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Umar bin Sa’d led the funeral prayer for his deceased and buried them, and left Imam Hussain and his followers as they were. According to the Islamic calendar, it was the time of the Friday prayer on 10th Muharram 61H when Imam Hussain was martyred.
Jul 16, 2024 · History of Imam Ḥusayn and His Martyrdom. The month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, brings with it the memory of the sacrifice of Imam Husayn رَضِيَ ٱللَّٰهُ عَنْهُ, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and his noble family and friends.
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The origins of the name Karbala are contested. Some narrations mention that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) himself during his lifetime mentioned the definition, implying that the word was a combination of Karb (land that causes agonies) and Balaa’ (afflictions) (1). In its etymology, Karbala most likely originates from Kar Bel, or Kur Babel, meaning a...
It was in the 1500s that Karbala found itself caught in a battle between two rival empires. The Safavids, who ascribed to Shi’ism, were rising in Iran, and the Ottomans conquered Baghdad in 1533. The shrines changed hands several times, and the two brief periods the Safavids took control of the shrines resulted in mass construction and expansion, a...
On the 4th May 1801 (it was on either Eid Al-Ghadir or Ashura day), Wahabis, led by Abd al-Aziz Saud, attacked Karbala, ransacking and looting the shrine, damaging the dharihand the building. They had originally tried to attack Najaf and laid it to siege, but failed to penetrate its famous walls. The Ottoman soldiers protecting the city fled, leavi...
Karbala saw some of its darkest days under the rule of the Ba’ath party and Saddam Hussein. The extreme secularist movement excluded Shia Muslims from senior positions in government and led repressive measures against Shia institutions, eventually executing leading figures in the seminaries and expelling Iraqi Shias to Iran. Commemorations of Ashur...
After the 2003 U.S. led invasion, Karbala enjoyed freedom once again. Many Karbala natives who had been exiled or had fled returned to see family or to settle once again. Iran poured massive amounts of funds into the renovation of the shrines and the infastructure of the city. Unfortunately, in the aftermath of the invasion, it suffered several att...
The Shi’is in Iraq, Yitzhak NakashOct 6, 2024 · Husayn ibn Ali, hero in Shi’ism, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and son-in-law Ali (the fourth caliph). He is revered by Shi’i Muslims as the third imam. Husayn was killed in the Battle of Karbala in 680 after joining an uprising against the Umayyad caliphs.
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They decapitated the bodies of the martyrs, denuded them and threw them to the ground without burial. Then they moved women and children along with the heads of the martyrs to Kufah. The bodies of the martyrs were under the sunshine for three days till a tribe passing that place found them and performed the burial.
Chapter 7: The Martyrdom of Husayn. On Mu'awiya death, his son Yazid assumed the caliphate in accordance with the former's unprecedented testament in Rajab 60/March 680. A true representative of the way of life common among the pre-Islamic youth of the Umayyad aristocracy, Yazid commanded no respect in the community.
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One of the Islamic laws is that when a Muslim dies, it is obligatory on others to wash his body in a prescribed manner, to clothe him in a shroud, pray on him and bury him. All these laws have reasons and purposes which cannot be explained here.
