Ziyarat is an Arabic term which literally means "visit", and is used to refer to a form of pilgrimage to sites associated with Muhammad, his family members and descendants (including the Shia Imams), his companions, or other venerated figures in Islam, such as the prophets, Sufi saints and Islamic scholars. Sites of pilgrimage include mosques, graves, battlefields, mountains, and caves.

On this Journey of Faith, you would be visiting some of holiest places for Shia Islam, after Mecca & Medina.

You will arrive in Najaf, the site of the Imam Ali Mosque and the shrine of Ali located here is the third holiest in the world for Shi'a Muslims The gold-plated mosque shelters the tomb of Imam Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad who is revered as a martyr and a saint by Shias. Najaf has been an important place of pilgrimage for Shi'ites since Ali's death in 661 AD and is a center of Shi'a religious learning. In the 20^th century, the latter role has shifted more to Qom in Iran. Many Shi'a bring their dead to the tomb of Ali, carrying the coffin around the sarcophagus before burial.

On a full day excursion to Kufa, one of the five Iraqi cities that are of great importance to Shia Muslims, visit the Great Mosque of Kufa, one of the earliest mosques in Islam, built in the 7^th century and pray at the Tombs of Muslem Ibn Aqeel, Imam Husayn. You will also see the house of Imam Ali and the Mausoleum of Sayyida Khadijatul Sughra daughter of Imam Ali - outside Masjid Kufa and other holy sites.

Then we move on to Karbala, the site of the Shrine of Imam Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and a much-revered Shia martyr. It is also home to the Shrine of Abbas, Husayn's loyal half-brother.

Devotion to Imam Husayn focuses almost exclusively on his death as the symbol of redemptive suffering and liberation. Laments, dirges, public expressions of grief and reenactments of his murder are major parts of the pilgrimage to Karbala. Visit the parallel Shrine of Hadrat Abbas, Husayn's loyal half-brother who died with him in the Battle of Karbala. You will also visit al-Makhayam, the traditional location of Hussayn's camp. Here, the martyrdom of Hussayn and his followers is publicly commemorated.

Fly to Mashad in Iran, the holiest city in Iran, even its name (literally: burial place of the martyr). In the 9^th century, the 8^th Shiite Imam Ali Bin Moosa Al Reza, the great grandson of Imam Ali, was poisoned by the jealous caliph of the time and is buried in Mashhad. His shrine became one of the holiest sites to the Shiite muslims after the Holy Kaaba in Saudi Arabia and Karbala in Iraq.  It is said that the rich go to Makkah but the poor journey to Mashhad. Thus, even as those who complete the pilgrimage to Makkah receive the title of Haji, those who make the pilgrimage to Mashhad and especially to the Imam Ridha shrine are known as Mashtee, a term employed also of its inhabitants

Come back to Najaf where the Journey ends when you are transferred to the airport for your onward flight.