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Abad wa-llāh mā nansā Ḥusaynā (Arabic: أبد والله ما ننسى حسینا, "By God, we will never forget Husayn") is a poetic phrase recited in elegies for the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn (a) and during Muharram mourning rituals, including the Tuwairij procession.[1]

"Abad wa-llah ma nansa Husayna" elegy recited by Nizar al-Qatari

Some poets have used this hemistich in their religious compositions[2] and have employed it as a refrain.[3] Additionally, elegy reciters such as Nizar al-Qatari and Basim al-Karbala'i have included this phrase in their performances.[4] Sometimes it has been rendered as "Abad wa-llah lan nansā Husayna."[5], using "lan" instead of "mā". While mā is a simple negation equivalent to "not," lan conveys a stronger, future-oriented negation—emphasizing that we will never forget Husayn (a).

It has also been reported that Iraqi mourners have used this phrase as a rallying cry when facing obstacles and threats to mourning ceremonies for Imam al-Husayn (a), including confrontations with the forces of the Ba'athist regime during the Safar Uprising in Iraq[6] and attacks by ISIS against mourners.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ See: Rakḍat Ṭuwayrīj... Naẓrah Tārīkhiyya; Anṣārī, The Tuwairij procession; a tradition as old as fourteen centuries.
  2. ↑ See: The Path of Love – 'Abad wa-llāh mā nansā Ḥusaynā' (Persian and Arabic); Abad wa-llāh mā nansā Ḥusaynā, (Persian).
  3. ↑ Website of al-Qaṣā'id al-Walā'iyyah (Arabic)
  4. ↑ See: Falāḥ, Elegy recitation on the seventh night of Muharram; Nizār al-Qaṭarī, Ṣirāṭ-i 'Ishq.
  5. ↑ Abad wa-llāh lan nansā Ḥusaynā (Maktūbah) (Arabic).
  6. ↑ Abū Zayd al-'Āmilī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (al-Sīrah wa al-Masīrah fī Ḥaqā'iq wa Wathā'iq), pp. 322-323; Muḥaddithī, Farhang-i 'Āshūrā, p. 42.
  7. ↑ Kūrānī al-'Āmilī, Jawāhir al-Tārīkh, vol. 1, p. 6.

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