{"id":130813,"date":"2024-11-13T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/?page_id=130813"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:07:02","slug":"what-is-ashura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/islamic-awareness\/islam-101\/what-is-ashura","title":{"rendered":"What is Ashura?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"section section--full-width section--hero section--acf-block section--acf-block-hero section--has-background section--hero-sticky section--color-scheme-light text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"section__background\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"background-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"parallax\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/imam-us.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ImamHussainShrine-1920x1080.jpg')\"><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"overlay\" style=\"\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container container-sticky\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12 section__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero-title\">What is Ashura?<\/h1>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Ashura?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashura (Arabic: \u0639\u0627\u0634\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0621) literally means \u201cthe tenth.\u201d Imam Hussain (p), the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&amp;hp), is honored by Muslims as the \u201cMaster of Martyrs.\u201d On the 10th day of Muharram in the year 61 A.H. (October 10, 680 CE), Imam Hussain (p), together with his family and loyal companions, was besieged in the desert of Karbala by an army of 30,000. Deprived of food and water for days, they were then brutally slain after Imam Hussain refused to submit to humiliation or pledge allegiance to the corrupt and tyrannical caliph Yazid. This day came to be known as the Day of Ashura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since that time, the tragedy of Karbala has been commemorated annually by millions across the world. Far from fading, its remembrance has only grown, continuing to inspire movements of justice and resistance against oppression. The British historian Edward Gibbon once remarked: <em>\u201cIn a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hussain will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath, the Umayyads worked tirelessly to suppress the impact of Imam Hussain\u2019s stand and to erase the memory of Karbala. They declared Ashura a day of festivity, celebrating the killing of Hussain\u2014the very one the Prophet had called \u201cthe master of the youth of Paradise.\u201d For decades, they cultivated a culture of cursing Imam Ali (p) and his children, and fabricated reports falsely attributed to the Prophet that promoted celebration and fasting on this day. Tragically, some of these distortions persist among Muslims today, who mark Ashura with practices of joy and fasting, often unaware of the sanctity of the blood that was shed on this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1fb9aab6 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/islamic-awareness\/islam-101\/what-is-ramadan\" style=\"border-radius:0px;font-size:16px\">&lt; What is Ramadan?<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/islamic-awareness\/islam-101\/what-is-arbaeen\" style=\"border-radius:0px;font-size:16px\">What is Arbaeen? &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Ashura?&nbsp; Ashura (Arabic: \u0639\u0627\u0634\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0621) literally means \u201cthe tenth.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"parent":6368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130813","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is Ashura?\u00a0 - IMAM-US.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/imam-us.org\/islamic-awareness\/islam-101\/what-is-ashura\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is Ashura?\u00a0 - IMAM-US.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is Ashura?&nbsp; 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