Big Gathering of Fatemi Mourners was held in Razavi Holy Shrine / Pics

Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Alam ul-Huda, Mashhad Friday Prayer Leader, said among the huge crowd of Fatemi mourners, "today is not a day for presenting lecture; it is a day of tear because all calamities started from this day."

Stating that during 250 years of Imamate of Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.), all Hazrat Zahra's (S.A.) children died of torture, wandered about in mountains, deserts and jungles, were poisoned, or were massacred, he said, "today was the starting day of this 250-year of being oppressed, so today is the day of tear."

Referring to a Hadith of Imam Sadiq (A.S.), the Member of the Assembly of Experts remarked, "Hazrat Zahra's (S.A.) martyrdom was a struggle which lasted for 3 months. In these three months Hazrat Zahra (S.A.) quoted Fadakieh Khutbeh (oration), the Khutbeh of seventh night of the Prophet's (S.A.W.) departure and a lot of other Khutbeh (Orations)."

As Mashhad Friday Prayer Leader said, "Hazrat Zahra (S.A.) was crying during those days and her crying was actually a kind of struggle and confronting against the enemies."

This professor of the Islamic Seminaries asserted, "During that time, she spoke about the leader's innocence, usurpation of caliphate, and all oppressions sustained on the Prophet (S.A.W.) and his family."

In continuation of this ceremony, Ayatollah Alam ul-Huda recited the Maqtal (the narration of someone's' killing) of Hazrat Zahra's (S.A.) martyrdom as he and other clergymen took off their turbans in mourning for Hazrat zahra (S.A.).a

As the sky was raining, thousands of mourners cried mournfully and expressed their condolence to the presence of Imam Reza (A.S.).

At the beginning of the big gathering of the Fatemi Mourners which started from Shuhad Square and continued toward the Razavi holy shrine, Ahl al-Bayt's (A.S.) panegyrists elegized in grief of the innocent martyrdom of Hazrat Zahra (S.A.).

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Source: AQR