![]() It is one of the four sanctified months about which the Holy Quran Says (what means): “Indeed, the number of months with Allah is twelve months in the register of Allah the day He created the heavens and the earth of these, four are sacred…” – Muharram is the month with which the Muslims begin their lunar (Hijri) Calendar. The Prophet said, “The best prayer after the prescribed prayers is prayer offered in the middle of the night, and the most excellent fast after the month of Ramadan is the fast in Allah’s month, Al-Muharram.” – Source: Sahih Muslim 1163 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about which prayer was most excellent after the prescribed prayer, and which fast was most excellent after the month of Ramadan. Some people donate their blood on the day of Tasua and Ashura to save other people lives as what Imam Husayn (PBUH) did. See more photos of donating blood at here.Culture Rituals and Carnivalesque In one of the Hadith, Abu Huraira reported: ![]() Karbala and the holy shrine of Imam Husayn and his brother, Hazrat Abbas, on the day of Ashura Noon prayer in congregation on the day of Ashura. The leader of Islamic republic of Iran, Imam Khamenei, in a mourning ceremony in his official house. People dressed in black, mourning for the martyrdom of Imam Hussain on the day of Ashura in Isfahan, IranĪn infant boy during an Ashura procession in IranĪn Ashura morning ceremony in the leader’s official house where the people can also participate Imam Husayn taught us all how to stand up and resist oppression, monarchy and Yazids of the the present time. no matter what the quantity is. Therefore, every year on the day of Ashura, millions of mourners across the world commemorate his martyrdom anniversary to memorize what Imam Husayn (PBUH) taught us. Imam Husayn with all his family members including women and children traveled to Kufah but when Yazid block Imam Husayn’s way in a land of Karbala, no one helped Imam Husayn except a few people!Īlthough Imam Husayn knew about his martyrdom but he and all 72 of his companions sacrifice what they have to save Islam from utter distortion and destruction. When the people of Kufa heard the news of not paying alligiance to Yazid by Imam Husayn, 18000 people had written to Imam Husayn and invited him to come in Kufah. He continued that verily, I have heard from my grandfather, the holy Prophet who said “Caliphate is forbidden for the household of Abi Sofyân.” Yazid was the one who had ordered to cut off Imam Husayn’s head if he refused to pay allegiance to him, but Yazid was not Muslim at all according to his saying and behaviors ( Read more here) and thus Imam Husayn said if the society fell into the leadership of a man like Yazid, it would mean an end to Islam. The text written on the placard is “Oh! Husayn was killed” People mourning and crying for the Imam Hussain’s martyrdom on the day of Ashura in the holy shrine of lady Fatima Masumah in the city of Qom, Iran. There is no day like Ashura. Day of Ashura marks the day in which thirty thousand people who consider themselves as the followers of the holy prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and who call themselves Muslims, gathered around the prophet’s grandson, Imam Husayn, shed his blood and all 72 of his companions and captured their women and children in more than 14 centuries ago in a land called Karbala. As the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar and the Georgian calendar is a solar one, therefore each year, the day of Ashura falls in a different day in the Georgian calendar. The day of Ashura (/ʌʃuːrʌ /) is the 10th day of Muharram(/Mohærræm /) which is the first month in the Islamic calendar. Ashura 2016 is on Wednesday, the 12th of October.
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