Sheikh Muhammed Zeki Atak commemorated on the 29th anniversary of his martyrdom

Sheikh Mohammed Zeki, who was born into a pious family in the village of Güneyçam (Navyan) of Şırnak in 1957, started to educate the Islamic knowledge when he was a small child.

Atak, who had studied Islamic knowledge in the madrasas in various places of the region after finishing elementary school in his village, began to works as an honorary imam in the surrounding villages at his 20 years old.

Atak soon became a teacher of the Quran after taking the diploma of Imam Hatip High School and started to teach the Holy Quran course at the Red Madrasa (Medresa Sor) of Sheikh Ahmedé Cezeri in Cizre.

Atak was always the first in the beautiful reading competitions reading of Qur’an. Then he made a change of duty in order to better serve Islam and became an imam in a mosque. He also built a mosque with the support he received from the people of Cizre, where he also had his home. He had already built adjacent rooms to this mosque which carries his name and turned it into a madrasa. There were students who came to take classes during the day, as well as the students who were boarding in this madrasa. 

Atack, who used to preach to the mosque community almost every night, gave people fiqh [Islamic laws] and sirat [the life of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH)] lessons. He was teaching the Qur'an to those who did not know how to read the Qur'an. (ILKHA)