Shamim Husseini Expo Launched in Rey
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An exhibition was launched in Rey, south of Tehran, featuring items used in Muharram mourning rituals.
The director general of Tehran province’s Awqaf Department and a number of other officials attended the inauguration ceremony at Sheikh Saduq mausoleum in Rey.
Muharram is the first month in the lunar Hijri calendar.
Every year in Muharram, Shia Muslims around the world commemorate the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (AS), and his companions.
Imam Hussein (AS), a grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), and his 72 companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala, in southern Iraq, in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I.
