Mahamood Lebbe Alim Mohamed Hizbullah (born 2 February 1963) is a Sri Lankan politician, MP and state minister.

[2] Hizbullah contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress' (SLMC) candidates in the Batticaloa District.

[14][15] In 2004 and 2005, Hizbullah was chairman of the state-owned Airport and Aviation Services Limited, during which time he and his wife Sithy Rameeza Sahabdeen were alleged to have defrauded Rs.

[3][25] Hizbullah's party, the ACMC, left the UPFA in December 2014 to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the 2015 presidential election.

[39] In 2020, Hizbullah joined the United Peace Alliance, led by former minister and former chairman of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Basheer Segu Dawood, and subsequently contested the 2020 parliamentary election representing Batticaloa.

In the aftermath of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter Bombings, opposition to Hizbullah intensified with hartals in Trincomalee, Kantale, Serunuwara and Morawewa with some violence being reported.

Islamist extremists, including those in support of the National Thowheeth Jama'ath, began replacing name boards in the Eastern Province with those in Arabic while out of the 72 acres of archaeological land that belonged to the Muhudu Maha Vihara, 55 acres were forcibly acquired by Muslim extremists while courts in the Eastern Province do not accept cases filled in Sinhala.

The Tamil National Alliance also demanded President Maithripala Sirisena to stop protecting Hizbullah and asked him to resign.

[45][46][47][48] Despite heavy protests and criticism, Sirisena appointed him as Co-chairman of the districts' coordinating committees in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara on 29 May to "expedite development".

[49] CCTV videos of Hizbullah meeting with a group of Saudi nationals on the day after the bombings despite the curfew imposed were released to the public.

[50][51][52] On 31 May Athuraliye Rathana Thera began a hunger protest requesting the removal of Hizbullah and several other politicians like Rishad Bathiudeen who are accused of having ties to Islam extremists.

There were several protests by Sinhala and Tamil as well as Hindu, Christian and Muslim figures and organisations in support of the thera including by relatives of the bomb blasts.

[59][60] The Federation of Kattankudy Mosques and Institutions accused Hizbullah of encouraging the Arabization of Sri Lankan Muslims when its representative testified before the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe Easter Sunday attack.