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Blood donation campaign starts in Azerbaijani mosques on Ashura Day

24 October 2015 07:33 (UTC +04:00)

The campaign is also being held in Tezepir mosque in Baku.

Zohra Alimirzayeva, the director of the Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion named after B. Eyvazov, told APA that from 7:30am to 9:30am, over 100 people joined the campaign in Tezepir mosque.

According to the fatwa issued by the CMO Gazi Council, 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.

However, several people performed acts of self-flagellation in Tezepir mosque.