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]