HOLY CITY OF QOM, Iran: One of Holy Qom’s grand Ayaat, Ayatullah Sheikh Al-Wahid Al-Khorasani, has belied reports which said that the Ayatullah criticized some Sha’a’ir Al-Hosseinia (doing chest beating, tatbeer to gush out blood, reciting noha and marasi, weeping etc to signify grief on martyrdom of Al-Imam Al-Hossein (AS)).

Iran newspaper, Ibrar, while reporting a meeting of Qom Hoza scholars with Ayatullah Khorasani had said that the cleric termed some Sha’a’ir Al-Hosseinia as Bid’aah.

A source near to the cleric said the Ayatullah had not permitted publishing of any talk done in the meeting, and that what the papers reported contradict his thoughts and thinking.

Opinion of Ayatullah Khorasani has not changed regarding Arbain Al-Hosseini, the source further said.

The Ayatullah in his Dars Al-Kharej delivered lectures on suspicions and doubts about Sha’a’ir Al-Hosseinia condemning those who try to disgrace the same.