Hazrat Ruqayyah

  • A play in central Iran to renarrate Karbala incident

    A play in central Iran to renarrate Karbala incident

    A play dubbed Gharib-ye Sham (Stranger in the Levant), which refers to the demise of Hazrat Ruqayyah – the three-year-old daughter of Imam Hussain (AS) -- was performed in the central Iranian province of Yazd, on August 25, 2023, to re-narrate the tragic incident of Ashura in Karbala in 680 CE. (IRNA photos/Majid Jarrahi)