Updated on 23/12/2013
This year, over two million people around the world will InshAllah flock to Iraq to commemorate Arbaeen. We share below reflections from one of the zawaars who will be going to Iraq this year and inshAllah undertake the walk from the Holy City of Najaf to the land of Karbala:
“In a day’s time, I’ll be leaving with a group of my family and friends, leaving behind everything familiar, to make this amazing trip to the land of my Imams (AS).
I cast my mind back remembering another time, another family who left their hometown, and everything they loved, to venture out into an unknown future. Except their fate was different. For Husayn and his family (AS), only the women and children were to return back. And this drives me on..
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21 July 2026 / 5. Safar 1448
The World Federation is pleased to announce the publication of the Swahili translation of ‘Mukhtar: How He Avenged the Karbala Perpetrators’, authored by Dr Mahmood Datoo.
This is yet another important milestone in External Tableegh work. The printing work has been undertaken by the Al-Itrah Foundation of Dar es Salaam.
Al – Hajj Shan-E-Abbas Hassam, Secretary General of The World Federation, said: “We were honoured to partner with Al-Itrah Foundation and provide this much-needed resource to the wider community. The tragedy of Karbala and its aftermath is at the centre of our faith and identity, and its details must be communicated to our brothers and sisters in humanity. Inshallah The World Federation looks forward to more such opportunities. I would like to thank the generous donors who made this possible.”
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