{"id":6443,"date":"2018-09-20T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6443-millions-of-mourners-commemorate-ashura-2-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:15:58","slug":"millions-of-mourners-commemorate-ashura-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6443-millions-of-mourners-commemorate-ashura-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of mourners commemorate Ashura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With heavy hearts, millions of Ahlulbayt followers flocked to the holy city of Karbala to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>With heavy hearts, millions of Ahlulbayt followers flocked to the holy city of Karbala to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Millions of Shia Muslims participated in the run of Twereej and Tatbir rituals in remembrance of the suffering imposed on the infallible icon, his family and companions, by the tyrant of the time Yazid, may Allah curse him.<\/h4>\n<h4>Mourning processions were underway around the world in countries in various regions like Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>In many non-Islamic countries, thousands took to the streets to observe Ashura, chanting slogans in honor of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With heavy hearts, millions of Ahlulbayt followers flocked to the holy city of Karbala to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 With heavy hearts, millions of Ahlulbayt followers flocked to the holy city of Karbala to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17732,"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":[30],"tags":[152,291,61,675],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ashura","tag-imam-hussein","tag-karbala","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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