On February 10, 1908 the leader Mustafa Kamel died and he was still young at the age of thirty-fourth. All Egypt felt sorry for him since he was the reformer and the banner bearer of the national movement. It was Monday and four o'clock afternoon when the national leader Mustafa Kamel passed away in 1908.

Early that year had witnessed the release of prisoners of «Denshewai» trial.  That was during the reign of Khedive Abbas. Mustafa Kamel had lived for three months in a bitter struggle with the disease. On his death be and five days earlier to his death, he had sent a telegram of strong protest against statements launched by Sir Edward Gray in the British House of Commons in which he accused the Egyptians of incompetence for self-government. Cairo escorted the leader to grave in a grand funeral that shook all the country. Even all of his politician opponents lamented him on their newspapers pages. The funeral contained nearly quarter million escorts.