Soaz
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SOAZ (pronounced So ahzz)is a term coined by Tim Huber while at the University of Arizona. Being from Southern California, but tired of hearing people call Southern California SOCAL or CALI. He decided that Southern Arizona needed its own term. The term SOAZ was created as a nickname for Southern Arizona. In relation to that, Huber's and buddy Brent Mckee's race team is called SOAZ racing. #1699. They can be seen racing the deserts of baja in the Baja 1000 or the deserts of Arizona.
Soaz or soz (Persian / Urdu: سوز) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his comrades of the Karbala. In its form the soaz, salam and marsia, with a rhyming quatrain, and a couplet on a different rhyme. This form found a specially congenial soil in Lucknow (a city in Northern India), chiefly because it was the centre of Shia Muslim community, which regarded it an act of piety and religious duty to eulogise and bemoan the martyrs of the battle of Karbala. The form reached its peak in the writing of Mir Babar Ali Anis. Soaz is written to commemorate the martyrdom of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. The sub-parts of marsia can be called noha and soz which means lamentation and burning of (heart) respectively. For this purpose, http://azadari.com and http://babulilm.com.pk are one of the best sites for soaz, salam, milaad & mersiya etc.
