Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah graced the state funeral for the late Rahah Mohamed Noah at the National Mosque today.
Tunku Azizah arrived at the mosque at 2pm and was welcomed by the prime minister’s wife Noorainee Abdul Rahman, before being brought to a waiting room while awaiting the arrival of Rahah’s remains.
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin arrived at the mosque at 2.10pm.
Also seen were former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and several ministers.
Rahah, 87, the widow of Malaysia’s second prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein and mother of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, died at the Prince Court Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Earlier, the hearse bringing Rahah’s remains had arrived at the Ar-Rahah Mosque, Kg Kerinchi at 7.50am today.
The remains were bathed and wrapped in shroud at the mosque before the public was allowed to pay their last respects from 9am to 1pm and were to be later brought to the National Mosque for the state funeral.
