In the service of three brilliant, shining stars :
Mohsen sharifi in the position of deputy of the holy shrine and member of board of trustees, speacks about the accomplished works in the recent years: we turn back to the year 1369, we were in the tentacles of a difficult period of war and calamity. After establishment of islamic republic of iran, the main point on the agenda was to investigate and find out the points of strength and weakness. One of the places that was directly investigated by the group of great leader of the revolution, was shahrerey and the holy shrine. The report submitted to his majesty indicated the awful situation of the town and the holy shrine. As the town was considered as the base of combatants prior to revoulution,with a past record of sit-in of constitutionalists and scholars,att he time of Pahlavi, there was no tendency for rebuilding of the town nad the holy shrine. The new management of the holy shrine began upon order of leader of islamic revolutin to ayat. Reyshahri to take office as the administrator of the holy shrine on 09,04,1990. Since the previius era was very confused and the administration of works was in a total mess, ayat. Reyshahri began the work with utmost care and order. The total income of the shrine in 1990 included endowments, vows and obligations, assignment of tombs, revenue of the clinic,theological school,cultural works etc., amounting to 76 million and 800,000 tomans. The costs also amounted to 26/800/000 tomans. In 2004 the income of the shrine reached 2,741,000,000 tomans., however,the costs of the holy shirine, without calculating the cost of affiliated offices which itself amounts to a big figure, increasedto 6,200,000,000 tomans. You may compare this figure with that in 1990. I should also say that the entire costs and income generation of the shrine began by loans and borrowing and creation of obligation. We always borrowed and paid on time. The costs of the shrine are apart from the costs of faculty of narration and darolhaddith .. how is it possible that the income in the year 2004 is 2 /741 million tomans while 6,776, million tomans is costed? I would like to make some explanation on this here . there are people here who cooperate with the shrine who are among remarkable teachers of the universities of Canada , the U.S. and Europe. I underline that the shrine has in no way used any sums of state budget. Now, we have 26 companies covered by the holy shrine whose services are an asset to the whole country. Deputy for ecnomic affairs of the holy shrine has 26 specialized companies engaged in commercial, civil engineering ,technical and engineering, culural amd artistic fields.
These companies fully committed to rendering useful activities and obviating and removing parts of the needs of the society. For instance,one of the companies covered by the shrine built 2000 flats most of which are cheap and are situated within the limits of shahrerey. Even one brick is not costed from traditional incomes of the shrine. We believe we have to cope with the problems of the shahrerey. Those who are from shahrerey know that the sewage river passed through the middle of the town. Now, the per capita landscape of shahrerey is nearly twice the landscape of Shemiran. The great leader came to shahrerey and the foundation of a healthy town was laid in Rey. We think there are still a lot to do as the shrine is encircled by a totally ruined town and the town should be reinstated to its grandeur and perfection. There was an idea to take the international airport from the town while it was necessary to have it constructed in the whereabouts and finally the airport was attached to the Rey region.
Welfare
The pilgrims who come to this town must feel cosy and convenient. Now that I speak to you 15 years have passed since the institution of the modern management of the town and the holy shrine. We passed the period of construction and now we are facing the period of utilization
Cultural works
Hekmat complex the faculty of Hadith or narration are centers for education of the youth. This complex is active in three primary, guidance and high school level with more thant 2500 students having finished their studies in primary guidance or middle school and this year respectively 435 and 233 student are busy studying.160 students are active in 8 secondary education.
Reinforcement of traditional incomes
We managed to pay 1.5 times the amount of the income of 15 years of endowments observing the sanctity of the shrine. We have recently managed to liberate 23% of the endowments so as to utilize towards the goals of the endowers. We have even made payment to those who have forcedly claimed possession and have not even paid a penny as lease sum or rental. In endowments we saw that sewage water is used for agriculture and though we saw that there is quarrel over water, we ordered that not a drop of waste water would go to the land of abdolazim and should any case of violation be seen, the case would be investigated . thus, the wells were revitalized. In liberating the lands, we paid from 5 million tomans to 120 million tomans. Even the party who has been condemned, on orders of the administrator sums have been given to him, as people wish to say their prayers in a land free of illegal, forceful occupations.
Till now we have created around 300 billion tomans obligation for the harem or shrine. We believe many have spared their lives and we spare our face to meet the needs of people in the future. Though we have undergone lot of pressures and scrutinies. In order to fulfill this we have to test constrictive policies without any unfounded costs.