{"id":4908,"date":"2017-10-16T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4908-millions-of-muslims-marching-to-karbala-for-arbaeen-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:39:52","slug":"millions-of-muslims-marching-to-karbala-for-arbaeen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4908-millions-of-muslims-marching-to-karbala-for-arbaeen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Muslims marching to Karbala for Arbaeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Muslims have been marching towards the shrine of the Third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, to mark the 40th day following the anniversary of his martyrdom back in the seventh century.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Millions of Muslims have been marching towards the shrine of the Third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, to mark the 40th day following the anniversary of his martyrdom back in the seventh century.<\/h4>\n<h4>The passion has made them resolute in the face of potential terrorism on their path to attend the ritual, which is set to be commemorated in the holy city of Karbala.<\/h4>\n<h4>Muslims worldwide hold mourning rituals during the month of Muharram on the lunar calendar in remembrance of the sufferings imposed on Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, his family and his companions, by the tyrant of the time,Yazid I, an Umayyad caliph, in early Islamic history.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15504\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/10\/images_2017_10_16_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"861\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Muslims have been marching towards the shrine of the Third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, to mark the 40th day following the anniversary of his martyrdom back in the seventh century. \u00a0 Millions of Muslims have been marching towards the shrine of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15503,"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":[7],"tags":[275,291,61,531],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-arbaeen","tag-imam-hussein","tag-karbala","tag-muslims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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