Sayed Hmood was the sheik of El-Hussuna tribe. The name El-Hussuna came from the word El-Husun which means in Arabic the fortress or the bastion. There is a story behind this name. It has been said that two tribes were fighting each others unceasingly, this meant among other things revenge and continuous blood shedding so some wisemen suggested to invite the Sada (descendants of the prophet Mohammed) to inhabit a region that separate the two sides of the of the conflicts. In this way the two tribes will respect the Sada and will not ambush each others. So it was it and the Sada maintained their role as a fortress between the two conflicting tribes, since then they were named Al-Sada El-Hussuna. Sayyed Hmmod was a poet, a brave first class fighter and a land owner.He lost his extensive dwellings after the 1958 revolution that destroyed the agricultural system in Iraq and sank the country in a bath of blood that did not stop up to this moment. The turmoil of events did not deprive Sayed Hmood of his dwellings only, but his sons as well. The big family soon indulged into the politics and left their lands to their farmers. So we had representative in almost all the major political parties in Iraq but none of them could achieve anything apart from simple jobs. This was and is still the fate of Shia in Iraq. Suppressed to an incredible degree that gets worse as time goes on.

Sayed Hmood built a school in the village were he lived, Al-Sada school, in this school the farmers' sons were studying side by side with his sons. After three decades some graduates of this school attain high political posts, however they were the farmers' sons rather than Sayed Hmood sons who left the school early and started their unsuccessful political carrier.

Sayed Hmood's dwellings underwent attrition so when he died in 1974, one year after my birth, he had only few houses in Al-Naseria city which was by that time a big, modern city on the Euphrates. Ten years later on, the dwellings were lost, the city turned into ruins and the sons were absorbed in the small jobs here and there. This is exactly what happened to the Iraqis, the dwellings were lost, Iraq changed to a waste land and the men were serving the regime like slaves. It was a merciful death that took Sayed Hmood from this life so that he will not see how things turned on. Links to Marshes and the Arab marshes from whom many of Al-Nasseria tribes came.

In 2003 i.e.after 30 years of Sayed Hmood death, his grandson, the writer of these lines, had no home, no wife, and no men in comparison to his grandfather who had extensive dwellings, eight wives and more than 10000 men of his tribe and his allies!