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Marsiya (Marsia) (Template:Lang-fa) is an elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain and his comrades of the Karbala. In its form the marsia generally consists of six-line units, 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 eulogies and bemoan the martyrs of the battle of Karbala. The form reached its peak in the writing of Mir Babar Ali Anis. Marsia is a poem written to commemorate the martyrdom of Ahl al-Bayt, Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala. It is usually a poem of mourning. and Even a short poem written to mourn the death of a friend can be called marsia. Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem 'In Memoriam' can rightly be called marsia. The sub-parts of marsia are called noha and soz which means lamentation and burning of (heart) respectively.

The famous marsia writers in Urdu are Mir Babar Ali Anis, Mir Moonis, Salamat Ali Dabeer, Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns Syed Sajjad Husain "Shadeed" Lucknavi, Dr. Syed Ali Imam Zaidi, Gauher Lucknavi the (grand son of Mir Baber Ali Anees} and Syed Zahoor Haider Jarchwi

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• Mersiya khwani, includes audio introduction to Marsiya by Professor Syed Sibt-e-Jafar Zaidi
• Recasting Karbala in the Genre of Urdu Marsiya
• The Urdu Marsiya
• http://www.imambargah.com/
• Soazkhwani by Professor Sibte Jafar Zaidi
• Nohey, Soazkhwani, Salam, Marsiya and Manqabat
• Soazkhwani by Muhammad Ali Naqvi
• Soazkhwani by Majid Raza Abidi
• Soazkhwani by Azimul Mohsin
• Soazkhwani by Hasan Abid Jaffery
• Soazkhwani by Abid Hussain Alwari
• Soazkhwani by various peoples
• Soazkhwani by Syed Ali Ausat Zaidi

• Urdu poetry
• Shi'a literature
• Islamic poetry
• Husayn