ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR: Shiite Muslims are resuming their normal activities now that the annual observance of Moharram has ended. During the first month of the Muslim lunar year, Shiites mourn the seventh-century death of their founder, Imam Hazrat Hussein Bin Ali. Iran's IRIB has more on the uprising he led and the reasons behind it.</s>MEHDI POURZAND, IRIB CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Holy mourning processions lay heavy on chests and shoulders of the small chains and mosques and other religious places in commemoration of Imam Hussein Ali Salan (ph) and his followers is a common practice among the Shiite Muslims and each year during the first 10 days of the mount of Moharram which also coincides with the beginning of the new lunar year. The saga took place in the year 61 of Hezra (ph), or 68180, when the grandson of the prophet Muhammad Hazrat Hussein Bin Ali launched the greatest movement in the revolution against the ruler of his time. The uprising of Imam Hussein was not a tribal or sectarian movement, but a reformist campaign which took place at a time when tyrant ruler was plotting his domination over all governmental institutions, was trying to change the democratic system of Islamic government inherited from the prophet of Islam to a despotic and hereditary monarchy. The tyrant ruler while posing himself as a successor of the prophet of Islam paid no respect to Islam
Shiite Muslims Mourn Death of Their Founder During Moharram