Days after heading the "eid" prayer for thousands, On November 8, 2005, Yusufi suddenly suffered a heart attack on which doctors at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York performed a successful angioplasty. Yusufi was in fine health with no indications of heart disease prior to this heart attack. Yusufi died on November 28, 2005, from pulmonary edema which occurred as a result of the original cardiogenic shock that he suffered twenty days before his death on the morning of November 8, 2005.