Qaswidah Hamziyyah Referencing Karbala

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

The following is an extract of Qaswidah Hamziyyah of Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa’id al-Buswiri ash-Shadzili (q.s.).  Among the couplets of this poem are the following lines, referencing the tragic fate of the Ahl al-Bayt, at Karbala’: 

“And the two sons whose perfumed scent is from you,

Who the extremely pure one had borne.

You used to give them shelter in yourself, just as,

The ya’ gave shelter to the writing of its two dots.

Two martyrs, neither at-Taf makes me forget,

Their affliction, nor Karbala’.

The ruled did not take care of your rights in regard to them,

And the rulers as well betrayed your pact.

They replaced the love and care to your relatives;

And the fogs of hypocrisy rose from its people.

Hardened became their hearts towards those,

For whose loss, the earth and heaven had wept.

So, weep for them as much as you are able, surely the very least.

In the midst of such a great affliction, is crying,

Every day and every land, due to my grief over them,

Is Karbala’ and ‘Ashura’.

O People of the House of the Prophet!  All my own grief cannot stop,

My heart from grieving for you,

But I have resigned my matter to Allah;

And my resignation of matters is my Salvation,

That evil day in Karbala’, perhaps some of its misdeeds,

Were atoned in az-Zawra;

When the enemies,

Were lain around dead and mutilated.

O People of the House of the Prophet, you are pure!

So, my praises and eulogies for you are also pure.” 

“az-Zawra” refers to Baghdad, the city of the Abbasid caliphs, who overthrew the Umayyads, and used vengeance for the Ahl al-Bayt, as a reason for the revolt.