Baku / 09/22/17 / Turan: Today is the first month of the Islamic Hijri calendar, Muharram. Since September 22, the 1439th year of the Hijri began.
Muharram is considered a Muslim mourning month for Shiites. The peak of the mourning is celebrated on the 10th day of Muharram - Ashura. On this day in 680 AD in the desert near the town of Kerbela (in present-day Iraq) there was an unequal battle with the Umayyad troops, and the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the son of Imam Ali Hussein and a group of his supporters were killed. Followers of Imam Ali (Shiites) consider Hussein a great martyr and annually celebrate Ashura as a universal mourning.
The Caucasus Muslim Department issued a fatwa in connection with the procedure for celebrating Ashura, which is on October 1 this year. It is prescribed to conduct religious ceremonies in accordance with the laws of the state and Islamic values.
In particular, there is a call to believers to abandon the self-torture ceremonies of Shahsay-Vahsay (self-flagellation with chains to the blood) and instead donate blood for the sick. It is also required to show Islamic solidarity, not to allow religious discord between different trends and not to use religion as a political tool. -05B06-
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