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By Meenakshi Khanna
by MOHAMMAD AMIR AHMAD KHAN It is run by his descendants of Ayatollah Ghufran Ma'ab, as of May 2012 his descendant, Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad is ''mutawalli'' of the imambara. The imambara is located at Maulana Kalbe Hussain Road in Chowk locality of Lucknow. Kalbe Jawad addresses the majlis (gathering) there for the first 10 days of the holy month of Muharram which is attended by thousands of people. The imambara is known internationally for its Shaam-e-Ghariban majlis.Talkatora Karbala & Imambara Kaiwan Jah
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There is an Imambarah with same name (i.e. Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab) in Nasirabad the ancestral village Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali Naseerabadi.
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imambara
A ḥosayniya or hussainiya (Arabic: حسينية ''husayniyya''), also known as an ashurkhana, imambargah, or imambara, is a congregation hall for Twelver Shia Muslim commemoration ceremonies, especially those associated with the Mourning of ...
(a building used to commemorate the Muharram
Muḥarram ( ar, ٱلْمُحَرَّم) (fully known as Muharram ul Haram) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year when warfare is forbidden. It is held to be the second holiest month after ...
commemoration period in which Muslims, particularly Shias mourning the tragedy of Karbala in which Imam Hussain
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
was killed) constructed by Shia cleric Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali Naseerabadi Al Jayasi (also known as Ghufran-Ma'ab) in the early 1790s.Cultural History Of Medieval IndiaBy Meenakshi Khanna
The imambara
The imambara is named ''Ghufran Ma'ab'' after popular name of Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali 'Gufran Ma'ab' and is major religious culture center of Lucknow.by MOHAMMAD AMIR AHMAD KHAN It is run by his descendants of Ayatollah Ghufran Ma'ab, as of May 2012 his descendant, Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad is ''mutawalli'' of the imambara. The imambara is located at Maulana Kalbe Hussain Road in Chowk locality of Lucknow. Kalbe Jawad addresses the majlis (gathering) there for the first 10 days of the holy month of Muharram which is attended by thousands of people. The imambara is known internationally for its Shaam-e-Ghariban majlis.
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The graveyard
Outside the Imambara is a graveyard (part of the Imambara) which was intended to be used as a place of burial for scholars. Many eminent personalities are buried in its graveyard. People buried in its graveyard include Saheb e Abaqat Syed Hamid Husain, Maulana Syed Kalbe Hussain, Maulana Syed Kalbe Abid, Maulana Syed Ibne Hasan Nonaharvi and ''Sultan-ul-Ulema'' Maulana Syed Qaim Mahdi, Maulana Syed Mohammad Waris Hasan Naqvi, Maulana Syed Kalbe Sadiq.The Nasirabad imambara
There is an Imambarah with same name (i.e. Imambara Ghufran Ma'ab) in Nasirabad the ancestral village Ayatollah Syed Dildar Ali Naseerabadi.
See also
*Bara Imambara
Bara Imambara, also known as Asfi Imambara is an imambara complex in Lucknow, India built by Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh in 1784. ''Bara'' means ''big''. This imambara is the second largest after the Nizamat Imambara.
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