Talking on this issue, Seyyed Muhammad Javad Hashemi Nejad said, “Holding specialized workshops and conferences and seminars in various scientific and religious topics is one of the activities of Razavi Holy Shrine’s international department”. He also mentioned, “With respect to large number of Arabic speaking pilgrims at Razavi Holy Shrine and their long presence in Mashhad, 24 conferences and meetings were held in the first three months of the current year in Arabic, Urdu, Azeri, Farsi, and Swedish”.
Referring to the themes of these conferences, he stated, “International conference of simultaneous translation of the Supreme Leader’s speech with presence of 360 non-Iranian pilgrims, international gathering of al-Mustafa International University missionaries with participation of 930 people, international circles of intimacy with Qur’an, musts of the Mahdavi society with a look at existing capacities in Pakistan and India peninsula, promoting culture of expectation against culture of banality, woman and veil in Mahdavi society; taking Hazrat Khadijeh’s personality (S.A.) as a model, and finally woman and spiritual spots with presence of cultural servants and activists from all over the country are some of these topics”.
Hashemi Nejad also mentioned that over 1700 people were the audience of these sessions. He also said, “These participants were from Iraq, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen”.