Widely respected religious scholar and orator Allama Talib Jauhari passed away at a private hospital on Sunday night after a long illness. The well-known Shia scholar had been under treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital for the past 15 days. Allama Jauhari commanded respect because he was a class fellow of the widely revered scholar Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani.