Monday 3 August
The fortieth day after Ashura, when the survivors of Karbala returned to the grave of Husayn. Millions walk to Karbala for it.
الأربعين
Arbaeen 2026
The fortieth day after Ashura, the twentieth of Safar, kept in Twelver Shia practice as the close of the forty days of mourning for Imam Husayn. Many walk to Karbala for it.
In 2026: Monday 3 August.
Like every day of the Hijri year, it begins at sunset the evening before. Hijri dates are projected, and may move a day once the new moon is sighted.
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Thursday 25 June · Shia
Ashura
The martyrdom of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala. A day of mourning, majalis, and the Ziyarat of Ashura — not a day of fasting: the greater part of the jurists hold a fast on it disliked, and many forbid it. It is customary to abstain from food and drink until the afternoon in grief, then to break it.
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