# Is Shor Ki Aadi Nahi Zainab

**Urdu title:** اے شامیوں اس شور کی عادی نہیں زینبؑ

**Section:** Noha & Marsiya -- Fatima Zahra Imamia Centre devotional library
**Page:** https://fzic.org/library/noha/is-shor-ki-aadi-nahi-zainab-50101
**Form:** Noha
**Poet:** Mir Hasan Mir
**Source: Mir Hasan Mir's official recording (Mir Records, Muharram 2026), published with his permission. Roman Urdu and English: prepared by the Centre.**

## About this text

A noha for Zainab (a) among the people of Syria, written, composed and recited by Mir Hasan Mir for Muharram 2026 (1448 AH). Its refrain answers the crowds of Damascus who celebrated the arrival of the captives: Zainab (a) is no rebel, and not used to such clamour. The couplets follow her from Karbala through the market and the prison of Damascus, and close with a plea, not the poet's alone, to be called to Syria again for her brother's Chehlum.

Published with the permission of Mir Hasan Mir.

## Text

**Stanza 1**

Urdu:  
اے شامیوں اس شور کی عادی نہیں زینبؑ  
کیوں جشن مناتے ہو کہ باغی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Ae Shaamiyon is shor ki aadi nahin Zainab  
Kyun jashn manaate ho ke baaghi nahin Zainab

English:  
O people of Syria, Zainab (a) is not used to such clamour;  
why do you celebrate? Zainab (a) is no rebel.

**Stanza 2**

Urdu:  
کہتے رہے سب لوگ کہ شبیرؑ کو مارو  
مارو نہ میرے بھائی کو کہتی رہی زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Kehte rahe sab log ke Shabbir ko maaro  
Maaro na mere bhai ko kehti rahi Zainab

English:  
Everyone kept saying, "Kill Shabbir (a)!"  
"Do not kill my brother!" Zainab (a) kept saying.

**Stanza 3**

Urdu:  
شاید کسی بازار میں بچھڑی ہے سکینہؑ  
دُرے بھی لعیں مارے تو بڑھتی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Shayad kisi bazaar mein bichhri hai Sakina  
Durre bhi laeen maare to barhti nahin Zainab

English:  
Perhaps Sakina (a) has been lost in some market:  
even when the accursed one lashes her with whips, Zainab (a) does not move on.

**Stanza 4**

Urdu:  
اماں کی ردا چومنے لگ جاتی ہے رو کر  
گھر آ کے بھی بازار کو بھولی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Ammaan ki rida choomne lag jaati hai ro kar  
Ghar aa ke bhi bazaar ko bhooli nahin Zainab

English:  
Weeping, she takes to kissing her mother's veil;  
even back at home, Zainab (a) has not forgotten the market.

**Stanza 5**

Urdu:  
آ جائے نہ عابدؑ کو کوئی مارنے والا  
زندان میں اس خوف سے سوئی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Aa jaaye na Abid ko koi maarne waala  
Zindan mein is khauf se soi nahin Zainab

English:  
Lest someone should come to kill Abid (a),  
in the prison Zainab (a) did not sleep for fear of it.

**Stanza 6**

Urdu:  
توڑیں گے یہ پتھر کیا بھلا حوصلہ اس کا  
قاسمؑ کے جنازے پہ بھی بکھری نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Toren ge ye patthar kya bhala hausla us ka  
Qasim ke janaze pe bhi bikhri nahin Zainab

English:  
How could these stones break her courage?  
Even at the bier of Qasim (a), Zainab (a) did not fall apart.

**Stanza 7**

Urdu:  
اب کرنی ہے سجادؑ کی تجھ کو ہی حفاظت  
پہرے پہ تیرے اب تیرا غازیؑ نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Ab karni hai Sajjad ki tujh ko hi hifazat  
Pehre pe tere ab tera Ghazi nahin Zainab

English:  
Now it falls to you alone to protect Sajjad (a);  
your Ghazi (a) stands guard over you no more, Zainab (a).

**Stanza 8**

Urdu:  
زخموں کی ردا اوڑھ کے اس طرح سے سوئی  
سجادؑ جگاتے رہے جاگی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Zakhmon ki rida orh ke is tarah se soi  
Sajjad jagaate rahe jaagi nahin Zainab

English:  
Wrapped in a veil of wounds, she slept in such a way  
that Sajjad (a) kept trying to wake her, and Zainab (a) did not wake.

**Stanza 9**

Urdu:  
چہلم کے لیے بھائی کے پھر شام بلانا  
یہ صرف تیرے میر کی عرضی نہیں زینبؑ

Roman Urdu:  
Chehlum ke liye bhai ke phir Shaam bulana  
Ye sirf tere Mir ki arzi nahin Zainab

English:  
Call us to Syria again for your brother's Chehlum;  
this is not your Mir's plea alone, Zainab (a).

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