul Latif Ibrahim Marhaj – al Dabdabah – Safita.
‘Abdul Karim ‘Ali Hassan – Tartus.
‘Abdul Latif al Khayr – al Qurdahah.
‘Abdul Karim al Khatib.
‘Abbas Miyahub Harfush – al Muqaramadah – Baniyas.
Al Sheikh ‘Abdul Latif Sha’ban Kafarfu – Safita.
‘Abdullah ‘Abidin – Mufti of the Hifah area.
‘Abdul Hadi Haydar – Abu Qubays – Masyaf.
‘Ali ‘Abdullah – Safita.
‘Ali ‘Abdur Rahman Kankaru – Safita.
‘Ali Ahmed Muhammad Kutub.
‘Ali Hassan ‘Ali – Barmanah – Tartus.
‘Ali Mahmud Mansur – Tripoli – Lebanon.
‘Ali Ma’ruf Ibrahim – Al Rustayn – Latakia.
‘Ali ‘Isa Hassan – Jabalah.
‘Ali ‘Aziz Ibrahim – Tripoli – Lebanon.
Ghanim Yasin – Latakia.

This sheikh had a brother named Yusuf Yasin who came to Palestine from Latakia during the days of World War I in the year 1917 to enroll as a student at the al Salahiyah al Islamiyah College in Jerusalem. When its director, al Sheikh ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Jawish rahimahu Llah, learned that he was from Latakia, he refused to accept him, because he hated the Nusayriyyah.

When the English occupied Palestine in the year 1918, Yusuf Yasin volunteered for the unit formed by the English to work with T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and King ‘Abdullah in the Hijaz, fighting the Turks in the name of the Arab Army. Thus, Yusuf Yasin delivered sermons in clubs and among the youth in Jerusalem, calling for jihad against the Turks.

The newspaper Al Kawkab, issued in Cairo on 3 September 1918, published by its correspondent in Jerusalem a description of a gathering held at the Arab Club to urge the youth to volunteer for that army. The correspondent reported:

Then the young man, Yusuf Yasin, stood up and, in his capacity as a soldier in the Arab Army, recited a poem, saying:

سنأخذ هذا الحق بالسيف والقنا شيب شبان على ضمر بلق

We will take this right with the sword and spears,

Gray-haired youths on lean, swift steeds.

The English did indeed take Palestine, but by deceit, not by the sword, nor by the spear, nor on lean swift steeds. Then they handed it over to the Jews and established a state for them there. And when the English finished dismembering Palestine—after laughing at the Arabs, their speeches, and their poetry—they disbanded that Arab army.

Yusuf Yasin then migrated to the Hijaz, intending to join King Hussain ibn ‘Ali; he remained with him for a short period before being dismissed. He then went to King ‘Abdullah in ‘Amman, stayed with him for a time, and was subsequently relieved of his services. After that, he returned to Jerusalem, where the Palestinians employed him as a teacher at the Rawdah al Ma’arif al Wataniyyah School. The important point in all of this is that it proves the people of Palestine did not neglect Yusuf Yasin, rather they preferred him over their own youth and considered him one of their own.

Instead of reciprocating that kindness when he became a high-ranking official in Saudi Arabia and acquired authority over the newspaper Umm al Qura, he began to neglect the Palestinians and prevented that newspaper from publishing their news. And when he became the representative of Saudi Arabia at the Arab League,^[1] he had no concern other than working to curb the zeal of those passionate about Palestine. The Iraqi deputy ‘Izz al Din al Naqib broadcasted the text of the speech of Yusuf Yasin, the Saudi representative on the Political Committee of the Arab League, which was published by the Iraqi newspapers and by the newspaper al ‘Arab issued in Paris on 14 June 1949. It read as follows:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أيها الناس تريثوا في مقرراتكم فلا تستعجلوا فإن اليهود أغنياء وأقوياء في كل شيء بالمال والعلوم والفن والذكاء والقوة القاهرة بينما نحن عزل من السلاح وفقراء لا نملك من أسباب القوة لا قليلا ولا كثيراً لنتمكن من محاربتهم

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim: O people, restrain yourselves in your resolutions and do not be hasty. For the Jews are rich and strong in everything—in money, in the sciences, in art, in intelligence, and in overwhelming power—while we are defenseless in arms and poor, possessing neither sufficient means nor even a little by which we might be able to combat them.

Thus, his speech was dispiriting, and aimed at discouraging the resolute.^[2]

He died some time ago—passing from Malak al Mawt to Malik^[3]—and was succeeded by his son, who had been the ambassador of Saudi Arabia in Turkey about two years ago.

Al Sheikh Fadl Fiddah – Latakia.
Fadl Ghizal – al Hifah – Hijaz of al Najaf al Ashraf.
Kamil Hatim – Latakia.
Kamil al Khatib – Jabalah.
Kamil Salih Ma’ruf – Safita.
Al Sheikh Mahmud Salih ‘Imran – Homs.
Muhammad Hamid – Tripoli.
Mahmud Salih Yusuf – Baniyas.
Muhammad Hamdan al Khayr – al Qurdahah.
Mahmud Sulaiman al Khatib – residing in Latakia.
Muhammad Muharriz – al Shabatliyah – Latakia.
Muhammad Yusuf Hamdan ‘Imran – residing in Homs.
Mahmud Muhaj – Bahnin – Tripoli – Hijaz of al Najaf, and (an alumnus of) the College of Shari’ah in Damascus.
Muhammad ‘Ali Ramadan.
Mahmud Ahmed ‘Imran – residing in Tartus.
Mahmud Muhammad Salman – Jabalah.
Mahmud ‘Ali al Sharif – Tripoli – Lebanon.
Mahmud Sa’id – Latakia.
Mahmud ‘Ali Sulha – Tripoli – Lebanon.
Mas’ud Salih Hulum – al Rustan – Latakia.
Ma’alla Muhammad ‘Abdur Rahman.
Mansur Salih ‘Imran – Safita.
Ma’ruf Badr – al Shamiyah – Latakia.
Nasr al Din Zayfa – residing in Damascus.
Yasin Muhammad al Yunis – residing in Tartus.
Al Sheikh Yasin ‘Abdul Karim Muhammad – al Mustabah – Safita.
Yusuf Hassan Yusuf – Tripoli – Lebanon.
Yusuf Hulum – al Shabatliyah – a graduate from the College of Shari’ah in Damascus.
Yusuf Sarim – Latakia.
Yusuf Ibrahim al Yunis – Safita.
Yunus Hassan Khaddam.
Yunus Muhammad – Bayt Nafilah – Darikish.
Yusuf Ghanim al Khatib – Tripoli – Lebanon.

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^[1] He later became an advisor to Ibn Sa’ud in foreign affairs. See Sale: Al Sira’ ‘ala Suriyah, p. 46.

^[2] See the memoirs of Muhammad ‘Ali al Tahir, pg. 539–542. I have chosen to mention this passage so that you may understand the treachery and betrayal of the Nusayriyyah in both ancient and recent times.

^[3] i.e. from the hands of the Angel of Death to the Guardian Angel of the Hellfire.

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