Mashhad Ardahal is a village 30 km west of Kashan in Iran. This village is also known as Mashhad Qali(Qali means carpet)among the locals. Mashhad Ardehal is located in the neighborhood of the eastern slope of “Ardehal Peak", which is one of the highest elevations in Ardehal district of Markazi province. In this place is the building of Imamzadeh Sultan Ali Ibn Mohammad Baqir, the son of Mohammad Baqir, the fifth leader of the Shiites, who has many pilgrims.

According to the narration of history, the Finn people of Kashan had sent a messenger named Amer ibn Nasser Finn to Medina to Muhammad Baqir in 113 AH and asked him to lead them. His son Sultan Ali sent Jafar Sadegh’s brother to Iran and Kashan. Imamzadeh arrived in Kashan and settled in Fin Bozorg neighborhood and in summer he went to Ardehal area due to hot weather. The situation was like this for several years until Sultan Ali Imamzadeh gained a lot of influence among the people and this caused fear in the ruler of Ardehal, who was called Zarrin Kafash. He sends an army to the region to assassinate Sultan Ali, and that Imam is finally killed in an unequal battle that lasted three days, along with his companions in the Ardehal summer region. The exact location of the killing in Darband Aznaveh is known as the massacre in the area. The Finns rush to Ardehal after hearing the news, but when they arrive when he has been killed, they wrap him in a rug and wash him in a nearby stream and bury him. Since then, every year on the second Friday of October and with the presence of thousands of Finns in Kashan, the traditional religious ritual of carpet weavers is held in this city. The sticks that people pick up on the second Friday of October every year have two narrations. The first is that it is used to wash carpets in Ardehal, Mashhad, and the second is that people take them as a sign of bloodlust.

Every year in the second week of October, which is known as the end of agricultural harvest week, farmers from villages around Kashan, Mahallat and Delijan, and the cities of Tehran, etc. Farmers and pilgrims come to Mashhad Ardehal to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Sultan Ali bin Mohammad Baqir. And attend carpet-washing ceremonies. This ceremony is the only religious ceremony in Iran that is held according to the solar Hijri calendar and based on the year of agriculture.

In the narrations of the Shiite Imams, this region is also mentioned as Vardahar. Sohrab Sepehri, a contemporary Iranian poet, is also buried in the shrine of this cit