He studied Islam under various scholars including Amjad az-Zahaawi, Muhammad al-Qazlaji and Shaykh Abdul-Qaadir al-Khateeb.
He approached the Iraqi government seeking to register the party, but they were denied a permit and later faced persecution.
In 1959, he formed the Society of Scholars (Jami'yat al-Ulama) to oppose Abd al-Karim Qasim.
[2] He was a member of the Islamic Brotherhood Society, established in 1944 under the leadership of Muhammad Mahmud al-Sawwaf and Amjad al-Zahawi.
He visited Karbala and Najaf to ask the ulama there to intervene with Gamal Abdel Nasser to stop the execution of Sayyid Qutb.