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Assim Al-Hakeem Hagar
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Who is Assim Al-Hakeem?Assim al-Hakeem (born 1962) is a teacher, speaker and Imam. He graduated from the Umm al-Qura University in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in 1998. He is a Saudi national living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and is a Saudi national . Al-Hakeem is an Imam of a masjid in Jeddah, a role which he has held for the past 20 years, where he delivers the weekly Friday sermons and lectures on various Islamic Sciences. He is an active propagator of Islamist material in English on the Internet.
Who was Hagar?According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian slave, a hand-maiden of Sarah, whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, generally taken to be the Arabs. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites (sons of Agar), perhaps claiming her as their eponymous ancestor. Hagar is alluded to, although not named, in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife.
