Arba'een

Al - Arba ʿ ūn, Arabic الأربعون al - arba ʿ ūn, DMG al - arba ʿ ūn, forty ', is the memorial feast, which is forty days after Ashura, the feast of martyrdom of al-Husayn, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, committed by the Imami Shias.

Forty days is the usual time, is thought in Islam in the event of death of the deceased. It will be recalled that martyrdom and self-sacrifice for Islam to Paradise, departing from the " right path " in the "eternal damnation " leads.

2012 visited on the occasion of the holiday about 15 million believers the Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala.

Sometimes be added to Karbala and pilgrimages to Najaf and Samarra.