Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
O glorious progeny of Ahmed and Ismail
You taught us that only before God we should kneel
That only if we feel the pain of others can we heel
The world needs your message of tawheed and love again
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
To never surrender our freedom before tyranny
To love mothers and daughters and defeat misogyny
With honor and righteousness fight all felonies
Enlightened inspiration from your model can we gain
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
To liars and hypocrites you spoke with honesty
To savages you preached humanity
Responded to crudeness with sensitivity
Your life in this world was like in a desert, rain
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
Your methods so discrete your purpose is reform
To free the soul of religion from hypocritical form
Resisting those who wished to make exploitation a norm
And for these high ideals you would suffer any pain
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain
You represented to Allah’s every Prophet’s legacy
Inherited the purity of Fatima, and Ali
But did the ummah value these pillars of piety
The massacred one and paraded the other in chains
Unique are your sacrifices Zainab and Husain