Who is the new Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon?
reportMehr News Agency, Sheikh Naim bin Muhammad Naim Qasim, a Shia cleric and Lebanese politician, was elected by the Hezbollah leadership council as the new secretary general of the movement after the assassination of the martyr Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah in Lebanon. It was.
He was in 1953 in Al Bastah Al-Tahta was born in Beirut, his father was originally from the Kafarfila region belonging to al-Tafsah was in the south of Lebanon. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field of chemistry and started working in Islamic groups in Lebanon since the 70s of the last century. He started working with Imam Musa Sadr at the beginning of the establishment of the movement of the underprivileged in the seventies.
In 1970, he entered the faculty of educational sciences at the University of Lebanon and chose the field of chemistry in French in this university. After finishing Education, he taught this field in Lebanese high schools for 6 years. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the same university in 1977.
Sheikh Naeem Qasim held classes for children in the mosque during his university studies and when he was only 18 years old. At the same time, he continued his seminary studies and he was a student of Allameh Seyyed Muhammad Hossein Fazlullah in the foreign course of jurisprudence and principles.
During his university studies, he participated in the establishment of the Muslim Students Union in Lebanon and was the head of the Religious and Islamic Education Society from 1974 to 1988.
The new Secretary General of Hezbollah in Lebanon immediately after the formation of the Amal movement as the military wing of the movement of the underprivileged Lebanon joined this group by Imam Musa Sadr in 1974 and was chosen as the successor of the cultural leader in this movement. He then became the secretary of the command council of the Amol movement.
After the Islamic revolution in Iran, Sheikh Naim Qasim resigned from the Amal movement and seminary studies He completed himself and followed his religious activities by holding classes in mosques and hosseiniyehs in Beirut and its southern suburbs. He dedicated himself to this work for more than 10 years and conducted religious classes in many mosques and hosseiniyehs.
Sheikh Naim Qassem was one of the leading elements in the process of establishing Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 and was elected as a member of the Hezbollah Council and served in this council for 3 terms. until he was entrusted with the educational and cultural responsibilities of Hezbollah in Beirut. He went on to become the deputy head of the Hezbollah Executive Council and then the head of this council, and finally in 1991 he was elected as the deputy secretary general of Hezbollah. One of his responsibilities is to follow the activities of Hezbollah’s parliamentary representatives and their political activities.
The long tenure of Sheikh Naim Qassem as Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah was accompanied by many developments, including the July 1993 war and the 1996 war and the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and the 33-day war of 2006, as well as the conflicts of 2017, pointed out that Hezbollah’s military power is increasing during this period. >
Sheikh Naeem Qasim has several books, among them the book “Hezbollah” in which he explains the goals, history and political views of this party. The book “Imam Khomeini between originality and new Avri” and the book “Revivalist Leader” about Ayatollah Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the book “Resistance Society; Willingness to Martyrdom and Making Victory” is one of his other works.
He is married and has 6 children, 4 of whom are boys and 2 are girls.
