It is authentically reported that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“He is not one of us who slaps his cheeks, tears his garments at the neckline, and raises the cries of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.” (1)

This applies even when the calamity has only just occurred; how much more so (2) when some six hundred and seventy years have passed? Someone superior to al-Husayn was killed, yet the Muslims did not make that day an occasion of mourning.

In Ahmad’s Musnad, it is reported from (3) Fātimah bint al-Husayn—who had witnessed his killing—that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“No Muslim suffers a calamity, then remembers it, however long ago it occurred, and again says, ‘Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we return,’ without Allah granting him a reward equal to the reward he received on the day it befell him.” (4)

This shows that the sunnah, when a calamity is remembered, however long ago it occurred, is to say, “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we return” (5), as taught in the Quran and the sunnah.

The Most High says:

“Give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a calamity befalls them, say, ‘Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we return.’ Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy, and it is they who are rightly guided.” [Surah al-Baqarah: 155–157]

Still more abhorrent are plucking the wool from a ewe to represent ‘Ā’ishah, stabbing a plaster object filled with clarified butter to represent ‘Umar, and crying, “Vengeance for Abū Lu’lu’ah!” These are among the reprehensible practices of the Rāfidah, whose description would be lengthy.