Afghan Biographies

Muhseni, Hafizullah Asif Mohsini


Name Muhseni, Hafizullah Asif Mohsini
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth
Function/Grade Ex Adviser to the President
History and Biodata

3. Biodata:
Muhammad Asif Mohseni son of Mohammad-Mirza Mohseni was born 1935 in Kandahar Province.  Ayatollah Mohammad-Asef Mohseni-Qandahārī was a Shi’ah source of emulation in ‎Afghanistan. He is a Pashtun Shi’ah scholar, an advocate of proximity among Islamic ‎denominations, the head of the Council of Shi’ah Scholars in Afghanistan, and the founder of ‎the Islamic Seminary and the University of Khatam al-Nabiyyin in Kabul. He is also a member ‎of the Supreme Council of the Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly, former leader of the Islamic ‎Movement of Afghanistan, and the founder of the Tamadon television channel.‎Ayatollah Mohseni was a student of Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim and Sayyid Abol-Qasim Khoei in ‎jurisprudence and the principles of jurisprudence. He wrote books concerning rijal, ‎jurisprudence, and hadiths. Mahdi Mehrizi refers to his book, Buhuth fi ‘Ilm al-Rijal, as an ‎enduring work about dirayat al-hadith.‎
 

After the communist coup d’état on April 27, 1978 when People’s Democratic Party of ‎Afghanistan took over the power, Ayatollah Mohseni left Afghanistan. He first went to Arabia ‎to perform the rituals of hajj. He then went to Syria and taught religious sciences in ‎Damascus.‎ In April 1979, he went to Qom, where he and a number of Qom-based Afghan clergies ‎founded the Party of Islamic Movement of Afghanistan on April 8, 1979. The party consisted ‎of smaller groups and engaged in military combats with the communist government of ‎Afghanistan at the time. It created over hundred military bases in nineteen provinces of ‎Afghanistan and organized tens of thousands of armed forces against Soviet forces.‎

 


President Karzai ordered the appointment of Hafizullah Asif Muhseni Muhsini Mohsini Mohseni as a Presidential Advisor in Social Affairs (20111013) within the framework of general administration affairs and Council of Ministers Secretariat. Hafizullah Asif Muhseni is the son of former Kandahar Shia Harakat-i-Islami party leader Shaikh Asef Mohseni until he announced that he would step down in early February 2005. It is said that Shaikh Asef Mohseni (born 1935) is a Tajik from the Qizilbash sub group.(20090413). He studied in Najaf, Irak, and became a Ayatollah. However Hafizullah and Asef both are Shia. Hafizullah Asif Muhsini was a member of the Bonn Conference (20011126-20011206) and belonged to the Peshawar Group.

Lutfullah Mashal, the spokesman of the National Directorate of Security, accused Ensaf Daily and Tamadon TV [owned by Asif Mohseni] and Noor TV [owned by the Rabbani family] of receiving funds and story ideas from Iran.(20120410)
Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni was widely considered to be the most powerful Twelver shia Marja' in Afghanistan. He was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan. He died 20190805.

Ayatollah Mohseni married the daughter of his paternal aunt in 1961. They had three sons: ‎Abdollah, Hafez, and Habib. His first wife has passed away.‎

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