Actors and celebrities at the Muharram mourning ceremony

Sham-e-Ghariban

Sham-e- Ghariban or literally night of the desolated, is the night following the day of Ashura. In this ritual people ignite candles because it’s a symbolic state of burning tents of the Ahlul-Bayt of Imam Hussein (PBUH) on the evening of Ashura, and to express sympathy with the martyrs of Karbala.