He was also a skilled painter, and in poetry, he showed unrivalled admiration for the Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab.
[5] [6][7] Before his death, he wrote a letter titled to the Popular Mobilization Forces, praising their sacrifices, and warning them of a scheme in which they were intended to participate in suppressing the demonstrations, hours after the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in which he said that his forces would intervene at the appropriate time, the last of what he wrote: "Shame on you.
He was transferred to the Al-Jumla Al-Asabia Hospital, and doctors performed an operation for him in which they removed the gas bomb fragment from his head and stopped the bleeding.
His body was taken to Liberation Square after the athan for the fajr prayer despite the curfew, and his friends carried him under the Freedom Monument in the middle of the square during the early dawn hours, and the mourners chanted "Thanwah," with the words "Raise his head, O Thanwah Abinj.
[10] Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party in Lebanon, condemned his death, saying: "The martyrs do not go to heaven.