Your love more precious to us than breathing air
Life without your love is just grief and despair
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There is no love like the love of you Hussain
What love brings toward the heart both joy and pain?
You keep breaking our hearts, yet we come back again
What love is like your love, what love can compare?
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In the dust of your feed we find medicine
Your love helps us through our hardships, the thick and thin
When on Judgement Day we are weight down with sin
You’ll come and save us out of your love and care
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Thank you O’ Hussain for all you give to us
By the wil of Allah you witness service
Thank you Allah and Hussain for Al-Abbas
With no hands he hands us every desire
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We grew up not in our homes but in your shrine
And witness stars with your minarets align
Beneath your dome all of our dreams we would find
In mawakib your love in black we would wear
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There is no day like your day, since time began
When Adam descended he sought out your land
Jesus brought dead back to life using your sand
When we yearn Heaven we simply taste your air
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Without your love there’s no worth in air we breathe
Even in death my beloved, your love we crave
I’ll even lament Hussain inside my grave
Reciting verses in mourning of you there
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O’ Hussain we will lament you till our end
Until our flesh and bone into dust descend
And hope on Judgement Day your hand you will lend
Would you turn away beggars… surely that’s rare
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(Ottawa – 07/02/19)