True love lies with the head held high
Put all love on a scale, whatever love is worth weighing
Hussain’s love outweighs all love, in fact it outweighs everything
And all other love is a lie
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How often does love make man bow to its feet
Only life and death and love sway the heartbeat
I place all love beside falseness and deceit
I see most love an enemy to defeat
A heart recites its loves name with its heartbeat
There is but one heart that my heart yearns to meet
Hu-ssain, Hu-ssain my heart recites
The love of God and Hussain intertwines like the shore and sea
My heart beats Hussain, Muhammad, Abu Fadhil and Ali
And all other love is a lie
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Love is owned and bought by the blood of Hussain
All over love leads to disaster and pain
A love nature’s forces fail to explain
Sanity found deep in something that’s insane
Heaven without him can’t be loved just the same
The Master of Youth’s throne there awaits his reign
And around his throne Abbas flies
The slave of no-one is a slave to the love of his brother
If any doubt Hussain’s love, ask Abbas, his own flagbearer
And all other love is a lie
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The ear is deaf, all it can hear is Hussain
Our lungs breath him, for us the air is Hussain
Our prayer and despair and our care is Hussain
The sword we use to butcher fear is Hussain
The eyes confess that every tear is Hussain
With death, the savior who’ll appear is Hussain
We put Hussain in place of ‘I’
All five of our senses know nothing but the fifth of the cloak
His light the first sight of our souls when into life we awoke
And all other love is a lie
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When our mothers birthed us, his name they’d wail
Our fathers woulds beseech him and he’d fulfill
His love fire while all other love is still
It burns our bones and yet our wounds it heals
Bodies become weak and minds become frail
Unless they cry Hussain and Abu Fadhil
Broken are all those who deny
His love worth more to us than the blood that flows within our veins
Whatever we own and love is simply both God’s and Hussain’s
And all other love is a lie
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All love and except and without his is a lie
How does one without it in his Lord rely?
While we’re kept afloat by the tears that we cry
We learnt Islam from tears that sit in the eye
His head held high made us hold up our heads high
All other love drowns souls and watches them die
By his love even God swears by
Through his love we worship God and fall in love with Muhammad
What other love falls in love with a man with a severed head?
And all other love is a lie
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Let the tears flow for it quenches our Master
Let the blood blow as if shed in Karbala
There is no love but his and no life either
The heart years death so his hear lasts forever
The world sways with the flutter of his banner
Which we hold in this world and the hereafter
His love is hope for when we die
In our grave when the angels come toward us for questioning
We await him to save us for we gave Hussain everything
And all other love is a lie
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(Beirut – 16/10/19)