Sheikh Mohammed Khal, son of Sheikh Ali, son of Sheikh Amin Khal, who goes back five generations to Mullah Mustafa, the Mufti of the Babans. Some of the manuscripts of Sheikh Khal, about 636 writings, date back four hundred years.
Khal was born in 1904 in Sulaimani to a famous religious family in Kurdistan. His father died of illness in 1904. His grandfather, Haji Sheikh Amini Khal, was a famous pious man who took care of Khal and his four brothers. He was brought up in his grandfather's school with honesty, integrity, piety, contentment and avoiding the world.
Khal has been a lover of reading and writing since childhood. He studied mostly with Sheikh Omar Karadaghi, a famous religious scholar not only in Kurdistan but also among Iraqi Arab religious scholars, and partly with Mullah Hussein Piskendy and Sheikh Jalal Karadaghi.
In 1931, his grandfather died. Ahmad Beg Tofiq Beg, who was the governor of Sulaimani at that time, held a big ceremony in Haji Sheikh Amini Khal Mosque, to which most of the elders of Sulaymaniyah were invited.
From late 1931 to late 1938, he taught Kurdish punctuation and grammar and wrote several religious books such as the philosophy of Islam and the life of the Prophet. In 1939, he was invited by the Ministry of Justice to take the examination to become a judge.
Sheikh Khal was one of those who took the exam and got first place. He was appointed as a judge in Halabja by royal decree. He was forced to leave teaching. During his career, he was one of the most famous and experienced judges in Iraq. He served as a judge in Chamchamal, Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk and Mosul for 28 years.
In 1962, he was elected a member of the Sharia Court of Separation in Baghdad among all Iraqi judges. During this time, he was known for his integrity in the judiciary, despite repeated pressure from high-ranking officials.
Sheikh Khal was one of the few Kurds who became a member of the Iraqi Information Forum very early. Only the late Tofiq Wahbi Beg is ahead of him in this field. Sheikh Khal was a member since 1953. He was the vice president of the Iraqi Information Forum and the Kurdish Information Forum since 1972. His works are the best evidence in this regard, and he has been able to serve his nation in the field of culture. He taught the great poet Jamil Sadiq Zahawi, as well as Betush, Sheikh Ahmad Faiz Barzanji, Babatayeri Hamadan, Mullah Mohammad Khaki and many other famous scholars.
Khal was a good-natured, clean-spoken, generous, open-minded and independent social figure. He believed in honesty, forgiveness, respect for rights and justice His nation was done.
His first article in Galawezh magazine in December 1940 under the title of Love of the Country, if only national feeling encouraged the resistance of the regimes that continued to destroy Kurdistan and expropriate Kurdistan territory, Sheikh Mohammad Khal along with national feeling religious feeling played a big role. He believed that religion must be a mixture of nationalism and national struggle must be a religious necessity.
Sheikh Mohammed Khal spent 10 hours a day reading and writing. He continued this program until his death. He started reading from early morning until around noon, spending about six hours in the world of books and manuscripts and three hours in the afternoon before going to the mosque He used to read the books that were in print and correct their mistakes for an hour at night before going to bed. Since the mid-1970s, he had only one eye left and always used binoculars to read. He said about his habit of reading and writing: My health depends on reading and writing. If you keep me away from it, not only will my health deteriorate, but I may die. I die like a fish when you take it out of the water. Why is it good not to be blind on this road?
Sheikh Mohammed Khal passed away on #15-07-1989#. He left behind 40 books on interpretation, linguistics, literature, preaching, history, .etc.[1]