Original Coronavirus reopens religion versus science debate in Iran
"This may be a historic debate between Muslim jurists that dates back to the first days of Islam," said Mohsen Alviri, a tutorial and theologian from Qom, a Shiite Celestial City that's the epicentre of Iran's coronavirus outbreak.
"Some people prioritise religious rituals, which they place above everything, even life science ," said the hodjatoleslam, or middle-ranking cleric.
Others "think we will abandon obligatory prayers to save lots of a person's being's life," he added.
Ayatollah Mohammad Saidi, head of the Fatima Masumeh mausoleum in Qom, an area of pilgrimage visited annually by crowds of Shiites from Iran and abroad, is from the primary category.
This is a historic debate between Muslim jurists that dates back to the first days of Islam
Mohsen Alviri
In a web video that went viral last week, Saidi insisted the place of worship should remain hospitable the faithful, despite the COVID-19 illness outbreak, which Iran says has claimed 66 lives out of 1,501 cases of infection.
"This sacred shrine (is) a house of healing," he said, inviting pilgrims to return in order that they will be "healed of their physical and spiritual illnesses".
'Antibacterial effects'
Two days earlier, Qom's top security body had ordered the suspension of collective prayers within the province.
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