Imam Musa Sadr’s Wife Laid to Rest in Lebanon’s Tyre
A large number of political and religious figures and different groups of people attended the funeral.
Representatives of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri as well as Iran’s Ambassador to the Arab country Mohammad Jalal Firouznia were among the participants.
Sheikh Ali Al-Khatib, vice-speaker of Lebanon’s parliament, led the funeral prayer for late Khalili.
The wife of Imam Musa Sadr died on Thursday after a long illness.
Imam Musa Sadr was an Iranian-Lebanese scholar, philosopher and religious leader who, along with his two companions Mohammed Yaqoub and Abbas Badreddin, was kidnapped in August 1978 during an official visit to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Sadr was scheduled to meet with officials from the government of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The three were never seen or heard from again and their fate is still unknown even after the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in 2011.
Sadr came from a long line of clerics tracing their ancestry back to Jabal Amel, Lebanon.
He is still regarded as an important political and spiritual leader by the Lebanese Shia community. His status only grew after his disappearance in August 1978, and today his legacy is revered by both Amal and Hezbollah movements.
