“What hesitance is there for the giant of death for taking away another dear one, after it has already snatched away the son of Fatimah.

Which is the day when the eyes are full of fears, because of the horrible catastrophe and painful tragedy?

On that tragic Day of Ashura-e-Husayn neither friend acted as faithful nor host offered shelter for their guest.

Oh Son of Fatimah! They look the oath of allegiance and then broken their commitment. How few are the faithful?

Some other place be said:

Oh! Sons of Ummayad! The swords of valiant’ s whose dear ones have been most brutally killed (by you) will never go to sleep.

The swords are twisting inside their sheaths and the swift horse with a lightning strike is restless for encounter.

I am waiting for the day which would arrive without any prior warning when bodies of the misguided ones would tremble like a willow.

At another occsaion on the day of Ashura he recites:

Oh! Ashura-e-Husayn, these burning flames (within) has engulfed my entire existence.

Every year this internal fire in my soul always gets ignited (on this day) no matter how much I try to extinguish it.

Oh my noble grandfather! The forces of sorrow, pain, and anguish attacks my heart.

The flood of tears flows continuously from the eyes, and if subsides at sunset again starts at the sunrise.

By recitals of these praises and elegiac verses, can I elevate your exaltedness and grandeur? Your eminence and dignity is like the peaks of mountains, while I am like someone sitting

at the bottom in a plain desert.

What language could be used for praising the bright stars which are shining in the sky at the highest levels upon milky ways.

The sun shining with brightness and magnificence does not require any praise.

Some other examples of outcry of Sayyid Radi on another Day of Ashura:

Now that the Islamic caliphate has deviated from its assigned natural course, how can one expect flourishing and well-being of Islamic Ummah.

The pulpit of caliphate has been snatched away by the wicked ones and the Ummayad-wolves are now jumping over it.

Caliphate belongs to Divinely appointed persons who received Divine inspiration and were assigned to be the guardian of religion and its commandments.1

This portion of Sayyid Radi's poetry may be called the culture of Ashura, in which the sacred phrases of self-sacrifice, valor, bravery and love (for God) have been pictured with utmost perfection.

• 1. Translation al-Ghadir vol. 7.