A Wonderful Occasion Celebrated in Iran

Date: 01 October 2024 - 22:13

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Salaam dear young friends. It is nice to meet you again after one week. Hopefully, you are all fine by the Grace of God and, of course, busy as usual, in your academic studies.
The harder you strive the better and brighter the prospects for you in future. So don’t waste time, maintain your discipline and be punctual, whether in your online classes at schools or colleges, or whether in performing your religious obligations, especially the daily ritual prayers.
Well, for the information of our young friends abroad, every year the holy city of Qom is bedecked with flowers. Its streets presented the spectacle of a garden on the move in the early morning hours of 23rd of Rabi al-Awwal (last Friday, 27th of September) as thousands of people, mostly women and girls, holding bouquets of flowers of different colours, poured into the spacious courtyards of the sacred shrine of Hazrat Fatema al-Ma’soumah (SA).
Do you know the significance of the event?
Yes, it was to mark the anniversary of the arrival of this noble young lady into the city of Qom in the year 202 AH – over a millennium and two centuries ago.
As a matter of fact, this is an annual ceremony in holy Qom. The local people, would be joined by devotees from other parts of Iran, have been observing this for centuries, with prominent men going to the outskirts of the city at the break of dawn to welcome and escort to the city centre a camel topped with a howdah covered by a green cloth, as the symbolic arrival of the sister of Imam Reza (AS).
This virtuous descendant of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA), whose entourage was attacked by agents of the tyrannical Abbasid regime near the city of Saveh, did not stay long and succumbed to the wounds she has suffered and the toils of the long journey from holy Medina.
Her brief 17-day sojourn, however, transformed Qom on the edge of the Iranian desert into a centre of pilgrimage and Islamic studies for followers of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt from not just all over Iran, but from all over the world.
Isn’t it an interesting account young friends, especially you, our dear readers of Kayhan International’s weekly Children’s Page, living in other countries!
As you are aware, every year many people from several countries of the world, including the Americas and Europe, on visiting the holy shrine of Hazrat Ma’soumah (SA) in Qom, embrace the truth of Islam.
Hope you have enjoyed this week’s chat. Goodbye all till next week.