Starting in the name of God the most beneficent the merciful In the history of Islam where ever it flourished up till now it is seen the marsia(poem written to commemorate the martyrdom of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala) has flourished along. The Marisa’s has its deep roots in the history of Islam after the Tragedy of Karbala.But due to the oppression and restrictions of the than regimes of Bani Ummayah & Abbasid Caliphs the poets of that time couldn't write much out of the fear,even though we can have the compositions of few poets available.Marsiya came to narrate the event of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and his kinsmen at Karbala (in Iraq), during Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. This event, which has a great sentimental value for the Shi'ite sect of the Muslims.Muslims. Marsia was basically developed from the pattern of Sufi mausikhi (Sufi music) [1]usic).

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