In a new station at the Balhwar camp, we stay and rise. Participants visited the grave of Al-Hasan Al-Basri in the city of Al-Zubair, where prominent figures of Basra are laid to rest, such as Al-Hasan Al-Basri, who is Al-Hasan bin Abi Al-Hasan Yasir, nicknamed Al-Basri. He was born in Medina in the year 21 AH and died in Basra in the year 110 AH.
He was an imam and judge, one of the most prominent figures in the early Islamic era, residing in Basra. Al-Hasan Al-Basri moved between several cities, starting with Medina, his birthplace and place of early upbringing, then Kabul, and Khurasan, before settling in Basra, where he became known as “Al-Hasan Al-Basri.”
Also, the grave of Ibn Sirin, who is Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Sirin Al-Basri (born in the year 32 AH), a renowned imam in interpretation, hadith, and jurisprudence, known for his asceticism, piety, and kindness to parents, who died in Basra in the year 110 AH.
And the grave of the great Basra poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab, born in 1926 in Basra and died in 1964, who is considered one of the most famous Arab poets of the twentieth century and a founder of free verse poetry.
The participants in the visit learned about the history of the place, the significance of the personalities buried there, and their roles in the religious and cultural history of Basra.
It is worth mentioning that the camp ” Dialogue We Stay and Rise” is implemented by Masarat Foundation in partnership with KAICIID and the House of Coexistence. It started in Baghdad with the participation of youth from Sinjar, who were later joined by youth from Baghdad in its first phase. It then reached Basra, where youth from Basra joined the team that will continue its tour in other cities of Iraq soon, in a program aimed at promoting dialogue as a mechanism for building peace among followers of different religions and rejecting hate speech.
