Who? The eyes
How? Day and Night
Why? From grief
Grief for whom?
Grief for the King of Karbala
By Qaani - some poet in the 1800 perhaps. Found it here:
A shia website, but this article is by Annemarie Schimmel - a famous and respected scholar of Sufism.
Another beautiful translation by Annemarie Schimmel of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (famous Sufi of Sindh, Pakistan):
The hardship of Martyrdom, listen, is the day of joy.
Yazid has not got an atom of this love.
Death is the rain for the children of Ali
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The hardship of martyrdom is all coquetry (naz)
The intoxicated understand the secret case of Karbala
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And the most moving of all verses she translated:
The earth trembles, shakes; the skies are in uproar;
This is not war, this is the manifestation of Love
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