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The month of Ramadan in Iran differs from the rest of the Islamic countries because of the presence of national and ethnic diversity in it, and among their strange and different customs is the Murad dress and blessing bags.
On the 27th of Ramadan and in some Iranian cities, women were and still are gathering in neighborhood mosques to begin sewing “Murad’s clothes and bags of blessing” between the noon and afternoon prayers on this Ramadan day, as they believe that there is a secret in the knitted dress on the 27th of Ramadan, and if she wears it Single girls, their luck in marriage will increase, and if the sick person wears it, he will be cured, and if the needy wears it, it will relieve his distress.
They make blessing bags to put money in, and they believe that any money that enters the bag will be doubled and blessed by God.
Each region in Iran had unique customs in this holy month that were forgotten with the passage of time, but Murad’s dress and bags of blessing remained a Ramadan custom that continues to this day.
Source: Al Jazeera