Ashoura: WTF?

[Divinus Arma]

Go to google and type Ashoura into google images.

WTF?

[Adrian II]

Go to google and type Ashoura into google images.

WTF?

Come on, this is a well-known shiite festival. Or rather their idea of a festival.

As long as they do it to themselves only...

[Devastatin Dave]

I remember when i first saw this many years, it troubled me and i thought it was backwards, but as a Christian, I remind myself when I take the Lord's Supper that I'm am eating flesh and drinking blood. Also, circumsission could be considered strange to some. Its just another way of showing commitment to their Faith.

[Divinus Arma]

I will admit, I find it foreign and disturbing.

[Tribesman]

Its just another way of showing commitment to their Faith.

Yep , like spending a week on your knees without food on a rainsoaked rocky island , or climbing a mountain with very sharp rocks barefoot and circling the altar 7 times , or how about those crazy buggers who get themselves nailed to a cross to celebrate their faith at easter .
Some people feel the need to show their faith in quite bizzare ways .

Actually , come to think of it , what was the "christian" practice that gives us the term "redneck" .

[LeftEyeNine]

Ashoura Day is the tenth day of the month of Muharrem in Hicri calendar (that starts with Muhammed's travel from Mecca to Medina). The day is blessed in Islam to be worthy of good events in many prophet's lives. And it is a custom to prepare this dessert on this day, we call it Aşure -the only Ashoura I know of. Aşure composes of the following : Wheat, dried beans, chickpea, rice, dried grapes, fig, apricot and sugar (contents vary slightly)

..just another way of showing commitment to their Faith.

IIRC, the ritual done in the pics you see is all about experiencing the Hz. Hussain 's suffering by themselves since he was killed on the Ashoura Day. This day is also called to be when :

Hz. Adam was forgiven of his sins,
Hz. Nuh survived the the flood (and Aşure dessert is told be to made firstly when Nuh and the survivors landed and prepared this dessert by mixing all food they had with them)
Hz. Yunus got out of the stomach of the fish,
Hz. Ibrahim did not get burned in flames
Hz. Idris rose to the sky
Hz. Suleyman was given his reign
Hz. Yusuf returned to his dad Hz. Yakub
Hz. Yusuf got out of the pit
Hz. Eyyüb was cured
Hz. Moses crossed the Red Sea and the pharaoh was devastated
Hz. Jesus was born and resurrected from death

A bunch info - must be more than you'd like to hear

[Divinus Arma]

Ashoura Day is the tenth day of the month of Muharrem in Hicri calendar (that starts with Muhammed's travel from Mecca to Medina). The day is blessed in Islam to be worthy of good events in many prophet's lives. And it is a custom to prepare this dessert on this day, we call it Asure -the only Ashoura I know of. Asure composes of the following : Wheat, dried beans, chickpea, rice, dried grapes, fig, apricot and sugar (contents varies slightly)





IIRC, the ritual done in the pics you see is all about experiencing the Hz. Hussain 's suffering themselves since he was killed on the Ashoura Day. This day is also called to be when :

Hz. Adam was forgiven of his sins,
Hz. Nuh survived the the flood (and Asure dessert is told be to made firstly when Nuh and the survivors landed and prepared this dessert by mixing all food they had with them)
Hz. Yunus got out of the stomach of the fish,
Hz. Ibrahim did not get burned in flames
Hz. Idris rose to the sky
Hz. Suleyman was given his reign
Hz. Yusuf returned to his dad Hz. Yakub
Hz. Yusuf got out of the pit
Hz. Eyyüb was cured
Hz. Moses crossed the Red Sea and the pharaoh was devastated
Hz. Jesus was born and resurrected from death

A bunch info - must be more than you'd like to hear

Your dessert sounds pretty tasty. That is interesting. All I see is people making themselves bleed in a massive exhibition of masochism. I understand that it is primarily Shiite...

[LeftEyeNine]

Your dessert sounds pretty tasty. That is interesting. All I see is people making themselves bleed in a massive exhibition of masochism. I understand that it is primarily Shiite...

Hz. Hussain was tormented to death by being not given by Yazidis in Kerbela incident. Adter his death he was beheaded by them as well. I think such masochistic demonstration resembles the torment he was exposed to.

[Meneldil]

Its just another way of showing commitment to their Faith.

A better wording would be 'It's just another silly way of showing commitment to their faith.'

[Fragony]

A better wording would be 'It's just another silly way of showing commitment to their faith.'

So young and allready so religious My daddy used to take me fishing.

[Xiahou]

Very small scalp wounds can bleed profusely- it's not like they're cutting themselves to ribbons to bleed like that. I dont see what the big deal is- if they want to do that why should we care? It's not hurting me, and really they're not even hurting themselves.

[Viking]

So young and allready so religious My daddy used to take me fishing.

That`s utterly disgusting.