Czech website highlights beauty and spirituality of holy shrines in Iraq

The Czech Hedvabna Stezka website, specialized in tourism affairs around the world, published a detailed report highlighting the beauty and spirituality of the holy shrines in Iraq, which Western tourists could not visit before 2003 due to the dictatorial regime.

 In the report, the website said, “Iraq is the cradle of civilization, and the site where writing, the calendar, the wheel, and civil laws were born”.

 The report mentioned the holy city of Karbala, which it described as “the holiest place for Muslims after Mecca and Medina,” being the site that witnessed in the year (680 AD), the events of the battle that broke out between the third Imam of Islam, Imam Hussein bin Ali, and the ruler of the Umayyad state, Yazid the First; the battle whose memory is commemorated in this city annually, stressing that “the spiritual power of this place is enormous.”

 The Czech website pointed out that “the city of Najaf Al-Ashraf is also among the Iraqi religious sites in which pilgrims find comfort, as embraces the resting place of the first Imam, Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon them), and it has the  largest cemetery in the world, where an estimated ten million people are buried.”