The Department of Hussayni Rituals and Processions in Iraq and the Islamic world affiliated to the Holy Shrines of Imam al-Hussayn and al-Abbas (peace be upon them), held its annual conference to organize the Ziyarat Arba'een; Imam al-Hussayn(peace be upon him) for the year 1445 AH.
The conference was attended by the secretary general of the Al-Abbas's (p) holy shrine; Mustafa Mortada Aal Dia-Uddin, the secretary general of the Imam al-Hussayn's (p) holy shrine; Sayed Hasan Rashid al-'Abaiji, the head of the Department; Sayed. Aqeel al-Yasiri, in addition to a group of officials of the representations of the Hussayni processions in the provinces of Iraq.
Al-Yasiri said in an interview with the News Center that "the conference, which was held on the Hall of the Seal of the prophets in the Hussayni Holy Courtyard, witnessed the presence of a number of representatives of the service and security departments in the province of Karbala, to find out the mechanism of the work of the Husseini processions involved in providing service to visitors heading from various provinces of Iraq to Karbala, on the Blessed Ziyarat Arba'een during this year".
"During the conference, we discussed some of the obstacles that occurred in previous years, clarified them to the officials of the representations of the Hussayni processions and provided appropriate solutions to them, in addition to adhering to the directives and instructions issued by the department in coordination with the security and health authorities in Karbala, in order to preserve the safety and security of visitors,"he added.
Al-Yasiri explained that"the department has prepared a schedule for the dates of the descent of the Latm and Zinjeel mourning processions during the Ziyarat days in the month of Safar, where the Fourteenth and fifteenth days were allocated for the descent of the mourning processions of “Dha’n” [processions representing the journey of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) on their way back from the Levant to Karbala, by including camels as a reminder of what happened then.], while the Zinjeel mourning processions are schedules on the sixteenth and seventeenth days, while the Latm mourning processions are scheduled on the eighteenth and nineteenth days, and the twentieth day will be dedicated to the mourning of the people of the holy city of Najaf and the Holy Kadhemiyah, calling on the owners of the processions to adhere to the specified dates.".
The conference concluded with the distribution of blessing banners with the words (Ya Hussein) written on them to the officials of the representations and the Husseini mourning processions, according to Yasiri.