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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Sheikh Nasser Al-Sunnah Muhammad bin Salman bin Hussein Abu Jami’, Chairman of the Association of Salafist Scholars - Palestine .
Foundation
The Sheikh was born in the Arab Republic of Egypt in 1949 to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother in a religious and conservative family. His parents sought refuge in the land of Egypt after the Zionists occupied the coastal city of Jaffa in Palestine .
education
- He was raised, received education, and memorized the Quran in the Kuttabs affiliated with the Sharqia Governorate in Egypt. He returned with his family to occupied Palestine in 1954.
- He joined the government education in the Khan Yunis Governorate, and completed his school education in 1968.
- He joined the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Jordan in 1973 and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor's degree in Islamic Sharia.
- He obtained a Master's degree in 1994 from the American World University.
- He obtained a PhD in Religious Studies in 1997 from the same university.
- He obtained a professorship in 2005 in many scientific researches on theology and jurisprudence.
His missionary career
- He began his missionary journey with the scholar and worker Sheikh Salim Shurab and played a major role in spreading the Salafi call and eliminating heresies and polytheistic practices in the Gaza Strip and inside the Green Line.
- He met Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and received knowledge from him. He was appointed a preacher in the General Presidency of Scientific Research, Call and Guidance Administrations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1978 until now.
- He led the movement in which the “Freedom Cinema” in Khan Yunis was closed and converted into a center for the Salafi call and the sons of the Sunnis, as it has now become the headquarters of the “Dar al-Kitab wal-Sunnah Association.” This event was one of the most important influential stations in the history of the Salafi call in Palestine in general and the Gaza Strip in particular.
- He, his Sheikh Salim Shurab and some Sunnis worked to remove the Sunnis’ mosque from the Khan Yunis Municipality administration to the Sunnis’ administration directly.
- He worked to demolish the shrines and graves that were worshipped other than God, and to eliminate the Mawlid and other heresies.
- He was a representative of the “Dar al-Kitab wal-Sunnah” in the Mecca and Qatar conferences.
- Participated in many local, Arab, Islamic and international conferences.
- Participated in many different workshops and seminars.
- He was suspended from preaching during the occupation, the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government.
- He founded the General Presidency of Zakat and Charity Committees in the eastern villages of Khan Yunis Governorate in 1990, where it contributed to spreading the correct awareness of monotheism by publishing religious books and various bulletins. It also provided aid, financial and health assistance to thousands of poor families in the region until 1997.
- He founded the Association of Salafist Scholars in Palestine in 2006, which includes a group of scholars and sheikhs known for their knowledge and virtue.
- He was elected as the President of the Association of Salafist Scholars in Palestine in 2006 until now.
- He returned to preaching in mid-2012 after many mediations from the Sheikh's fans after a suspension that lasted for more than six years, and was banned after six months for political reasons.
- He wrote many books and scientific bulletins, some of which were published and others were printed but not published.
- Presented many radio and visual programs from 1994 to 2007.
- Wrote many different articles in local and Arab newspapers, magazines and websites.
- Worked as a teacher of Islamic subjects at the Gaza Al-Azhar Institute from 1980 to 1994.
- Worked in university teaching from 1984 to 1994 at the Islamic University, Al-Azhar University and the College of Science and Technology.
- Worked in the Palestinian Authority as a religious guide for its security services from 1994 to 2005.
- Became the General Commissioner for Religious Guidance for all security and police services from 2005 to 2009.
- He was arrested by the occupation forces several times, the longest of which was in 1986, when he was administratively detained, and the military judiciary considered him a threat to the security of the Hebrew state in the southern sector of the country.
He confronted the corrupt and corrupting people in the various apparatuses of the Palestinian Authority and was arrested more than eight times in the Authority’s prisons until they decided to present him to the State Security Court in 2000 AD.
He called for dialogue between Fatah and Hamas before the strife between them occurred, and issued various bulletins for that purpose. He was one of the most vehement opponents of the shedding of Palestinian blood in the strife that occurred between Fatah and Hamas in 2006-2007, and he played an active role in warning against strife and bloodshed.
His writings
Sheikh Muhammad Abu Jami' "Abu Osama" wrote many books, including:
1- The Islamic religion and its moral effects on Muslims and its reflection on the society in which they live "Gaza Strip/Palestine". PhD thesis. 1417 AH - 1997 AD.
2- Islamic Sufism "A study between the praisers and the critics", one of the master's degree researches. 1415 AH - 1995 AD.
3- The lofty news of the status of the Noble Prophetic Sunnah. One of the professorship researches. 1425 AH - 2005 AD. 4- Fasting the month of Ramadan and the righteousness and kindness required for it. 1423 AH - 2003 AD. 5- Ruling by what Allah Almighty has revealed between the committed and applied and the merchants of religion from scholars and rulers and the ruled, the excessive hypocrites. One of the professorship researches. 1425 AH - 2005 AD.
6- The Clear and Useful in Zakat al-Fitr, Udhiyah, and Eid Prayer. 1428 AH - 2008 AD.
7- The Reality of Fanaticism in the Fanatic. 1410 AH - 1990 AD.
8- Wasting Public Money between the Subjects and the Rulers. 1419 AH - 1999 AD.
9- The Fifty Comprehensive Hadiths from the Authentic Sayings of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to Abu Jami’, from the book: “The Lofty News.....” 1431 AH - 2011 AD.
10- The Book of Legal Fatwas 1434 AH - 2010 AD.
11- From the Book of Important Islamic Topics: 1431 AH - 2011 AD.
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