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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 .
WikiShia is a free online encyclopedia about Shi'a Islam.It contains more than 23,000 content pages about Shia Islam in 13 languages including English, Persian, Spanish, Turkish, French, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, German, Russian, Chinese, Hindi and Kiswahili.
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.
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
The ritual was eventually banned by the authorities in Iran because the ritual was being exploited for political advances. Ta'zieh is not performed regularly in Iran and has not been seen at all in certain provinces of the region since 1920. [11] France was the first non-Muslim country that ta'zieh was performed in 1991.
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.
5th Imam of Twelver Shia Muslims: 7: C: Birth of Abbas ibn Ali, 36 AH: Popular opinion is 4th of Shaʿbān 10: C: Birth of Muhammad al-Taqi, 195 AH: 9th Imam of Twelver Shia Muslims: 13: C: Birth of Ali ibn Abi Talib, 23 BH: 1st Imam of Twelver Shia Muslims: 15: M: Martyrdom of Ja'far al-Sadiq: 18: R: Death of Abraham: According to one ...