Tens of hundreds of Muslims world wide on Tuesday marked Ashura, an annual commemoration to mourn the Seventh-century demise of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein.
Ashura is well known on the tenth day of Muharram, the primary month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims.
It’s a significantly necessary interval of mourning for Shia Muslims because it marks the anniversary of the Seventh-century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq, when Hussein was killed.
To mourn his demise in 680, Shiite believers, wearing black, weep and beat their chests in unison. Some even flagellate themselves with swords and knife-edged chains.
Greater than 1,340 years after Hussein’s demise, Baghdad, Tehran and different main cities have been adorned Tuesday with symbols of Shiite piety and repentance: purple flags for Hussein’s blood, symbolic black funeral tents and black mourning attire, and processions of males and boys expressing fervor in ritual chest-beating and self-flagellation with chains.
Hussein’s demise is seen by the Shia group as a logo of humanity’s battle in opposition to injustice, tyranny and oppression.
The principle rituals and celebrations of Ashura include public expressions of mourning. Sunni Muslims commemorate the day by voluntary fasting.
In some components of the world, together with Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, Ashura might be noticed on Wednesday.
In Oman’s capital Muscat, a capturing at a Shiite mosque killed a minimum of six individuals and injured dozens on Monday night time.
