Sayyid Hashem Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: هاشم حسن آل نصر الله; February 7, 1923 – May 4, 1997) was an Iraqi nobleman, businessman and the chairman of the Karbala Chamber of Commerce for six terms from 1959 to 1969.
Both his parents hails from the noble Al Faiz family, and claim agnatic descent from Muhammad's daughter Fatimah and her husband, Ali, the first Shia Imam.
[9][10] Nasrallah worked for his father Hassan's trading company, selling agricultural products and appliances, some imported from the US and Europe.
[17] On February 28, 1968, Nasrallah sent a telegram, on behalf of all of Iraq's chambers of commerce, to Mohamed Makiya, endorsing his plans to revolutionize the city of Kufa by building a state of the art university, and large market.
[20] The procession would arrive to Karbala on the ninth of Muharram, visit the two shrines, then return to their accommodation, which was spread across five Hussainiyah's, and spend the night there.
Then they would wake up the following morning, on the tenth of Muharram, and attend a majlis at the al-Masloob Hussainiyah, that started with a recitation of Ziyarat Ashura, followed by a word by a Moroccan student, an elegy by an Algerian student, and finally, a closing speech by Nasrallah, where he thanks the university, and extends his hope that they are inspired by Husayn, whose ethics provide a socio-ethical blueprint that is exemplary in the way it articulates the values of Islam.
[20] Nasrallah held an annual festival at his home, where he would invite high officials and dignitaries to commemorate the birth of Fatimah.
He would either invite Sayyid Hashem al-Qari, Sayyidd Mustafa al-Faizi Al Tumah, or other orators to give a sermon, and then a discussion would follow between those present, about the merits of Fatima and her noble cause during her lifetime.