Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah died
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BEIRUT - The Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, once considered controversial mentor of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah and who was a very influential figure in Shiite Islam, died Sunday at a hospital in Beirut, at the age of 75.
- "The father, leader, authority, guide, the man is gone, "responded a close relative, Ayatollah Abdullah Al-Ghureifi (originally from Bahrain), at a press conference in the Al Al-Imamayn Hassanayn mosque in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Beside him, the son of the deceased, Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, was in tears.
The Grand Ayatollah had been hospitalized Friday for internal bleeding. The date of his funeral was not yet known.
The Hezbollah television station Al-Manar, interrupted its programs and broadcast verses from the Quran with a picture on the screen of the Grand Ayatollah.
Hezbollah has called for three days of mourning, saying in a statement that "Lebanon, the Muslim nation and the whole world" had "lost a great Muslim scholar."
"He supported clearly and courageously « the resistance » (Hezbollah) against the Zionist enemy (Israel)," according to this text.
Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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