Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Shiasm a World Without Borders
slashing their backs
a message they send
1400 protest
against terrorism
even after they die
wont end
a newer lot
will carry forward
the fight against yazidiyat
a thought to attend
enemies of shiasm
not mans best friend
hussain is humanity
hussainiyat
with our blood we defend
yes we are shias
we dont need to pretend
shiasm a world
without borders
our soul transcends
fuzzy headed puritans
wont comprehend
broken fences
takes two hands to mend
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Father and Son
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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Advocate Anwar Hussain.. Founder of the Juloos
Advocate Anwar Hussain.. Founder of the Juloos, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
Posted by photographerno1 on 07 Mar 2009
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My Tribute to the Shia Mother
The Shia faith is kept alive by the Shia mother , may God endow his blessings on them, mothers who holding children at their waists, holding another child by his hand come from far flung areas to indoctrinate the child from a very age to the most important chapter of his or her life Ghame Hussain..
Without the Shia mothers selfless contribution the spiritual landscape would be utterly barren.
Through these mothers I pay tribute to my own Mother who though never took us to juloos, but fed us with stories of Imam Hussain ..
My mother was sickly asthmatic, but she always visited the Hazrat Abbas Dargah at Dongri every Thursday come rain storm or flood..
My mother had a great fear of cemeteries so I saw Chelum juloos very recently..she kept us away from cemeteries..
At Colaba Mumbai where we stayed there was hardly any Shia influence, so we had to come to Bhendi Bazar Dongri and Moghul Masjid..
Besides I had hardly any Shia friends..so all this Kaisar Bagh , Amin Imambada is quite new to me..After I took up photography as a hobby I revisited my Faith through my camera eyes..
I had scourged my back a few times a kid, but it is Habib Nassr and Baqar Nasser and their friends that recharged my inane spirituality as a Shia..they woke me up from my slumber..Yes in a way I am a new born Shia..without my friends I would have never reached this far..
I did not partake of congregational religiosity, found it stifling and claustrophobic..I was a Shia but a very private one..but than all this changed , better late than never..I was a coward far too scared of walking on fire or cutting my head, I thought it would destroy the growth of my long hair.. but this too changed..with Ghame Hussain.
Yesterday after I had shot the juloos I took a public transport to feel the discomfort, of travelling standing from Malwani to Bandra by bus.. and thus realized what Shia mothers went through coming from Mira Road and other distant areas..
Its tough being a Shia mother its a 24/7 dedication, the father too puts in his little bit but it is the Mother that keeps the Flame of our Faith alive.
So read my pictures by touching the deepest layer of my thoughts..close your eyes for a second and you might see your own mother through my pictures..
Yes I am a poet I am crying textless poetry embedded in my tears..
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Alams Standards of Peace
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Azadari e Hussain
azadari e hussain
is out birthright
ours is a message of peace
hussain is humanity
we hold tight
through the darkness
he showed us a path
of a divine light
peak of eloquence
a towering height
a supreme sacrifice
that crushed
yazidi intolerance
yazidi tyrannical might
hussain the champion
of all spiritual
human right
along with yazid
the greatest criminals
the eunuchs at karbala
who watched
the martyrdom of hussain
out of fear
testicularless
just kept quiet
along with the killers
of hussain
we curse them alright
Shah ast Hussain, Badshah ast Hussain
Deen ast Hussain, Deen Panah ast Hussain
Sardad na dad dast, dar dast-e-yazeed,
Haqaa key binaey La ila ast Hussain
words embedded on our shia souls
truth as clear as black and white
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Athvi Amary Juloos Malad Malwani 2009
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The Shia Videographers of Mumbai
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