Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi

Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi

2nd Hezbollah's Secretary General
Religious Affiliation	Twelver Shi'a Muslim
Birth	1952
Place of Birth	Baalbek
Place of Residence	Beirut, Lenbanon
Death/Martyrdom	February 16, 1992 CE
Cause of Death/Martyrdom	Assassinated by the Zionist regime Airforce
Burial Place	Al-Nabi Shayth, Baalbek
Professors	Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei, Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Students	Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah
Notable roles	The Second Secretary General of Hezbollah

Sayyid ʿAbbās al-Mūsawī (Arabic: السيد عباس الموسوي, b. 1992, d. 1952) was the second secretary-general of Hezbollah in Lebanon. In the first years of his activity, he fought with the Zionist regime of Israel alongside the Palestinian forces. He opposed the Ba'th regime when he went to Iraq to study. When he returned to Lebanon, he entered into a more serious battle with Israel by forming Hezbollah.

He was influenced by the thoughts of Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Imam Khomeini, and in 1979, he met Imam Khomeini during his trip to Iran. Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi was recognized as the Secretary-General of Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1991. On February 16, 1992, he was targeted by the Air Force of the Zionist regime and martyred

Studying in Lebanon and Najaf

Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi was born in 1952 in al-Nabi Shayth village in Baalbek, Lebanon. In 1966, he met Imam Musa Sadr in Tyre. On his advice, Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi went to the seminary of Tyre (al-Ma'had al-Dirasat al-Islamiyya) and started his seminary studies there.

He entered Najaf in 1967 to continue his seminary studies. After completing the general courses at the Najaf seminary, he participated in the specialized courses of Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei and Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. He shared a strong bond with Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and played a key role in introducing Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah to him.

Activity in Lebanon

Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi, who faced government pressure due to his political activism against the Ba'th regime in Iraq, returned to Lebanon in 1979. He founded a school called "Imam al-Muntadar (a)" in Baalbek. His wife also founded a " al-Zahra " school for women’s education. He also gathered Muslim scholars for greater harmony among Lebanese clerics.

Sayyid Abbas Al-Musawi’s ideological and strategic vision was profoundly influenced by the anti-Zionist stance of Sheikh Raghib Harb, the illustrious martyr and leader of the Islamic Resistance. The two great leaders collaborated to lay the foundations of the Hezbollah resistance movement towards the end of that year.

In 1982, after the Zionist regime's occupation of Lebanon, he and several Lebanese youths gathered in the Beqaa Valley. They formed a group to fight against Israel, which was later known as Hezbollah.

Main article: Hezbollah

In May 1991, the central council of Hezbollah elected him its second Secretary-General. Before him, Subhi Tufayli was the Secretary-General.

Martyrdom

Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, describing his teacher Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi:

A teacher with sincerity, following up the academic and moral affairs of the seminary students, a practical example of piety, ethics, and religiosity, a committed and tireless scholar, a man of prayer and weeping to the Lord, and a man of night vigil, a lover of the Prophet (a) and his progeny, a deep relationship with Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, considered obedience to Imam Khomeini as a duty, with complete obedience to Sayyid Ali Khamenei, a pioneer in serving the people, not fearing other than God, and having self-sacrifice in the path of Islamic resistance until his martyrdom.

On February 16, 1992, Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi was attacked by an Israeli airstrike while returning to Beirut after attending Shaykh Raghib Harb's death anniversary ceremony, and he was martyred along with his wife and child. The pilot who attacked his convoy revealed details of Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi’s assassination in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2008 and 2012.

Following this assassination, Ayatullah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, described Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi in a message as noble, brave, sincere, and intelligent. Ayatollah Khamenei considered him a person who combined knowledge with action, words with honesty, and sacrifice with tact.

His legacy and martyrdom promoted thousands of courageous soldiers to heroically fight and scarify their lives for the sake of their cause. He led a short life, 39-years-old, occupied by piety and bravery that manifested in most of his tendencies, approaches, and attitudes.

Monographs

Many written and media works have been produced about Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi. Some of these works are:

• The book Zindigi wa mubarizat-i Shahid Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi, Dabir Kull-i Hezbollah-i Lobnan, (The life and struggles of Martyr Sayyid Abbas al-Muusawi, the Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah) written by Ghulam Rida Guli Zawarah in Persian.

• The book Zubar al-Hadid 2, (Blocks of iron) written by Fatima Muslih-Zada.

• Shahid-i Yaran Monthly magazine; a special issue about Martyr Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi titled Zeytun-e surkh (Red olive) under the auspices of Shahid Magazines Group.

• Zindagi-yi khub, marg-i khub (Good life, good death) Documentary: Produced by the IRIB First Channel.

• Zaytun-i Talkh documentary: (Bitter olive) This documentary was broadcast on the IRIB Tehran channel.

• Al-Ghalibun 2 (The victors) TV series was broadcast for the first time in Ramadan 2013 on the al-Manar TV channel and with Persian dubbing in Ramadan 2014 on the IFilm channel of IRIB.

Gallery

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  Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi and Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah meeting with Sayyid Ali Khamenei (1991)

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  Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi with his family

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  Presence of Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi among the Mujahidin in Afghanistan

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  The poster of al-Ghalibun 2 Series

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  Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi's Shrine in Al-Nabi Shayth

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  Sayyid Abbas al-Musawi's presence at the Kashmir International Conference