Shaheed Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi
 
Shaheed Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi, Secretary General of Hezbollah was born in Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in 1952. In Najaf he studied under great teachers particularly Great Scholar Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr, for whom he had special affection. After invasion of Lebanon by Israel in 1983 which resulted in massacres of Muslims, destruction of houses and forced migration of thousands of shias in south, Syed Abbas along with his wife, started religious schools as well as several programs for the economic and social uplift of shias. He also started motivating young people to resist against the brutal Zionist occupation of Lebanon, especially south. Syed Abbas was greatly inspired by Imam Khomeini (ra) and with his guidance organized the Islamic resistance and he was chosen as the secretary general of Hezbollah in 1991. However, he couldn't serve the oppressed masses of Lebanon for long as on February 16th, 1992, he was martyred together with his wife and son Yasir by missiles fired by Israeli helicopters. The legacy of martyr Syed Abbas are the Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance that were victorious in May, 2000 when they forced Israel out of Lebanon.