A prominent Iraqi scholar said, “Mourning and holding mourning ceremonies during the month of Muharram is a good tradition and sometimes it becomes a collective obligation.” According to Rasa News Agency’s correspondent in Najaf, Ayatollah Sayyid Yasin al-Musawi, a senior Iraqi scholar, said, “Mourning and holding mourning ceremonies in the month of Muharram is a good tradition and sometimes it becomes a collective obligation and God Almighty has entrusted the performance of this noble tradition to the Shi’ahs (followers) of the Ahl al-Bayt.”
His Eminence said, “Many of the satellite channels, while supporting the propagation of Wahhabi clerics against Ashura and Muharram, continue to spread doubts despite the fact that both Shi’ah and Sunni scholars alike have emphasized in the hadith books that the Prophet Muhammad and his Ahl al-Bayt held mourning ceremonies for Imam al-Husayn.”
Ayatollah al-Musawi added, “In his book al-Ghadir, Allamah Abdul-Husayn Amini [1902-1970] wrote in a chapter entitled ‘Our Tradition and Path’ that Sunni scholars have mentioned narrations about holding mourning ceremonies for Imam al-Husayn and even the Prophet Muhammad held mourning ceremonies in the homes of some of his wives for Imam al-Husayn.”
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