ziaraat-e-Ashura
English
Peace be on you, O Aba
Abdullah! peace be on you, O
son of the Messenger of
Allah!
peace be on you, O son of
the commander of the
faithfuls, the forebear of
the successors!
Peace be on you, O son of
Fatima, the choicest among
the women of the worlds!
Peace be on you, who was
martyred while fighting
heroically in the cause of
Allah, the son of Allah's
fearless warrior, you were
isolated and had been
attacked with a vengeance!
Peace be on you and on
those souls who had gathered
in your camp, in your
journey. I pray and invoke
Allah to keep all of you
tranquil and restful, for
ever; so far I am alive,
this is my prayer, and till
nights and days follow each
other.
O Abaa Abdu I lah !
unbearable is the sorrow,
nerve-racking is the agony,
youput up with, for us and
for all the (true) Muslims,
crimes committed against
you also shocked and
unnerved the dwellers of the
heavens, one and all.
May Allah condemn and damn
the people who laid the
basis and set up the
groundwork, to wander astray
and turn aside from not only
you and your family but to
take liberties and bear hard
upon you.
May Allah condemn and damn
the people who tried to
obscure and deny your office
and status, wilfully
neglected your rank and
class Allah had made known
in clear terms.
May Allah condemn and damn
the people who killed you.
May Allah condemn and damn
the abettors who instigated
and had a part in your
murder.
I turn to you and Allah,
away from them, their
henchmen, their followers
and their friends,
O Abaa Abdullah, I make
peace with those who make
their peace with you, I make
war on those who go to war
against you, till the Day of
Judgement.
May Allah condemn and damn
the family of Ziyaad and the
family of Marwaan; may Allah
condemn and damn the group
and the tribe of Umiyyah,
one and all, altogether;may
Allah condemn and damn ibna
Marjaanah;
may Allah condemn and damn
Umar bin Saad; may Allah
condemn and damn Shimr;
may Allah condemn and damn
the people who celebrate,
enjoy, sing and dance on the
day of your martyrdom. My
father and mother are at
your disposal.
Profound is my sorrow for
you. I beg Allah, who
honoured you above others,
to be generous towards me on
account of you,
and give me the opportunity
to be with the victorious
Imaam, the descendant of
Muhammad (blessings and
peace be on him and on his
children from Allah) at the
time of the final and
decisive war against Allah's
enemies.
O my Allah make me attend
to Thy cause, sincerely, in
every respect following in
Hussain's footsteps, in this
world and the hereafter.
O Abaa Abdullah, I come
nearer and seek greater
intimacy with Allah, with
His Messenger, with Ameerul
Momineen,
with Fatima, with Has-an
and with you, with the help
of your love
and patronage, cutting off
every connection with those
who took up arms against you
and killed you. I disconnect
all links with those who, in
the beginning, took the
first steps to take
liberties with and bear hard
upon you,
I take refuge with Allah
and His Messenger free from
the guilt of associating
with those who laid the
foundation for (your
suffering), devised and
carried out their corrupt
plan of action,
boldly gave currency to
reign of terror and cruelty
to oppress you and your
friends and followers;
detach myself from them and
present myself to Allah and
to you,
I (first) seek greater
intimacy with Allah and then
with you to win your love
and patronage, and to make
friends with your friends,
cut off all links with your
enemies, and with those who
planted the seeds of
hostility against you, and
reject and discard their
associates, their followers
and their friends.
I make peace with those who
made their peace with you, I
search out and confront
those who waged war against
you, I make friends with
those who stood by you, I
strive against those who
came in conflict with you,
therefore, I make a request
to Allah to acquaint (me)
with the awareness that
perceives you and your
friends, to set me free from
the corrupting influence of
your enemies,
to make me keep company
with you it, this world and
in the Hereafter, stand firm
beside you and follow your
footsteps closely in this
world and in the next world.
I beseech Him that He helps
me to reach your highly
praised station, given to
you by Allah, (to meet you),
that He provides me the
opportunity to fight for
justice and fairplay
alongwith and under the
leadership of the rightly
guided guide (in your
progeny) who surely will
come and speak the truth.
I beseech Allah in the name
of your right and the
purpose He assigned to you,
that He overwhelms me with
grief in memory of your
sorrows, more than the
personal grief that torments
any one who is in great
agony,
sorrows which have no
parallel and overshadow all
calamities that took place
in the history of Islam, for
that matter, through out the
whole universe.
O my Allah, in my on the
spot situation, treat me
like him (or her) who
obtains from Thee (Thy)
blessings, mercy and
forgiveness.
O my Allah, bring me to
life again, after death, in
the place Muhammad and his "Aal"
(children) are dwelling, and
make me depart from this
world like Muhammad and his
"Aal" (children) had left,
O my Allah this day is a
day of rejoicing for the "Bani
Umayyah(lanat maloon)
the herd of hardened
criminals, the eternally
damned and accursed group, a
fact that had been made
public by Thee and by Thy
Prophet (blessings of Allah
be on him and on his
children),
who, in every place and at
all occasions, drew
attention of people to this
truism.
O my Allah condemn and damn
Abu Sufyaan, Mu-a'awiyah bin
Abu Sufyan, Yazid bin
Muwa'awiyah(lanat to all of
the maloon) and let it be an
everlasting curse upon there
from Thee.
Today the descendants of
Ziyaad and Marwan make
merry, laugh and dance
because on this day they
killed Husayn (blessings of
Allah be on him).
O my Allah, therefore,
double up the curse Thou
brings upon them and also
the punishment Thou decrees
for them.
O my Allah, I seek nearness
to Thee today in this frame
of mind, cutting off all
links with them for the
_rest of my life,
denouncing them because of
my love for Thy Prophet and
his children, peace be on
him and them.
O my Allah condemn and damn
the first tyrant who
unjustly and wrongfully
usurped that which rightly
belonged to Muhammad and the
children of Muhammad, and
bring curse upon those who,
after him, followed in his
footsteps.
O my Allah condemn and damn
those conspirators who vexed
and harassed Husayn, showed
eagerness, agreed mutually,
and joined hands to kill
him. O my Allah bring curse
upon all of them.
Peace be on you, O Abaa
Abdullah, and on those souls
who came to your camp to put
themselves at your disposal.
So far I am alive and the
days and nights follow each
other I invoke Allah to send
blessings on you for ever
and ever.
May Allah not make my this
pledge of close association,
physical as well as
spiritual, with you the last
fulfilment.
Peace be on Husayn, and on
Ali son of Husayn, and on
the children of Husayn, and
on the friends of Husayn.
O my Allah, let the curse I
call down on the head of the
first tyrant stick like a
leech; and stay put for ever
on the first, then the
second, the third and the
fourth.
O my Allah damn and call
down evil on the fifth,
Yazid son of Mua'awyah, and
bring a curse upon
Ubaydullah bin Ziyaad, ibna
Marjanah,
Umar bin Saad, and Shimr,
and on the descendants of
Abu Sufyaan, on the
descendants of Ziyaad, on
the descendants of Marwaan,
till the Day of Judgement.
O my Allah! (All) praise is
for Thee (alone); praise of
the "Ever-thankful to Thee",
who glorify Thee whatever
come to pass. (All) praise
is for Allah for my deepfelt
intense grief.
O my Allah make available
for me the recommendations
of Husayn on the day I
present myself before Thee,
let me stand firm in safety
before Thee on account of my
sincere attachment with
Husayn, alongwith him and
his comrades, who sacrificed
everything they had (heart,
mind, soul and life) for
Husayn, peace be on him.


