Hawzah News Agency – Thanks to great endeavors of the servants of Imam Reza holy shrine, all courtyards and porticos of the complex have turned into black, becoming ready to host mourners of Hazrat Zeynab (SA) from Iran and many other countries.
Flocks of mournful pilgrims of the holy shrine have come to the complex in black cloths adding to the sense of sadness of the ceremonies.
The special program of the martyrdom night will be held for all Iranian and foreign visitors and pilgrims with speech and eulogy recitations by salient lecturers and panegyrists at Imam Khomeini portico of the complex.
Also, special mourning programs of the day of departure will be started by speech of national university and seminary scholars on Thursday morning and will be continued by eulogy recitations of famous Iranian panegyrists. The Office for Foreign Pilgrims’ Affairs of Imam Reza holy shrine will have separate mourning ceremonies for non-Iranian pilgrims in different languages of Azeri, Arabic, and Urdu at Dar al-Marhamah, Dar al-Rahmah, and Kowsar porticos.
Hazrat Zeynab (SA), a daughter of Imam Ali (AS), was an exemplary woman of great ability, intelligence, knowledge, insight, courage and perseverance. She performed to the best of her ability when accompanying her brother Imam Hussein (AS) against Yazid during the tragedy of Karbala. Hazrat Zeynab’s holy shrine is located in Syrian capital Damascus.