Rashad Azar

This fresh young life we lost last month—the late Rashad Azar. Was it death that snatched him away treacherously from a faithful wife and three fledglings, or was it the great heart laying down its arms in the battle—in the stubborn struggle against the current with which most people drift?

In losing the former deputy Rashad Azar, Lebanon has lost one of its lofty pillars, and a bold tongue that never swerved from its principle and its creed. For the sake of that principle and that creed he burned up his strength and sacrificed his soul

—the most precious thing a human being possesses—and thereby he has earned immortality.

In losing Rashad Azar, Lebanon has lost a resounding voice of opposition, standing watch against anyone whose soul and conscience tempted him to depart from truth and rectitude. With his passing, a beloved face has vanished from thousands of brothers and friends, Lebanese and Arab...

Abundant mercy upon his soul, and beautiful patience for his bereaved wife and his kin.