The Dam Madar Malang

The Dam Madar Malang, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

pain of karbala
the martyrdom
of imam hussain
a bleeding sky
a shia pandit
a camera lens
that holds shivas
third eye

Shah ast Hussain, Badshah ast Hussain
Deen ast Hussain, Deen Panah ast Hussain
Sardad na dad dast, dar dast-e-yazeed,
Haqaa key binaey La ila ast Hussain

Ruler is Hussain, Emperor is Hussain,
Faith is Hussain , guardian of faith is Hussain .
Offered his head and not the hand to Yazid.
Truly, the mirror of faith is Hussain

words of the sufi saint of ajmer
on the bulund darwaza
that wont die
within the soul of humanity
sakinas cry
alam abbas
mashke sakina
cut off water supply
asghars parched throat
bleeding dry
kassims mutilated body
trampled by horses by and by
zainabs kutbas
in the court of yazid
her soul filled reply
a head on a spear
tilawate koran
a bayt held high

sham sham sham
the fourth imam
bidding karbala
humanity good bye

hussain is humanity
embedded in an eternal sigh

lanat on yazid
father of terrorism
allah ho akbar
misused by the jehaddis
now a war cry
arab barbarism
an eye for an eye

shiasm a protest against
yazidityat
for 1400 years in the public eye
ya hussain
ya hussain
they wont deny


picture shot by my daughter samiya