People of Khuzestan, a southwestern Iranian province, are on July 25, 2023, mourning for Hazrat-e Abolfazl Al-Abbas (AS), the brother of Imam Hussein (AS) – the third Imam of Shia Muslims – on the seventh day of the first month of the Islamic year, Muharram (IRNA photos/Ali Moarref)
Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions were brutally martyred in Karbala on the 10th of Muharram in 680 CE.