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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.
5am, before sunrise and the first prayer in Khorramabad, on the day of Ashura. In the Iranian culture, people cover themselves in mud for the burial of a person they were very close to. Repeating this gesture for Hussein is a way to show him their devotion.