photo shot by my mentor Dr Glenn Losack MD
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 a few weeks to go
before bakra idd
in a dinghy they came
killing in the name of Allah
the jehaddi game
non state actors
Muslims  to name
operating from
Pakistani territory
Islam defame
bombing innocent people
their notoriety to fame
the Muslim mother weeps
such is her shame
they who kill ruthlessly
mercilessly
without fear
our community
gets blamed
for political convenience
others are framed
the [...]

blood
shed for
hussain ibn ali
a matam
a testimony
of our shia faith
allah
through the invocation
of ahle baith
June 6th, 2007
Categories: Firoze Shakir Shia poetry, ahle bait, imam hussain, allah,

I saw the poster, perhaps the poster saw me, it is a picture of a Saras Crane the National bird of Uttar Pradesh, slaughtered for its exotic flesh.
Scientific name: Grus antigone
Local name: “Saras Crane”
Occurrence
Mostly found in Lumbini and western terai regions and also found in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Burma
Description
Adult is grey, with bare red [...]

Is she a Shia woman
Is she a Sunni woman
Did I need to ask her
Who is she ?
A Womans bane
That she is a woman
In a sectarian Islam
A Muslims woman’s
Universal pain
A male dominated
A mullah dominated
Society
To which she is chained
A pain from time immemorial
Self contained
Her Hijab her vulnerability
Her protective armour
Uncomplained
On the roads
Begging life unsustained
Ya Allah
Ya Maulah mushkil kusha
laailaha [...]