Umm Suhail, wife of the late Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, struggled to speak. “I've lost Ghazi,” she told Okaz/Saudi Gazette as she cried. Yara bade farewell to her father, the poet, man of letters and Minister of Labor, with a last look while he was lying on his bed on the third floor, where he slept during his last days. She bade him farewell not believing that her dad – who wrote poems about her; loved her even before she was born; treated her as the little girl, Yara, his first-born even when she became a mother; and wrote a poem named after her after she got married – had passed away. Okaz/Saudi Gazette was the only newspaper with Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi's family at Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque in Al-Deerah, which was thronged with worshippers from all segments of society. Yara apologized for having a difficult time speaking about her father's last moments. She was in tears, struggling with her emotions and collapsed while taking a telephone call to offer condolences. “Pardon me, the situation and event is greater and more difficult than I can describe,” she said and started repeating “Unto God we belong and to Him is our return.” Asked if she was with him on the night of his death, she said, “All of us, of course.” People can offer condolences in Bahrain, “his second country,” she said. Lulua Misfir Al-Gosaibi, a cousin, could not restrain herself from crying while embracing Yara and her mother and offering condolences. “He was my brother before he was my paternal cousin,” she said. “When I was young, I used to come with my mother to visit him. He had the whole world's kindness in his heart. Now I've come to bid him farewell. I'm content with what Allah has destined.” Sorrow prevailed at the mosque. Women sobbed quietly when his body was taken for funeral prayer. One woman said, “It's only now that I've realized the loss of Dr. Ghazi.”
