India: Kashmir Shia Religious Procession by Mubashir Hassan
Chehellom (Persian: چهلم, "the fortieth day") is a Shia religious observance that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura. It commemorates the martyrdom of Al-Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, who was martyred on the 10th day of the month of Muharram.Imam Hussain ibn Ali and 71 of his companions were martyred by Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad's army under the governance of Yazeed Malhoon in the Battle of Karbala in 61 AH (680 CE).
Arba'ein or forty days is also the usual length of mourning after the death of a family member or loved one in many Muslim traditions. Arba'ein is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, in which up to 40 million (In reality, there are no reliable methods for tallying the number of site visitors. This is an entirely estimated set of statistics. Logically, it is possible to gather 40m persons on a small city) people go to the city of Karbala in Iraq.
A large number of Kashmiri Shiite Muslims worshipers participate in a religious central procession of Chehlum in Srinagar. Chehlum to mark the end of the 40 day mourning period following the anniversary of the 7th century death of Imam Hussein (AS), the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints.
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