Supreme Leader's Representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage affairs :
Supreme Leader Delegation Office will play a role in holding Arbaeen ceremony as in the past
Pointing out that this year, according to the decision of the Anti-Corona National Headquarters, Iranian pilgrims will not be able to participate in the Arbaeen procession, Supreme Leader's Representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs and Supervisor of Iranian Pilgrims Hojjat al-Islam Seyed Abdolfattah Navvab emphasized: as in the past, the Supreme Leader Delegation Office will play a role in holding Arbaeen programs inside the country.
As reported by Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Information Base, at the meeting of Council of Deputies and Managers of Supreme Leader Delegation Office, the representative of Supreme Leader in Hajj and Pilgrimage affairs added: "We consider it our duty to serve wherever is necessary in order to hold the ceremony in the best way." This meeting was convened today under the chairmanship of Hojjat al-Islam Navvab.
By emphasizing on planning for better use of human resources and capabilities and capacities of various units of Supreme Leader Delegation Office in the Arbaeen season; he added All of us, as a group and family, should try to hold this ceremony enthusiastically with the implementation of spiritual programs and health practices, so the Islamic Iran which is believe in Islamic and social norms, to shine as a leading country in the world.
According to the report, at the beginning of the meeting, the chairman of the Arbaeen Cultural and Educational Committee listed the planned programs for the Arbaeen season this year in the face of corona virus outbreak and said: Arbaeen Cultural and Educational Committee has requested for Iraqi visa to send health personnel to provide services to Iraqi pilgrims in the health sector, as well as to send reporters to cover the event, but has not yet received a response from Iraqi officials.
Hojjat al-Islam Hamid Ahmadi mentioned the preparation of programs inside the country and at the international level, including regional and international conferences in the form of video conferencing, publishing electronic magazines in different languages and etc, and said: On the Safar 19th, one day before Arbaeen, the recitation of the Arbaeen pilgrimage and the mourning of Hosseini are foreseen in the offices and institutions.
Hojjat al-Islam Ahmadi also stressed that the Arbaeen headquarters and the Arbaeen cultural and educational committee follow the rules and policies of the anti-corona national headquarters in the implementation of programs, and that no march will be held in Iran on the occasion of Arbaeen.
He continued: "On the day of Arbaeen, in addition to holding spiritual programs in holy shrines and pilgrimage places, the plan of "each house is a Hosseiniyah" which was held in the first decade of Muharram, is on the agenda.
The meeting continued with the report of Supreme Leader Delegation Office deputies and managements on their Arbaeen programs, and Supreme Leader's representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs emphasized: The complex of Supreme Leader Delegation Office uses its full capacity in the Arbaeen.
