The Council of Shi’ite Scholars of Afghanistan on July 26 published a declaration calling on mourners to scale back their activities during ceremonies to mark the start of Muharram, the first month of ...

Muslims across the city gathered in mourning on Sunday to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad Muharram procession in Bengaluru commenced from Tannery ...

Muharram 2025 is set to begin on June 27, 2025, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. As the first month of the Islamic Hijri calendar, Muharram marks the start of the Islamic New Year and ...

Muharram is the first month of the Islamic lunar Hijri calendar (Hijirah, because the Prophet began his migration on that day, thereby giving the name Hijri to the calendar), to the city of Yathrib, ...

Muharram 2025 is expected to commence on June 27, 2025, subject to the sighting of the crescent moon. As the first month of the Islamic Hijri calendar, Muharram signifies the beginning of the Islamic ...

On the 8th of Muharram, mourning processions and religious gatherings (majalis) are being held across Punjab, including Lahore, with great reverence and solemnity. Large numbers of mourners, including ...

The voice of the zakir, narrating the heartrending saga of Imam Hussain’s martyrdom in Karbala (in present-day Iraq), rises from the bylanes of Darul Shifa, Hyderabad’s historic Shia quarter. The air ...

Mourners clad in black clothes took part in the procession as they performed ‘seenazani’ (chest beating) and listened to groups reciting ‘soz’, ‘salaam’, and ‘noha’ (lamentations depicting the ...

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, marks the beginning of the Hijri New Year. In 2025, Muharram began in India on Friday, June 27, following the sighting of the crescent moon on ...

A 100-feet-high Tazia - a miniature replica of the tomb of Imam Hussain - collapsed during a Muharram procession in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. The incident, which was caught on CCTV, ...

New Delhi: On the 10th day of Muharram being observed as Ashura today, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Sunday, appealed to follow the path shown by Hazrat Imam ...