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Ashura is famous for the people practising self-flagellation but Ashura is more than that. For the Shia people, the Day of Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram and commemorates the killing of Hussein and his 72 relatives by the Umayyad caliphate in Karbala, Iraq. In Iran, this is the time for unique celebrations all over the country.
For this foreigner, these women have agreed to break their vow of silence. One said that she wished for success in her studies while the other wished for a careful husband in the year to come. Health-related wishes are rarely acknowledged explicitly as doing so may bring misfortune.