"Love of Ali and Zahra" is among the songs of late Naser Abdollahi, Iranian pop singer who had performed it in 2006. Mehrdad Nosrati was the composer of this musical piece and the poet of the work was Farzad Hasani.
This song somehow depicts the joy and alacrity of the entire universe for the wedding of Lady Fatimah (Peace upon her), the daughter of the Prophet of Islam, Mohammad (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) and his cousin, Imam Ali (Peace upon him) with various imageries. The "Venus of light and lyric" refers to Lady Fatimah who is happy and her smiles are similar to blossoms. "Father of soil" (Abu Torab in Arabic) is also the epithet of Imam Ali.
Lady Fatimah has been referred to as the symbol Zohreh (Venus), while Imam Ali has been called as the symbol of soil or earth. Thus, the bond of these two means the bond of the sky and the earth which affects the whole universe.
Frequent references to concepts like "angel", "sky", "star" and "cosmos" indicates the pure and spotless love between these two great figures.
The poet, in the end, stresses the issue that the love of Ali and Zahra is the role model for all other loves; and their life is the beginning and end of the concept of love.
First of the Islamic month of Zul-Hijja is the wedding anniversary of Imam Ali and Lady Fatimah which has been dubbed as the "Day of Celestial Bond" and "Day of Blessed Marriage" in the Iranian calendar.
The life of these two role models was full of love and sincerity so that Imam Ali (Peace upon him) said, "By God, as long as Fatimah was alive, I didn't anger her, and she didn’t do anything to anger me. Whenever I looked at her, my grief would perish."
Here, we present you the full text of the song, "Love of Ali and Fatimah":
Come again to bring silver, to pour gold, to sprinkle sequins to the skies,
The Venus of light and lyric is like blossoms when she smiles.
His heart, the Father of soil has given to the skies,
the sound of the angels' wings is heard in the skies.
The whole sky is in prayer with all stars
above Ka'ba, "my Lord, my Lord" is heard as from Mars.
If the Fadak is fresh, if the cosmos revolves,
if, to dandelion, God has given His breeze,
all is for the love of Ali and Zahra,
o songs, o songs, just here love starts.
all is for the love of Ali and Zahra,
o songs, o songs, just here love ends.
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