This is a poetic English language translation and rendition of Ziyarat Ashura - the Visitation of Ashura - recited at least on the Day of Ashura, the day of the Martyrdom of Imam Husayn - to understand the notion of Martyrdom (or Witness) please visit Reflections313 and study the material there on the subject.

Why We Made This — A Note From Truth Promoters

The Arabic of the Ziyārah is the original, and it is beautiful — its sound carries something a translation can only point toward, and nothing here is meant to stand in its place.

But Arabic is a language most of the world does not speak.

Even among Muslims, a great many can read and recite the Arabic faithfully yet cannot follow what it means; and even among Arabs, the everyday tongue is colloquial — not the classical Arabic in which the Qur’an, the supplications, and this Ziyārah were given.

So these words are spoken by millions, and understood by far fewer.

And God tells us of His Prophet:

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ

“And We did not send you except as a mercy to all the worlds.”

— Qur’an, Surah al-Anbiyāʾ (the Chapter of the Prophets) #21, Verse107

A mercy to all the worlds is, by definition, not a mercy only for those who happen to speak Arabic — and the same universality belongs to the household of the Prophet (peace be upon them).

With that before us, for Muḥarram 1448 the Truth Promoters team set out to make the most faithful, careful, and genuinely poetic English rendering of this Ziyārah that we could — so that an English speaker anywhere, Muslim or not, can receive not only its sound but its sense.

To make it as beautiful and as reachable as our means allow, we have used the tools of our time — AI assistance for the recited voice (through Suno) and for the imagery and short films that accompany it — alongside careful human translation and checking the meaning against the classical sources.

We see no contradiction in this: if a tool can help carry a true and beautiful thing to people who would otherwise never reach it, then using it well is part of the work.

Helping people understand is, as we see it, a duty — and we have tried to discharge it with care.

One thing we want to be completely clear about: we are not here to convert anyone.

That is not our aim and never has been.

Whether a person comes to a faith, and when, is between them and God — it comes in its own time, if it comes at all, and the giving of guidance belongs to God alone, not to us.

Our task is only to educate: to clear away misconceptions and let the reality of things be seen plainly.

This is the work we have called tabyeen — clarification — which we set out more fully in our Tabyeen (Clarification) series, beginning with Understanding Tabyeen.

If, having read, you agree, we are glad; if you disagree, that is entirely your right and no quarrel of ours.

We ask only that no one be left uninformed — because people have a right to know, and to decide for themselves.

What The Ziyārah Is

A ziyārah is a visitation — a way of standing before one of God’s friends and addressing them directly, even across distance and across time.

Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ is the visitation of Imam Ḥusayn (peace be upon him), the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), who was killed with his family and companions on the plain of Karbalā on the tenth day — ʿĀshūrāʾ — of Muḥarram, in the year 61 after the Hijrah (680 CE).

It is not a poem written about him; it is words taught by the Imams of his household to be said to him.

The text is narrated from Imam Muḥammad al-Bāqir (peace be upon him), the great-grandson of Ḥusayn, through the companion ʿAlqama ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī, and is preserved in the earliest books of visitation — Ibn Qūlawayh’s Kāmil al-Ziyārāt and Shaykh al-Ṭūsī’s Miṣbāḥ al-Mutahajjid — and carried to the present day in Shaykh ʿAbbās al-Qummī’s Mafātīḥ al-Jinān.

It is recited especially on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ and throughout the days of mourning.

Its structure moves through a clear arc, and our rendering follows it: the greeting of peace (salām); the affliction — the grief that reaches even the heavens; the distancing (barāʾah) from those who built and carried the injustice; the drawing near (walāyah) to God through love of the Prophet’s household; the marking of this day; the return of the greeting; the naming; and the prostration.

Two movements beat through the whole: tawallā — turning toward the household in love — and tabarrā — turning away from injustice.

Peace to the wronged; distance to the wrong.

Its Origin, And The Call To Recite It

The Ziyārah reaches us through a narration of the companion ʿAlqama ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī from Imam Muḥammad al-Bāqir (peace be upon him), the great-grandson of Ḥusayn.

In it the Imam does not only teach the words; he teaches a whole way of standing — to give the salutation, to invoke the distancing upon the oppressors and the peace upon the household, to pray two units of prayer afterward, and to renew the covenant.

The narration promises the one who keeps it an immense reward: that God receives their visitation as though they had been present at Karbalā itself and had stood and fallen at Ḥusayn’s side.

It is preserved in the earliest sources — Ibn Qūlawayh’s Kāmil al-Ziyārāt and Shaykh al-Ṭūsī’s Miṣbāḥ al-Mutahajjid.

For this reason the tradition has long encouraged reciting Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ not only on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ but regularly — even every day — as a standing renewal of allegiance: the believer beginning the day by greeting Ḥusayn, affirming loyalty to the household of the Prophet, and disavowing injustice.

Many keep it as a daily practice; some recite it for forty consecutive days for a need, in the hope of being counted among the helpers of the awaited Imam.

However one keeps it, its purpose is one: to keep the covenant of Karbalā fresh, and never to let it harden into a mere memory of the past.

On The Word Laʿn — Why We Say “May The Mercy of God Be Distant,” Never “Curse”

Much of the Ziyārah invokes laʿn upon the oppressors.

In English this is almost always mistranslated as “curse,” which gives entirely the wrong idea — as if one were wishing magical harm, or simply venting hatred.

That is not what the word means, and we have deliberately not used it.

Laʿn means to be placed at a distance from God’s mercy.

To say laʿn upon someone is to affirm that, by persisting in injustice and refusing to turn back, they have set themselves outside the reach of God’s grace — and to disavow their wrong.

The point is theological, not emotional.

And one distinction matters above all: it is God’s mercy that is held at a distance — never God Himself.

God is al-Qarīb, the Near; He is near always, to everyone.

What the wrongdoer loses is not God’s nearness but God’s mercy, refused by their own choosing.

So throughout our rendering we say “may the mercy of God be distant from…” rather than “curse” — because mercy is everything, and to be without it is everything, and that is the real weight the Arabic carries.

It follows that this distancing is aimed at injustice and those who embodied it and would not turn from it — a moral stand against tyranny in every age.

It is not hatred of a people, a tribe, or a lineage.

The Ziyārah disavows the foundation of oppression; it does not condemn anyone for their birth.

The People Who Are Honoured

Imam Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (peace be upon him) — Abā ʿAbdillāh, “the father of ʿAbdullāh,” is his by-name, used throughout the Ziyārah.

The grandson of the Prophet, son of Imam ʿAlī and Sayyedah Fāṭima, and the third of the Imams of the household.

He refused to pledge allegiance to the tyranny of Yazīd and was killed at Karbalā with around seventy-two of his family and companions.

The series tells his death in full in the maqtal Peace Upon You, O Abā ʿAbdillāh.

The Messenger of God, the Prophet Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) — Ḥusayn’s grandfather.

The Ziyārah greets Ḥusayn first as “son of the Messenger of God.”

The Commander of the Faithful, Imam ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (peace be upon him) — Ḥusayn’s father, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet, the first Imam, and “the master of those entrusted to come after” (the waṣiyyīn, the appointed successors).

Sayyedah Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (peace be upon her) — Ḥusayn’s mother, the daughter of the Prophet, named in the Ziyārah “mistress of the women of all the worlds.”

Imam Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (peace be upon him) — Ḥusayn’s elder brother, the second Imam, named in the drawing-near.

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn — Imam al-Sajjād, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (peace be upon him) — Ḥusayn’s son, who was gravely ill at Karbalā and so survived, becoming the fourth Imam and the voice of the household afterward.

The closing salām greets “ʿAlī son of Ḥusayn.”

The children of Ḥusayn, and the companions of Ḥusayn (peace be upon them) — “the souls that came to rest about you”: the family and friends who fell at his side.

Among them al-ʿAbbās, his brother and standard-bearer; ʿAlī al-Akbar, his eldest son; the youth Qāsim; the infant ʿAlī al-Aṣghar; and devoted companions such as Ḥabīb ibn Muẓāhir, Ḥurr ibn Yazīd, Zuhayr ibn al-Qayn and Burayr — many of whom the series treats in their own maqtals.

The aided Imam — the guiding Imam who will rise — when the Ziyārah asks God “to grant us to seek the requital of your blood at the side of an Imam divinely aided” and “a guiding Imam, manifest, speaking with the truth,” it looks to the awaited twelfth Imam, al-Mahdī (may God hasten his return), in whom the reciter hopes the long account of Karbalā will at last be set right.

The People Who Are Disavowed

These are the historical figures of the injustice at Karbalā and the power behind it.

We name them plainly, as the Ziyārah does — and the distancing invoked upon them is the distance of God’s mercy, as explained above.

The clan of Umayya (Banū Umayya) — the branch of Quraysh that held the caliphate as a hereditary monarchy after the death of Imam ʿAlī; the dynasty under which Karbalā took place.

Abū Sufyān — the Umayyad chief who led the opposition to the Prophet for years before the conquest of Mecca; father of Muʿāwiya, grandfather of Yazīd.

Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān — the first Umayyad caliph, who turned the leadership of the community into hereditary rule and named his son Yazīd to succeed him. The Ziyārah’s phrase “the son of the devourer of livers” refers to him: his mother, Hind bint ʿUtba, mutilated and chewed the liver of Ḥamza, the Prophet’s uncle, at the battle of Uḥud.

Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya — the second Umayyad caliph, in whose reign and on whose authority Ḥusayn was killed; the refusal to pledge to his rule is the hinge of the whole story.

ʿUbaydullāh ibn Ziyād — Yazīd’s governor over Kufa, who dispatched the army to Karbalā and gave the orders that ended in the killing.

The Ziyārah also names him “the son of Marjāna,” after his mother — the same man.

The house of Ziyād (Āl Ziyād) — the family of ʿUbaydullāh and his father Ziyād.

The house of Marwān (Āl Marwān) — the Marwānid branch of the Umayyads (after Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam) who consolidated and continued the dynasty.

ʿUmar ibn Saʿd — the field commander of the Kufan army at Karbalā, who took the command in exchange for the promised governorship of Rayy (near modern day Tehran).

Shimr ibn Dhī al-Jawshan — the commander who pressed the final assault and is named in the tradition as the killer of Imam Ḥusayn.

“The first… the second… the third… the fourth… and Yazīd, the fifth” — near its close the Ziyārah counts a line of oppressors by order rather than by name, beginning with “the first who wronged the right of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad” and reaching Yazīd as the fifth.

This passage is the most misread in the whole Ziyārah, and it matters greatly to read it rightly.

The misreading is this: that the ordinals point to particular figures from the first decades of Islamic history — and on that basis the whole Ziyārah is cast as a sectarian attack on one group of Muslims by another.

That is a profound misunderstanding, born more of emotion than of knowledge, and it is the very opposite of what the words mean.

History did not begin with Islam.

It began with Adam — and with Adam began both the line of God’s witnesses and the line of those who rise against them.

This is the arc the Muharram series for 1448 (2026) traces from its very first night, in Abel — the first witness — and the brother who shed the first innocent blood.

In the teaching of the Prophet’s household, the light and the right of Muḥammad and his family precede all creation; so “the right of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad” is the right of divine guidance itself — the same right carried by every prophet — and “the first who wronged” it is the first who ever rose against a witness of God.

Scholars have genuinely differed over the exact referents, and the Ziyārah deliberately leaves them unnamed.

But the sound reading — and the one we follow — understands the four not as figures internal to one community’s quarrels at all, but as the archetypal oppressors of God’s witnesses across the ages: the first to shed innocent blood (Cain, who killed his brother Abel); Nimrod, who rose against Abraham; Pharaoh, who rose against Moses; and the tyrant in whose time John the Baptist — Yaḥyā — was slain (Herod, in the Gospel telling).

Yazīd is named the fifth because he belongs to that lineage — not to any list of caliphs, but to the company of Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh and Herod: the line of those who, in every age, kill the witness of God and call it order.

So the point of the passage is barāʾah — the disavowal of the kind of oppression that runs unbroken through all of human history, of which Karbalā is the sharpest wound — never the settling of one community’s grudge against another.

As with every laʿn in the Ziyārah, what is invoked is the distance of God’s mercy from injustice that was never repented; and what is affirmed against it is loyalty to the witnesses of God in every age, from Abel to Ḥusayn.

Karbalā Is Not Only The Past — The Ḥusayn And The Yazīd Of Every Age

It would be the smallest possible reading of this Ziyārah to think its loyalty and its disavowal are spent on people long dead.

Yazīd, ʿUbaydullāh and Shimr are gone; the choice they embodied is not.

Every age stages the same drama — a power that demands the conscience bow to it, and a witness who will not bow — and the Imams taught these words for every day precisely so that the believer would carry the criterion of Karbalā into his own time, not leave it in the year 61.

So the believer’s task is a present one.

It is to recognise the Yazīd of his own time — wherever a power kills the innocent and calls it order, demands the pledge and calls refusal treason, dresses oppression as necessity — and to recognise the Ḥusayn of his own time — wherever someone refuses that pledge and bears the cost of refusing.

And then to do exactly what the Ziyārah trains the tongue and the heart to do: give loyalty to the Ḥusayn of the age, and hold the distance of God’s mercy from its Yazīd.

Every day is ʿĀshūrāʾ; every land is Karbalā — because the criterion does not change, only the names do.

And the hardest Yazīd to name is the one within.

The same refusal the Ziyārah rehearses outwardly is owed inwardly — to the part of the self that would make its peace with comfort at the cost of the truth.

Whoever says “may the mercy of God be distant from the oppressor” and then bows, in private, to his own tyranny of appetite has learned only half of the prayer.

To know the Ḥusayn of your time begins with refusing the Yazīd in yourself.

Going deeper.

For any reader who wishes to follow these threads further:

From the Shahada series (this Muḥarram (1448/2026)):

• Karbalā as a living, daily criterion rather than a remembered event — Night 4, Every Day Is Ashura.

• Telling the true witness from the counterfeit, and the counterfeits of our own age — Night 9, The False Shahada.

• Ḥusayn as the furqān, the criterion that weighs both the empire outside and the self within — Night 10, Husayn, Heir of Adam.

• Loyalty to the just and disavowal of the unjust today — how one disowns a regime while honouring the very people it wrongs — Night 7, Nothing More Precious Than Independence.

From the Lantern of the Path series:

• Why loyalty is owed to the rightful leadership of the Prophet’s household — #24, Imāmah: The Commander of the Faithful, Imam ʿAlī.

• Imam Ḥusayn himself — #27, Imāmah: Imam Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the Master of the Martyrs.

• Giving one’s loyalty to God and the rightful guide, and refusing it to the tyrant (ṭāghūt) of one’s own time — #19, Wilāyah to the Ṭāghūt and #20, Migrating to the Wilāyah of God.

• Awaiting the Imam of the age as active recognition and preparation, never passivity — #46, Mahdawiyyah: The Philosophy of Intidhār — Action, Not Apathy.

A Few Recurring Words And Phrases

• Abā ʿAbdillāh — Imam Ḥusayn’s kunya (honorific by-name), “father of ʿAbdullāh,” after his infant son.

• Ahl al-Bayt / People of the House — the family of the Prophet: ʿAlī, Fāṭima, Ḥasan, Ḥusayn and the Imams of their line.

• “O blood whose claim is God’s” (yā thār Allāh) — Ḥusayn as the one whose spilled blood God Himself will vindicate; “the solitary one, his due not yet redeemed” (al-witr al-mawtūr) names him as the one left alone, whose account is not yet settled.

• Barāʾah — disavowal; turning away from injustice and from those who chose it.

• Walāyah / muwālāt — loyalty; turning toward God through love of the Prophet’s household. The two together are the heart of the Ziyārah.

Sources Drawn On For This Introduction

• Ibn Qūlawayh, Kāmil al-Ziyārāt, and al-Ṭūsī, Miṣbāḥ al-Mutahajjid (for the text and its transmission);

• al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād;

• al-Ṭabarī, Tārīkh;

• Ibn Ṭāwūs, al-Luhūf; and Ayatollah Rayshahrī, The Chronicles of the Martyrdom of Imam Ḥusayn (for the figures and the events of Karbalā) — the same source base the series rests on. The explanation of laʿn follows the series' locked theological convention: it is the distancing of God's mercy, never the distancing of God Himself.

The Full Text Of The Ziyārah

I — The Greeting

Peace be upon you, O Abā ʿAbdillāh.
Peace be upon you, O son of the Messenger of God.
Peace be upon you, O chosen of God, and son of His chosen.
Peace be upon you, O son of the Commander of the Faithful, son of the master of those entrusted to come after.
Peace be upon you, O son of Sayyedah Fāṭima, mistress of the women of all the worlds.
Peace be upon you, O blood whose claim is God’s, and son of that same claim — the solitary one, his due not yet redeemed.
Peace be upon you, and upon the souls that came to rest about you.

Upon you all, from us, be the peace of God —
for as long as we remain, and as long as night and day endure.

II — The Affliction

O Abā ʿAbdillāh —
immense is the calamity, and bitter;
great is the wound of your loss upon us, and upon all the people of Islam.
Great and grievous is your affliction in the heavens, upon all who dwell there.

III — The Distancing

May the mercy of God be distant from a people who laid the first foundation of injustice and tyranny against you, O People of the House.
May the mercy of God be distant from a people who drove you from your station, and tore you from the ranks in which God Himself had placed you.
May the mercy of God be distant from a people who killed you —
and from those who smoothed their road, and gave into their hands the power to make war upon you.

We disown them before God and before you — them, and their partisans, their followers, their friends.

O Abā ʿAbdillāh — we are at peace with all who are at peace with you, and at war with all who war against you, until the Day of Resurrection.

May the mercy of God be distant from the house of Ziyād and the house of Marwān;
from the clan of Umayya, every one of them;
from the son of Marjāna;
from ʿUmar son of Saʿd;
from Shimr;
and from a people who saddled their horses, and bridled them, and masked their faces to make war upon you.

By our fathers and our mothers — for you, we would give them.

IV — Seeking Nearness

Great is our grief for you.
And so we ask of God — who ennobled your station, and honoured us through you —
that He grant us to seek the requital of your blood
at the side of an Imam divinely aided, from the household of Muḥammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family.

O God, make us, in Your sight, honoured through Ḥusayn — peace be upon him — in this world and the next.

O Abā ʿAbdillāh, we draw near to God, and to His Messenger, and to the Commander of the Faithful, and to Sayyedah Fāṭima, and to Ḥasan, and to you — through our love and loyalty to you;
and through our disavowal of the one who fought you and raised against you the standard of war;
of the one who laid the first foundation of injustice and built his house upon it, and carried on in oppression against you and against those who follow you.
We disown them before God and before you.

We draw near to God — and then to you — through loyalty to you, and to the one who holds your guardianship;
and through disavowal of your enemies.
We are at peace with all who are at peace with you, and at war with all who war against you;
friends to all who befriend you, foes to all who show you enmity.

So we ask of God — who honoured us with knowing you, and knowing those who love you —
that He place us with you, in this world and the next;
that He set firm for us, in your presence, a footing of truth;
that He bring us to the praised station that is yours with God;
and that He grant us to seek our requital at the side of a guiding Imam — manifest, and speaking with the truth — from among you.

And we ask of God, by your right, and by the rank that is yours with Him,
that He grant us, for our sorrow over you, the finest gift He gives to any soul stricken in its grief —
an affliction: how immense it is, how great its sorrow, in Islam, and in all the heavens and the earth.

O God, make us, in this our standing, among those whom Your blessings reach, and Your mercy, and Your forgiveness.
O God, make our living the living of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad,
and our dying the dying of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad.

V — This Day

O God, this is a day on which the clan of Umayya rejoiced and counted itself blessed — and the son of the devourer of livers;
the one cast far from mercy, son of the one cast far from mercy — upon Your tongue, and the tongue of Your Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, in every place and at every standing where Your Prophet stood.

O God, let Your mercy be far from Abū Sufyān, and Muʿāwiya, and Yazīd son of Muʿāwiya — upon them, from You, be that exile from mercy, for all the ages without end.

This is a day on which the house of Ziyād and the house of Marwān rejoiced — at their killing of Ḥusayn, God’s blessings be upon him.
O God, multiply upon them the distance of Your mercy, and Your punishment.

O God, on this day, and in this our standing, and through all the days of our lives, we draw near to You —
by disowning them, by calling the distance of Your mercy down upon them, and by our loyalty to Your Prophet and the family of Your Prophet, peace be upon them.

VI — The Sealing

(the hundredfold remembrance, said once)

O God, let Your mercy be distant from the first who wronged the right of Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad — and from the last who followed him upon that road.
O God, let Your mercy be distant from the band who fought against Ḥusayn, and sided with his killing, and pledged to it, and followed in it.
O God — let Your mercy be distant from them, all of them.

VII — The Greeting Returns

(the hundredfold remembrance, said once)

Peace be upon you, O Abā ʿAbdillāh, and upon the souls that came to rest about you.
Upon you, from us, be the peace of God — for as long as we remain, and as long as night and day endure.
And may God never make this the last of our covenant with you, the last of our coming to you.

Peace be upon Ḥusayn,
and upon ʿAlī son of Ḥusayn,
and upon the children of Ḥusayn,
and upon the companions of Ḥusayn.

VIII — The Naming

O God, single out the first oppressor for the distance of Your mercy, from us; begin with him, first of all — then the second, the third, the fourth.
O God, let Your mercy be distant from Yazīd, the fifth;
and from ʿUbaydullāh son of Ziyād, and the son of Marjāna, and ʿUmar son of Saʿd, and Shimr, and the house of Abū Sufyān, and the house of Ziyād, and the house of Marwān — until the Day of Resurrection.

IX — The Prostration

O God, to You belongs all praise — the praise of those who give thanks to You, even in their affliction.
All praise is God’s, for the immensity of our sorrow.

O God, grant us the intercession of Ḥusayn on the Day we come before You.
And set firm for us a footing of truth in Your presence — with Ḥusayn, and the companions of Ḥusayn, those who poured out their very lifeblood for Ḥusayn, peace be upon him.

This track is a companion track - and each of its lines are built from the series of sessions developed by the Truth Promoters Group for Muharram (Ashura) 1448 (June 2026) and Safar (Arbaeen) 1448 (July/August 2026).

Each of the verses encapsulate lessons from two sermons and two maqtals from the Shahada (Witness) Series.

The relevant sermon and maqtal links are provided alongside each verse.

Lyrics for the Song (Anthem/Nasheed)

Intro

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel's field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Verse 1

It started with two brothers, an offering, a field —
one raised his hand to take a life, one would not lift a sword.
"I fear my Lord," said Abel, "I will not raise my hand" —
the first to bear the witness, the first true martyr's stand.

Before the worlds were fashioned, before we had a name,
"Am I not your Lord?" He asked us — and "Yes" became the flame.
Through Noah, through Abraham, through each prophet's weeping eye,
the tear was passed from hand to hand; that chain would never die.

Chorus

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel's field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Verse 2

Not every death is equal, not every fall the same —
some lives are torn away by force, some chosen without blame.
He did not lose his life that day — he placed it in God's hand;
the death that looks like ending is the seed that makes us stand.

At Mina stood the warning: the silent scholars knew,
but fear and ease and blindness kept their tongues from speaking true.
The tongue may say "I love him" — but the life must answer too;
for every day is Ashura, and Karbala is you.

Chorus

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel’s field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Verse 3

The witness knows no border; it speaks in every tongue —
the captain turned his horse around before the day was done;
a Christian crossed his own creed to fall on that same sand:
one oil had lit their every lamp, one light in every hand.

The chosen are not chosen for their blood or flag or throne —
the chosen bear a burden, and they bear it not alone.
They sought their own deliverance down every road but His;
the anchor that they ached to find was the covenant that is.

Chorus

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel’s field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Verse 4

What cause is worth the dying? What banner, and what name?
But one alone was worthy, and it bowed to no man's claim
but God's — so at the river, when both his hands were shorn,
Abbas still raised the standard for the Proof that he had sworn.

No empire's borrowed beauty, no falling petal's art
could match the faithful lamps that would not flicker in the dark.
He offered them their freedom — and not one of them would flee;
and Zaynab saw, through all of it, a beauty none could see.

Chorus

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel’s field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Verse 5

Beware the counterfeit witness that steals the holy word;
the truest, smallest witness was the cry no mercy heard —
an arrow found an infant in his father's aching hold;
no liar steals that witness, and no lie can make it cold.

He is the heir of Adam, of every prophet's light,
the measure of all empires, the criterion of right.
He bowed his final sajdah, at peace with God's decree:
"no soul like mine," he told them, "pledges to a man like he."

Chorus

A witness is no victim, not conquered and not slain —
he speaks the truth his Lord revealed and bears it through the pain.
From Abel’s field to Karbala one fire has not grown cold:
one chain, one flame, one loyalty — to God alone we hold.

Outro

So where is your brother? Are you walking, are you true?
The chain has reached your hands at last — the witness falls to you.
Each day we clear the throne of every idol, every lie:
there is no lord but God alone — and Husayn showed us why.

Production Credits & Transparency

We believe in blending original, human creativity with the latest digital tools to bring these historical stories to life in new ways.

• Lyrics & Concept: 100% original, written by our human team, based on the sermons and maqatil indicated alongside each of the verses.

• Music & Vocals: Composed and generated using Suno AI.

• Visuals & Animation: Lego-style cinematic scenes generated and meticulously montaged using AI visualisation tools by our team.

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!
Yet the story of Love is far deeper, captivating all of humanity.
This is the eternal Love, that forever remains in the hearts.

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Calamitous is a place that lies between,
That makes fiery shadows in the flames,
There once was a madness in it’s midst,
Swaying the marshes to it’s tune,
Take these tunes and weave them together,
In the raging furnace that ignites the flames.

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

He made himself a host for the fiery flames,
Till he burned within the searing fire,
Divine love is what is found over here!
Transforming the teardrops falling here into boundless oceans,
For a moment, leave this world,
Be transfixed, as your heart breaks.

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Calamitous is a place that lies between,
That makes fiery shadows in the flames,
There once was a madness in it’s midst,
Swaying the marshes to it’s tune,
Take these tunes and weave them together,
In the raging furnace that ignites the flames.

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

He made himself a host for the fiery flames,
Till he burned within the searing fire,
Divine love is what is found over here!
Transforming the teardrops falling here into boundless oceans,
For a moment, leave this world,
Be transfixed, as your heart breaks.

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind, until you’ve seen!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind until you’ve seen!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind until you’ve seen!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind until you’ve seen!

The curtains were raised, and that which was and was not, revealed,
Truly, you’ve been blind until you’ve seen!

Hearts beating in unison with the same rhythm,
This is the cry of Love that sets everything ablaze

We pray that Allah hasten the return of our Master, Imam al-Hujjah(AJ) and alleviate our suffering. Amen, Oh Lord Sustainer of the Universes.

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be
Your ransom, When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Oh Our Mahdi(AJ), long is the delay, for when will we see the moon (like a bright moon lighting up a dark night)?!
All the world’s eyes are exhausted, from seeing the pain (of separation from You)!
In every heart (with every beat) resonates the calls, yearning for the Awaited(AJ)!
And the hearts - Oh our Master(AJ) - call to You, when will You see us, and we see You?

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Who else is there for this world, except the Imam(AJ) to ensure it’s guidance?!
Hasten! Hasten! Oh Our Mahdi(AJ)! Let’s all raise this call!
In the darkness of the night, Oh Aba Saleh(AJ), we yearn for the morning!
And raise with it (with the dawn of the new morning), your call of guidance... ... when will You see us, and we see You?!

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Oh the Promised One(AJ), who will ensure Justice across every nation (every peoples), Oh the son of Guidance (al-Hadi)!
Oh he who is the bearer of all the that is good and the best (and most sublime) of values, Take your steed, and ride swiftly, and hold high that flag (of the true Islam)! Reveal for us the light of Your presence,
When will You see us and we see You?!

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Rise and spread the banners of Justice, and remove the darkness of this (perpetual) night, And raise the true religion of the Guide Ahmad(S) (Prophet Muhammad(S)) throughout the World!
And help the hands that are raised to You (to Allah through You), Oh Mahdi(AJ) with cries for help!
When will the lovers eyes behold the Beloved?!
When will You see us, and we see You?!

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Oh the final Light from the Lights at the origin of the Universes!
All the souls, Oh Aba Saleh(AJ), sing (and yearn) for your return!
The world is united in longing for Your return (the desire for Your return is universal)! That we can see an end to the oppression of Tyrants When will You see us and we see You?!

Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?
Oh Son Of Hasan(AJ), my soul be Your ransom,
When will You see us and we see You?

Oh Our Mahdi(AJ), long is the delay, for when will we see the moon (like a bright moon lighting up a dark night)?!
All the world’s eyes are exhausted, from seeing the pain (of separation from You)!
In every heart (with every beat) resonates the calls, yearning for the Awaited(AJ)!
And the hearts - Oh our Master(AJ) - call to You, when will You see us, and we see You?

A voice a whisper midst the pain
From the soul declared insane
No one listened no one heard
Hatred defined that sinful world.

Then a son from midst that soil
One who longed for righteous toil
Took the hand out stretched in peace
Bonds of love that could never cease

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah

The earth could never be the same
The sacred house had birthed the flame
Joy and heart ache from the start
Rent asunder and cleaved apart

Holy child and sacred kin
Battled for the souls of men
Godly words filled with light
Conquered hearts and conquered spite

Filled with awe the people turned
Love for Ahmad surely burned
By his side a light sublime
Sagious warrior love divine

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

Valley of echoes, sacred word
Deceitful water where truth unfurled
Those who love me will love him
Those who leave him will turn to sin

Murderous slaughter in minds of men
Burning hatred for Islam
Pagan tyrants mushrikeen
Depravity of the mustakbireen.

Mighty warrior Mortadha
Fearsome soldier of Allah
Raised his sword for the world’s oppressed
Armour of god upon his chest.

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

The cleavened Kaaba foretold the path
Some of the saved and some of the wrath
Some would be love and some were hate
Ascension assured through the city’s gate

A cloak defines the holy proof
Lamentation their weapon of truth
The broken hearts and the vale of tears
An enemy forms when truth appears

Too much for they who opposed Ali
His justice love and piety
They feigned religion and the raiment wore
They sold their souls and revenge they swore .

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

The garden of Ali defiled
His holy sons would be reviled
His precious joy, sweet Fatima
Taken from him in his darkest hour.

The beloved of the mustadhafeen
Ya Amirul mumineen
Lies were spread, and deceit proclaimed
The name Ali would be defamed.

Creeping satans on the night of power
Demonic agents skulk and cower
Gentle ruku and sajdah
Precious the worship of Mortadha

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

The tender teacher of the poor
Taught the hearts to rise and soar
Elevated the ummahs path
Cleaved the world from sin and wrath

Martyred they our blessed Ali
In the month of serenity
At the banquet of Allah
Sacrificed our morning star

Men of Hajj and dhikrallah
As those who’d March at Karbala
Cleaved the head of the holy one
Masters of a satanic throng.

Stand all upon a precipice
A choice to make twixt hell or bliss
Cleaved unto or cleaven from
Master he the cleaven one.

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

See the Kaaba still it stands
Now it’s held in traitors hands
Those who walk with a faith that’s faigned
Those who live with a life profane.

Cleave they to a life of death
Witness they with every breath
Hypocrisy and evil deeds
While Orphans and poor ones they cry and bleed.

We long to walk with our Ali
A painful path it’s sure to be
So we must dwell in Allahs word
Divorce this wicked and fruitless world

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

Resistance surely is his way
The tyrants must be made to pay
Take up the fight, we Ayer you be
Put on the garb of unity.

The lovers, we must stand as one
Battle hard against every wrong
Inward struggle and outward war
No stone unturned no unsettled score.

In the name of Blessed Ali
On the path of Haidery
Build this hope in every land
For Imam Az-Zaman, we will make our stand.

Ya Ali Ali AL Mortadha
Ya wali ya wali of Allah.

Of a flower of purity who dwells in every heart.

O Princess of Qom, O light of this land,

O Karima of the Household, O purity of faith.

She is Fatima al-Ma’sumah — the fairest of all names,

Daughter of al-Kadhim, a light that lifts every sorrow.

Born in Medina, in purity and grace,

In her, the light of mercy; in her, the beauty of hope.

A sister to al-Ridha, a full moon on a luminous night,

Her mother is Najma — a heart both pure and great.

Knowledge and patience, a light that never fades,

And worship as gentle as the dawning light.

In her veil is shelter, in her modesty is grace,

In her purity is a path, a path toward perfection.

In the year 201 of the Hijra, she departed by the will of the Merciful,

In Qom, she rests — a sanctuary of the highest majesty.

We come to you in longing, O light of every heart,

O model of purity, O way of all our ways.

Credits:

Tasneem Morthuda
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Oh Proof of Allah(AJ), we complain to You!
Come to us, come to us
We are here for You, we are here for You!

Time is coming towards us, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Come to our aid, Oh son of Hasan(AJ), Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Time is coming towards us, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Come to our aid, Oh son of Hasan(AJ), Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!

Oh the Remnant of Allah(AJ) (Baqiyyat Allah(AJ)), we complain to You!
Come to us, come to us
We are here for You, we are here for You!

Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)! Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)! Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)! We complain to You!

The hope of the oppressed, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Oh the call of the revolutionaries, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
The hope of the oppressed, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Oh the call of the revolutionaries, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!

Oh the cry of the oppressed ones, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
Oh the cry of the oppressed ones, Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!

The hearts of the children, yearn for You!
Come to us, come to us
We are here for You, we are here for You!

Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)! Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)! Oh Proof of Allah(AJ)!
We complain to You!

When will the relief come (with Your return), Oh our Master(AJ)?!
Ya Mahdi!
And the joy for the believers (upon Your return), Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
When will the relief come (with Your return), Oh our Master(AJ)?!
Ya Mahdi!
And the joy for the believers (upon Your return), Oh our Master(AJ)?!
Ya Mahdi!

And the destruction of the criminal and tyrants!
Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!
And the destruction of the criminal and tyrants! Oh our Master(AJ)!
Ya Mahdi!

The command of Nasrallah(HA), guides us towards You.
Come to us, come to us
We are here for You, we are here for You!

Oh Proof of Allah(AJ), we complain to You!
Come to us, come to us
We are here for You, we are here for You!

With all desires prostrated, devoted only to Allah in the presence of your purity;
Until they are transformed into sonnets and supplications glorifying Allah.

With all desires prostrated, devoted only to Allah in the presence of your purity;
Our eyes overflow with tears as they look towards the skies.
Our Master Mahdi(AJ), refreshes our eyes through meeting with you!

Create for us, in the midst of our morning, a sonnet full of light;
That tells the tale of your glory and majesty!

Our eyes overflow with tears as they look towards the skies.
Our Master Mahdi(AJ), refreshes our eyes through meeting with you!

Create for us, in the midst of our morning, a sonnet full of light;
That tells the tale of your glory and majesty!

Your sonnets are like unto the Spring of Love;
We know that Isa(AJ) (Jesus(AJ)) longs to pray behind you!

The voices are constantly saying, separation from you is heartbreaking!
Oh the son of Guidance(AJ), yearning for you tears our hearts apart!

The voices are constantly saying, separation from you is heartbreaking!
Oh the son of Guidance(AJ), yearning for you tears our hearts apart!

So pour the pure water of your purity; and fill our cups;
And honour us with your presence, to cool the desert of our hearts.

Be merciful to the hearts that melt with your love,
Hearts from whence, the signs of grief are shown, as were seen in Ya’qub(A).

So pour the pure water of your purity; and fill our cups;
And honour us with your presence, to cool the desert of our hearts.

Be merciful to the hearts that melt with your love,
Hearts from whence, the signs of grief are shown, as were seen in Ya’qub(A).

Your eyes; are like unto the Spring of Love;
So revive our existence and enliven our souls;

For how long must we bear this heart and soul wrenching separation from you?
How can the Earth or the skies ever contain your greatness, Oh our Leader(AJ)?

The lungs of the Earth are suffocating,
Till when will it breath the sweet air of your kindness?

So will you or will you not return (at this time), Oh Our Master(AJ)?
There is a blazing thirst in our souls; and only you are our water!

The cries of the bewildered and confused are deafening,
Only your presence can bring them into a state of serenity.

Your presence can see it in the form of the coming dawn, the perfect image of the Quran.
At every twilight, your mystical love mixes with our blood.

Sometimes your promise is on the Earth, sometimes it gives us patience to bear our tale of oppression and sorrow.
And it tells us with the clearest of proofs; that truly our need for your is immense.

The promise was truly going to be fulfilled, projecting the most perfect Prophetic Light. (reference to South Lebanon)
It left the Universes and chose, the home of the free in the South (reference to South Lebanon);

The Sincere Promise, that has never lied; a fiery thunderbolt that was never put out.
And it shall remain for always a Karbalai (Revolutionary) fire.

With your assistance, Hezbollah has wiped out the illegal occupation
They showed us the true remnants of the heroes of Siffin!

Hearts beat, each beat longing for the Revolution, even before the beat forms.
From the wombs of Glory, they said to come, for the Victory is coming!

Oh Raised Sword of Allah (against the oppressors)!

Peace be upon your pure Soul!

Pray Ardently for the Return of Imam al-Hujjah(AJ)

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Father of the path, Oh Imam
Garden of the Ahlulbayt
Destiny of dust and torment
Abandon that Medina’s gate

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Mothered by the light of Islam
Tortured by God’s holy word
Moved by notes, but evil Shaitan
Jafari, your voice still heard

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Lonely was the path of Allah
For the Teacher of the world
Heir of Kufa and Karbala
Treachery would be unfurled

Speaker of the words of Rahma
Teacher of the way of God
Leader of the holy Ummah
On the path Rasul had trod

Fragrant torch of holy Zahra
Fragrant torch of holy Zahra
Essence of the pure Kawthar

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Ya Rasulullah, your pure ones
Taste the poison, lie
Ya Habibullah, your sweet sons
Enemies, they would defy

Murdered by a masking minbar
Poisoned them with gladdened eye
Centuries of hate and malice
Murdered faces cannot hide

See the garden of sweet Zahra
See the garden of Sajjad
See the place of holy Sadiq
See the murder of Hejaz

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Ya Ali al-Murtada
Witness you the foulest deeds
Ya Hussain of Karbala
Murdered with those flaming steeds

Ya sweet Zayn ul-Abideen
Poisoned they your hearts so pure
The wilderness without Sadiq
Pious mumin must endure

Blinded with the tears of mourning
Tortured hearts, they yearn for truth
Centuries of lonely yearning
The Ummah’s heart is like Yaqub

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Ya Imam Aba Abdillah
Founder of the school of truth
Learned one above all others
Illumination of Mahmud

Seeker of nearness to Allah
Oppression for them lingers on
Never will we leave you Sadiq
Never will we leave Zahra

Jannat al-Baqi is our land
Precious as the sweet Kaaba

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Every minute the hearts of mumins
Risen souls cry out his name
His teaching leads to certain victory
Satan’s cohorts cannot claim

Shia of Imam Sadiq
Raise the sword of thought and truth
From the Hawza to the workplace
From the minbars, from the roofs

From the school of revolution
Forge the path of Allah’s proof
Raise the flag of blessed Khomeini
Bonded to the true Faqih

Our oppressed ones’ hope is certain
Labbaik ya Sayyid Ali

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Every minute the hearts of mumins
Risen souls cry out his name
His teaching leads to certain victory
Satan’s cohorts cannot claim

Shia of Imam Sadiq
Raise the sword of thought and truth
From the Hawza to the workplace
From the minbars, from the roofs

From the school of revolution
Forge the path of Allah’s proof
Raise the flag of blessed Khomeini
Bonded to the true Faqih

Our oppressed ones’ hope is certain
Labbaik ya Sayyid Ali

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

Jafari, beloved Imam Sadiq
Light of Rasul

The soul’s final journey — from divine reckoning against the tyrants of history to the intimate call: return to your Lord, pleased and accepted.

Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

وَالْفَجْرِ ﴿١﴾ وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ﴿٢﴾ وَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ ﴿٣﴾ وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ﴿٤﴾ هَلْ فِي ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِي حِجْرٍ ﴿٥﴾ أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ﴿٦﴾ إِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ ﴿٧﴾ الَّتِي لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِي الْبِلَادِ ﴿٨﴾ وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ ﴿٩﴾ وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي الْأَوْتَادِ ﴿١٠﴾ الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلَادِ ﴿١١﴾ فَأَكْثَرُوا فِيهَا الْفَسَادَ ﴿١٢﴾ فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ﴿١٣﴾ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ ﴿١٤﴾ فَأَمَّا الْإِنسَانُ إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَكْرَمَنِ ﴿١٥﴾ وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ ﴿١٦﴾ كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ ﴿١٧﴾ وَلَا تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ ﴿١٨﴾ وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا ﴿١٩﴾ وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا ﴿٢٠﴾ كَلَّا إِذَا دُكَّتِ الْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا ﴿٢١﴾ وَجَاءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا ﴿٢٢﴾ وَجِيءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ ﴿٢٣﴾ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِي ﴿٢٤﴾ فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُ أَحَدٌ ﴿٢٥﴾ وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُ أَحَدٌ ﴿٢٦﴾ يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ﴿٢٧﴾ ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ﴿٢٨﴾ فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي ﴿٢٩﴾ وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي ﴿٣٠﴾

English

By the dawn, And [by] ten nights, And [by] the even and the odd, And [by] the night when it passes, Is there [not] in that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception? Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ’Aad— [With] Iram—who had lofty pillars, The like of whom was not created in the lands? And Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley? And Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? [All of] whom oppressed within the lands And increased therein the corruption. So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment. Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

And as for man, when his Lord tests him and is generous to him and favors him, he says, “My Lord has honored me.” But when He tests him and restricts his provision, he says, “My Lord has humiliated me.” No! But you do not honor the orphan And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor. And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether, And you love wealth with immense love.

No! When the earth has been leveled—pounded and crushed— And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank, And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell— That Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance? He will say, “Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [good] for my life.” So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment, And none will bind [as severely] as His binding.

[To the righteous it will be said], “O tranquil soul, Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him], And enter among My [righteous] servants, And enter My Paradise.”

2. Surah Al ’Imran (Family of Imran) | 3:169–175

The martyrs are not dead but alive and sustained — rejoicing, fearless, and urging those behind them: sufficient for us is Allah, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.

Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ ﴿١٦٩﴾ فَرِحِينَ بِمَا آتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِالَّذِينَ لَمْ يَلْحَقُوا بِهِم مِّنْ خَلْفِهِمْ أَلَّا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ ﴿١٧٠﴾ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِنِعْمَةٍ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَفَضْلٍ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ﴿١٧١﴾ الَّذِينَ اسْتَجَابُوا لِلَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ مِن بَعْدِ مَا أَصَابَهُمُ الْقَرْحُ ۚ لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا مِنْهُمْ وَاتَّقَوْا أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ ﴿١٧٢﴾ الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَاخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ ﴿١٧٣﴾ فَانقَلَبُوا بِنِعْمَةٍ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَفَضْلٍ لَّمْ يَمْسَسْهُمْ سُوءٌ وَاتَّبَعُوا رِضْوَانَ اللَّهِ ۗ وَاللَّهُ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿١٧٤﴾ إِنَّمَا ذَٰلِكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ يُخَوِّفُ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فَلَا تَخَافُوهُمْ وَخَافُونِ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ ﴿١٧٥

English

And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision, Rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them of His bounty, and they receive good tidings about those [to be martyred] after them who have not yet joined them—that there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve. They receive good tidings of favor from Allah and bounty and [of the fact] that Allah does not allow the reward of believers to be lost— Those [believers] who responded to Allah and the Messenger after injury had struck them. For those who did good among them and feared Allah is a great reward— Those to whom people said, “Indeed, the people have gathered against you, so fear them.” But it [only] increased them in faith, and they said, “Sufficient for us is Allah, and [He is] the best Disposer of affairs.” So they returned with favor from Allah and bounty, no harm having touched them. And they pursued the pleasure of Allah, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty. That is only Satan who frightens [you] of his supporters. So fear them not, but fear Me, if you are [indeed] believers.

3. Surah As-Saff (The Ranks) | 61:1–14

A summons to sincerity, unity, and struggle — they wish to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light.

Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

سَبَّحَ لِلَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ ﴿١﴾ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ ﴿٢﴾ كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ ﴿٣﴾ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الَّذِينَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِهِ صَفًّا كَأَنَّهُم بُنْيَانٌ مَّرْصُوصٌ ﴿٤﴾ وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ يَا قَوْمِ لِمَ تُؤْذُونَنِي وَقَد تَّعْلَمُونَ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ ۖ فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ قُلُوبَهُمْ ۚ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ ﴿٥﴾ وَإِذْ قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُم مُّصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَمُبَشِّرًا بِرَسُولٍ يَأْتِي مِن بَعْدِي اسْمُهُ أَحْمَدُ ۖ فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُم بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ قَالُوا هَٰذَا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ ﴿٦﴾ وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ وَهُوَ يُدْعَىٰ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ ۚ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ ﴿٧﴾ يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ ﴿٨﴾ هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَىٰ وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ ﴿٩﴾ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ تِجَارَةٍ تُنجِيكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ ﴿١٠﴾ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَتُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿١١﴾ يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَيُدْخِلْكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ وَمَسَاكِنَ طَيِّبَةً فِي جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ ﴿١٢﴾ وَأُخْرَىٰ تُحِبُّونَهَا ۖ نَصْرٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَفَتْحٌ قَرِيبٌ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ﴿١٣﴾ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا أَنصَارَ اللَّهِ كَمَا قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ لِلْحَوَارِيِّينَ مَنْ أَنصَارِي إِلَى اللَّهِ ۖ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ أَنصَارُ اللَّهِ ۖ فَآمَنَت طَّائِفَةٌ مِّن بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَكَفَرَت طَّائِفَةٌ ۖ فَأَيَّدْنَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَىٰ عَدُوِّهِمْ فَأَصْبَحُوا ظَاهِرِينَ ﴿١٤

English

Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth exalts Allah, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. O you who have believed, why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do. Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly. And [mention, O Muhammad], when Moses said to his people, “O my people, why do you harm me while you certainly know that I am the messenger of Allah to you?” And when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate. And Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people. And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, “O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad.” But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, “This is obvious magic.” And who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah untruth while he is being invited to Islam? And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people. They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it. It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although those who associate others with Allah dislike it. O you who have believed, shall I guide you to a transaction that will save you from a painful punishment? [It is that] you believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is best for you, if you should know. He will forgive for you your sins and admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence. That is the great attainment. And [you will obtain] another [favor] that you love—victory from Allah and an imminent conquest; and give good tidings to the believers. O you who have believed, be supporters of Allah, as when Jesus, the son of Mary, said to the disciples, “Who are my supporters for Allah?” The disciples said, “We are supporters of Allah.” And a faction of the Children of Israel believed and a faction disbelieved. So We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they became dominant.

4. Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer) | 2:154–157

On the living reality of martyrdom, the certainty of trial, and the blessed response of the patient: indeed we belong to Allah, and to Him we shall return.

Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ ﴿١٥٤﴾ وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ الْخَوْفِ وَالْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَنفُسِ وَالثَّمَرَاتِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ ﴿١٥٥﴾ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ ﴿١٥٦﴾ أُولَٰئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتٌ مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةٌ ۖ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُهْتَدُونَ ﴿١٥٧

English

And do not say about those who are killed in the cause of Allah, “They are dead.” Rather, they are alive, but you perceive [it] not. And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, Who, when disaster strikes them, say, “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.” Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided.

5. Surah Ash-Sharh (The Relief) | 94:1–8

Divine consolation — a reminder that every burden is lifted, every hardship paired with ease, and that the soul’s refuge after every exertion is devotion to its Lord.

Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ ﴿١﴾ وَوَضَعْنَا عَنكَ وِزْرَكَ ﴿٢﴾ الَّذِي أَنقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ ﴿٣﴾ وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ ﴿٤﴾ فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ﴿٥﴾ إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ﴿٦﴾ فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانصَبْ ﴿٧﴾ وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَارْغَب ﴿٨

English

Did We not expand for you, [O Muhammad], your breast? And We removed from you your burden Which had weighed upon your back And raised high for you your repute. For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship]. And to your Lord direct [your] longing.

Arabic recitation: Abdul Basit Abdul Samad (Mujawwad) | English translation audio: Ibrahim Walk (Sahih International)

Selected for the Arba’een (Chehlum) of Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei (ra) — April 2026

Staunch tree of goodness
The world could not wither
No vine of corruption
Could stifle your growth
Your roots were so deep
In the soil of the beloved
Your branches so lofty
They reached out in hope

The gateway of your garden
Twas planted with scripture
The fragrance of mercy
The essence of peace
The shade of your presence
Was the hope of the believers
Your fountain of knowledge
Would bring forth increase

No rain would fall
On the soil of your garden
Yet flowers would bloom
And rich grasses would grow
The love of the lord
And the souls of the martyrs
The life giving word
From sweet rivers would flow

The beauty of your garden
Would draw forth the children
Upon your firm branches
So many would climb
So safe and familiar
So gracious and so gentle
Safe neath your gaze
Oh so many would recline

Through storm and through tempest
Still firm was your heartwood
Your bark bore the scars
From the world and it’s sin
The wounded heartbroken
The mothers and the fathers
Drew closer and closer
All kindred brought in.

Oh mighty tree of goodness
Divine were your saplings
Though far from your garden
They flourish and bloom
Some rise to the heavens
While some are still awaiting
Their lives are eternal
And rich their perfume.

Oh precious tree of mercy
Dark clouds have descended
The howling wind of hatred
Of foul jealousy
The glory of your stature
And nature of your presence
Tis lost on the heartless
That foul enemy.

A scene of devastation
For scorched is our garden
The tree and the flowers
Uprooted have been
The foul wicked wind
That will tare away all beauty
A force of depravity
Surely we’ve seen

The glory of the good tree
Will never be forgotten
For deep within the soil
Comes new life for to see
Tis born of the master
The keeper of the garden
The one who says rise
And it surely must be…

O you who have believed, remember the favour of Allah upon you when armies came to [attack] you, and We sent upon them a wind and armies [of angels] you did not see. And ever is Allah, of what you do, Seeing

Please recite Surah al-Fatiha for his blessed soul

The price for listening to this nasheed, is to send a salawat (prayer) on Prophet Muhammad and his family, and for that to be gifted to Imam Mahdi

Oh my beloved .... Oh the Imam of My Time!
Oh my beloved .... Oh the Imam of My Time!
Oh my beloved .... Oh the Imam of My Time!
Oh my beloved! Oh the Imam of My Time!
Oh my beloved!

The world, without you, is meaningless
Love is you ....
Our world blooms, in your presence!
The world, without you, is meaningless
The world, without you, is meaningless
Love is you ...
Our world blooms, in your presence!

Greetings Commander!
Greetings, from the ever loyal generation,

Greetings Commander!
Sayyed Ali has called upon the generation of the 2010s (1390s Solar Hijri)!

Greetings Commander!
Please come! Oh my beloved, please come!
Please come, I promise to love you!

I’ll fall completely in love with you!
I’ll become completely absorbed in you!
I’ll become your Ali ibn Mahziyar!
Inspite of my short height ... I promise to be one of your commanders!

Please come! Oh my beloved, please come!
Please come, I promise to love you!
I’ll fall completely in love with you!
I’ll become completely absorbed in you!
I’ll become your Ali ibn Mahziyar!
Inspite of my short height ... I promise to be one of your commanders!

Greetings Commander!
Greetings, from the ever loyal generation,

Greetings Commander!
Sayyed Ali has called upon the generation of the 2010s (1390s Solar Hijri)!
Greetings Commander!

Don’t look at our age ...
... we will rise to defend you!
Don’t look at our age ...
... we will fulfill all your missions!
Don’t look at our age ...
... we will stand in your ranks!
Don’t look at our age ... you simply call, just see what we can do for you!
... you simply call, just see what we can do for you!
Don’t look at our age ...
... with these small hands, I always pray for you!
Don’t look at our age ...
... may my mother, father, my everything, be sacrificed for you!
... may my everything be sacrificed for you!

Greetings Commander!
Greetings, from the ever loyal generation,

Greetings Commander!
Sayyed Ali has called upon the generation of the 2010s (1390s Solar Hijri)!

Greetings Commander!
We are ready!
When the time comes!
We are ready!
We will become your Hajj Qassem!

Like (Ayatullah) Bahjat, like the unknown soldiers, we will serve you!
We swear!
We will stay loyal to this (blessed) system (Wilayat al-Faqih)!
Like Hajj Qassem ...
... we will answer your call!
We will answer your call!

For more than a thousand years, the world yearns for Imam Mahdi!
For more than a thousand years, the world yearns for Imam Mahdi!

Don’t be worried about your soldiers,
Your soldiers were born in the 2020s (1400s Solar Hijri)!

Greetings Commander!
Greetings, from the ever loyal generation,

Greetings Commander!
Sayyed Ali has called upon the generation of the 2010s (1390s Solar Hijri)!

Greetings Commander!
We would like to thank the family of Habib Abdul Qadir Bafagih, the donors and all of Al-Khoirot Foundation who have supported our activities

O Allah, Send your choicest blessing on Muhammad(S) and his Family(A)
and fortify the frontiers of the Muslims through Your might,
and support their protectors through Your strength,
and lavish upon them gifts through Your wealth.
O Allah, Send your choicest blessing on Muhammad(S) and his Family(A)

And increase their number, and hone their weapons,
and guard their territory, and defend their midst,
and unite their people, and arrange their affairs,
and send them supplies in a steady stream, and undertake to provide them with sufficient provisions from Yourself,
and support them with victory, and help them with patience,
and give them subtlety in their plans!

O Allah, Send your choicest blessing on Muhammad(S) and his Family(A)
And give them the knowledge of that of which they are ignorant,
and teach them what they do not know,
and show them what they do not see!

O Allah, Send your choicest blessing on Muhammad(S) and his Family(A)
And make them forget when they meet the enemy ...
... to remember this cheating and delusive world of theirs,
and erase from their hearts the thought of its enchanting possessions,
and place the Garden before their eyes,
and display to their sight that part of it which You have prepared for them ...
... from the homes of everlastingness and mansions of honour,
to the beautiful companions, and the rivers ...
... gushing forth with all sorts of drinks, to the trees hanging low ...
... bearing all manner of fruits -
lest any of them think of turning their back ...
... or suggest to themselves to flee the enemy.

Oh Allah, defeat their enemy through that;
trim their nails from them,
and separate them from their weapons,
and remove all the confidence from their hearts,
and ensure their supplies are distant from them,
and bewilder them in their roads,
and turn them astray from their desired destination,
prevent reinforcements from reaching them, and cut them down in number,
and fill their hearts with terror and dread,
hold back their hands from stretching forth (making progress),
tie back their tongues from speaking (render them dumbstruck)
and scatter by them, the ones behind them
and make them a lesson for those who come up behind them (their backups),
and through their degradation; cut off the hopes of those who come after them.

Oh Allah, make the wombs of their women barren,
and dry up the loins of their men,
and cut off the breeding of their mounts and their cattle,
and do not permit the sky to allow them even a drop (of rain) (inflict them with a drought),
nor their earth to grow and yield crops (create a famine in their midst).

O Allah, through that; strengthen the prowess of the People of Islam,
and fortify their cities, increase their wealth and property,
give them respite from their fighting, that they may worship You,
and from their warfare, that they may spend some time with you in solitude,
so that none will be worshipped in the regions of the earth except You
and no forehead of theirs maybe rubbed in the dust for less than You!

O Allah, send out the Muslims of every region ...
... on raids against the idolaters who confront and attack them.
and reinforce them with Angels in ranks from You,
till the idolaters are routed by them to the end of the land,
slain in Your earth or taken captive,
or till they admit that You are Allah,
other than whom there is no god, You alone, and You have no associate!

Oh Allah, include in this Your enemies;
in the various regions of the lands, and the rest of the idolatrous nations,
those whose names and attributes are concealed,
but whom You are aware of through Your perfect and manifest awareness,
and who You oversee through Your absolute power.

Oh Allah, keep the idolaters busy with each other ...
... so that they stay away from the vicinity of the Muslims,
and prevent them from causing harm through being harmed,
and hold them back from massing together against them through dissension.

Oh Allah, empty their hearts of security,
and their bodies of strength,
and distract their hearts from thinking of stratagems,
and make their limbs too feeble for clashing with men,
and make them too cowardly for contending with champions,
and send against them a troop of Your angels ...
... with some of Your severity as You did on the Day of Badr,
so that through it; You may cut off their roots and harvest their thorns,
and disperse their number, mix their waters ...
... with pestilence, and their food with maladies,
and tear down their cities,
and harass them with peltings, and hinder them through droughts,
and place their supplies in the most ill-omened part of Your earth ...
... and the farthest from them, and bar them from its fortresses,
and strike them down with an undying hunger and a severe illness!

Oh Allah, if a warrior from the people of Your nation wages wars against them,
or a struggler from the followers of Your Teachings; struggles against them ...
... so that Your religion may be the highest, and Your party the strongest,
and Your share the most complete - cast ease to him, and arrange his affair,
and attend to him by ensuring his success, and select his companions for him,
and strengthen his back, and lavish upon him ...
... livelihood, give him enjoyment of joyous vitality,
and cool for him the fire of yearning,
and give him sanctuary from the gloom of loneliness,
and make him forget the remembrance of his wife and child,
and pass along to him a perfect intent,
and attend to him with well-being, make safety his constant companion,
and remove all cowardice from him, and inspire him with valour and bravery,
and provide him with strength, and support him with help,
and teach him right conduct and the norms of the Way,
and point him straight in judgment, and remove from him hypocrisy,
and purify him from seeking fame,
and make his thinking and remembering, his departing ...
... and his staying, be in Your name and for You alone.

Then when he stands in ranks before Your enemy and his enemy,
so make them few in his eyes, and diminish their importance ...
... in his heart. Allow him to prevail over them and do not let them prevail over him!

But if You choose to grant him success ...
… and decree for him, martyrdom ...
... then let it be after he has secured the borders of the Muslims ...
... and after Your enemy has turned back in retreat.

Oh Allah, and if a Muslim should take the place ...
... of a warrior or a soldier in his home, or attends to those left ...
... behind in his absence ...
... or helps him with some of his wealth,
or assists him with equipment, or prepares him for the struggle,
or makes a supplication or prayer for his purpose,
or guards his honour during his absence,
so reward him with the like of his reward, measure for measure,
and like for like,
and recompense him for his act with an immediate compensation ...
... through which he will hasten to the profit of what he has sent forth ...
... and the joy of what he has given, till the present ...
... moment takes him to the bounty that You have granted him from Your majesty,
and that which You have prepared for him from Your infinite generosity!

Oh Allah, if the situation of Islam should worry or concern a Muslim ...
... and the alliance of the idolaters against Islam depresses him ...
... so that he has the intent to go to war, or is about to enter the struggle ...
... but frailty keeps him seated, or poverty keeps him waiting ...
... or an unforeseen mishap delays him,
... or an obstruction prevents him from his wish/desire ...
... be sure to write his name amongst the righteous worshippers ...
... and make incumbent for him the reward of the strugglers ...
... and place him firmly in the ranks of the martyrs and the righteous.

Oh Allah, bless Muhammad(S), Your slave and Your messenger,
... and the Family of Muhammad(A), with a blessing ...
... high above all other blessings, that towers above all other salutations,
... a most perfect blessing that is never-ending...
... and whose size can never be computed ...
... like the most perfect of Your blessings that have passed ...
... to any one of Your friends and loved ones!

Surely, You are Most Generous, Most Praiseworthy, the Originator ...
... who takes back again, the Accomplisher of what You desire,

By Your Mercy, Oh Most Merciful of all the Merciful,
And send your choicest blessings, on our master, Muhammad(S) ...
... and upon his pure and most perfect Family(A).

The rhythm of Mashhad’s (Naqqara) drums
Lady Ma’soumeh, Welcome!

The rose of Taha (Prophet Muhammad) blooms anew,
Musa’s (Imam al-Khadim) Kawthar comes into view,
(Lady Fatimah) Zahra returns in radiant grace -
O my soul! (What blessed place)!

Fragrance and spirit fill the air,
Iran’s qibla (spiritual direction), shining fair.
The Sultan (Imam al-Ridha)’s sister graces the land
O my soul! (Take her hand)!

All the prophets, speak her name,
O sister of al-Ridha,
Intercede for us!

O sister of al-Ridha,
Intercede for us!

O sister of al-Ridha,
Intercede for us!

Upon her shrine, the words shine bright,
By Gabriel’s hand in heavenly light:
Who walks her path in reverence deep,
Shall find in Heaven their soul’s keep.

O lady, who kneels by your grave
Has touched the Throne beyond the wave.
By God, your shrine is none but this -
The shrine of Zahra, the source of bliss.

A thread from your veil, so pure and fine,
Binds my soul in faith divine.
By God, your sanctuary -
Is my day of Rizwan (Heavenly delight)!

A thread from your veil, so pure and fine,
Is the rope of my faith.
By God, your shrine
Is the secret of my (reaching) Rizwan (Paradise)

From the courtyard of my heart,
It (my heart) travels to Karbala

O sister of al-Ridha,
Intercede for us!

Congratulations to the one, who boldly stands in the face of the oppressors.
Congratulations to the body, that is wounded, but never falls!
Congratulations to the commanders of Khaybar.
Congratulations to the soldiers of Hayder.

May God give strength, to the honourable army.
Reliance on God leads to the true super power.
May God give strength, to the awe-inspiring commander.
You sang a battle chant, without subtlety and with courage.

Soon they shall lament, the sorrows (they inflicted on others), be replaced with justice.Tel Aviv and Haifa, will surely to the ground, be razed.

Shout from the heart, with your weapon, Ali, Oh Ali,
It has become the roar of lions, Ali, Oh Ali.
Let the houses of tyranny tremble and crumble,
As long as the people of Iran shout, Ali, Oh Ali.

To the Leader of the World (Imam Mahdi), honour, we do bring.
Advanced, have we, the sacred ranks and lines.
A day will come, when we will shout:
“We have weakened the evil of Israel!”

Shout from the heart, with your weapon, Ali, Oh Ali,
It has become the roar of lions, Ali, Oh Ali.
Let the houses of tyranny tremble and crumble,
As long as the people of Iran shout, Ali, Oh Ali.

This nasheed is a patriotic and religious piece from Iran, focusing on themes of resistance and strength. Would you like to know more about the historical context or the symbolic references (like Khaybar or Hayder) mentioned in the lyrics?