Waqia-e-Karbala Battle of Karbala
The Battle of Karbala took place on Muharram 10, in the year 61 of the Islamic calendar[2] (October 10, 680)[5][6] in Karbala, in present day Iraq.
On one side of the highly uneven battle were a small group of supporters and relatives of Muhammad‘s grandson Husain ibn Ali, and on the other was a large military detachment from the forces of Yazid I, the Umayyad caliph, whom Husain had refused to recognise as caliph.
Husain and all his supporters were killed, including Husain’s six months old infant son , and the women and children were taken as prisoners.
The dead are regarded as martyrs by Muslims, and the battle has a central place in Islamic history and tradition with particular emphasis in the faith , and has frequently been recounted in Shi’ahIslamic literature.
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