AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Al-Kafeel Hospital in Najaf rejected rumors on social media that Iraq’s top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been hospitalized.
The hospital, affiliated to the office of the source of emulation, said Ayatollah Sistani is in good health, Al-Ahed News reported.
“Ayatollah Sistani is carrying out his daily activities in good health,” the hospital’s management said.
It called on the media and others not to spread such unfounded rumors.
Ayatollah Sistani (91) is known as the spiritual leader of Iraqi Shia Muslims and one of the most senior clerics in Shia Islam.
His fatwas have significantly contributed to shaping Iraq’s political structure.
In June 2014 – when Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) unleashed its campaign of terror and destruction in Iraq –Ayatollah Sistani called on his followers to rush to the national army’s help in the fight against the terrorist outfit.
The fatwa helped bring together Shia fighters, Sunni tribesmen as well as Christian and Izadi volunteers under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), commonly known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, to reverse Daesh’s gains and ultimately end the terror group’s territorial rule in Iraq in late 2017.
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source : IQNA
Tuesday
22 February 2022
7:05:23 AM
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The Al-Kafeel Hospital in Najaf rejected rumors on social media that Iraq’s top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been hospitalized.