Ashura
Ashura festival is celebrated in vastly different ways by different Muslim sects. It is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad. Shi'as commemorate with rituals including fire breathing and mass flagellation. The Sunni Muslims also refer to Ashura as The Day of Atonement as the day on which the Israelites were freed from the Pharaoh. For them it is a good day, the day when Allah saved the Children of Israel from their enemy and Musa (Moses) fasted on this and told the people to also fast. In my little town of Azemmour in Morocco it just seems to be a wonderful 2 days of music feasting and dancing in the street with naughty children creating havoc by dragging toxic burning tyres through the media!
Ashura festival is celebrated in vastly different ways by different Muslim sects. It is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad. Shi'as commemorate with rituals including fire breathing and mass flagellation. The Sunni Muslims also refer to Ashura as The Day of Atonement as the day on which the Israelites were freed from the Pharaoh. For them it is a good day, the day when Allah saved the Children of Israel from their enemy and Musa (Moses) fasted on this and told the people to also fast. In my little town of Azemmour in Morocco it just seems to be a wonderful 2 days of music feasting and dancing in the street with naughty children creating havoc by dragging toxic burning tyres through the media!
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The world’s poor spends a staggering US$ 40 billion annually for their energy needs. This equals 10 to 25% of their precarious monthly household budgets on dirty fuels like kerosene. Many remote villages in tribal India are still without electricity. Just £15.00 buys a solar light which will give a family more than enough good light on a daily basis when fully charged. Women can continue with their work, without the toxic hazard of burning kerosene and more importantly children can study into the evening without damaging their eye sight. Whenever I am given a charity donation my first thought is which village needs solar lights!