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Jan 08, 2025
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Dearborn Heights Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi: Slain Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah And The Martyrs In Lebanon And Yemen Are The 'Real' Winners' Of 2024

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Source: Online Platforms - "Islamic House of Wisdom on Facebook"

Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights said in a speech at a January 8, 2025 fundraiser for displaced families in Lebanon that it is a blessing to have "known" and been "attached with" assassinated Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah and all the "martyrs" in southern Lebanon. He said that Nasrallah and "the people who sacrificed in Lebanon and Yemen to support the cause of the oppressed in Gaza" were the "real winners of 2024." He said that "they deserve every support." Elahi, who immigrated to the United States from Iran in the early 1990s, said that he is willing to sell an apartment that he owns “back home” in order to "make a little house for somebody in southern Lebanon. Elahi added: "You did your job, beloved martyrs. We send our salam and our salutations to you."

For more about Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, see MEMRI TV clip 10879, 10433, Leading U.S. Shi'ite Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, Based In Dearborn, Michigan Area, And His Relationship With Both The Iranian Regime And Top Current And Former U.S. Officials.

Mohammad Ali Elahi: "We are so blessed with knowing these people [Hassan Nasrallah and the martyrs] being attached with these people, being honored that they are part of Lebanon.

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"And all the Satans will say whatever they want, but Sayyed [Hassan Nasrallah] and the people who sacrificed in Lebanon and Yemen to support the cause of the oppressed in Gaza – they were the real winners of 2024. They were the winners. The victorious. The other guys who continued their violence and viciousness, Netanyahu and others... They are the real losers. [Allah says in the Quran:] 'And the Party of Satan are the losers.' They are not going to be remembered with honor. They will be remembered as war criminals, as warmongers, and insane people, evil. So really, these people who showed that much faith, that much love, that much heart – they deserve every support.

"I even made a vow that, Allah willing, when things are settled in Lebanon, I have a little apartment in, you know, back home... so I said that if I have to sell that and make a little house for somebody in southern Lebanon, I am ready to do that.

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"You did your job, our beloved martyrs. We send our salam and our salutations to you.

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"Oh Allah, humiliate their enemies, the corruptor, criminal, occupying Zionists. Asking for Your mercy, oh most Merciful One, on the souls of the martyrs, for curing the ill and the wounded among them, and to support the mujahideen, we will recite the Fatiha chapter in the Quran, after the blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad and His family."

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