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Ziyarat Ashura as a Holistic Covenantal Loop: Responsible Mourning, Ethical Dissociation from Injustice, and Present Moral Accountability
This article examines Ziyarat Ashura (Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ) as a holistic covenantal loop and comprehensive ritual–ethical cycle through which Ashura mourning is transformed into responsible remembrance, covenantal fidelity, ethical dissociation from injustice, and present moral accountability. The study addresses a gap in which Ziyarat Ashura is often received externally as a lament-centred devotional text, while its internal movement from grief to salām, wilāyah, barāʾah, covenant, supplication, and moral self-assessment remains insufficiently theorized. The unit of analysis is the ziyārah text itself, with Duʿāʾ ʿAlqama/Ṣafwān treated as a post-covenantal supplicatory extension rather than an independent ziyārah; the wider Ashura ritual ecology is used only as the text’s reception context. Using qualitative, source-sensitive conceptual analysis and textual coding, the article identifies four interlocking movements: mourning-to-covenant, ethical dissociation from injustice, post-covenantal supplication, and moral self-assessment. These movements show how Karbala functions as a living criterion for truth, loyalty, dignity, and resistance to distortion. The article argues that barāʾah is best interpreted as moral boundary-making against injustice, humiliation, distortion, and complicity rather than as sectarian hostility. Theoretically, it contributes a source-grounded model of Ashura remembrance as present moral accountability. Practically, it offers a careful interpretive vocabulary for scholarly and pedagogical engagement with contested devotional texts. The boundary condition is explicit: sanctity, faith, sincerity, intercession, thawāb, divine acceptance, and the truth of wilāyah are not measured as empirical variables.
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