If I go to Najaf, the same question I will face `Where is Husain?

If I go to Najaf, the same question I will face `Where is Husain?' That is all I will hear" "You've asked me to leave, so how can I stay? But where must I go, where must I stay?" "won't You come, hold my hand as I alight? Won't You shelter me from strangers' sights? Won't Abbas or Alder come to bid me farewell?

Won't You bring Asghar for whom Banu cries?" "You're our leader come lead us ahead we're ready, yet You sleep, the grave Your bed" "Although I weep and call out Your name You do not answer Oh Prince, I'm amazed if only You would embrace me now I will leave for Medina, though never the same" The Prince then answered "My dear Zainab farewell Give my love to Soghra, my daughter who is ill" [^1]: The word "Chehlum" or “Arba’in” in Arabic, denotes the traditional memorial held on the 40th day after death.…