Re: Questions about Marsiyas/nohas
To be honest I am surprised at the restraint shown by the posters in this thread(I expected to be branded a "wahabi")
The reason I started this thread was because I think that following these rituals does not do the shias any good or their Imams.I understand that matam was neccesary to keep the spirit of Karbala alive during the dark days of Ummayyad and Abbassid oppression but even the shias did gain power in any states (and they were quite a few instances of that in islamic history) their rulers behaved just like their predecessars.If they had returned to the puritan principles of Islam like UmarII did things would have been quite different.