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Azerbaijan marks Ashura

23 October 2015 21:01 (UTC +04:00)

According to the fatwa issued by the Gazi Council of the Caucasian Muslims Office (CMO), the new Hijri year 1437 coincides with the 1st of Muharram – that is, 15 October 2015 in the Gregorian calendar. The 10th of Muharram – The Day of Ashura – falls on 24 October 2015, today.

The Fatwa says the Ashura rituals can be performed at mosques and in other places of worship as well as special places designated by concerned executive authorities, and that public safety rules must be observed. Marching in areas other than places of worship can only taken place after the permission of concerned state bodies. At gatherings of mourning, sermons honoring the martyrs of Karbala should be given and those martyred for our Motherland should be commemorated. Public order must be maintained during the mourning. Chest-beating and cutting the body with knives or chains are not of Shariah and are condemned. The mourners should not cause injury to themselves or others.

The CMO will organize blood donation campaigns as usual in commemoration of the martyrs of Karbala.

Blood donation campaigns will take place in the following mosques.

1. Yasamal district, Baku – Tezepir mosque

2. Yasamal district, Baku – Haji Sultan Ali mosque

3. Sabail district, Baku – Bibiheybat mosque

4. Sabail district, Baku – Icherisheher Juma mosque

5. Surakhani district, Baku – Garachukhur mosque

6. Khazar district, Baku – Mir Movsum agha mosque

7. Nizami district, Baku – Kehsla mosque

8. Nasimi district, Baku – Ajdar Bey mosque

9. Sumgayit city – Juma mosque

10. Ganja city – Imamzadeh mosque

11. Mingachevir city – Heydar mosque

12. Shaki city – Juma mosque

13. Lankaran city – Boyukbazaar mosque

14. Barda city – Juma mosque

The CMO also said the blood donation campaign in Lankaran city’s Boyukbazar mosque will be organized the day before Ashura – the Day of Tasua (October 23).