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  • The Painful Remembrance: Ashura’s Historical and Spiritual Significance

    The Painful Remembrance: Ashura’s Historical and Spiritual Significance

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    Jawhar Sircar
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    [dropcap]I[/dropcap] remember the tremendous tension that I went through as SDO Barrackpur and Magistrate in charge of “Muharram” at Loha Gate in Agarpara in 1978 — as oceans of frenzied humans went all around me, lashing and bleeding themselves with whips, chains and fighting dangerously swords — crying “Ya Hassan, Ya Hussain”! It continued through…

  • Muharram and the Day of Ashura

    Muharram and the Day of Ashura

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    ScribeShah
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    What non-Muslims refer to as Muharram is actually the day of Ashura — that is observed on the 10th day of the month called Muharram, the first of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, who was the third Imam of the Shia community. History says that in…