Hizbullah Site Staff, 18-5-2009
Hizbullah Media Relations Statement issued on 18-05-2009

Hizbullah announces to the Islamic world its mourning of the great religious reference Sheikh of the Islamic Gnostics and scholars (Mujtahidin) Great Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Bahjat who passed away after a long life spent in raising scholars, spreading the holy Islamic Law (Sharia), deep-rooting the pillars of science and jurisprudence (fiqh) of Ahlul Beit (Family of the Prohpet Mohammad PBUT) and the methodology of Islamic Gnosticism and ethics, as he taught successive generations of scholars.

Sheikh Bahjat has spread his great blessings and impact on Muslims in general and on scholars in particular, and they will continue to be an inspirational light in the sky of knowledge and monotheism.

Hizbullah mourns this divine scholar and conceives his loss as being so great it can only be redressed with surrendering to God's judgment (death). Sheikh Bahjat always stood behind the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon and was its strong supporter, embracing the resistance in his in prayers, love, advice, and great moral advice, especially in times of crisis as in the 33-day war launched by the Zionist entity on Lebanon in July 2006.

On this distressing occasion, we present our Master Imam Mahdi (AS), the possessor our era, with our saddest condolences as well as the religious schools (Hawzat), great scholars, namely Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, as well as all other scholars, students, loved ones, and his dear family.

We ask of God to join him with the pious ancestors of scholars and martyrs and to embrace his soul with God's mercy, in the vicinity of Mohammad and his Family (PBUT). "To God we belong, and to Him is our return".

On this occasion, we invite you to take part in a Majlis Azaa which will take place on his pure soul at the Qaem Complex - Abyad Street, on Friday 22-05-2009 at 8:30 pm.