Soz-o-Salaam

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Soaz-o-Salaam or Soz-o-Salaam (Persian and Urdu: سوز) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the honor of Husain ibn Ali and his family and Sahabah in the battle of Karbala. In its form the soaz, salam and Marsiya, with a rhyming quatrain and a couplet on a different rhyme. This form found a specially congenial soil in Lucknow (a city in Northern India), chiefly because it was the center of Shia Muslim community, which regarded it an act of piety and religious duty to eulogies and bemoan the person who killed in the battle of Karbala. The form reached its peak in the writing of Mir Babar Ali Anis. A soaz is written to commemorate the honor of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. The sub-parts of Marsiya can be called Noha and soz which means the lamentation and burning of (heart) respectively.

“Soz” is the “bund”- a 4-6 line poetry usually rhyming and “salaam” is longer.. Example of one very famous salaam is “Ghabrayegi Zainab”.

Jo Raahbar Na Milay (Salaam) – Abu Turab Naqvi 2021

Jo Raahbar Na Milay - Abu Turab Naqvi Mustafabadi

Jo Raahbar Na Milay جو راہبر نہ ملے راستہ نہیں ملتابغیر آلِ نبیٌ کے خُدا نہیں مِلتاجو راہبر نہ ملے۔۔۔ درِ نَجَف پہ جَبیں کو جُھکا کے دیکھو تواس آستانے سے سائل کو کیا نہیں مِلتا علی کی کر لو زیارت جو شوق ہے موسیٰکے کوہِ طور پے نُورِ خُدا …

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