Shia Calendar Categories: Shahadat

Commemorating the 30th of Imam Husayn (a.s.).As we mark the 30th day after the tragic events of Kerbala, we are once again transported to those days in the year 61 AH when the caravan of the Ahlul Bait were being paraded from city to city.After the massacre on the plains of Iraq, the lady folk and the remaining male members of the family were brought to Kufah. Following this ‘short’ trip, the longer and painful journey towards Shaam (Syria) began Рa trip so difficult that when the 4th Imam was asked of what had occurred during this entire process and what the most difficult thing was to bear, he cried out, Ash-Shaam

Commemorating the Martyrdom of Imam Ali Ridha (a.s.) (According to another report) 203 A.H. When we look at the history of the first 11 Imams, the aspects related to their existence on this Earth and the benefits mentioned for visiting them after they have passed away (their Ziyarat), we see that our 8th Imam has some special privileges related only to his visitation which no other Imam possesses.

Commemorating (Chehlum) the 40th of Imam Husayn (a.s.).The 40th [Arbaeen or Chehlum] marks an important turning point in the movement of Kerbala. This day, which is no less important to the day of Aashura is important for many reasons Рthe prime being that the Ahlu’l Bayt reached the land of Kerbala on this day and performed the visitation to Sayyid ash-Shuhada al-Husain and the loyal family and friends who gave their life for the cause of Islam.Although the historians differ on when this event transpired: some say it was in the same year of the massacre in Kerbala in the year 61 AH, whilst other say it was in the following year. Whatever the case, the atrocities and difficulties which the family were put through in the court of Yazid and the long ride to Kerbala culminated on the 20th of Safar on the empty plains of Kerbala.Ziyarat-e-Arbaeen

Commemorating the Death of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.) 11 A.H.The month of Safar ends with the death of numerous personalities – the Prophet of Islam being one of them. The man who was like no other left this world on the 28th of Safar after having brought the Arabian peninsula under the banner of Monotheism. In tribute to the man whom Allah has honoured with sending prayers upon and commanding His Angels and the believers to do the same, we take this opportunity to educate ourselves, albeit in great brevity, on the life of the Seal of the Prophets.Commemorating the Martyrdom of Imam Hasan (a.s.) 50 A.H. (According to another report) The months of mourning the grandson of the Prophet who was killed in Karbala also see the marking of the martyrdom of the other grandson of the Prophet – rather, as the Quran calls them, the SONS of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

Commemorating the Martyrdom of Imam Ali Ridha (‘a.s.) 203 A.H. The death of the 8th successor to the Prophet (SAW) is also marked in the month of Safar, and for Muslims throughout the world, particularly those blessed to be in his sanctuary in Mashad on this day, it is a day of great sorrow and grief.

Commemorating the Death of Sayyida Maasuma-e-Qum (a.s.) 203 A.H.The daughter of the 7th Imam, the sister of the 8th Imam, and the aunt of the 9th Imam – Fatima, better known with the honorific title of Bibi Masuma-e-Qum” is a woman who

Commemorating the Martyrdom – Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.).The 8th of Rabi ul-Awwal marks two important occasions which are intertwined with each other – the martyrdom of the 11th Imam and the beginning of the Imamate of the 12th Imam. Killed at the very young age of 28, Imam Hassan ibne Ali al-Askari (peace be upon him) was one of the youngest Imams to leave this mortal world.

Death Hadhrat `Abdul Muttalib 44 B.H.

Commemorating the Death of Sayyida Fatimah (a.s.) 11 A.H. (According to another report)The death of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) affected her very much and she was very sad and grief-stricken and wept her heart out crying all the time. She was confronted, after the demise of her father, with the deprivement of the rightful claim of leadership of her husband Imam Ali, and the usurpation of her inheritance, the Fadak. Throughout her life, she never spoke to those who had oppressed her and deprived her of her rightful claims. She requested that her oppressors should be kept away even from attending her funeral.Having been oppressed and stricken with grief, which crossed all limits of forbearance and endurance, she expressed her sorrows in an elegy composed by herself to mourn her father the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). A couplet of the elegy, with particular reference to her woeful plight, she expressed thus: O my father! After your death I was subjected to such tortures and tyranny that if they had been inflicted on the ‘Day’, it would have turned into ‘Night’.

Commemorating the Death of Sayyida Fatimah (a.s.) 11 A.H. (75 days after H. Muhammad‚Äôs (s) death)The death of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) affected her very much and she was very sad and grief-stricken and wept her heart out crying all the time. She was confronted, after the demise of her father, with the deprivement of the rightful claim of leadership of her husband Imam Ali, and the usurpation of her inheritance, the Fadak. Throughout her life, she never spoke to those who had oppressed her and deprived her of her rightful claims. She requested that her oppressors should be kept away even from attending her funeral.Having been oppressed and stricken with grief, which crossed all limits of forbearance and endurance, she expressed her sorrows in an elegy composed by herself to mourn her father the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). A couplet of the elegy, with particular reference to her woeful plight, she expressed thus: O my father! After your death I was subjected to such tortures and tyranny that if they had been inflicted on the ‘Day’, it would have turned into ‘Night’.