Every year, on the 8th and 9th nights of the Islamic calendar month of Muharram, people originally from Iraq's city of Najaf who reside in the Iranian holy city of Qom walk and mourn alongside their traditional torches and drums from the Najafis Mosque and Hussainiya in Gozar Khan Bazaar to the Shrine of Hazrat Fatima Masoumeh(AS). (IRNA photos published on July 26, 2023/Hamid Abedi)
The torches carried in this ceremony symbolize the ones that set fire to the tents of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shia Imam and the grandson of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), in the afternoon of Ashura. Ashura – the 10th day of Muharram – is a day when Imam Hussein (AS) and his 72 companions were martyred in Karbala, in today's Iraq, in 680 CE.
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