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 [...]

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 [...]

This is the last segment of the Juloos of Zainul Abedin the Fourth Imam and the 18 taboots at Imambada Meeran Saab at Muftiganj.
Maulana Kalbe Jawad finishes the Majlis and the Juloos starts.
Ouside in the courtyard the Amary or Caravan consisting of camels is being decked to take part in this awesome procession.
This juloos is [...]

I keep telling you through my various posts on Moharam, the incomparable contribution of Shia motherhood to the life line of Shiasm.It is our Mothers who keep Hazrat Imam Hussains covenant of Hussainiyat alive, no Mullah can translate Shiasm the way the mother does , not by words by actions, of taking her brood from [...]

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 [...]