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Here's How Former First Lady Mourns Husband Mubarak


Wed 26 Feb 2020 | 02:50 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Former first lady Suzane Mubarak has posted a heartful words, mourning her husband, late President Hosni Mubarak.

She posted on her facebook page some Qur'anic verses indicating her full submission to the will of God.

Suzane Mubarak cited the Qur'an and wrote: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return".

This morning, Egypt hold full-honor military funeral for her late President, attended by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

The two sons of the late president, Alaa and Gamal, and a very big number of senior officials and military commanders, including the state’s prime minister Moustafa Madbouli,  and a big number of ministers also attended the majestic funeral, in addition to delegations from many Arab and foreign countries.

The funeral, replete with cannon fire and a horse-drawn carriage carrying his coffin, highlighted the wartime achievements of Mubarak.

The 91-year-old Mubarak died on Tuesday at a Cairo military hospital from heart and kidney complications, according to medical documents obtained by The Associated Press. He was admitted to hospital on Jan. 21 with intestinal obstruction and underwent surgery, after which he was treated in intensive care.

The former president still enjoys a degree popularity among many Egyptians, who have painted him as a paternal figure.

A few dozen Mubarak supporters, clad in black and carrying posters of the former president, had gathered since morning hours at a mosque complex in an eastern New Cairo neighborhood, where Mubarak’s body was brought for the funeral service.

A horse carriage carrying Mubarak’s casket, wrapped in the Egyptian flag, left the mosque after afternoon prayers, to a slow military march. His sons, wealthy businessman Alaa and Mubarak’s one-time heir apparent Gamal, stood in the front row with several Mubarak-era ministers.

State media reported that Mubarak’s body would be buried later in the day at his family’s cemetery in Heliopolis, an upscale Cairo district that was Mubarak’s home for most of his rule and where he lived until his death.