World's Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway, And Why You've Never Heard of it!

[Winchester]

While it is a distinctively Shia spiritual exercise, Sunnis, even Christians , Yazidis, Zoroastrians, and Sabians partake in both the pilgrimage as well as serving of devotees.

This is the best part !

 

[Umair Nawaz]

Arbaeen is actually BIGGER than Hajj in quantity.numbers are crystal clear here.now in Karbala there are 20 million pilgrims while only 14 millions attend to hajj ,EACH YEAR.

However as I said, it doesn't indicate Arbaeen is more important at all.

it does when the writer himself writes in first line saying its not MUSLIM hajj. Maybe u individually are not taking it this way but the writer and the man who has shared it clearly states their agenda. Thats why @Horus close it or delete it.

Anyways i have made it very clear to u people that we dont appreciate such sectarian attitude here in Pakistan or in our forums. If u wish to do this then go elsewhere who ever has opened this stupid thread.

 

[mohsen]

Look if I know about this while being 100s of miles away then it is not censorship.

May be less marketing by the organizers. But definitely not censorship.

well, when you turn your TV on, it talks about a dog being run over in somewhere, bunch of people demonstrated here and there, some people have thrown tomato on each other, all of these but nothing about a ceremony with 20 million participant, then I say it's pure censorship.
if in your media things are different then they are not the subject of this article, after all Pakistan is a Muslim country. this article as it's title suggests is written for non-Muslim and specially western countries.

 

[FaujHistorian]

well, when you turn your TV on, it talks about a dog being run over in somewhere, bunch of people demonstrated here and there, some people have thrown tomato on each other, all of these but nothing about a ceremony with 20 million participant, then I say it's pure censorship.
if in your media things are different then they are not the subject of this article, after all Pakistan is a Muslim country. this article as it's title suggests is written for non-Muslim and specially western countries.

media is not just TV these days.

Discussing TV only news is like reading from cave man's stone tablets.

haha

Nothing against you Agha Jaan

Just humoring myself.

 

[kollang]

it does when the writer himself writes in first line saying its not MUSLIM hajj. Maybe u individually are not taking it this way but the writer and the man who has shared it clearly states their agenda. Thats why @Horus close it or delete it.

Anyways i have made it very clear to u people that we dont appreciate such sectarian attitude here in Pakistan or in our forums. If u wish to do this then go elsewhere who ever has opened this stupid thread.

who is "we"?you are just an "I".

now, please stop ruining the thread otherwise "we" will report your posts to Horus.

 

[Sugarcane]

I don't think in term of numbers it's bigger than kumbh but yeah didn't knew that much people participate in this.

 

[mohsen]

media is not just TV these days.

TV was just an example, those who act this way in their TVs, act the same way in their other medias too.

 

[FaujHistorian]

I don't think in term of numbers it's bigger than kumbh but yeah didn't knew that much people participate in this.

Many of my Shia family friends do make regular pilgrimage to this and other Shia holy sites in iran as well.

 

[lightoftruth]

Kumbh mela attracts about 100 million ppl over 30 million were alone at mauni amavasya.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Kumbh mela attracts about 100 million ppl over 30 million were alone at mauni amavasya.

I believe 100 mil figure is over the year and not just one even over few days.

 

[lightoftruth]

I believe 100 mil figure is over the year and not just one even over few days.

The festival, which is held every 12 years, expects 100 million bathers in total across its 55 days.

BBC News - India's Kumbh Mela festival holds most auspicious day

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Kumbh Mela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Burhan Wani]

Many of my Shia family friends do make regular pilgrimage to this and other Shia holy sites in iran as well.

As a sunni muslim it is my deepest desire to visit shrines located at syria,iraq,iran,SaudiArabia, Palestine.etc.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

who is "we"?you are just an "I".

now, please stop ruining the thread otherwise "we" will report your posts to Horus.

LOL kid we are WE ie people in Pakistan and do report my posts i want Moderators attention on this thread myself.

 

[IRAN 1802]

Just a sectarian pilgrimage has no value above Hajj which is for all regardless of sect. and this article's first line saying its not Muslim Hajj says all abt the credibility of the author. @Horus close this stupid thread and warn this stupid irani of opening such threads in future. This is Pakistan Defense not some Saudi or Irani gibberish Shia vs Sunni war. We dont appreciate such attitude here.

U are right in your Pakistani site there is no place for Imam Hussain (a.s) grandson of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The traffic of the site should go for pakistani indian wars.