Why do Sunni's partake in Muharram and Ashura ?

[ronki23]

Weren't Imam Ali and his sons Hassan and Hussein killed by Sunnis ?

 

[muhammad_isa]

Weren't Imam Ali and his sons Hassan and Hussein killed by Sunnis ?

In Shia Islam, the Imamah (Arabic: إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.
Imamate_in_Shia_doctrine - Wikipedia

It says more about politics than religion.
We see in the Qur'an that one of Noah's sons did not listen to his father and drowned.
Lineage isn't the issue .. it is piety.

 

[ronki23]

In Shia Islam, the Imamah (Arabic: إمامة) is a doctrine which asserts that certain individuals from the lineage of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are to be accepted as leaders and guides of the ummah after the death of Muhammad.
Imamate_in_Shia_doctrine - Wikipedia

It says more about politics than religion.
We see in the Qur'an that one of Noah's sons did not listen to his father and drowned.
Lineage isn't the issue .. it is piety.

But if these people were killed by Sunnis then why do Sunnis partake in the month of Muharram and Ashura ?

Matam is because Shia's mourn that they did not help. Matam is strictly Shia but even a lot of Shias say you shouldn't do it

 

[muhammad_isa]

But if these people were killed by Sunnis then why do Sunnis partake in the month of Muharram and Ashura ?

Matam is because Shia's mourn that they did not help. Matam is strictly Shia but even a lot of Shias say you shouldn't do it

You might find the answer here..

Ashura (Arabic: عَاشُورَاء, ʿĀshūrāʾ, [ʕaːʃuːˈraːʔ]) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. Among Shia Muslims, Ashura is observed through large demonstrations of high-scale mourning as it marks the death of Husayn ibn Ali (a grandson of Muhammad), who was beheaded during the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE. Among Sunni Muslims, Ashura is observed through celebratory fasting as it marks the day of salvation for Moses and the Israelites, who successfully escaped from Biblical Egypt (where they were enslaved and persecuted) after Moses called upon God's power to part the Red Sea.
Ashura - Wikipedia

 

[ronki23]

You might find the answer here..

Ashura (Arabic: عَاشُورَاء, ʿĀshūrāʾ, [ʕaːʃuːˈraːʔ]) is a day of commemoration in Islam. It occurs annually on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. Among Shia Muslims, Ashura is observed through large demonstrations of high-scale mourning as it marks the death of Husayn ibn Ali (a grandson of Muhammad), who was beheaded during the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE. Among Sunni Muslims, Ashura is observed through celebratory fasting as it marks the day of salvation for Moses and the Israelites, who successfully escaped from Biblical Egypt (where they were enslaved and persecuted) after Moses called upon God's power to part the Red Sea.
Ashura - Wikipedia

If that's the case for the Sunnis then shouldn't it be on the day of Passover ?

 

[muhammad_isa]

If that's the case for the Sunnis then shouldn't it be on the day of Passover ?

The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized: HaLuah HaIvri), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance, and as an official calendar of the state of Israel.
Hebrew_calendar - Wikipedia

The Islamic calendar is purely a lunar calendar, which means that the month of Ramadan can fall
in any season, for example, and is cyclic.
The Jewish calendar has been altered and adjusted over time, to be what it is today.