Endowments: Close the tomb of Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani and refer those responsible for opening it for investigation

The head of the religious sector in the Ministry of Endowments, Sheikh Jaber Taya Youssef, confirmed that the Cairo Endowment Directorate changed the lock on the shrine of Imam Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani and closed it completely in implementation of the decisions to close the sanctuaries in light of the necessary precautionary and preventive measures of the Egyptian state handed over the keys necessary to besiege the spread of the Corona virus. The sanctuary of the general office of the ministry.

The head of the religious sector at the Endowments Ministry said, in a statement Saturday night, that he had prepared a legal memorandum on the incident and referred it for investigation, whether in relation to who caused or allowed the opening of the sanctuary, and who participated in the opening of the sanctuary among the ministry workers, adding: The sanctuary is not a mosque nor is it attached to a mosque, and it is not erected. For the regular ritual prayers, not the Friday prayer.

It is noteworthy that some websites and social networks have published photos and videos of a group of academics, one of whom is dean of one of the faculties of Al-Azhar University, and that they should have been the role models to meet with the decision to close the shrines, and they opened the tomb of Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani in violation of the instructions of the Coronais Crisis Management Committee, headed by Dr. Mustafouly. Ministers and the Ministry of Endowments take advantage of the failure of the worker assigned to supervise the sanctuary, and then some of them published images of this violation on their personal pages and some communication sites.