MARSIYA or MARSIA 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 marsia generally consists of six-line units, with a rhyming quatrain, and a couplet on a different rhyme. This form found a specially congenial soil in Lucknow - 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 & Mirza Dabeer. Marsia is a poem written to commemorate the martyrdom of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. It is usually a poem of mourning. The famous ‘’marsia'’ writers in Urdu are Mir Babar Ali Anis, Salamat Ali Dabeer, Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns Syed Sajjad Husain “Shadeed” Lucknavi, Dr.Syed Ali Imam Zaidi, Gauher Lucknavi the (grand son of Mir Baber Ali Anees) and Even a short poem written to mourn the death of a friend can be called marsia. For this purpose website http://geocities.com/izharnaqvi & http://babulilm.com.pk may be visited for better understanding.
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