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For this year's occasion of Ashura I decided to upload a translation for this Shi'a noha (lament/dirge for Karbala). Anyone who doesn't agree with it is welcome not to watch it, but I suggest you watch it for what it is – a powerful gathering with beautiful thought-provoking lyrics, especially towards the end.

¹ One of the 99 names of Allah, meaning "The Truth" or "The Reality"
² Likely referring to Imam Mahdi, who both Sunni and Shi'a Muslims believe will come to cleanse the world of evil and set in motion the end of times
³ Hussain ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the primary martyr of the massacre of Karbala
⁴ Zainab bint Ali, grandaughter of the Prophet Muhammad and brother of Hussain
⁵ A title of Hussain
⁶ According to Shi'a and some Sunni accounts, after Hussain was decapitated the enemy had his head placed on a spear, during which it began to recite Qur'an
⁷ Ashura is the name given to the 10th of Muharram, on which the massacre of Karbala took place
⁸ As far as I know this is the historical region in modern-day Iraq to which the city of Karbala belonged, though I may be wrong

Language: Farsi
Location: Hazireh Mosque, Yazd, Iran
Date: Muharram 2014
Vocalists: Mostafa Mohsenzadeh and Soroush Rahmani
Poetry: Hafez and Muhammad Ali Karimi

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This is a verse from the extensive Divān of the renowned 14th-century Persian poet Hafez.

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Allah Allah
الله الله

This is a Shi'i noha (lament) by Muhammad Ali Karimi. Unfortunately I don't know anything else about the writer.

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If you think there any mistakes in the translation or this description please let me know by commenting, messaging or sending me an email. If they turn out to be wrong I will correct them as soon as possible and credit you in this description.

My translation of the poetry was based on two other translations and supplemented by other tools and dictionaries.

The original video can be found here:

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