Karbala: Garden of Truth
بِسۡمِ
ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Shaykh Hakim Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana’i (q.s.) wrote a poem about Karbala. Here is the excerpt from his “Garden of Truth”:
“How excellent Karbala! And that honour it received,
Which brought to mankind
the scent of Paradise as if on a breeze;
And that body, headless,
laying in clay and dust,
And those precious ones,
hearts rent by the sword.
And that Elect of all the
world, murdered,
His body smeared with
earth and blood;
And those great oppressors,
those doers of evil,
Persistent in the evil
they do.
The sanctity of religion
and the Family of the Prophet
Are both borne away, both
by ignorance and idiocy;
Swords are red like
precious ruby with the blood of Hussain,
What disgrace in the world
worse than this!
And Muswthafa, his
garments all torn,
And ‘Ali, tears of blood
raining from his eyes.
A whole world has become
insolent in its cruelty;
The cunning fox (Yazid)
has become a vain, boastful lion.
But still unbelievers at
the start of the battle,
Were reminded of the
stroke of Dzu al-Fiqar.
Yes, from Hussain they
sought satisfaction for their rancour,
But that was not to be;
They had to be content
with their own malice and disgrace.
And know that any who speak ill of those murderous dogs
Will be Kings in the world to come!”
“Dzu al-Fiqar” is the name of the sword
Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abu Thalib (k.w.) wielded.
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