CHAMPAIGN, IL (Chambana Today) – Mr. Mohammad Yasin Nassimi, father of Prof. Masooda Bashir at UIUC, was a very prominent member of the Afghan community in USA and around the world. He passed away morning of June 22nd, 2024, in Champaign, Illinois at the house of Masooda and Rashid Bashir.
He was buried on Monday June 24th, 2024, at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Fishers, IN 46250.
Mr. Nassimi was born in Kabul Afghanistan and was blessed to have lived a long life as a great scholar, statesman, father, husband, brother, and great-great grandfather. He had vast knowledge and was an avid writer having authored over 20 books on the Islamic faith, religion, world politics and other topics. He started from humble beginnings and was the first person in his family to go to high school and then College. He earned his master’s degree in education from Indiana University in Bloomington and Chapmen College in California in 1963. He returned to Afghanistan and was a professor at Kabul University. He then worked in the Government and became a very prominent statesman, eventually working as the leader of the parliament in Afghanistan with King Zaher Shah. After the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he and his family fled the country and immigrated to the USA between 1979 and 1981, to West Lafayette, IN and other parts of the US and Canada. He restarted his life in America and taught his family and children the value of hard work, education, and did all he could to provide for them. His children studied at academic institutions around the country and the world, earning master’s and doctorate degrees.