Rashid Lucman

Biography

In 1971, he joined Senator Mamintal Tamano, Congressman Ali Dimaporo, Congressman Salipada Pendatun, University of the Philippines College of Arts and Sciences Dean Cesar Adib Majul, Delegate Ahmad Alonto, Commissioner Datu Mama Sinsuat, and Mayor Aminkadra Abubakar to form the Islamic Directorate of the Philippines. The Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi donated funds to the Directorate to purchase land in Tandang Sora, Quezon City for the construction of a mosque.

In 1972, with the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos, Lucman fled to the Middle East. In 1983, he helped Benigno Aquino, Jr. return to the country from Boston, circumventing an order from Malacañang Palace forbidding Aquino the issuance of a passport. Lucman obtained a passport for Aquino with the alias "Marciál Bonifacio" (taken from martial law and Fort Bonifacio, where Aquino was once detained).

After Lucman's death the following year, the Bangsamoro Liberation Organization became defunct, marking the end of the leadership of traditional Muslim elites over the Moro independence movements.

Legacy

A Masonic Lodge was established under the name of Sultan Haroun Al-Rashid M. Lucman Memorial Lodge No. 406 in 2013 and operating under the jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines.