Khayesta Afghanistan

[Shayesta]

So I have got like over a hundred pictures of Afghanistan and I decided to share it with you guys. I didn't take those pictures myself but found them on the net and saved them on my albums. Every I will post some pictures until I have posted them all. I tried to find pictures of every province so here it goes on alphabetic order.


Badakhshan

[Shayesta]

Badghis

[Shayesta]

Baghlan

[Son of Mountains]

awesome pics!
thanx to enlighten my eyes

[Shayesta]

Balkh

[Son of Mountains]

Balkh

what is this place?

[Shayesta]

awesome pics!
thanx to enlighten my eyes

Keep following this thread because much more to come yet!


Bamiyan

[Shayesta]

what is this place?

Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh which is said to be most prosperous province after Herat. Nawrooz (Afghan, Iranian and Tajiki new year) is said to be celebrated with most enthusiasm in this very place. Ziyarat of Hazrat Ali is said to be in this mosque.


Daikundi

[Shayesta]

To be continued. :P

Oh and just thank pictures of those places you liked so I can try to find more pictures of that area.

[Son of Mountains]

Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh which is said to be most prosperous province after Herat.

So whose Mizar is this actually?

[Shayesta]

^ If I am not mistaken, Hazrat Ali. Because the mosque is usually packed with Shias and the city is also called 'Shahre Maula Ali' and I have heard many Iranian Shias (who adore Hazrat Ali) having the wish to visit Mazar, so I am guessing Hazrat Ali then.

[Saifullah]

No this is not true, Hazrat Ali (ra) was buried in Najaf and this is just a rumour

[Son of Mountains]

^ If I am not mistaken, Hazrat Ali. Because the mosque is usually packed with Shias and the city is also called 'Shahre Maula Ali' and I have heard many Iranian Shias (who adore Hazrat Ali) having the wish to visit Mazar, so I am guessing Hazrat Ali then.

This is option number 1 that its of Hazrat Ali
What maybe other option?

[Saifullah]

Some of the Afghan shias claim Hazrat Ali (ra) is buried in Mazar Sharif but they cannot back this up...majority view is that he is buried in Najaf

[eyeliner]

^ there is difference of opinion of whether it is Ali RA grave or not, because while some claim it is others say its not. Some argue that they kept the burial site of Ali RA hidden so that his enemies could not damage it, so they mentioned najaf and then they had buried him in balkh, from what i remember it was this, but may Allah forgive me if mentioned it wrong