Hezbollah Chief Lived with Quran, Lebanese Qari Says

IQNA – A Lebanese qari said one of the priorities of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, who was martyred on September 27, was reciting the Quran and living with the Holy Book.

Hajj Hussein Hamdan, a Quran expert and reciter who has served in panels of arbiters in many international Quran competitions, told IQNA in an interview that in addition to Jihad and pursuing issues related the Muslim Ummah, reading the verses of the Hoy Quran was among the priorities of the martyr.

Whenever he was serving the Quran, Nasrallah felt he was closer to God, Hamdan said.

He added that Nasrallah was an example of the God-fearing people described in Sermon 193 of Nahj al-Balagha, “During a night they are upstanding on their feet reading portions of the Quran and reciting it in a well-measured way, creating through it grief for themselves and seeking by it the cure for their ailments. If they come across a verse creating eagerness (for Paradise) they pursue it avidly, and their spirits turn towards it eagerly, and they feel as if it is in front of them. And when they come across a verse which contains fear (of Hell) they bend the ears of their hearts towards it, and feel as though the sound of Hell and its cries are reaching their ears. They bend themselves from their backs, prostrate themselves on their foreheads, their palms, their knees and their toes, and beseech Allah, the Sublime, for their deliverance.”

He added that Nasrallah benefited from the teachings of the Quran in confronting the arrogant powers and was a man of Jihad through the Quranic culture and teachings.

Hamdan added that Nasrallah was very interested in organizing a Quran contest among the countries of the axis of resistance like the international Quran competition of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He urged Quran activists to work for the realization of this idea in the near future.

The prominent qari further stressed that the path of the Lebanese resistance, which is one of confrontation with the Zionist regime, defending Lebanon and helping the people of Palestine, especially the Gaza Strip, will continue after the martyrdom of Nasrallah.

Sayed Hassan Nasrallah was martyred in a massive airstrike that Israel launched on southern Beirut on September 27 using American-supplied bunker-buster bombs.

Israel’s attacks come against the backdrop of escalated tensions between the Lebanese resistance movement and the occupying entity, which included the targeted killing of top Hezbollah commanders and the detonation of telecommunication devices belonging to the Muslim resistance group.

Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 7 last year, when it launched a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, including one with a hypersonic ballistic missile, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war.

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