Ashura

Hezaaraan dust kam and, Iek doshman ziaad ast
Thousands of friends are far too few, an enemy is too much

Young men beating themselves with chains and mourning the slaughter of Imam Hussein at Karbala, in what is now Iraq. Muharram processions are not violent in Iran, but in India and Iraq streets are awash in blood, because they whip themselves with knives at the end of chains.



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