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Jawad Nasrallah
Sayyid Jawad Kadhim Nasrallah (; died January 2, 1808) was an Iraqi nobleman that served as the 21st custodian of the Imam Husayn shrine from 1802 until 1808. Biography Nasrallah was born c. 1725 to Kadhim Nasrallah. His grandfather Nasrallah al-Faizi, is the patriarch of the Nasrallah family, and a prominent scholar and poet. He hails from the noble Al Faiz family. After Musa al-Wahab was killed in the sack of Karbala on April 22, 1802, some of the city's dignitaries, Sayyid Ali al-Tabatabei, Sayyid Murtadha Al Daraj (the ''naqib'' then), Sheikh Ali Abd al-Rasool (' of the Abbas shrine), sent a transcript to the governor, Sulayman Pasha, requesting that Nasrallah be the ' of the Husayn shrine, and so on June 2, 1802, an imperial decree was issued declaring Nasrallah the ' of the Husayn shrine. Due to his position, Nasrallah was sometimes known as Jawad ''al-Killidar'' (), which roots from the Persian words, kileet () and dar (), which translates to key holder. This was a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Al-Tawil Nasrallah
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Hasan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
