Ashura Mourning Rituals Held in London
According to NINA News, hundreds of the devotees of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) attended the rituals on Thursday, the 10th day of Muharram.
The ceremony included a march that started at Hyde Park and finished at Oxford Street.
Ashura is the culmination of a 10-day annual mourning period in the lunar calendar month of Muharram for Imam Hussein (AS), who was martyred along with his 72 companions 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.
The Muharram ceremonies symbolize the eternal and unwavering stance of truth against falsehood and humanity’s struggle against injustice, tyranny and oppression.
Each year on Ashura, the mourners, dressed in black, march in mass processions, listen to elegies and hold noon prayers, with benefactors distributing votive foods.
