The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari inaugurated
the “International Urdu Marsia Conference” held on 28 December at New Delhi. Addressing on
the occasion he said that Marsia can be written and heard by heart only.
A fully developed Marsiya is always an epic. He hoped that the seminar
will help in getting more people associated with Marsia.
The word ‘Marsiya’ is derived from the Arabic word ‘Risa’, meaning a
great tragedy or lamentation for a departed soul.Marsiya (or elegy), is
nearly always on the death of Hasan and Hussein and their families, but
occasionally on the death of relatives and friends. It is usually in
six-lined stanzas with the rhyme aaaabb. The recitation of these elegies
in the first ten days of Muharram is one of the greatest event in
Muslim life
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