Bibi Zainab and Islam

Bibi Zainab and Islam, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

My Poem on Bibi Zainab

When I consider how her life was spent
Miltonesque school memories that give vent

Bibi Zainab
Tears for Karbala
Her love for Islam
Was her lament
Hair turned white
Back bent
Atrocities she saw
Pain death torment
Her own children’s
Death she did not resent
But for Ali Akbars death
She did repent
At the court of Yazid
She stood her ground
Daughter of Sher E Ali
Her hard hitting kutbas
She did present
Watching her was her
Brother Hussain
head on a spear
no chance event
brother Abbas
even god could not reinvent
to save her from humiliations
from Islam
that Yazid did misrepresent
sham sham sham
said the Fourth Imam
was worse than the
tribulations at Karbala
and the burning tents.
Muslims love humiliating Muslims
Muslims love killing Muslims
Muslim women ill-treated by Muslim men
Is what I meant
History shows without any bias
To a very large extent