Shah ast Hussain (as)

a muslim woman
begs on the graveyard of a mound
around her mocking her despair
dead laughter surrounds
ghosts spirits her living death
astound
a few coins in her hand
deathly silence no sound
covering her beggary
her shame
born as a Muslim Woman
by other moving men and women
frowned
she in her hijab
her winding sheet
buried live above ground
we are building
masjids madarsaas
womens home childrens home
homlessness no home to be found
yes with thorns the underprivilged
Muslim Woman is thus crowned
bleeding kismet
male dominance
mullahs handbill like
fatwas to hound
yes they who are busy
bombarding trains , mosques
humanity misguided jehadi
terrorism abound
the heads of Islamic world
a cloth stuffed in the mouth
hand and cold feet bound
justifying actions
as a merry go round
yazidiyat that
enevitable power house
in the flowing blood
of hussainiyat got drowned
haqqa bina lahe laha illala
ast hussain
only a hussain can expound
at yazids court
bibi zainab
one hand on the holy koran
the other with
the najahul balagha
in her kutbas
propound
indomitable
womanhood of Islam
so profound
even the heads
on the spears
watched her spellbound

May 30th, 2007
Categories: imam hussain, bibi zainab, shia poetry, enemies of shiasm, muslim woman, hussainiyat, My Poems, nahjul balagha, mullahs, firoze shakir, islam .

Posted by photographerno1 on 30 May 2007
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muslim woman
her future bleak
imprisoned
in the flesh
of her hijab
her self respect
as a woman
her dignity seek
male dominated
oppression
so to speak
where her voice
re echoes
a spineless squeak
muslim woman
a piece of
immovable furniture
antique
the mullah
her main critique
muslim woman
more dead than alive
a thought oblique
hit on one side
she offers
the other cheek
muslim woman
just wont shriek
in a muslim society
at its peak

muslim woman
a component
unique
a choked
river
on a dead creek

picture shot at nakhas in lucknow

May 20th, 2007
Categories: muslim woman, photographerno1, firoze shakir

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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beauty in the eyes of a hijab
sparkles and shines
but yet
more than your
dresses with
plunging necklines
slithering waistlines
why is it a simple
garment like the hijab
make headlines
a hijab
covering a Muslim Womans
modesty no other designs
says Taslima Nasrin Burn the Hijab
an atheist giving Islam
some new guidlines
she should not get
Indian citizenship
if this how she our
culture maligns
send her back to
Bangla Desh
no more Lajja-less bylines
the Hijab
our Motherhood
on Mothers day
enshrines
the Hijab
a Muslim womans
lifeline

May 14th, 2007
Categories: muslim woman, taslima nasrin, firoze shakir, hijab, mothers day, My Poems

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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