Analysis of the Literary Structure of Hazrateh Zeinab's (s. a.) Sermon

After over fourteen hundred years, the disclosing sermon of Hazrateh Zeinab (s. a.) in the Umayyads’ palace is still echoed in history, and the passing of time hasn’t consigned the content of this sermon to oblivion. Zeinab (s. a.) was a keen follower of Hussein (a. s.), and every aspect of her character and every phrase of her speech resembles an endless book which embraces a lot of unspoken words. Analyzing the content of this sermon in terms of stylish phrases, harmony, resonance, images, and emotion and within the framework of literary analysis, this article intents to reveal the artistic features of the sermon and prove that the above-mentioned qualities made it highly efficient in its own time and gave it permanence through centuries.