In cooperation with religious deployment institutions and the Arbaeen Committee — including the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization and the Endowments Organization — the office will send 2,000 seminary students to serve during the days of Arbaeen at various border crossings and sacred sites.
The religious guides were selected through the “Najm” electronic system, following a pool of over 2,500 applicants, including speakers of non-Persian languages. After passing evaluation and training stages, the guides will be dispatched to Iran’s border crossings of Jadhabeh, Shalamcheh, and Mehran, as well as to Karbala, Najaf, Samarra, Kadhimiya, and Zurbatiyah in Iraq.
A group of 200 guides will be stationed permanently at service mawakeb (procession tents) across Samarra, Kadhimiya, Karbala, and Najaf, while the remaining 1,800 religious guides will move among the pilgrims to offer a range of services including religious guidance, family counseling, answering doctrinal doubts, and responding to legal-religious questions, along with other forms of educational and spiritual support.