Baghdad – IRNA – When and how did the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Hosseini (AS) begin? Is this religion one of the innovations or is it documented according to the narration of Ahlul Bayt of Infallibility? What is the philosophy of “peripatetic”? Why is this religion more popular among the Iraqi people? These are a set of questions that may arise in the minds of the questioner every year at the same time as Arbaeen Hosseini (AS).
According to IRNA, the Arbaeen Hosseini procession and pilgrimage emerged in Iraq especially after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the spring of 2003, and the Islamic world was unaware of it until then. They surprised the whole world, religious and non-religious, and even the American occupiers.
Eighteen years after the establishment of this holy ritual, now the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Hosseini has become world famous due to the presence of millions of pilgrims from inside and outside Iraq, and every year followers of different religions and sects from all over the world attend it to the depth of this ritual. Understand the spiritual.
Although the media coverage of Arbaeen Hosseini’s pilgrimage in the world dates back to after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the fact is that this special ceremony has a long history among the Iraqi people.
Residents of the holy city of Qom in the 80s and 90s of the last century (the years of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq) well remember that Iraqi citizens living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, who were expelled from the country by Saddam’s regime under various pretexts, From different cities of Iran, on the day of Arbaeen Hosseini, they gathered in the holy city of Qom and held the Arbaeen ritual next to the holy shrine of Fatemeh Masoumeh (PBUH).
Displaced Iraqis in different countries of the world in the years far from their homeland (80s and 90s of the last century), always designated a holy shrine to establish Arbaeen Hosseini because this ceremony was considered one of the rituals of Hosseini, but There was no news coverage at the time.
Iraqi Shiites, citing the correct narration of Imam Hassan Askari (AS) (232-260 AH / 846-874 AD), consider the eleventh Imam of Shiites to visit the shrine of Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein (AS) on the fortieth day (20 Safar) as one of the signs of a believer. .
Imam Hassan Askari (AS) has named five things as the signs of a believer: “Performing 50 rak’ats of prayer (total of duties and mustahabs), visiting Arbaeen Hosseini, holding an agate ring in his right hand, burying his forehead in prostration and” Bism To say “Allah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim” (in prayer). »(Shiite Tools Volume 10, Page 373)
Apart from this and other narrations of the Ahl al-Bayt of Infallibility and Purity (AS), the captives of Karbala, among whom were Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS), on the fortieth day of Husseini in Karbala with “Jabir bin Abdullah Ansari”, the companions of Jalil al-Qadr and “Atiya Al-Awfi »The great commentator of the Holy Quran, encountered and was one of the first people who practically established the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Hosseini.
According to Iraqi experts, the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Husseini began in the first forty years of the martyrdom of Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein (AS) and his companions and has continued uninterruptedly since then (1,400 years).
Various images of the Arbaeen Husseini ritual, documented, photographed and published over the past 100 years, show that the Arbaeen pilgrimage and the pilgrimage to Karbala have long been common among Iraqi Shiites.
Undoubtedly, what is happening today in the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Hosseini in terms of population of millions and processions and type of reception is completely different from the past in terms of quantity and quality, which according to observers, And the challenges that this ceremony has faced during these 18 years in terms of suicide and terrorist attacks, have caused the spread and fame of this spiritual religion in the world.
Some elders in Iraq still well remember how the Arbaeen Husseini rite was performed in Iraq in the 1950s and 1960s.
On the way from Baghdad to Karbala (110 km), an IRNA reporter followed the words and memories of “Sayyid Muhammad Yusuf”, born in 1963, from the people of Baghdad about the establishment of Arbaeen Hosseini, who quotes his fathers as saying that the pilgrimage of Arbaeen Hosseini It used to be common in Iraq, but it has not been as good as it is now.
He remembers that in the 60s of the last century, when he was young, he used to come to Karbala with his father to visit Arbaeen Hosseini, and later, when Saddam’s Ba’athist regime prevented Arbaeen Hosseini from visiting, he used to visit Aba Abdullah Al-Hussein through the grove. شد.
