Soaz or soz (
Persian and
Urdu: سوز) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the honor of
Husain ibn Ali and his family and companions in the
battle of Karbala. In its form the soaz, salam and
Marsiya are similar, each consisting of 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 the
Shia Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
community, which regarded it an act of piety and religious duty to eulogize and bemoan the martyrs of 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 the
Ahl al-Bayt
Ahl al-Bayt ( ar, أَهْل ٱلْبَيْت, ) refers to the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the term has also been extended in Sunni Islam to apply to all descendants of the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and even to all Muslims. ...
,
Imam Hussain and the
Battle of Karbala. The sub-parts of Marsiya can be called ''
noha'' and ''soz'', which mean the lamentation and the burning of the heart, respectively.
People who recite soaz are known as soazkhawan.
See also
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Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi
Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi (Urdu: سيد علي اوسط زيدي) was a renowned Urdu Soazkhawan. He was born in Meerut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 1932 and died in Karachi, Pakistan in 2008. He hold the prestigious and eminent ...
, Prominent Urdu Soazkhawan
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Marsiya
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Noha
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Rawda Khwani
References
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Soazkhwani by Professor Sibte Jafar ZaidiSoazkhwani by Syed Ali Ausat ZaidiSoazkhuani by Muhammad Ali Naqvi
Urdu-language poetry
Shia literature
Cultural depictions of Husayn ibn Ali