Piss Off

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piddling on the effigies
of the enemies of shiasm
our kids on eid e zehra day
piss off they say
for once crime does not pay
truth returns to torment
generation after generation
so what did you slay?
he gave his head [...]

Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (a), the 6th Imam

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Photo article courtesy
members.fortunecity.com/masoom110/TRUEISLAM/id25.html

Name - Ja’far
Title - As-Sadiq
Kunyat - Abu Abdullah
Born - Monday 17th of Rabi-ul-Awwal 83 A.H. in Medina
Father’s Name - Muhammad ibn Ali
Mother’s Name - Umme-e-Farwah
Died - At [...]

Wiladat Hazrat Ali

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photo courtesy
www.shaheedfoundation.org/wallpaper/big/ali.jpg
NAME ALI (A.S).
FATHER’SNAME ABU TALIB (A.S).
MOTHER’S NAME FATIMA D/O ASAD (S.A).
DATE OF BIRTH 13th RAJAB 10 YEARS BEFORE THE PROPHET DECLARED HIS PROPHETHOOD.
PLACE OF BIRTH KHAANA-E-KAABA.
PERIOD OF IMAMAT 30 YEARS.
SON’S NAME IMAM [...]

Cybernetic Minarets of Hate

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photo courtesy www.gobantams.com/cwp/terrorists.jpg
Muslims love hating Muslims
Cybernetic minarets of sectarian hate
Allah ho Akbar a web of a page to state
Godliness for unsure under poor taste embraced
Waiting to pounce on the unwary the gullible
They under [...]

The Memories of Distant Dreams

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I was here with my wife and my mother in law for a few hours, as we were visiting the Shrine of Shaheede Salis Agra and were to leave on the same day to be in time [...]

Dargah Hazrat Abbas Lucknow

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This is a monument of Faith , custodians of Faith , the Dargah Hazrat Abbas is the replica of his Shrine in Karbala…
A Hindu person went into the Dargah bowed , came out, outside are the Alam shops [...]

Rehan’s Anjuman at Kazmain

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Rehan is reciting the Noha from his notebook, he will lead his band of Shia followers to the replica of the Holy Shrine at Kazmain.Here they will do the last alvidai Matam beating their proud chests with chants [...]

Ya Ali

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“I am the city of Knowledge, and Ali is the gate of the city” - Holy Prophet Mohammad Mustafa s.a.w
” Whosoever I am master of, Ali is master of” - Holy Prophet at Ghadeer-e-Khum
“Fatima is part of me [...]

Muslim Woman on a Mound

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Mouth gagged
Mullah power packed
Male dominated society
hand and feat bound
muslim woman on a mound
living dead
uneducated
impoversished
her tomb
lies above ground
the poor muslim woman
the dark side of the moon
going round and round [...]

yes we are shias we live let live

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somethings you cant buy somethings you dont sell
hussainiyat comes with the territory a shia mothers womb
in the amniotic fluid of a furat we dwell
yes we are shias we live let live
within [...]

Hallori Hand Matam/Mumbai Shia

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The Hallori Mumbai Shia is a unique force , a single one man army, army in the context of Matam and not insidious militantcy of a Jehadi.
The Mumbai Shia is a very peaceloving Shia, he goes about with [...]

 
For convenience sake I have decided to post pictures that I had never posted on the net before at Flickrs …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/
Moharam in Mumbai  includes Ashura, Athvi at Govandi, Chehlum,
Moharam in Hussaintekri
Moharam in Hyderabad
Moharam in Kolkatta

Athvi at Govandi/The Halloris

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Normally I celebrated Athvi the last segment of Moharam in Lucknow for two consecutive years, but as my eldest son Asif Shakir was getting married in Lucknow April 28 2006, I decided to skip the Lucknow Athvi , [...]

Kaiser Bagh Shia Childs Spiritual Cybercafe

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Kaiser Bagh is the Khoja Shia Gadh..
It lies at Dongri next to the Hazrat Abbas Dargah Lane.During the three days before Ashura , all the Shia kids cluster here to rigorously take part in the Zazir [...]

Samandar Ki Pyas Ko Abbas Kahte Hain

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mashke sakina ke sat rahte hain
sar tarai par be haath rahte hain
moulah akka ke ghulam ko abbas kahte hain
dil ko tatolo tumhare sat rahte hain
furat main thamkar
hamare ankhon se bahte [...]