During the times of Saddam Hussein (Iraqi dictator) marking Arbaeen (walk to Karbala) was forbidden and nobody was allowed to travel from other cities to the city of Karbala on foot and this ritual was not performed the way it is today. If somebody did so, he/she would get arrested, tortured and killed.
The relative lived in Basrah city and every year they gathered for Arbaeen walk and they had thought of a creative plan in order to get rid of Saddam's soldiers and security barriers and to avoid detection and getting arrested.
They had a car and manipulated the engine of the car and pretended that the car was broken and needed to be pushed. They used to keep pushing it from Basrah to Karbala. One of them stayed in the car to control it and the others were pushing it. The driver replaced turn by turn.
Whenever they got tired, they took rest in the car. By using this trick, nobody got suspicious of them and they continued to reach Karbala to perform the Arbaeen walking.
This ritual starts near to the end of a 40-day mourning period following Ashura in Iraq and all people participating in this ritual, travel to Karbala from many points in Iraq by foot. Many people from various countries manage to be part of it and everyone chooses a starting point to walk. One of the significant characteristics of this ritual is to travel on foot.
Source: https://plus.google.com/112354716705089420958/posts/3J54DwPqNj6?hl=en
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