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Shia Muslims gathered in prayer at the Shrine of Imam Ḥusayn in Karbala, Iraq. Shia religious practices, such as prayers, differ only slightly from the Sunnīs. While all Muslims pray five times daily, Shia Muslims have the option of combining Dhuhr with Asr and Maghrib with Isha', as there are three distinct times mentioned in the Quran. The ...
This is a list of flags used by Shia Muslims. Shia Muslim flags usually include the color green in them, which is a symbol of Islam , and also a symbol of purity, fertility and peace. Common colors in Shia Muslims flags are red, white and green; common symbols include the Lion and Sun , the Zulfiqar and the Shahada .
Mourning of Muharram (Arabic: عزاء محرم, romanized: ʿAzāʾ Muḥarram; Persian: عزاداری محرم, romanized: ʿAzādārī-i Muḥarram; Azerbaijani: Məhərrəmlik, South Azerbaijani: محرمليک) is a set of religious rituals observed by Shia Muslims during the month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
The Shia belief throughout its history split over the issue of the Imamate. The largest branch is the Twelvers, followed by the Ismailis then the Zaidis and Kaysanite. All the groups follow a different line of Imamate linked together as shown in the chart below.
The content of WikiShia includes beliefs, personalities, books, places, events, ceremonies and rituals of the sects believing in the household of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. History of Shia and any other issue which would be related to Shi'a in some ways are included in WikiShia. General Islamic concepts that are believed by all Muslims or ...
Salat "ritual prayer" [1] Sawm "Fasting" during the month of Ramadan [1] Hajj "pilgrimage" to Mecca [1] Zakāt - charitable giving [1] Khums - a "Fifth" of specific kinds of income given to charity; Jihad "struggle" Commanding right and forbidding wrong; Forbidding what is evil; Tawalla - love of faith and the chosen of God
Tatbir (Arabic: تطبير, romanized: Taṭbīr) is a form of self-flagellation rituals practiced by some Shia Muslims in commemoration of the killing of Husayn ibn Ali and his partisans in the Battle of Karbala by forces of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683). The ritual is practiced in the Islamic month of Muharram, usually on ...
A Latmiya (Arabic: لطمية), Matam (Urdu: ماتم; Hindi: मातम) or Sinadoydu (Azerbaijani: Sinədöydü) is a ritual used to express grief through poetry with thumping of the chest, usually done by Shia Muslims in the holy month of Muharram.