Abobaker Mojadidi information

Abobaker Mojadidi (Dari:ابوبکر مجددی) is a spiritual Muslim leader and socio-political activist from Afghanistan.^[1] He is a prominent figure and head of the Naqshbandi-Mojaddidi Tariqah. He was born to the house of Afghanistan's most influential spiritual and religious family in Kabul at the home and monastery of his respected grandfather at the Naqshbandi Khanaqah in Qala-e-Jawad.^[2] Mojadidi's father was assassinated when Mojadidi was 9 months old. His entire family was imprisoned – his mother, father, siblings, and grandparents – by Soviet and Pro-Soviet soldiers of the PDPA regime due to the family's strong influence within the masses in Afghanistan. He was left behind with a peasant woman from Wardak named "Shireen" who acted as his nanny. Shireen hid him in a tandoor (clay oven) in order to hide him from Pro-Soviet government forces. When the soldiers came in the room, they saw only Shireen and departed, thus allowing him to escape. While the Mojadidi women and children were freed after a year, the whereabouts of his father Shaykh M. Ismaiel Mojadidi Dean of Nurul Madariss Farouqi in Ghazni and head of Khuddamul Furqan, his grandfather Shaykh Ziaul Mashah'ikh Mohammad Ibrahim Mojaddidi head of the Naqshbandi-Mojadidi Tariqah, uncles, and 140 other male relatives are unknown till this day. They are presumed to have been killed by the Soviet-backed forces.^[3]

It is said that Abobaker's grandfather had been informed that government forces planned an attack on the family, and was asked to leave the country for his own safety. In response, he said, "A Father never leaves his children and home in harm's way. Afghanistan is my home and Afghans are my children." The Martyrdom of the entire Mojadidi Family, a spiritual and religious family has been called the second Karbala (Karbala-e-Sani).