Memories of Mrs. Jumay Ahmed Karoufi

Machine Translation Edited by Mandana Karimi

2026-10-15

Jumay Ahmed Karoufi, the wife of the martyr Sheikh[1] Ibrahim Yaqoob Zakzaky, was a guest on the 290^th Shab Khatira (Night of Memories) program (May 2018). Mrs. Jumay is a Shiite fighter in Nigeria whose three children are missing and whose two adopted children, who were actually her sister’s children, were martyred. She has a master’s degree in communications and library science and is the author of several books, a director and a teacher. She told memories about the Arba’in march to Zaria. Mrs. Jumay said: “This movement is not unique to Nigeria. People from different African countries do this. This number has caused sensitivity for the Nigerian government because the pilgrims who come to Zaria for the Arba’in march are more than 25 million people. This is a great threat to the infidel world, including America and Israel, as well as Saudi Arabia. That is why they gathered together repeatedly to see what plan they could implement to kill the Sheikh. They made many attempts to kill him, but God willing, it did not happen. When our then President, Muhammadu Buhari, assumed office, he went on a trip to Saudi Arabia and when he returned, from the first day of Rabi’ al-Awwal, when the mourning of Muharram and Safar was over and the Shiites of Zaria had gathered at Husseiniya Baqiyatullah (a.s.) to raise the banner of joy and the birth of the Prophet (s.a.w.) over Husseiniya, they attacked the Shiites who had gathered there. When Buhari’s army forces came towards Husseiniya to carry out their sinister plan, the Shiites and the people who had gathered at Husseiniya were busy decorating the place and making their plans for the celebration. They immediately got out of their cars, loaded their weapons, and fired at the audience. I was not in the Husseiniya at the time, and they informed me of what was happening in the Husseiniya. When the Nigerian army first noticed this movement and began the attack, the ceremony had not yet begun and the Shiites were preparing, so the audience was not large. As soon as the news of the attack spread, all the Shiites in the city tried their best to get there, and a crowd of more than ten thousand people gathered there. More people wanted to attend, but because the military equipment had blocked many roads, people could not get there. The closure of the roads caused many people, like me, to go to the sheikh's house to see what was happening there. Many people also went to centers related to the Nigerian Islamic Resistance Movement. Many people were able to attend the Sheikh's house. The people who gathered around the Sheikh's house were perhaps about five thousand people.

In addition to the attack on the Husseiniya of Baqiyatullah (a.s.), around 9 to 10 pm, a large number of Nigerian army personnel surrounded the Sheikh's house and a large number of Nigerian resistance movement members decided to sacrifice themselves for their leader and have a human shield around his house so that the military could not approach their leader. In this process, many youth and members of the movement were martyred because they had joined hands and with their bodies prevented the army forces from approaching the Sheikh's house. Our weapons were Allahu Akbar, Takbir or Mahdi (a.s.), many of our children tried to protect the Sheikh by throwing stones. From that time of night until the next afternoon, they were busy killing people. All my family members, including my sister, tried their best to protect the Sheikh. We could not do anything all night long because they were busy shooting and we were busy collecting the martyrs and wounded. It was around 11 o'clock when one of the sisters told me to look at the walls of the Sheikh's house. There were more than 22 holes in the walls of the Sheikh's house, which clearly showed that they had used all kinds of weapons to reach him. One of them told me to go inside and talk to the Sheikh's wife and convince her to somehow get the Sheikh out of this situation, as if the way things were going, his martyrdom was approaching. When we entered the sheikh’s house, we did not see his wife and only saw the sheikh’s children. We explained our intention to one of the sheikh’s children and he replied that my father said that I will not leave here, because the government and the army are killing my Shiites and I am here with them. At that time, we had more than 700 martyrs and wounded on the ground and around the sheikh’s house.”

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So far, 383 Holy Defense Remembrance Night programs have been held by the Center for Studies and Research on Culture and Literature of the Resistance and the Office of Literature and Art of the Hozeh Honari. The next program will be held on Thursday, November 27, 2026.

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