Amongst the leading figures in the Kurdish Hezbollah community scholar and thinker Muhammed Sudan Hodja, was commemorated with by his lovers and family on the second anniversary of his death. Indicating that they keep him alive in their imaginations family of Muhammed Sudan hodja, indicated that it wasn’t possible to forget the genuine person who sacrificed his life to Islam and carried morality that he learnt from Quran.

Family of Muhammed Sudan who was one of important scholars of the Kurdistan region, opinion person and close friend of Kurdish Hezbollah community founder Husayin Velioglu, mentioned their thoughts about the Muhammed Sudan on the second anniversary of his death.

Stating that Muhammed Sudan paid big costs for the Islamic case family of Sudan, drew attention to that Muhammed Sudan never compromised on his belief, spent his life to earn the mercy of Allah (SWA) and in this case he has served for Islam big time in his difficult life.

Indicating that Muhammed Sudan had very soft character his wife Ms. Zubeyde, amphasized that he never hurt her or anyone else.

"His morality was same as the morality described in Quran"

Indicating that her husband had an exemplary morality Zubeyde Sudan, said: “He was very genuine person. We left together so far. He never hurt me. He had a very nice morality and he was genuine person. His morality was same as the morality described in Quran. He neither hurt our children nor me ever. He was treating our children not like a father but as a friend. I always tell my children ‘Walk on the path that your father did, live like he did and die like he did.’ We had a very beautiful life and we were very happy. He was always praying for me wishing that I was neighbor with Aisha and Fatima in the paradise. He was treating children as he was child and treating elder ones elderly. We don’t forget him, we keep him alive in our imagination and we feel like he is next to us.”

His wife Ms. Zubeyde said: “In the morning he was reading Quran all the time and he would read it and interpret for me all the time as well.”

While describing her husband Ms. Zübeyde, especially drew attention to how a dawah man should be, how he served for Islam. What kind of character servants of Islam should have.

Indicating that spent all his wealth on Islam, he gave up all his material on his dawah, Ms. Zubeyde said: “My husband met the Islamic dawah when we were in the Genc town of Bingol province. We moved to Diyarbakir after that. My husband was all the time busy with his dawah. We have faced many difficulties over the dawah. We were committed to our Dawah. Taking our clothes we have had hijrah life from one province to the other. We migrated to Batman, Mersin, Ankara and Istanbul. Despite all the persecutions and pressures my husband didn’t rebel. He was all the time saying: ‘Our dawah is for Islam and Quran therefore e will never give up’. My husband was very rich he sacrificed all his wealth on Islam.”

Stating about his addiction to his dawah and friends and appreciation Ms. Zubeyde, drawing attention to he has collected all the values that Islamic summoner should have, said: “My husband always appreciated his dawah friends. He was all the time saying ‘they are my brothers, they are my life if I am not here one day, they will be here and they won’t let you lonely’. He all the time was speaking about his friends to us. He never wanted anything for himself but for his friends and for dawah. He was very kind, smiley, wise, and modest. I mean he was an perfect human and exemplary believer.

Indicating that after the operation organized on Hezbollah leader Huseyin Velioglu In 2000, he had to migrate on his own Ms. Zubeyde, said: “After 50 days of detention in Diyarbakir he was sent to prison. After the operation carried out towards Hezbollah community in Beykoz district of Istanbul my husband had to migrate. After my husband went migrated police carried out operation to our house and detained both me and my children. When I was detained my daughter was a baby. During the 8 s-days of detention they were constantly asking where my husband was. After one year I have heard that my husband was detained. After 50 days of detention in Diyarbakir my husband was sent to prison. He was constantly consoling us while he was in prison. He constantly gave us moral in the weekly visits although he was in a bad situation. He was telling us: “We are experiencing these for the right case of course I will be released one day’. I wish Allah mercy him and keep us on the same case; we believe that he is in the paradise.”

"He had taken place in the Islamic case with all of his effort"

Muhammed Sudan’s son Huseyin Sudan indicated that his father was performing effort for Islamic case.

Indicating that his father was taking place to serve Islam Sudan, said: “Also with the family education that he received during his teenage, he was trying to fulfill his religious responsibilities. Therefore he took place in the Islamic case with all his effort. He was tradesman, his economic situation was very good but after his serve to Islam got intense, he sacrificed his trade to Islam. Since I was little I couldn’t all the time see my father next to me. He sacrificed himself to Islam and because of that sometimes he couldn’t come home for days. Also when he came home he wasn’t stand doing nothing but either continue his Islamic works or taking care of us his children. Since the very little age of us my father thought us salah. I have memorized Quran when I was 6 with the help of my father. When we were fasting while we were little he was showing us more interest and carry us on his shoulders.”

10 years of migration and same amount of prison life after this

Indicating that Muhammed Sudan has experienced 10 years of prison life, Huseyin continued as: “We all the time lived faraway from our father. After 10 years of migration life this time prison life started for my father. When I was 11 years old, my father was arrested and first thing he wanted was to see his mother but my grandfather died. My father was the only son in the family. They both died not seeing him enough. When we were going to visit my father in prison he was advising us by quoting Quran and Hadith and tells us about Islam. He was constantly reminding us the ayah of: “Protect yourself and your family from the hell that its fuel is humans and stones’ and saying: ‘My son we have to protect ourselves and family from the hell fire. This life is the life of responsibility; we have to direct our life according to Quran.’ I was the older son, he was especially conducting advices to me, and advising me to learn the Islamic science.”

“He was an exemplary person on the relations towards relatives”

Indicating that his father was all the time visiting the relatives Sudan, said: My father was a monument of fidelity. He was all the time going to visit his relatives that neither asked about him nor visited him while he was in the prison. He would also visit the other people that he knew. Also when he was in the jail he would tell me: ‘Go, visit our relatives and say hi to them from me.’ He was exemplary about the relations with relatives. He would visit uncles, aunties one by one or call them on the phone. He also was warning us to visit the relatives constantly. Whatever my father do, he would concern about its results, he wouldn’t just do something. He would evaluate the events with all aspects and after take decision and he would advise me to do the same as well. My father was a monument of morality. Everyone knew my father would say that my father loved them. That would remind me the morality of our Prophet. Because all of the friends of our Prophet would say that ‘The Prophet loves me the most’. He would even show respect to the people he didn’t like and he was disturbed from them. My father was a great friend everyone see him was feeling confident and mention their problems to him. My father was listening to everyone regardless to who they were. He was even listening to little children and appreciating them. My father was in love with Islam and his morality was similar to our Prophet’s morality.”

"He was praying on nights, was giving importance to crowd prayers”

Expressing his admiration for his father at every opportunity in Sudan, indicating that he was an Islamic science lover, said: “My father was studying the Islamic science since he was a teenager. Even at the end of his life when he was sick in bed he was reading books. Before died he had the ‘chemical of happiness’ book of Imam-i Gazali. It was the last book he read at the end of his life. He was praying on the nights and giving importance to crowd prayers. When we were together he would wake up for the night prayers and definitely wake us up for the morning prayers. We would absolutely pray together (cemaah). Even though it was difficult for him when he was old, he would do ablution and try the best of everything he could.”

“I always thank Allah for giving me such a perfect father”

Indicating that he only have seen 2 times that his father shed tears Sudan, said: In the edge of end of his life, I have 2 times witnessed my father shed tears. First time he shed tears while watching the graduation of Islamic science students. He told me: ‘Son we were always imagining these days.’ Another time he shed tears is when his friends prayed for him. Before he died my father was in the intensive care part of hospital and all his friends were praying for him because doctors said he could die soon. But unexpectedly he became good. After that my father opened his hands and thanking Allah (SWT) and my father was saying: ‘O Allah you you healed me for the sake of these people’ during this time I have taken his picture while he was crying. I thank Allah for giving me such a perfect father and by the time I understand how precious more every day. He was a good father, good human and good servant of Allah. I hope Allah will mercy him and reward us same as he rewarded him.”

Muhammed Sudan’s daughter Irem said the words described him best were ‘Nice morality’ Irem said: éHe was exemplary at home, outside and amongst his friends. He was sometimes treating us like friends and sometimes like children. He always asked us to have the morality same as our Prophet. He was giving great importance to science. He was all the time telling us that we should learn the Islamic science.”

“When we were going prison to visit him even for one day, he was teaching us manners enough for a month”

Indicating that she was 2 years old when her father was sent to jail Irem Sudan, described her emotions as: “Because my father was in prison, I didn’t receive enough love from him when I was little. I could just see him during visiting him. When we went prison to visit him, he would all the time he would advise us. In one day we would receive manners enough for a month. And now we are trying to live as the way our father taught us and we continue this way. When I face problem, asking ‘what would my father do about this’ I approach problems in his aspect. Because my father has advised us to study science all the time, I am an Islamic scientist now. We still practice my father’s advises also today. We will continue his mission.”

“I consider the youth that my father reared to follow his path”

Uttering that his father was an important figure, his daughter İrem said “we were always welcomed kindly when we went somewhere and said ‘we are Muhammed Sudan’s dsughters’. We knew that our father was an important figure by this way. My father never told us anything about himself. His friends, social sphere, students and the youth had a high opinion of him. I consider that the youth he reared must follow his path. He treated his students like a father and a real friend. I see now these young people also try to serve people to be useful servants of Islam. I really feel pleased when I see these young people.”

Muhammed Sudan’s sister Fadile Selimoğlu also said that dear departed disciplined his around with his high morality. “He was paying regards to his relatives" said Fadile Selimoğlu added that he was so generous to his relatives.

“He was giving us moral support even on his last legs”

Indicating that he incurred many difficult situations for the sake of Islamic cause, Mrs. Fadile said:

“My brother sacrificed all his provision for Allah’s cause. He never said ‘this is my property or this is my son’. He lived in hegira for many years. We couldn’t see him for very long time. We always wished him to be with us. When our mother dies he was in prison. He said ‘I wish I could see my mother once more.’ He got sick short after he got out of prison. He stayed at the hospital for a long time. He was giving us moral support even on his last legs. I definitely love him and his cause. May God accept him in his heavens.”

Who is Muhammed Sudan?

Muhammed Sudan was born in Decimet village of Lice district in Diyarbakır province. He was the son of one of the public opinions of Hacı Sabri Sudan.

Having his childhood in a pious family and receiving Islamic studies, Sudan met with leader of Hizbullah Congregation Hüseyin Velioğlu in 1980s and got involved in Islamic activities.

Moving to Diyarbakır in 1987, Sudan began to run a wholesale store in Balıkçılarbaşı neighborhood. He had a good financial situation and left his business to commit his Islamic duties, though. He led with his friends ten thousands of students to learn Quran in Diyarbakır and other cities. Owing to their efforts, thousands of children and young people learned how to recite Quran and many people gave up their bad habits and fronted Islam.

Muhammed Sudan, was began to sought by state forces due to his great Islamic works since 1993 and he started to pursue his works secretly. Having had to leave Diyarbakır, Muhammed Sudan lived in different cities.

After a raid conducted in İstanbul in 2000, Muhammed Sudan was detained and incurred incomprehensible tortures. Imprisoned in early 2001, Muhammed Sudan was sentenced to 12 years 6 month in prison over the charges of being a member of Hizbullah congregation by State Security Court (DGM).  Muhammed Sudan stayed in Diyarbakır E type, Bingöl M type and Diyarbakır D type prisons for 10 years 6 month. Having his prison life in worship, contemplation and studying Islamic subjects, Muhammed Sudan was released from prison in 2011.

After his release, Muhammed Sudan went on pilgrimage to Mecca. There he got sick and had medical treatment for a while. After he had returned to Diyarbakır his illness relapsed and he was diagnosed that he had lung cancer and also had cardiovascular disease. Having medical treatment in Dicle University in oncology unit for a long time, Muhammed Sudan attained his Lord on 10^th April 2014 that he was longing for all his lifetime. (ILKHA)