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On 12 Muharram 1387 AH (April 22, 1967), His Eminence presided over the meeting of the Executive Council of the World Muslim Congress, which convened in Karachi.

On 13 Jumada al-Akhira 1387 AH (September 16, 1967), His Eminence presided over the emergency session of the World Muslim Congress, which convened in Amman specifically to address the Palestinian question, because of the new catastrophe that had befallen the Arab and Islamic worlds with the occupation of the rest of Palestine and Jerusalem by the aggressor Israeli forces.

In the following years, His Eminence took part in the meetings of the General Council of the Muslim World League in Mecca the Honored, continuing his work as President of the World Muslim Congress and Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. He devoted his efforts to uniting Muslims and Arabs and strengthening the bonds among them, particularly by defending the Palestine cause in international, Islamic and Arab forums, until God chose him to be at His side on the afternoon of Thursday, 14 Jumada al-Akhira 1394, corresponding to July 4, 1974. His death deeply moved the masses of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic worlds, who valued the great departed man’s jihad, his sincerity, firmness and steadfastness, as well as his self-sacrifice and his immense achievements in making Arabs and Muslims aware of the dangers of colonialism and Zionism, his insistence on confronting the alien Zionist entity and uprooting it from Palestine, and rescuing the Holy City and its blessed al-Aqsa Mosque from the clutches of the criminal Jews.