Soaz

Soaz or soz (Persian and Urdu: سوز) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the honor of Husain ibn Ali and his family and Sahabah in the battle of Karbala. In its form the soaz, salam and Marsiya, with a rhyming quatrain and a couplet on a different rhyme. This form found a specially congenial soil in Lucknow (a city in Northern India), chiefly because it was the center of Shia Muslim community, which regarded it an act of piety and religious duty to eulogies and bemoan the person who killed in the battle of Karbala. The form reached its peak in the writing of Mir Babar Ali Anis. A soaz is written to commemorate the honor of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. The sub-parts of Marsiya can be called Noha and soz which means the lamentation and burning of (heart) respectively.

A series of articles on
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali in Islamic calligraphy
Life
Family tree Battle of Karbala
Remembrance
Maqtal al-Husayn Casualties of Husayn's caravan in Karbala Sermon of Zaynab bint Ali in the court of Yazid Sermon of Ali ibn Husayn in Damascus Mourning of Muharram (Majlis-e-Aza) Day of Ashura Day of Tasu'a Lohoof Azadari in Lucknow Arba'een Imam Husayn Shrine Ziyarat of Ashura Hussainiya Marsiya Noha Maddahi Soaz Ta'zieh Tabuik Hosay Chehel Minbari Chup Tazia Tatbir Hussaini Dalan Rawda Khwani
Perspectives
The Twelve Imams The Fourteen Infallibles

People who recite soaz are known as soazkhawan.