Actors and football players in Muharram

The Day of Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram and marks the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the third shia Imam. 1372 years ago on the 10th day of the Month of Muharram, Imam Husayn, grandson of Prophet Muhammad and son of Imam Ali and his 71 supporters were killed in Karbala, Iraq by 30,000-man army of Yazid ibn Muaviye. Imam Husayn’s family was then captured by Yazid’s army and exiled to Sham.