Supreme Leader's representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage affair:
Doctors, nurses consider themselves as pilgrims’ servants

The Supreme Leader's representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage affairs and Supervisor of Iranian pilgrims Hojjat al-Islam Seyed Abdolfattah Navvab said that Arbaeen is the house of love and convergence, that is open towards the entire mankind, with any viewpoint or religion, and the host of them all is Imam Hossain (AS).

Hojjat al-Islam Seyed Abdolfattah Navvab who was speaking for the audience at the First International Arbaeen Health Congress, hosted by the Iran Red Crescent Society in Tehran, said that the Arbaeen rally ritual is beyond nationality and beyond conditions, since in this spiritual rally there is no religious limits about the religious identity, the age, the physical conditions, and the other possible limitations, as they are quite meaningless here.
He said that the entire groups that play roles in Arbaeen rally are highly awarded in Almighty Allah’s kingdom, and yet two groups, the health care team, that take care of the physical health of the pilgrims, and the religious preachers, who are active in the pilgrimage and spiritual affairs of the rally, are both unique and precious.
Hojjat al-Islam Navvab, meanwhile, referred to the narrations and sayings by the Infallible Household of the Prophet (PBUH) on the great significance of this pilgrimage, referring to a saying by Imam Ali (AS) that says: Health is the greatest blessing of Almighty Allah, and the tax for it is trying to worship God wholeheartedly.
He then referred to a narration by Imam Ali (AS), that reads: Among the miseries, there is poverty, and worse than poverty, there is ailment of the body, and worse than the ailment of the body there is the ailment of the heart and the soul.
Hojjat al-Islam Navvab said that the role played by the health and medical team is a blessing that God has bestowed on these beloved folks.
The Supreme Leader's representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage affairs said that in the culture of the infallible imams in addition to health, the words being well, and wellbeing in the hereafter, too, are also mentioned. For instance, the Prophet (PBUH) always prayed “O God! Grant me wellbeing to the full extent.”
He reiterated that Imam Ali (AS) in a prayer that he taught to his son, Imam Hassan (AS) says: “O God! Do not distance between me and my health and wellbeing, even for a single moment”, because of a human being take off the attire of health he will be faced with lots of severe problems.
He said that during the years that the word was plagued with the Corona virus disease, the great significance of health and wellbeing was clarified for everyone.
He added, “Two great blessings of health and security, none of which is easily seen, are the most important blessings, as everyone remembers that during the Corona pandemic the health of the human beings had been so must endangered that life became bitter for all world nations to some extent.
Hojjat al-Islam Navvab also referred to a prayer in Imam Sajjad’s Sahifat ul-Sajjadiyeh, in which the human beings’ connection with God is defined, in prayer number 23, where after praising God, he asks for good health, and wellbeing, that is also seen in the prayers of the other infallible imams.

The Supreme Leader's representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage affairs then presented ten suggestions to the health servants of the pilgrims, arguing that the first step towards success is intending to get flosser to God, and pureness off that intention.
“My second advice to the doctors, nurses, and the health and medical team members in Arabaeen rally rituals, is that before considering yourselves doctors and nurses, think of yourselves as the servants, and a servant, too, acts in accordance with his/her master’s demands.
Hojjat al-Islam Navvab referring to the teachings of the pioneers, said that the role playing in decreasing the problems, looking at the Iraqis as the hosts and respecting them, and upgrading the spirit of the patients, are among the other advice for the audience.
“Taking a pathological look at the activities and the offered services in Iraq in the previous years, find the best way for serving the pilgrims in best possible way,” he said.

He added that in Arabin everyone tolerated hardships, and pays costs, and we, too, perform our duties.
Navvab said that the doctors and nurses, too, can advise the patients ethically, as well as thinking as advising them how to behave to refrain from getting sick.