Referring to Ayatollah Khamenei’s concern about Muharram mourning gatherings, the prominent teacher in the Islamic Seminaries of Qom said, “I’m aware that he said that despite the current situation this year, we must hold the Muharram mourning gatherings as passionately as possible by observing the necessary protocols.” RNA – Speaking at an academic conference entitled “Coronavirus and the Challenges Facing the Religious Delegations” held at the library of Ayatollah Haeri-Tabasi in Qom, Hujjat al-Islam Hoseyn Ansarian, a prominent teacher in the Islamic Seminaries of Qom, referred to the fact that non-Muslims have acknowledged that one of the excellencies of Islam and Shi’ism is spontaneous religious gatherings and said, “The only government that has been spending heavily on its administration for 1,400 years is the government of Aba Abdillah al-Husayn.”
His Eminence continued by stating that the lovers of the school of Imam al-Husayn spend with generosity in the path of Aba Abdillah and said, “The employees of the Husayni government spent for their government. The lovers of Aba Abdillah spend billions of tomans of money on this path annually and we are sure that it will be spent properly.”
He noted that according to the narrations, the flag of the mourning gatherings for Aba Abdillah will be raised until the Day of Resurrection and added, “The enemies have made many attempts to extinguish this light but they haven’t succeeded and will never succeed.”
Hujjat al-Islam Ansarian pointed to the greatness of the gatherings of Imam al-Husayn in the mirror of narrations and said, “We have to plan for the days of mourning and bring it to the peak of benefit and strive for gatherings and gatherings and crying over them.”
Saying that we should observe hygiene and hold mourning sessions, His Eminence said, “In the narrations, it’s narrated from Ahl al-Bayt ‘whoever speaks our words or our words are spoken to him and cries as much as a fly’s wings, all his sins will be forgiven.’”
He pointed out, “During the Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Power) gatherings, we held gatherings while social distancing inside and outside the husayniyah, and there was not even a single report of a single participant being diagnosed with the Coronavirus.”
Hujjat al-Islam Ansarian added that all religious principles are due to the movement of Imam al-Husayn and said, “Let us come to the gatherings in good health and not be afraid because these gatherings guarantee the continuity of the religion, good deeds, the Islamic Seminaries and the religious authorities.”
He reminded, “We should not misinterpret the statements of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] because I’m aware that he said that despite the current situation this year, we must hold the Muharram mourning gatherings as passionately as possible by observing the necessary protocols.”
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