The New Year of the Shi’ites and Alevis commences at the Spring Equinox, and is celebrated as the Feast of…
The act of repeating the name of Allah silently or aloud, in solitude or in a group, is known…
MUHARRAM is the first lunar month of the Hegira calendar and Ashura is an Arabic word meaning the tenth. Ashura…
The crescent moon, (hilal) is the accepted symbol of Islam, and this particular form of the moon has a religious…