The Elegies Of Separation
Without doubt the pain of separation of brother Sayyid Radi upon Sayyid Murtada was indeed heavy and bitter. Alone, bereaved, head lowered upon his knees, taking heart-rending sigh from his burning heart, he recited the elegies of separation:
"Oh friends! This unpleasant catastrophe which had broken my arm, I wish would have also taken my soul
All the lime I was scared and frightened- till at last it arrived at the doorsteps, and poured the bitter poison into my throat.
I begged and requested for some grace period, but it attacked me without paying least attention towards my sad condition.
By God/ What a short span of life - yet so much glorious.
While there were lives who lived too long, but an unpious existence.1
- 1. Translation al-Ghadir Vol. 7 p. 331