The General Coalition of Sufi Orders has denounced the decision of the Ministries of the Endowments and Interior to close down the shrine of al-Hussāyn since the day of ‘Ashūrā’ until today without disclosing the reason. Mustafá Zāyid, the coordinator of the coalition, stated that closing the shrine and preventing visitors from entering it for all of this time without revealing the reason is going to make Sufis suspicious. It may be that the ministries have yielded to pressures by Wahābī groups that call themselves Islamic groups. He requested the quick reopening of the al-Hussāyn Shrine (Alī Rajab, al-Dustūr, Dec. 5, p. 6).  Read original text in Arabic.