“IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MERCIFUL, THE MOST MERCIFUL 

CIRCULAR G6/03 

SOME BELIEVERS ARE MEN WHO ARE SINCERE IN WHAT THEY PLEDGE TO ALLAH, WHILE OTHERS HAVE ALREADY FULFILLED THEIR MORTAL DUTY, AND STILL OTHERS ARE WAITING (THEIR CHANCE; THEY HAVE NOT CHANGED IN THE LEAST (33;23)

THE PREVIOUS IRAQI REGIME WAS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS ATROCITIES ESPECIALLY AGAINST THE SHIITES AND ITS GREAT LUMINARIES. ULEMA FROM RENOWNED FAMILIES LIKE AL-HAKIM, BAHR-UL-ULOOM, AL-KHALKHALI, AL-KHOEI, AL-MILANI, AL-JAWAHERI, AL-MAR’ASHI, AL-ANSARI, AL-SHUBBAR, AL-KHARSSAN AND MANY OTHERS WERE SIMPLY TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES WITH NO SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION ON THEIR WHEREABOUTS.

FOLLOWING THE REGIME’S DOWNFALL, THERE WAS HOPE IN FINDING THESE GREAT PERSONALITIES. MORE THAN THREE WEEKS HAVE PASSED AND THESE HOPES HAVE NOW BEEN SHATTERED. NOT A SINGLE AALIM HAS BEEN FOUND AND INSTEAD, MASS GRAVES CONTAINING REMAINS OF THE THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE KILLED BY THE BAATHIST REGIME HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED IN AND AROUND BASRA, BAGHDAD, NAJAF AND KARBALA  

SURRENDERING TO THE WILL OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD, AND THE FATE OF THESE SCHOLARS, OUR MARJA' AYATULLAH SEESTANI HAS DECLARED WED 5^TH RABIUL AWWAL 1424 – 7^TH OF MAY 2003 THE DAY FOR REMEMBERING THESE SCHOLARS.

ON SUCH TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES WE CONVEY OUR DEEPEST AND MOST HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE IMAM OF OUR TIME IMAM AL-MAHDI (A.T.F.) AND TO ALL OUR GRAND MARAJI’, THE HAWZAS AND TO THE FAMILIES AND RELATIVES OF THOSE VICTIMS AND MARTYRS. WE ASK ALLAH ALMIGHTY TO GRANT THEM ALL PATIENCE AND COMFORT DURING THEIR HOUR OF GRIEF.

WE URGE ALL MEMBER JAMAATS, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, TO GIVE THIS DAY THE MAXIMUM PUBLICITY AND ARRANGE FOR FATEHAKHANI FOR THESE SCHOLARS ON THURSDAY, 8^TH MAY 2003.

SECRETARIAT                                                                                               6 MAY 2003”