Turbah Karbala ( Arabic: تربة کربلاء, lit. 'Soil of Karbala'), [1] [2] [3] or Khāk-e Shifā ( Lisan al-Dawat, Persian, and Urdu: خاکِ شِفاء, lit. 'Medicinal Soil'), [4] [5] [6] or "Turbah of Imam Hussain" [7] [8] is the soil taken from Hussain ibn Ali's grave in the city of Karbala. Shia Muslims use it to make turbah and misbaha. [9] [10]
According to Islamic ( Shi'i) narrations, "Turbah Karbala" has diverse effects, [11] [12] [13] and prostrating on it is considered as a Mustahab (recommended) practice [14] during the time of prayer(s). [15] The sixth Imam of Shia Islam, Ja'far al-Sadiq named this soil as affairs trouble-shooter. [16] [17]
Turbah which means soil, [18] [19] grave, tomb, etc., [20] is regarded (as a probability) as every soil around each holy grave(s) among the Islamic prophet Muhammad, The Twelve Imams and Imamzadehs; but exclusively it is attributed to the soil of Hussain ibn Ali's grave, [21] and the phrases "Tin-al-Qabr" or "al-Tin" are considered as it according to the hadiths of Shia Imams. [22]
"Turbah Karbala" has various influences, amongst: