{"id":15530,"date":"2022-04-28T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:29:53","slug":"who-is-zahra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/15530\/who-is-zahra\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Zahra?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who is Zahra shall dawn on Doomsday,<\/p>\n

Enemies of her enemies in divine pardon sway,<\/p>\n

Friends of her enemies shall contrite in dismay;<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s tears shed in her love tomorrow pay.<\/p>\n

What is Zahra? First let us know<\/p>\n

\u00a0To acquire a letter angle to peep into her woe,<\/p>\n

If the prophets placed in one pan and she in another<\/p>\n

Imam Sadiq says the pan of Zahra weighs heavier.<\/p>\n

From a higher station to a lower station<\/p>\n

If a thing given from his own possession<\/p>\n

It is called \u2018ATA\u2019 in Arabic decorum<\/p>\n

So Says God in Qur’an in the shortest sum.<\/p>\n

How dear is Zahra to God, shows this chapter,<\/p>\n

And remarks her worth to her Father — the Messenger.<\/p>\n

Her Father had not yet been buried,<\/p>\n

They to avenge their broken idols to Saqifa hurried.<\/p>\n

What Monsters in the lane appear!<\/p>\n

Ah fear! Ah frantic fear!<\/p>\n

Dangerous! Even for those of giant limbs mold<\/p>\n

Can a lady with tender heart tolerate to behold?!<\/p>\n

He round after round in his hideous form<\/p>\n

Howling, shouting, making wilder the wild storm<\/p>\n

Stood like a loose hanging rock<\/p>\n

Remitting to the sight a paralyzing shock,<\/p>\n

Sea the rattling terrors of the vengeful make<\/p>\n

And know how his belief false, his faith fake!!!<\/p>\n

He never seems tired of his tyrannical sway<\/p>\n

And seems to him it is a festive day.<\/p>\n

Ruffians and rowdies gathered more and more<\/p>\n

Like a loud torrent and a whirlwind\u2019s roar.<\/p>\n

But the ringleader wants a larger pile,<\/p>\n

Exults, and says fire alone could make him smile.<\/p>\n

He ordered: \u201cBring fuel, wood and set fire\u201d\u200c;<\/p>\n

The rascals obeyed fanned by strong desire.<\/p>\n

Their hearts like torpid rocks (in pagan) array<\/p>\n

The winters of their souls chilled their belief astray.<\/p>\n

No zephyr of faith sued their rocky breast<\/p>\n

A glare, a balm which their hatred awaited to invest,<\/p>\n

In the wilderness lost, they built their shed<\/p>\n

In the ruin where their souls were dead,<\/p>\n

Pleased the rowdies their diabolical power<\/p>\n

Made them to dance forgetful of the noontide hour<\/p>\n

Whose House it was the vulgar didn\u2019t care,<\/p>\n

The Cries of Zahra fell low<\/p>\n

As the flames from the house grow,<\/p>\n

The ringleader in sprightly spirit, in mirth, ease<\/p>\n

Pleased with himself and the deed dazzled to please.<\/p>\n

Each ball of sight seemed bursting from his head<\/p>\n

And shook with dread at the sound himself had made.<\/p>\n

The tyrant cheerful at his deed in a proud pose<\/p>\n

Breasts the smoke, waves the sword and goes<\/p>\n

And carries the den of curses along the way<\/p>\n

Ashes drag the struggling savage day<\/p>\n

She betwixt door and the wall fell bleeding<\/p>\n

As Fizzah the maid came running.<\/p>\n

Ah! What sorrows bloom to gloom the day<\/p>\n

Life from its native walk shrinks away.<\/p>\n

Shudder the near ones because to them a distant deep<\/p>\n

The remote ones on pilgrimage wept, return again to weeps.<\/p>\n

Miscarried Mohsen — unborn died<\/p>\n

What the mother felt? Falling at his side,<\/p>\n

O, you! The Babe of early doom!<\/p>\n

Aerial hands shall build your tomb.<\/p>\n

With the pearls of tears crowned<\/p>\n

And all Infant Martyrs round,<\/p>\n

You aren\u2019t dead in any age<\/p>\n

Pilgrims shall recite in Qur’an your page,<\/p>\n

Honour beheld in tears shall save<\/p>\n

To sigh your name thro\u2019 every grave,<\/p>\n

Wherever you are laid<\/p>\n

There bows heroes\u2019 shade.<\/p>\n

Though fallen she turns her joyless eyes<\/p>\n

To search where her Mohsen lies,<\/p>\n

Since then Zahra felt as if on thorn<\/p>\n

And haying lost nightly rest wept till morn.<\/p>\n

Even the beasts wept on their way as they pursue<\/p>\n

Shrill roared the wind, made melancholy the view.<\/p>\n

Ah! Lady! I leave your tale with words so few<\/p>\n

Upsets me the tyranny committed against you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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