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SHIA SUNNI UNITY: SHIA SUNNI DIFFERENCES, SHIA SUNNI CONFLICT
May 31st, 2007
Categories: azadari e hussain, ghame hussain, kama zani, arbaeen, bibi fatima, man kunto maula, holy koran, ahle bait, enemies of shiasm, Ashura [...]

The Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (A.S.) by Syed Hasan Akhtar, M. D. Austin, Texas Member, Islamic Research Foundation International, Inc. 7102 W. Shefford Lane Louisville, KY 40242 E-Mail: syedhasan14@hotmail.com Website: http://www.irfi.org
The month of Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar year. An important and tragic event took place on the tenth of Muharram [...]

 

These are Shias followers of the Shiasm faith, a Muslim sect that mourns for the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the beloved grandson of the Holy Prophet.
Says Shia.news com complete article on http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/islam/0000351.php
What is Ashura ? In the month of Muharram 61 AH (approx. 20 October 680 AD), an event took place in Iraq at a [...]

At Karbala Talkatora maybe a distance of an hour and half from Nakhas, slowed down by a snail pace of the processionist, the street matams, the noha recitals on the way, with the Ashura fast called Faqa , kept by the Shias, so the heat, no water , no food just plain blood letting of [...]

Yes We Bleed

the chant of ya hussain
is all we need
yes we bleed
furrowed on our heads
ploughed lines
of our faith
indeed
yes we bleed
just love
for our imam
without any greed
yes we bleed
our views
not yours
is part of our creed
yes we bleed
keep your sajdahs
your skull caps
your prayer beads
hussainiyat
we will not conceede
come moharam
its guaranteed
yes we will bleed
trampling
with the tandav of our feet
yazidiyat and the [...]

I spoke to Dr Shabeeb Rizvi Shia Islamic scholar on my mobile , it was his Sms to me on Bibi Fatima that inspired me to write the two articles on her trial and tribulations, sometimes being the daughter of the Holy Prophet , is a huge mantle of a spiritual responsibility, people around you [...]

An Iraqi man weeps over the coffin of a relative killed last night when gunmen opened fire on a convoy of police recruits traveling to Baghdad, capital of US invased Iraq. Photo Courtesy :: AFP/Wissam al-Okaili]
No end of sufferings
written by somkumar Mon Oct 23 22:01 MST at I talker news
Killing still continues in Iraq and [...]

I am haunted by his eyes in this picture, normally with your eyes you see an image , block it away , but as a photojournalist, it gets embedded in your minds camera consciousness.No sepia toned fading as in momochromes,this stays in color, the color red the color of blood. I remember in my early [...]

courtesy Wikipedia
This morning Mumbai Mirror a widely read Mumbai tabloid, had the following headlines:
Qaeda warns of attacks worse than 9/11..some excerpts from the article.
“Dubai An American member of Al Qaeda warned in an Internet video, that US PresidentGeorge W Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse thanSeptember 11.”
“Adam Gadahn, [...]

Janatul Baqi Google Images
I write about Shia women, the fountain head of our Faith, the beacon of light of our Faith.
They only they are the powerhouse of our impregnable Faith.
Without Shia women there is no Shiasm.Shiasm is alive as Shia women as Mothers , bring forth Faith , faith as a newborn child, who will [...]

from this world into
the next world we will pass
tears for bibi fatima
beneath the shadow of alam abbas
oops taqqaiya
allah ho akbar
we bypass
dont throw stones
you live in a cybernetic world
made of glass
we cut our bodies
scourge bleed
mind outpacing mass
we dont lob grenades
maim , decapitate or
other communities harass
on other peoples privacy of thought
we dont tresspass
so let us do what [...]

a muslim woman
begs on the graveyard of a mound
around her mocking her despair
dead laughter surrounds
ghosts spirits her living death
astound
a few coins in her hand
deathly silence no sound
covering her beggary
her shame
born as a Muslim Woman
by other moving men and women
frowned
she in her hijab
her winding sheet
buried live above ground
we are building
masjids madarsaas
womens home childrens home
homlessness no home [...]

During the Procession of the Mehndi Hazrat Qasim , I had met the erstwhile Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah who claims his ancestry from the ruling Nawabs of yore, he is a well read, cool mind person, not at all pompous of his blue blood or lineage.I met him for the first time, as I come [...]

This is a new series an extension of Ashura, as the processionists move from Nakhas to Karbala Talkatora, scourging doing Matam, kamazani, alongside this procession is people carrying the Tazias a part of the House Imambada for burial.Women, children , men barefeet , head uncovered converge at the cemetery grounds of Talkatora, an ancient Shrine [...]

On the streets of Naakhas, the Shiagarh of Lucknow you hear shouts of this singular cry, Ek Nare Hyderi Ya Ali, reverberating over a wintry chill, fragrance of rose water mingling with weeping blood, fresh , since 1400 years,Exclusively Shia pain.
What they are doing here on the street today on Ashura is what their forefathers [...]