Shah ast Hussain (as)

Imam Hussain was the grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam.After the passing away of the Prophet , there was a clamouring of power , though the Holy Prophet had inadvertently mentioned at Ghadir Qum Man Kunto Moula Ali Fazhaiun Moula , simply translated it meant give Ali the same respect as you give me.

However on his death , there was a political conspiracy, hatched in such a way that Ali lost his right to the Caliphate. Abubaker became the First Caliph of Islam.The followers of Ali could not take the disparage so a non temporal, spiritual post came into being called Imamat. Ali was the first Imaam..All the Imams died tragic death.The 12th Imam for the Shias is Hidden he is known as the Mahdi or Al Muntazar or Imam e Zamana .This is the irrevocable difference between Shias and Sunnis who form the majority Islamic sect.The Shia are about 15% scatterd in some countries but a majority in Iraq Iran Azaerbaijan.

Imam Hussain was asked to pay allegiance to the Caliph of his time Yazid of the Ummayad Caliphate, Hussain declined as Yazid was anti Islam corrupt and a despot. A battle took place between the warriors of Yazids army led by Shimr.. Imam Hussains 72 warriors, this was one of the most barbaric chapters of Islam, where not even a six month child of the imam was spared.Ali Asghar was shot down by an arrow with which you shoot wild life Water was blocked at the Euphrates, everyone was killed save a surviving sickly son of the Imam known as Sajjad or Zainul Abedin the ladies and the indomitable sister of the Imam , Bibi Zainab , a four year daughter Bibi Sakina . Imam Hussain was shot down by arrows, Zuljana his faithful steed taking the brunt of the attack, after that Shimr decapitated the Imams head , their clothes belongings looted, bodies trampled by horses, their head put up on spears, women children enslaved, taken to Damascus to the court of Yazid..

This was the beginning of Jehadi terrorism or Yazidiyat , in the name of Allah, this was the treatment meted out to the Holy Prophets family. In India when Alexandra conquered Porus, Alexandra asked him what treatment should I mete out to you..or how should I treat you. Porus replied a treatment befitting a King..this is Indian thought, hospitabilty to which Imam Hussain was enamoured, when he was stopped at Karbala before the carnage and genocide he told the Yazidi forces to allow him to go to Hindustan , where he said I know there are no Muslims, but yes there are human beings..he was talking of a land that belonged to Brahma Vishnu Mahadev..

So Moharam is not just about shedding blood , cutting foreheads , self flagellation, its about human dignity defying death ,upholding the principles of Truth..

Zuljana a four legged animal symbolises faithfulness that was lacking among the Yazidi forces , they knew the enemy they had come to crush was the grandson of the Holy Prophet but they impotently kept mum, like todays rulers Muftis , Islamic heads of State who watch the terror inflicted on Humanity, but have no balls to stand up collectively and say.. Stop this Carnage.This is not the Islam preached by the Holy Prophet..or his Imams.

This is the honest truth as I see it , Islam is at crossroads , it is a crusade not between the Cross or the Crescent , it is a crusade of Hate ,yes Muslims are bent on destroying Islam, Muslims love killing Muslims.. This is a picture of Zuljana at a Moharam Juloos.Every Juloos is incomplete without the Zuljana.

Today Islam has been politicised for personal gains , by vested interests,this mornings paper talked of a threat to India by a subsidiary of Al Qaeda called Qaeede Hind..this is criminalisation of a spirtual thought of Islam , this is satanism , the Shia shedding blood is called Heresy, the Puritanical Muslim killing Humanity is called Jehad.. For once I am shocked at the moderation of my Intelligence.. Yes I would rather be a Shia cutting myself up…shedding my own blood than asking little kids to decapitate Journalist heads, a dead Pearl of Wisdom..

June 9th, 2007
Categories: bibi sakina, bibi zainab, zuljana, man kunto maula, enemies of shiasm, Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin, hazrat ali, shiaism, shias, allah, Yazidiyat, holy prophet, imam hussain, jehadi terrorism, islam

Posted by photographerno1 on 09 Jun 2007
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11th Moharam Juloos Dargah Hazrat Abbas 2

June 7th, 2007
Categories: Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin, Moharam in Lucknow, hazrat abbas dargah, shiaism

Posted by photographerno1 on 08 Jun 2007
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I have said so much about Zuljana on the battlefield of Karbala.
He stood by hs Master.
Yes even Yazids forces stood by their Master, loyal till the end, these namaz praying, fasting Moslems, who had once uttered La He Laha Ilal Lah Mohomadun Rasool Ilalah, the Kalma the key to Islam, yet here they are with blindfolded guilty consciousness slaughtering his seed.
It amazes me, but one man amongst them changed the course of Islamic betrayal towards the Imams family , by moving away from Yazid, a commander of Yazids forces called Hur.He asked for the Imams forgiveness , fought by the side of the Imam.
He saved himself the curses of a lifetime.
But these are all thinking men, religiously adhering to Islam, Yazids foot soldiers , cavalry, infantry, camel ridden, troops , yet none can challenge the exemplary behaviour of Zuljana.
Yes that one name stands out in a human crowd.
Zujana Imam Hussains valiant Steed.
The Victory magazine people dont allow you to copy from their site, but they have something on Zuljana too.
THe Zuljana I write about is a Zuljana who belongs to everyone, a common mans Zuljana.
The Victory Magazine has a made over Designer Zuljana.
Yes better one does not copy.

June 3rd, 2007
Categories: zuljana, Moharam in Lucknow, Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin, hazrat abbas dargah, hazrat abbas, imam hussain, shiaism, laailaaha illallah, abbas alamdar

Posted by photographerno1 on 03 Jun 2007
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I am working on the Camera raw format pictures of the Juloos of Zainul Abedin at the Hazrat Abbas Dargah , there are too many I am posting it all at my homesite.
I opened shop at about 6pm, asked a guy to lift the shutter , its an impossible task with the pain in my right hand, a cybernetic well wisher Girish GV had asked me to take 4 cloves of garlic in the morning, I am having that too, only the pain killer tab I take it no more.
I am learning to live with pain, constant pain , that has attached itself like a leech to my souls fleshy consciousness.
I have copied some of my Word Press posts too Bloggerspot, the earliest site that along with Buzznet helped grooming me as a Blogger, a Blogger is a person who pastes his thought as handbills on the walls ,at cybernetic street corners, someone or the other will surely read it, chuckle move away, but it is a great time pass for the writer of the blog and also for the stray reader of the Blog.The one person I respect was the Blog Goddess she would spare time to comment on the posts of new members at Buzznet, a very distinguishing thought a very charitable soul building thought , adding confidence to the kid blogger on the side walk of a new penetrating medium of expression.
She with ration Internet time like a little dove left her comment droppings on the blogs of other old timer bloggers, her caustic shit was manure for the thumb sucking blogger fool..she caused insatiable curiosity , with her comments that were almost like a kick of no return.
I just realised I am on a religious post.So I shall cut my rant.I get carried away when I talk in memoriam to the Blog Goddess.She had stopped commenting on my posts that were written in a delirious moment keeping her as the initialreader, muse of what I wrote.

Well this is the Amary or Caravan, with the coffin of Hazarat Imam Hussains replica..
In Karbala after the Imam s head was decapitated placed on a spear with the heads of the other 72 warriors, the bodies were stripped of the clothes, looted robbed, those days luckily men did not carry the kind of wealth they carry today,those days your wealth was the family you belonged to, your kinship with the head of the tribe, I believe, you were tendered respect on the basis of the contribution of your tribe to the society .
Now if you go by this simple method of my understanding of human nature, Hazrat Imam Hussain came from the House of Bani Hashim, his erstwhile grandfather the Holy Messenger of Allah.His mother the only daughter of ths erstwhile Holy Prophet.
The Holy Prophet was bought up by Abu Talib, his uncle , though the Sunni seminarians find fault with Abu Talib , the fact remains that he learnt values, many other qualities from this Uncle Abu Talib father of Hazrat Ali , husband of his daughter Bibi Fatima.
Hazrat Ali was a valiant warrior, a thinker, a teacher, so much more, never envious , but always under the spell of devotion to the Holy Prophet.I am not much of a scholar, but all this comes from within.Hazrat Ali was the choen successor to the Holy Prophet to lead the Ummah after him.This is was announced at Gahdeer.

01. LOCATION OF GHADIR-E-KHUMM
article courtesy
ezsoftech.com

The map shown is the map of Arabia. Ghadir is on the way from Mecca to Madina. While returning from Mecca to Madina, after the last hajj, alongwith his companions, the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) broke the journey at a lake, 3 miles away from Al-Johfa. He (S.A.W) halted at midday in a wayside tract of barren land with no shade other than that provided by a few acacia trees. A small lake is called as Ghadir in Arabic, so this place is known as Ghadir-e-Khumm. The name Ghadir is no longer in use.

02. WHAT HAPPENED AT GHADIR-E-KHUMM?

Tabarani and others have recorded the following tradition as related by Zayd ibn ‘Arqam and transmitted through sources unanimously acknowledged to be reliable. Zayd says that the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him and his posterity, delivered a sermon at Ghadir-e-Khumm under a cloth spread as a canopy on two large trees. He said:

“O my people! I am going to be recalled shortly and I must comply. I shall be interrogated and you also shall be interrogated. What will you say then?” The entire audience answered: “We shall bear witness that you did convey to us the message of Allah, and tried your best to guide us on the right path and always gave us good console. May Allah bless you with a good reward.” The Prophet proceeded: “Why do you not bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger, and that Paradise is true, Hell is true, Death is true, Resurrection after death is true, that the Day of Judgment will doubtlessly come and that Allah will raise to life the dead from their graves?.” They said: “O Yes! We bear witness to all this.” Then he said: “O Allah! You also may witness.” Then he said: ‘O my people! Allah is my Mawla and I am mawla of the faithful and I have superior right on and control over their lives. And this Ali is the mawla of all those of whom I am mawla. O Allah! Love him who loves him and hate him who hates him.” He further said: “O my people! I will precede you and you also shall arrive at the pool of Kawthar, the pool wider than the distance between Basrah and San’a’, and there are on the pool as many goblets of silver as stars. When you shall reach me I shall interrogate you about your behavior towards the two in-valuable assets after my death. The major asset is the Book of Allah, the Mighty and Glorious, one end of which is in the hand of Allah, the Exalted, and the other end of which in your hands. Grasp it tightly and do not go astray and do not change or amend it. The other asset is my Progeny, who are my Ahl al-Bayt. Allah the Gracious and Omniscient has informed me that the two will not part from each other before they reach me at the pool.

03. WHEN & IN FRONT OF HOW MANY MUSLIMS?

This Ghadir-e-Khumm event happened on the 18th of Dhil-Hijjah (1410 AH), in 10 Hijra in front of nearly one hundred thousand (100,000) Muslims. While returning from the last hajj (Hajjatul-wida / farewell pilgrimage) of our Holy Prophet (S.A.W.).

04. CONTEXTS

A). QURANIC EXEGESIS (Tafsir):

O Messenger! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message, and Allah will protect you from the people; (AL-MAEDA/5:67)

This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion; (AL-MAEDA/5:3)

One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall, The unbelievers there is none to avert it, From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.(AL-MAARIJ/70:1-3)

B). PROPHETIC TRADITION (Hadith):

Imam Ahmad has recorded the tradition related by Bara’ ibn ‘Azib in his Musnad, vol.4, p. 281, transmitted through two different sources. Bara’ says: “We were with the Messenger of Allah. We alighted at Ghadir-e-Khumm. Congregational prayer was in order. An area under two trees was swept and cleaned for the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him and his posterity. He offered midday prayers and he grasped the hand of ‘Ali and said: ‘Do you not know that I have superior authority over the lives of the faithful than the faithful themselves?’ ‘Yes you have,’ they replied. He again inquired: ‘Do you not know that I have superior right to the life of every believer than the believer himself?’ ‘Surely, you have,’ they answered. Then he grasped the hand of ‘Ali and said: ‘Ali is the mawla of all those of whom I am mawla. O Allah! Love him who loves him and hate him who hates him.’” Bara’ ibn ‘Azib says: “Then ‘Umar came to ‘Ali and said: ‘Congratulations to you the son of Abu Talib. You have become the mawla (master) of all the faithful men and women.’”

C). HISTORICAL REPORTS (Tarikh):

Here we will just mention one instance which took place in Kufa during the khilafah of Imam Ali (A.S.), 25 years after the Prophet’s death.

When at Ali’s insistence a large number of people gathered in the plain of Rahbah in Kufah, he addressed them saying: “I administer an oath in the name of Allah to all such Muslims as heard the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) making a proclamation on the day of Ghadir-e-Khumm, to stand up and testify what they heard him say. Only those who saw the Holy Prophet that day with their own eyes and heard the proclamation with their own ears should stand up.” Thereupon, thirty companions of the Holy Prophet(S.A.W), including twelve of those who had participated in the battle of Badr, stood up and witnessed that the Holy Prophet(S.A.W) grasped his (Ali’s) hand and said to the audience: “Do you know that I have a prior right to and superior authority over the souls (i.e., lives) of the faithful than the faithful themselves?” “O yes!” they said. The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) then said: “He (Ali) is the mawla (i.e., has prior right to and superior authority over the lives) of all those of whom I am mawla. O Allah, love him who loves him (Ali) and hate him who hates him.” It is logically impossible that thirty companions might have secretly agreed to speak a unanimous lie. In addition to the thirty witnesses there were other male companions whom enmity with Ali prevented from standing up and giving their evidence as eye-witnesses, like Anas ibn Malik.

When Ali (A.S.) said to Anas: “Why do you not stand up and testify what you heard from the messenger of Allah on the day of Ghadir?” he answered, “O Amir al-Momineen! I have grown old and do not remember.” Thereupon Ali said: “May Allah mark you with a white spot (of leprosy) unconcealable with your turban, if you are intentionally withholding the truth.” And before Anas got up from his place he bore a large white spot on his face. Thereafter, Anas used to say: “I am under the curse of a righteous slave of Allah.

Also bear in mind that this incident took place 25 years after the event of Ghadir Khum, and during this period hundreds of eyewitnesses had died naturally or in the battles fought during the first two khulafah’s rule. Add to this the fact that this incident took place in Kufa which was far from the centre of the sahabas, Medina. This incident which took place in Kufa in the year 35 A.H. has itself been narrated by four sahaba and 14 tabi’un and has been recorded in most books of history and tradition.

05. AUTHENTICITY

A). Consecutively naratted (Mutawatir)
B). Numerous Sahih versions
C). Dedicated treatisis by 26 authors (Most of them are sunnies)

06. NARRATORS

A). 110 companions of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.)
B). 84 Successors (Tabiun)
C). Over 360 scholars to the present day (Most of them are sunnies)

1: Abaqat al-Anwar a book written in Persian by Allama Mir Hamid Husayn al-Musawi (d. 1304 AH) of India. Allama Mir Hamid Husayn has devoted two bulky volumes (consisting of about 1,080 pages) on the isnad, tawatur and meaning of the hadith of Ghadir.

2: Al-Ghadir in 11 volumes in Arabic by Allama Abdul Husayn al-Amini where he gives with full references the names of 110 sahaba of the Prophet and also 84 tabi’un (disciples of the sahaba) who have narrated the hadith of Ghadir. He has also chronologically given the names of the historians, traditionists, exegesis’s and poets who have mentioned the hadith of Ghadir from the first until the fourteenth Islamic century.

For more information on the event of Ghadir Khumm click here.

Well back to my post , back to Karbala ,barbarism, cruelty was an indelible Arab trait, horses were made to run over the undressed bodies, this was a thought that would nauseate any sane soul, the burning of the ladies tents, looting their belongings , this is the contribution of Yazid to Islams treasury,this is his heritage that we call Hehadi Terrorism.
I wont say further Yazidiyat is alive kicking, as it once did on the burning sands of Karbala.
I others like me distance our selves from this aspect of Islam.
It never existed in Islam, but it was taken by vested interests for political gains, power , achievement.. what is the use of this power if it comes of no use in the next world.
This reminder each year , commemorating the Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain , his kith and kin, slaughtered, butchered , is celebrated as a mourning period called Moharam.
The passion plays in certain countries, the matam majlis, the sabils,, the tazias, the juloos, the house Imambadas is called Azadari E Hussain.
This grief is caled Ghame E Hussain.
This motivation is called Maksade Hussain.
The chant that rises in one country reverberating in other cities and other countries on Ashura day, a chant bleeding blood sweat and tears is called :
Ya Hussain
Ya Hussain

June 3rd, 2007
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Posted by photographerno1 on 03 Jun 2007
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This juloos , Juloos e Zainul Abedin on 11 Moharam at Dargah Hazrat Abbas in Lucknow , is as violent and as intense as Ashura , here there is ample scourging flagellations, , forehead cutting, the display of Taboots , also Zuljana is let lose , he darts unescorted into the inner sanctum of the Hazrat Abbas Dargah, crowds parting to give him way of passage.I will post those pictures later shot on camera raw.This was a heavy duty Juloos.
This is just an Introduction to the Juloos.
Normally there is no such event in Mumbai on 11 th Moharam.

shia wmen

June 1st, 2007
Categories: Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin, Moharam in Lucknow, hazrat abbas dargah

Posted by photographerno1 on 01 Jun 2007
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I cut my forehead on the 9th Moharam at Nakhas, but the members of the crowd had snatched the short sword from my hand, I fought them , but I was overpowered , so I continued scourging my back withtwo sets of flagellating blades.
On Ashura 10th Moharam I shot the Ashura Juloos proceeding from Nakhas to Karbala Talkatora.
On the 11th Moharam, was the Juloos of the Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin at Dargah Hazrat Abbas Lucknow , I wore a turban, to cover my head wound, I had removed the bandage.
This picture was shot by a photographer at the Dargah top from where I was shooting this awesome juloos, most of the pictures I shot camera Raw.

June 1st, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 01 Jun 2007
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This was a massive Juloos at Imambada Meeran Saab Muftigang a day before Ashura I think, I am bad with dates.Here it was a display of 18 Taboots of Hazrat Imam Hussains male family members and a few of his brave warriors, I was assisted here by the younger brother of Maulana Hassan Zaheer Saab who was in Iraq.He took me above his house I shot the entire sequence on Raw format, I had to abort this Juloos as the memory cards were all full, so I did not shoot the Zanjir Matam completely.
Here too there was a Majlis by Maulana Kalbe Jawad Saab, the Shia women were in great strength, with their little ones , asleep on the fooor, this is the bulwark of our Faith.Shia women are the main power of Shiasm, it is solely because of them that the covenant of Hazrat Imam Hussain is alive.Thess brave women undaunted by climatic conditions, or other womanly hardships, carry their kids to attend Majlis, despite the horrendously horrifying crowds.
This is the earliest school of learning of our kids,these women brave everything that comes their path, these women who are braver than the bravest Shia men, this is the true Fountain head of our Faith.The house stoves for 10 days are in mourning too, no cooking, its only the Niyaz that comes from the Majlis that becomes holy bread , honestly there is so much Niyaz that you dont need to cook at home.Call it a miracle of sorts.I am talking of Lucknow.
I shoot this spirit of the Shia women, this spiritual force that commands attention in my pictures too.
I remember a Khoja kid outside the Bandra Khoja Mosque who was quite offensive as I was shooting a child doing matam on a womans lap, this is the misguided myopic vision of the new custodians of Shiasm the Khojas.If only Qums was not the stumbling block…I completely stay away from Khoja Mosque , because of the extreme politicisation, the poverty of a thinking mind of a commercially gifted race.I have nothing against the Khojas, I have best friends , but its just a few who cut the branch of the tree they are sitting on.
Well I will shoot an aspect people should read the story within the image.
It is our Mothers , our sisters , our daughters , our daughter in laws , that keep the flame of our Faith burning , we all owe it to them.Even the Mullah owes his earliest upbringing in Faith to his Mother.
Yes our Faith is that unfortunate Mother , that noble Mother , who sat on the grinding stone to grind the wheat , to feed her beloved Hassan Hussain, yes this Mother , this primal force the daughter of the Holy Prophet , who worked on the Chakki, this was the stepping stone, this was Righteousness , the wealth of her Mother Lady Khadija still remains unaccountable, but utilised in propagating Islam they say.
It was Politics of Power that gave birth to an Axis of Evil, the birth of sectarian Hate .
Simply renamed Shia Sunnis.
This Mother was given a raw deal, by the Caliph of his time , on 31 May we will be commemorating her death…this is Motherhood…our parentage to True Islam.
Maksade Fatima.

Our Women Fountainhead of Faith

Majlis Maulana Kalbe Jawad Saab

Majlis in Progress

The Juloos Gettting Ready

The Standard Bearers,, Alamdars

May 18th, 2007
Categories: maulana kalbe jawad, Moharam in Lucknow, imambada meeran saab, bibi fatima, imam hussain, shias, firoze shakir, maksade fatima, islam .

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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This little girl is the daughter of Munna who recites namaz on fire during Ag ka Matam , most of the julooos she accompanies him loyally, dressed in a manner to invoke the pain that Hazrat Imam Hussains 4 year old Sakina had to bear , after the Martyrdom of her beloved father , brothers, relatives , but her sense of guilt was sending her Uncle Hazrat Abbas to fill her water pouch , from the blocked river of Euphrates.
Her Uncle Abbas surrounded by the might of the Ummayad armies till the bitter end..hands dismembered from a brave body, he gripped the water pouch by his jaws, but Arabian cruelty , inhumanness is a genetic trait, they spared him not, the water pouch, like a ripped heart of a little child bled , as the blood of Hazrat Abbas mingled with it, yes this precious parched water pouch we Shias call Mashke Sakina.
Every battle has certain rules, even the worst enemy is shown some form of tolerance, but this is the Tolerance of an unspeakable Ummayad Islam…Hazrat Abbas the warriors head to was decapitated hung on a spear as a war trophy, to be presented to Yazid.
Now remember these glorious fighters are presumably all Namazis, having the Holy Koran on their person, the tazbi… Islamic piety, their enemy a handful, 72 so to speak, the charge of the light brigade is nothing in comparison to Karbala as a battlefield.. the Holy Prophets Inheritance wiped away in a single slash…the Arab world condemns the hanging of Saddam Hussain, he was not given the rightful death, , no dignity in hid death, hoodlums killed him, taunted him, filmed his last moments for posterity and a hungry electronic media… the whole world was up in arms.. protest , everywhere in the Islamic world… revenge killings in Iraq, Pontious Pilate Bush , had already washed his hands they were smelling like roses, he took an extra dose of his sleeping pill, Commander of the US Armed forces…
Like the others I too would condemn the way he was killed, forgetting all his genocide, his inhuman laws that crushed oppositional thought..but for a moment cut back to Karbala.. well the Arabs have already forgotten it, we Shias keep it Alive , year after year , 1400 years a single chant like bellls reminding the world of a greater holocaust, than that carried out by Hitler.
Simly because this is the seed of the Man who gave us a reason to live with Dignity, who gave us the Kalma who bought us out from the wilderness of the Dark Ages, mind you I am not a Koranic scholar or historian, I am a pot of clay, yes I shed drops to show you my pain.. I crack when I am parched, so now you try to see Pain through the eyes of a Shia.. yes we relive it , we call this state on mind Azadari E Hussain , we use symbols, not just rhetoric , so our children, even in their darkest hours, will realise there is no greater pain than that of Imam Hussain.. this is known as Ghame Hussain.
The 10 th day of Moharam is called Ashura the Ultimate sacrifice the Head on a Platter…
but not the Hand…

SHAH AST HUSSAIN BADSHAH AST HUSSAIN
DEEN AST HUSSAIN DEEN PANAH AST HUSSAIN
SURDAD, NADAD DUST DUR DASTE YAZID
HAQQA KE BENAYE LA ILAH AST HUSSAIN

Hussain is the king, indeed he is the king of kings
Hussain is Deen and also the protector of Deen
He gave his head but not his hand of allegiance in the hand of Yazid
Indeed he was the founder (Like his grandfather)
of the concept of One God.

Two months eight days we grieve, our lives colorless, monochromatically shadowed black, I am happy I do not have to filch words from Shia sites this one time.. save the quatrain Shah ast Hussain.
So we go through Ashura , towards Chehlum, to Athvi.. till we realise that the Imam tear eyed too wants t go back to the land od Sorrows Karbala, all the Bibis the children, heads covered crossing the Hindu Kush, little Sakina turning back her head , yes Hazrat abbas will notleave , lying at his Dargah in LUCKNOW , YES HEAR MY SOBS , WE SHIAS TEND TO CRY SUCH IS THE ELOQUENCE OF THE HOLES MADE ON A WATER POUCH CALLED MASHKE SAKINA.. The Fourth Imam too walking unsteadily , chaind that have yet remaind cutting into the flesh of his soul, man can live many lives , but the Fourth Imam lived one Life ..a life that reverbrated the silence of the winds and the sandstorms crying out like a wounded eagle caught in electrical wires of modern times Sham Sham Sham.
Yes Ahle Bait moves the finger, of a wounded hand etching sorrow of our omnipresent pain.
Ya Hussain
Ya Hussain.
I personally a day after Navi started going back , yes Moharam.. starts the day after Navi for me…I am a heretic , I am a Hindu, I am everything , but whatever my greatest sin, even if you doubt the sincerity of my so called Shiasm, unlike yours, I will now confess ,, as the caravan moves away from the vision of my Imagination, I see one Lady , a solitary lady with huge Wings , protecting the caravan her flapping Rida , echoing words that soothe the turbulence of the Winds .. Nade Alliun Mazhbul Ajaib.. yes Janabe Zainab,, the Indomitable sister of Imam Hussain reciting Words without borders…
Yes Janabe Zainab.. the power and strength of an Islamic conviction…
Without her …nothingness.. minarets Azan and nothing else…
Today we see Karbala and Shaam through her Rida..

firoze shakir
photographerno1
5th april 2007.

Posted by photographerno1 on 05 Apr 2007
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Today is a very sad day for us who believe in humanity, some call it shiasm, but by any other name humanity remains humanity.
On this day the fourth Imam Zainul Abedeen met his Martyrdom.
I am not a scholar, quite an ignoramus in things pertaining to religion.
I believe in the poetry of emotions, I feel pain, life, maybe I am not a Shia the way this word is connoted today.
I know only one thing that after the battle of Karbala, one person who aged overnight was this beloved sickly helpless Imam.
I am not a painter, but scenes of the aftermath of Karbala , need no aid of visuals.
The Imam manacled with the women folk , Bibi Sakina trudging to Damascus, the court of Yazid, the taunts, the hardships , the difficulties all overcome, by this noble House of the Holy Prophet.
But sincerely close your eyes for a moment forget my man made words. .Just utter
Sham Sham Sham ..
You wont have to read any further.
Bibi Zainab.. forgive me if I have ever wronged you or the Holy Progeny.
Also forgive them that have taken cudgels to choke my tears and my voice.

This will be copied to my exclusive Shia site once it is developed..

 It Has .

Thank You

Asif Shakir

Posted by photographerno1 on 05 Mar 2007
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