Alas all the vows that I took
In my youth
Are lost
My love.
My heart it forgot how to hold to the blessed rope
Of truth
Oh how I wasted all my youth
Foolishly fled the word of truth
Yet here I stand as like a proof
For your open arms do not accuse
I have betrayed you my first love
I am ashamed Hussain
Oh tell me what have I become
I am ashamed Hussain
For me you gave your precious blood
I am ashamed Hussain
Aba Abdillah.
My love I remember your pain
and your broken heart
Hussain
You showed me the path that the mumineen will gain.
Yet I wasn’t brave like sweet Abbas
I was disarmed by foolishness
My eyes were blinded by my nafs
Yet neath your flag I stand at last
Hear my prayer raise it aloft
For I am ashamed Hussain
How can I ever bare the cost
I am ashamed Hussain
Without your love Iam surely lost
I am ashamed Hussain
Aba Abdillah
My voice has been silent and fearful
When I should have spoke aloud
For you
My eyes were averted when they should have witnessed your
Holy truth
But I didn’t stand like dear Zainab
I wore shackles of worldliness instead
On new horizons there is spread
Nothing but Ashura ahead
Let me recite your eulogies
I am ashamed Hussain
Let me rejoice in unity
I am ashamed Hussain
Oh let me breath your sanctity
I am ashamed Hussain
Aba Abdillah
The lost the oppressed and the orphans the souls of loneliness
Their tears I ignored through my hard hearted carelessness
I didn’t defend Ali Asghar
I didn’t have love within my arms
My soul is wounded and so scarred
So now I cry out to my Lord!!
Ya Rabbi ya Sayyidy
I am ashamed Hussain
Ya Noor ro ya Quddus
I am ashamed Hussain
Ya rahmanu ya raheem
I am ashamed Hussain
Aba Abdillah
Rejoice for Allah he has opened a door and he will forgive
Hussain how he opens our hearts and he gives us the hope to live
Oh let us learn from our Hussain
Lest Ashura should be in vain
At Karbala that dreadful plain
Nothing but beauty our refrain
Every tear shed at your grave
Means there’s no shame
Hussain
Every beat upon my chest
Means there’s no shame Hussain
All of the mention of your name
Means there’s no shame Hussain
Aba Abdillah
