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.

References

Here are one of the best sites for soaz, salam, milaad & mersiya etc.
* [http://azadari.com Azadari.com]
* [http://babulilm.com.pk Babul-Ilm Students Society - Official site]
* [http://soazkhwani.com Soaz Khawani.com]

ee also

*Marsiya
*Noha

External links

* [http://www.soazkhwani.com Soazkhwani by Professor Sibte Jafar Zaidi]
* [http://www.imambargah.com Nohey, Soazkhwani, Salam, Marsiya and Manqabat]
* [http://babulilm.com.pk/izhar/azadari/mali1.html Soazkhwani by Syed Muhammad Ali Naqvi]
* [http://geocities.com/majid.raza Soazkhwani by Majid Raza Abidi]
* [http://geocities.com/azimulmohsin Soazkhwani by Azimul Mohsin]
* [http://geocities.com/hasan.abid Soazkhwani by Hasan Abid Jaffery]
* [http://babulilm.com.pk/izhar/pages/abidalwarivdo.html Soazkhwani by Abid Hussain Alwari]
* [http://babulilm.com.pk Babulilm Students Society Malir Karachi]
* [http://www.azadari.com AZADARI IMAM HUSSAIN (AS)]