04Dec23

Bio

About Me

My name is Iayat and I am a senior at Mariner High. After high school, I plan to continue my education and get my Associate's degree, and pursue my career in Medical Assisting. If I decide I want to go back to school after a few years, I am planning to get my Bachelor's Degree and become a Travel Nurse. Some of my hobbies include playing volleyball, journaling, and vlogging my daily life and posting them on Instagram stories. I also like to take pictures and edit videos. Something I am interested in doing in the future is traveling. It's been a dream of mine to travel to different places. Unfortunately, I can't do such thing now, but I am looking forward to traveling in the future. The number one place on my list that I would love to go to is my home country, Iraq.

My Wikipedia Interests

If I end up working on content here on Wikipedia in the long term, I plan to research, edit, and possibly improve articles. I would like to research about topics that interest me, some of which include my religion, Islam, and the aspects of it. The religion Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity, and despite the fact that it is a large religion, there is a lack of understanding about it, so I would like to share more about it. I would like to publish content that is worth reading and engaging.

Article Evaluation

I am a Shi'a Muslim and one of my favorite celebrations that Shi'a Muslim celebrate is Muharram/Ashura. It's been a dream of mine for many many years to go and experience the celebration in Iraq since it is one of the largest celebrations there. I know that many Sunni Muslims observe Muharram in a negative way and they have different views because they misunderstand and think that what we do is wrong, when it comes to the beating of the chest and rituals. I decided to visit the Muharram page on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its irrelevant information, its erroneous information, and the numerous amounts of citations this page has.

Irrelevant Information

After going through and reading this Wikipedia page multiple times, I encountered information that doesn't have to do with anything to do with Muharram. They had listed some events and stated that those incidents had occurred during the month of Muharram, but some of those events have nothing to do with the topic. They had listed some births and deaths of people that are irrelevant and have no connection with Muharram/Ashura.

Erroneous information

It was mentioned in the article that Shi'i Muslims eat as little as possible on Ashura, however, this information is not true. Shi'a Muslims believe that fasting on Ashura is makrooh (meaning disliked or offensive act). Fasting on the day of Ashura is one of the things that Bani Umayyah (He was responsible for the deaths of 120,000 innocent people) created to show their happiness and their gratitude for the killing of Imam Hussein (as). Also, I know that in Iraq, a lot of residents from all over places serve free food to the mourners, pilgrims, and the neighbors. They seek blessings in these meals. Also, something else that was mentioned in the article that was incomplete was the fact that Shi'as mourn for 10 nights, but in reality, the mourning continues for 40 days until the middle of Safar, which is the following month after Muharram.

Citations

I like how this page had numerous amounts of citations for a lot of things said in the article. They had included citations for things that people may question or ask about and they seem to be reliable sources.

Conclusion

All in all, this page was all right. They didn't really provide much information or dive deep into the topic, but it did sum up what the topic is and what it is about. They had provided inaccurate/incomplete information which I think should be fixed and I think more relevant information to the topic should be provided on instead of the unrelated events they had mentioned in the article. I like how they added many citations to things that lead to deeper content and explanation of what they are.