Tahir Mala Ali Muhammad Rabati, was born in 1950 in Halabja Governorate. He studied up to the middle school level and is married.
In 1967 he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga with Abdulwahab Atrushi in the Khabat Force. After the March 11 agreement of 1970 he was made a border guard on the border of the Nalparez sub-district in Penjwen and Said Sadiq. In 1973 he was arrested by the government of Iraq and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was imprisoned in the Great Prison of Sulaymaniyah along with 45 cadres and Peshmerga of the Party. On the night of March 10/11, 1974 by the order of the Military Bureau of the Political Bureau of the Party, which Idris Barzani was responsible for, with the help of Hama Jan, the father of Qadir Hama Jan, who was at that time responsible for the Iraqi government prison, along with another person named Fuad, they opened the prison doors and rescued Tahir Mala Ali and other Peshmerga from prison.
After his release from prison, Tahir Mala Ali returned to the Khabat Force, which was commanded by Fatah Agha, and was later sent to the Kirkuk Force, which was commanded by Fazil Talabani. In 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he returned to his home and was not displaced.
In 1977 through Mala Ali Surin and Nadir Hawrami he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution and became a Peshmerga, and they established the Khabat organization and he became the deputy head of the organization. Between the years 1977- 1980 he was arrested three times by the Iraqi government on charges of assisting the Peshmerga Forces. In 1980 he returned to the ranks of the Party's Peshmerga and after five months passed he was made a member of the military section of the Surin Regional Committee. In 1983 when the third and fourth branches of the Party were separated, Tahir Mala Ali was made a member of the administrative board of the Qaradagh Regional Committee. Later, in the third branch, he was elected as a branch member and head of the Tuz Khurmatu Regional Committee. In the month of 12 of the year 1986 along with the Martyr Azad Qaradaghi and Qadir Qadir and Fereydun Jwanroyi and Sayyid Fathallah Kakayi and Adnan Kamal he went to Razhan and there they met with Idris Barzani and Ali Abdullah. Tahir Mala Ali Muhammad Rabati was wounded five times in the battles of (Dar Barru, near Arabat, Sharbazher, Qaradagh, Basara) and twice in the civil war. On December 15, 2010 at the 13 Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to his services, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal.
1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.