2.2.10 - Ashura

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  • 2.2.10 - Ashura
    • The significance of the festival
      • Symbol of the struggle against injustice and oppression
      • Enable M's to link themselves with Hussayn's suffering and death
      • Believe it will help on the doJ
    • Shi'a festival
    • 10th of Muharram [1st month]
    • M dedicated to fasting from sunrise to sunset
    • Celebrates the day Noah [Nuh] left the ark and Musa was saved by the Egyptians by Allah
    • M made voluntary, but major festival for Ms
    • Remember the death of Hussayn. Was M's grandson [2nd Imam]
      • Was massacred by Sunnis
      • Led to split of Sunni's and Shi'a's
    • Participate in public expressions of mourning and grief
    • Make pilgrimage on Ashura to shrine of Karbala [Hussayn's tomb]
  • Led to split of Sunni's and Shi'a's

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