The center for Tourism and Pilgrimage Studies of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad hosted the second specialized meeting to review the requirements and political dimensions of drafting the National Pilgrimage Document on 1 March 2021 with the presence of Dr. Hajilouei, Deputy Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, Hojjat al-Islam Bazrgari Hashemi, advisor to the Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, and Dr. Nasehi, Deputy Chairman of the Cultural, Social and Pilgrimage Commission of Mashhad City Council.

At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Hajilouei referred to the drafting of the "framework for compiling national documents in the field of culture" in the Supreme Council and said, “we entrusted drafting of documents to the activists and experts in the field of documents and we are trying to prevent the direct involvement of the government and institutions in writing the documents, because, in addition to mastery of experts over their own fields, we will be successful in the implementation of the documents by the stakeholders when they have an active role in the drafting them.

Furthermore, Dr. Nasehi mentioned that despite the presence of about 20 cultural organizations in Mashhad, public attention is only drawn to the municipality when cultural work is involved. He continued and said, “However, once we intend to establish cultural policies in the municipality, we are prohibited from doing so and we are told that we only need to announce the policies. Therefore, the role of all stakeholders as well as people should be defined in drafting the national pilgrimage document.”

In the end, emphasizing the need to expedite the writing of the documents, Hojjat al-Islam Bazrgari Hashemi stated that in doing so, attention must also be paid to previous works and documents such as the document for the quantitative and qualitative development of pilgrimage.