Soaz

Soaz or soz (Persian / Urdu: سوز) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his comrades of the Karbala. In its form the soaz, salam and marsia, 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 centre of Shia Muslim community, which regarded it an act of piety and religious duty to eulogise and bemoan the martyrs of the battle of Karbala. The form reached its peak in the writing of Mir Babar Ali Anis. Soaz is written to commemorate the martyrdom of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. The sub-parts of marsia can be called noha and soz which means lamentation and burning of (heart) respectively.

See also

• Marsiya
• Noha

External links

• Soazkhwani by Professor Sibte Jafar Zaidi
• Soazkhwani by Syed Imon Rizvi
• Nohey, Soazkhwani, Salam, Marsiya and Manqabat
• Soazkhwani by Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi
• Soazkhwani by Majid Raza Abidi
• Soazkhwani by Azimul Mohsin
• Soazkhwani by Hasan Abid Jaffery
• Soazkhwani by Abid Hussain Alwari
• Babulilm Students Society Malir Karachi
• AZADARI IMAM HUSSAIN (AS)
• Audio Soazkhwani Links
• Soazkhwani by Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi
• A Soazkhwani Classic by Syed Aftab Ali Kazmi