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Tasu'a is the ninth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, a month in which fighting has been forbidden since before the advent of Islam. [1] [2] Tasu'a is followed by Ashura, tenth of Muharram, which marks the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. [3]
It may have also been derived from the Syriac words asiroya or asora. [3] It shares the same root as the Hebrew word 'āsōr . [ 4 ] In Arabic , Ashura refers to the tenth day of Muharram , the first month of the Islamic calendar , a month in which fighting has been forbidden since before the advent of Islam .
[2] [3] Also on this day, Noah disembarked from the Ark, [3] God forgave Adam, and Joseph was released from prison, among various auspicious events on Ashura in Sunni tradition. [4] Ashura is celebrated in Sunni Islam through supererogatory fasting , and also other pious acts and acceptable expressions of joy.
Ramadan [b] (Arabic: رَمَضَان, romanized: Ramaḍān [ra.ma.dˤaːn]; [c] also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, [10] observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (), prayer (), reflection, and community. [11]
The Buddhist asuras have a few myths distinctive from the asuras of Hinduism, which are only found in Buddhist texts.. In its Buddhist context, the word is sometimes translated "titan", "demigod", or "antigod".