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 [...]

Felicitations to Fatima
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mosques of
yazidiyat
anti -islam
where god does not live
misplaced martyrdom
terrorism
mujhaida
mujhaideen
sectarian hate
more than Allah
a thought outlive
radical
fundamental
jehadi
an eye for an eye
nothing else to give
its not just about Hussain
that as tabarrah we dont forgive
its the hurt to Bibi Fatima
on this day of her Willadat
we as Shias relive
Pakistani Militants Snub Surrender Call
By DENIS D. GRAY
The Associated [...]

Faithful Abbas Faithful Zuljana

Taboot

Taboot of Ali Akbar

Parchame Abbas

Taboots moving out

Motherhood the Fountainhead of Shiasm

The Alams

The Flags of Honor
This ends a long series , I have never shot Mumbai Moharam , as I shot Lucknow in 4 days..
June 8th, 2007
Categories: imambada meeran saab, Moharam in Lucknow, shiaism
 

AliAsghars Cradle
With this lot I complete the entire Moharam segment of Lucknow.
All these Cds were lying with me for several months,but they saw daylight anyway.
The Juloos at Imambada Meeran Saab, was to pay tribute to the Fourth Imam Zainul Abedin and the rest of the kith and kin of Imam Hussain.Here on display were the [...]

Ashura is 10 th of Moharam , the Shias celebrate the Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain, there is a seeeping heaviness in the air, a scorching dryness, a surrendering moment of grief.
Seas of black humanity, cacading with families carrying the Tazias, children leading from the front trudging, reciting the matam moving towards Karbala Talkatora.
Today after [...]

These are pictures shot at the Juloos of 18 taboots at Imambada Meeran Saab..The smoke is the incense, it adds the surrealistic spirtualism to shiasm ..a single word that defies time and space outliving generation after generation bound to like a banyan tree of faith in Ahle Bait…silence seamlessly reverbrating humanity…Ya Hussain.
This was shot through [...]

I did not see him cutting his forehead with a sword, I shot him after his swordplay, I took a few pictures , but these two stand out.All these pictures are of the 11 th Moharam Juloos at Dargah Hazrat Abbas in Lucknow.
I scourged my back too , taking somebody elses flagellating blades , just [...]

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 [...]

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This is the area outside the Dargah Hazrat Abbas, the center of gravity , of a Shia Lucknow in terms of invoking the blessings of the Lion Hearted , standard bearer brother of Hazrat Imam Hussain.Every Shia touches the Dargah Hazarat Abbas , this is an awesome place of spiritual sanctity.
I have seen people struggling [...]

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 [...]