Not all Shia are on the same page when it comes to the practice of making self-inflicted wounds - tatbir - on the last day of Ashura Abbas, 19, says the bloodletting ritual is among the most ...

These rituals include processions, recitation of elegies (Marsiya), recounting the events of martyrdom of Imam Hussain ibn Ali in Karbala, Iraq and delivering sermons. Ashura: The 10th day of ...