{"id":1993,"date":"2015-11-29T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/1993-huffington-post-says-arbaeen-world-s-biggest-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:31:42","slug":"huffington-post-says-arbaeen-world-s-biggest-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/1993-huffington-post-says-arbaeen-world-s-biggest-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post says Arbaeen world&#8217;s biggest pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">Muslim ritual of Arbaeen is the world&#8217;s largest religious gathering<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>An article published in the Huffington Post, an American news internet site, says the Shia Muslim ritual of Arbaeen is the world&#8217;s largest religious gathering and it dwarfs every other rally on the planet.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The article added that not only does the congregation exceeds the number of pilgrims to Mecca for annual Hajj (by a factor of five, in fact), it is more significant than Hindu Kumbh Mela, since the latter is only held every third year.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>There is another unusual feature of Arbaeen. While it is a distinctively Shia spiritual exercise, Sunnis, even Christians, Yazidis, Zoroastrians, and Sabians partake in both the pilgrimage as well as serving of devotees, according to the article.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>This is remarkable given the exclusive nature of religious rituals, and it could only mean one thing: people regardless of color or creed see Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, as a universal, borderless, and meta-religious symbol of freedom and compassion.<\/h4>\n<h4>The article mentioned Arbaeen should be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in several categories: biggest annual gathering, longest continuous dining table, largest number of people fed for free, largest group of volunteers serving a single event, all under pending threat of suicide bombings.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim ritual of Arbaeen is the world&#8217;s largest religious gathering \u00a0 An article published in the Huffington Post, an American news internet site, says the Shia Muslim ritual of Arbaeen is the world&#8217;s largest religious gathering and it dwarfs every other rally on the planet.\u00a0 The article added that not only does the congregation exceeds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[33,61],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-iraq","tag-karbala"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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