Oh Sajjad

Sajjad, SajjadOh Sajjad, Oh SajjadOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadYou taught us the art of supplicationYou showed us the power of prostrationTo make islam our lifes foundationAnd how to ask allah for salvationSuch is your status oh holy soulYou made allahs love your only goal, oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadYou are the great grandson of muhammedInside your veins flows the purest of bloodYou came down from heaven like a rose budAnd left your scent forever in this worldYour name will live on forever nowTill death you’ll be in our hearts we vow oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadYou were imprisoned your feet were in chainsAnd on the chains splattered were your blood stainsInside your heart were the scars of those painsOf what you saw that day on the hot plainsOh you are patience personifiedYou thanked allah though your hands were tied oh myimamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadYou saw your fathers head on that spear,Your mothers bear headed and in fearYour sister was treated so severeThat blood was pouring down from her earAnd yet you were so brave that you spokeand in that courtyard the world awoke oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadWith quaking hands how you dug a small graveA resting place for Sakina to layHer shroud was her shirt covered in blood stains‘Til end of time that is how she will stayUntil today she’s so far from homeThe prison is dark and she’s alone oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadFor forty long years you kept on weeping‘Cos in your mind Shaam kept on repeatingThe lashes you got and all the beatingFor all these feelings there is no healingThose memories always will be rawOf what you heard, felt and what you saw oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadUpon your death bed you cried out and saidRemembering karbala your heart bledYour seventy two loved ones were all deadHussain Your father now lay beheadedAnd then the tents were burnt to the groundYour feet were tied and your hands were bound oh myimamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadYou are my guidance my inspirationTo emulate you is my intentionIn every moment, in every secondYour love will flow in me like an oceanYou are the leader of all of manSo please give us all a helping hand oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadI wanna follow in your directionTo fight for truth I will face objectionFor my beliefs I will face rejectionI need your help I need your protectionTo stand against falsehood everydayAnd live my life master in your way oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadThis is the state now today in BahrainThe true believers are dying in painThe tyrant rulers are killing for reignThey’re shedding innocent blood without shamePlease now return Mehdi our imamAnd salvage our souls from all this harm oh my imamOh my imam Zainul AbideenOh SajjadTejani brothers are praying for thisThroughout the world one day there will be blissWhen our imam comes and rules with justiceWith love and peace we will all coexistWe raise our hands, we cry and we sayWe pray for this moment everyday oh my imam

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