On August 31, 1960, a boy named Hassan was born to the Nasrallah family. He was the eldest of three brothers and five sisters and was raised in the Karantina neighborhood, one of the poorest and most deprived areas in the Eastern Suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Hassan, who later on will be referred to as "Sayyed" for being a descendant of Prophet Mohammad, would grow up to change the course of West Asia's history, daring to challenge the powers of arrogance, led by the imperialist United States and the colonialist Israeli occupation entity.
Sayyed Nasrallah completed his primary education at al-Kifah school and pursued his middle school studies in the Sin el-Fil area. When the Lebanese Civil War broke out in April 1975, his family returned to their hometown of Bazourieh, where he continued his high school education. Despite his young age, he was appointed as the Amal Movement's organizational leader in the town.
During his time in southern Lebanon, he became acquainted with the Imam of the city of Tyre, Sayyed Mohammad al-Gharawi, who helped arrange his enrollment at the religious seminary in Najaf, Iraq, in late 1976.
He traveled to Najaf with a letter of introduction from al-Gharawi to Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Baqer al-Sadr, who showed great interest in him. Al-Sadr, who would later be tortured and martyred by the Saddam regime, entrusted Sayyed Abbas al-Mousawi, who later became Hezbollah's Secretary-General, with the task of supervising and mentoring the new student, both academically and personally.