{"id":144954,"date":"2026-06-04T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/144954\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:42:08","slug":"iraq-declares-three-days-of-mourning-after-death-of-grand-ayatollah-al-fayyadh-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/144954\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq declares three days of mourning after death of Grand Ayatollah al-Fayyadh &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-04T07:17:34+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday declared three days of national mourning following the death of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayyadh, one of the most senior Shiite religious authorities in the holy city of Najaf.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Fayyadh passed away earlier today at a Baghdad hospital at the age of 96 after suffering health complications. He had been receiving intensive medical care in recent days.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0646\u062a\u0642\u062f\u0645 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0632\u0627\u0621 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u062c\u0639\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0627\u060c \u0648\u0623\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0621 \u0634\u0639\u0628\u0646\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0631\u064a\u0645\u060c \u0648\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0645 \u0648\u0639\u0645\u0648\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u064a \u0623\u0646\u062d\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u060c \u0628\u0631\u062d\u064a\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u062c\u0639 \u0633\u0645\u0627\u062d\u0629 \u0622\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0638\u0645\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u064a\u062e \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0625\u0633\u062d\u0627\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u0627\u0636 (\u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0633\u0631\u0651\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0641).\u0648\u0628\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0644\u064a\u0645\u060c \u0641\u0642\u062f\u062a \u0633\u0627\u062d\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u062b \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0647\u0627\u062f \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0648\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u0645\u0627\u064b \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u0647\u060c\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0641\u0627\u0644\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0632\u064a\u062f\u064a (@AliFalihAlzaidy) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AliFalihAlzaidy\/status\/2062427092130611312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Widely regarded as one of the four senior maraji&#8217; (sources of emulation) of the Najaf Hawza, al-Fayyadh was among the most influential Shiite clerics in Iraq and the wider Muslim world. He was also one of the foremost students of the late Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Afghanistan in 1930, al-Fayyadh moved to Najaf at a young age to pursue religious studies and later emerged as one of the seminary&#8217;s leading scholars, attracting millions of followers across the Shiite world.<\/p>\n<p>His death further narrows the circle of Najaf&#8217;s senior religious authorities, leaving Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi among the remaining top-ranking clerics following the death of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Saeed al-Hakim in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-04T07:17:34+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,47243,94,47242,2963],"class_list":["post-144954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-grand-ayatollah-al-fayyadh","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-declares-three-days-of-mourning-after-death-of-grand-ayatollah-al-fayyadh","tag-mourning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116690717498080129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}