O, ZEYNAB (S.A.)

O, Zeynab you are the head band of Umm al-Kitab

You have the tongue of Abu Torab in your mouth

Your expression is full of storm of wrath

Noah stands over your flood

Your Speech is the majesty of the lion of god

Dhul Faqar-Murtida is in your tongue

O, sister of guardian, verily your speech did as Ali’s sword

O, You saved your life just by saying ‘be silent’

O, you are the soul of the verse ‘do not despair’

When your melody of wrath was heard by the  bells,

The bells kept silent O, sweatheart of Ali

O, Fatima ! if you were the wife of Ali of nobility, a mother for Mustafa

Zeynab was more than a sister

She was a mother to her brother

Who hath trained such a daughter, but you

When did a shell form a pearl like you.

O, Zeynab! The flamming candle

O, the memory of blazing tents

Speak of Karbala’s suffering

Narrate the story of braves and cowards

Tell about the completely burnt palms

About the dried water-skins

About the weeping, moaning and tearing

Abot the Euphrates, and the instability of water

About the river and tearing of water

Describe the inauspicious palace of Yazid

(written by Muhammad Ali Mujahidi (Parvanah) ( Sayri dar Malakut 396-400)

(extracted from book Immam Hussain (a.s.) and the tragic saga of Karbala)