Assalamo Alaikum from the holy land of Republic of Iran. We have landed in Iran 8th of November, 2018 in the night at the Tehran imam khomaneni international Airport round about 7 30 of local Iran time. We went first to the city of Qum and stayed at nearby house .Went to atraf or surrounding ziaraat in the afternoon. We at first visited Sava or sawa ziaraat. It was nearly 70 mile away of qum.
Sava was a sandy and mudy city where are located shrines of imanzadas of imam musa Karim and imam Mohammad albaqir named as Ishaq ,hazrat Hussain,and hazrat Bashir of Imam musa kazim and other .What distinguishes these shrines from others is that we have to pass through all the four directions a big graveyard underneath of the floor where the buried names and pictures were also inscribed. After offering the routine daily prayers we came back in the night in our place. After resting of two nights there in qum we went to mesouleun of Bibi e Fatima masooma e qum the biggest shrine of qum for doing ziaraat and salam.
Her roza was a big one which was surrounded by different gates know as bab ul al hadi, bab e irum, bab e azam, bab e shabistan e Imam koumani till the haram of bibi masooma.
Difficulties of ziareen who used to visit Iran, Iraq and shaam .
This article would put ample light on the difficulties which are normally being faced by the zaireen who usually come from all over the world especially from Pakistan.
This would be beyond any doubt that the people of Iran and Iraq are hospitable towards all ziareen in respect of the holy shrines, Rozas, and mosoleums situated in their holy land. They themselves are very regardful and respectful extraordinary towards these holy imams and their mausoleums. That was the reason they arranged best facilities for all zaireen.
But since I m bound to elaborate only the difficulties of the zaireen, so I have first of all observed (as I am also on my visit on these ziaraat mentioned earlier) that these holy lands are visited by educated and uneducated people with having least language proficiency by the elderly people and have no know how or sense of local currencies. For their guidance there is dire need of their local guide who should be proficient in Urdu, pashto, Sindhi, and other languages to guide the tourist.
Now I must mention here that though I am highly qualified education wise zaireen here and leant many local Iraqi and Irani words, sentences and expression yet I was guided by local people who told me how much money I have to give to shopman for purchasing dry fruits, sweets, starting, etc which convinced me a lot but also let me think of those who were not having been blessed by these gestures.
Another problem that could be faced by the zaireen is about their difficulties regarding stay in Iraqi fundoq o moatam, and moqabs especially during the days of ashoora e mohurrum and chehlum e Imam Hussain a.s. due to huge number of rush being observed every year (this year 50 million followers) .In case they did not get the facility of any hotel they happily stayed nearby Haram’s of Imam Hussain and karbala maidan –a big camps area with having facilities of blankets but difficulty here was for all other zaireens who rushed from their hotels that they could hardly pass through the gates for ziarat purpose and rush made them uncomfortable and uneasy. Though they have big sprinkling water fans system to ease them out but difficulty was yet there.
Now the main major difficulty to explain is about the niaz e Hussain distributed amongst the zaireen during ziaraat e Hussain in Karbala. Although they had queues for niaz distribution but again caused so much for the passers by zaireen. Here the most appreciable gesture of Iraqi people I liked was the water cooler system installed in all streets with fresh healthy water.
Another activity though not much difficulty for zaireen was with regard to nawardaat or tahaif from here for zaireens’ friends amd family in their home country .I also visited just nearby shops of precious gem stones ,tasbeehat , khaq e Shifa, jai nimaz ,etc. Of course we bought these for distributing amongst our relatives as hadiya e Hussain to them. There was a big shop in haram e Hussain to buy these nawadaat.
Last but not least pl let me acknowledge the great support rendered by Safdar Hamdani, the owner of Aalmi Akhbar and my mentor as without him timely help I may not be able to work on my mission e Hussaini with that confidence which once was bestowed upon me by renowned scholar Dr zawwar Hussain Zaidi. I Thank you Allah Almighty and my patents and my elder sister for enabling me to do ziaraats and use of pen for the most righteous cause for peace and safety of our eternal religion of Islam in all over the world.
May Allah almighty bless my parents, family.aameen
Rehana Bukhari.Iran
