The shrines of Imam Hussain and Hazrat Abbas are located in Karbala, Iraq. As the Islamic month of Muharram begins, Shia Muslims around the world enter a period of deep mourning to honour the ...

KARACHI: Ancient temples across the city are home to taziyas that are made with zeal and fervour on the occasion of Ashura. The ancient taziya, famously known as Mai Jannat, is prepared in the ...

Three months into its making, and the special wax taziya of 1st Moharram’s Shahi Juloos is already Rs 5000 costlier than the projected production cost. Made from slender bamboo sticks entwined ...

The memory of the Battle of Karbala is as old as time itself. According to a hadith in Bihar Al-Anwar [a comprehensive collection of traditions or ahadith compiled by Shia scholar Mohammad-Baqer ...

VADODARA: A grain trader in Hathikhana was threatened by three persons to give them donation for Taziya on Wednesday evening. The trader identified as Nandkishor Hemrajani, who lives on VIP Road, told ...

Muharram is observed with great reverence and solemnity by Muslims with taziya processions taken out to remember the sacrifice of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his people. (PTI) In this bustling metropolis ...

Recently, someone by the name of Vishal gave me a phone call. He told me that he was a regular reader of my blogs on Dawn.com and suggested that I write about the Mari Mata Temple at Ratan Talao.

The Bombay High Court has allowed a Shia-Muslim trust to perform only one taziya in the state as part of Muharram rituals. By adhering to stringent guidelines, the trust can carry the taziya (a ...

Lucknow: As the Islamic month of Muharram approaches, the narrow lanes of old Lucknow are full of activity with artisans working ovenight to make taziyas and alams to complete orders. Get breaking ...

The taziya—a replica of Imam Hussain’s mausoleum—was carried on a truck, instead of a procession on foot, from the Zainabiya Imambada in Bhendi Bazaar to the Shia Qabristan in Mazgaon as part of ...

In a relief to All India Idaara Tahfuz e Hussainiyat, an Anjuman (religious organisation) representing a section of Shia community in south Mumbai, the Bombay high court (HC) has permitted them to ...