Sunday, November 21, 2010

Thursday, November 26th? ~ Iraq Holiday "Eid Ghadir " ("celebration" or "holiday")

Thursday is the 25th?


November 21, 2010

Thursday a public holiday on the occasion of Eid Ghadir

Council decided to Wasit province, Sunday, as on Thursday, brief summary of the twenty-sixth of November an official holiday on the occasion of Eid Ghadir.

The Head of the Media Committee in the local government to the province of Wasit, Sondos Golden, in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “conservative decided that on Thursday next day on the twenty-sixth of the month of November, an official holiday for all government institutions, schools, colleges and universities in the province, on the occasion of rejoicing Bourne. ”

The Ghadeer Day, according to Shiite Muslims, who today gave the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) sermon in the area of “Ghadir” near Mecca, and it was recommended that the succession after him of Ali bin Abi Talib, after the Farewell Pilgrimage in the ninth year of migration, which is called Shiites remote Bourne and celebrate it every year visit the shrine of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, located in the province of Najaf, where the exchange congratulations, and handing out candy and food.

The currents and religious figures in the Wasit provincial council demanded last year, making the Holiday Bourne holiday like other provinces of the Middle Euphrates and the south with a Shiite majority, which announced today an annual holiday.

The celebrations of the sons Wasit province, a remote-Ghadeer, characterized by going to the holy city of Najaf to visit the shrine of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him, or go to the place where he stopped saying that Ali ibn Abi Talib, named “step”, about 8 km south of Kut, after his return Battle of the Camel in 36 of the Migration to spend their day there because they consider this the place of the most prominent Islamic landmarks in the province, and is revered holy to the people of Wasit, who come to him constantly, especially to mark the Eid Ghadir.

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