I shoot pain as I see pain the view finder of my karmic consciousness.

Every year in Moharam, the Shia festival that commemorates the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam, here in Mumbai and all over the world, I record the pain of my race ,this pain is the core [...]

Title : Az-Zahra
Kunyat : Umm-ul-Aimma
Born : Friday 20th of Jamadi-ul-Akhar in Mecca
Father’s Name : Holy Prophet Muhammad Ibn-e-Abdulla (S.A.W.)
Mother’s Name : Khadija bint-e-Khuwailid
Martyred : 13th Jamadi-ul-Awwal or 3rd Jamadi-ul-Akhir 11Hijrah at Medina at the age of 18 years (due to injury inflicted upon her through force of a falling door by a hypocrite).
Buried :The cemetery [...]

The Famous Dariyawali Masjid or Mosque of Djinns
The Masjid is brilliantly lit , jam packed, women are here in great numbers, Maulana Kalbe Jawad s Majlis have a great effect on the Shia women folk, they come from far and wide , to hear him out.
Maulana Effendi is Shia Koranic scholar , he interprets the [...]

The Web Master at Allah Ho Akbar .Net might choke after he reads this , but than being a Web Master and getting entangled in ones own net is an occupational hasard.One can delete a file, at the click of a mouse, but deleting Shia or Shiasm with hyperbolic hallucinations is a difficult task,even Yazid [...]

monochromatic grief
colorless tears of pain
millions of moments
choked on the monitor
of the brain
unwashable memories
that my conscience stain
nostalgic disdain
stranded at the station
missing the last train
everyday is ashura
karbala a spiritual domain
he gave his head
not his hand
lost his loved ones
did not complain
saved Islam
from Islam
a single name
Humane
Shah Ast Hussain
singlehandedly
stopped
the Yazidi
hurricane
Yazidiyat lay
trampled and slain
Verily Badshah ast Hussain
Hussainiyat
a light of hope
through the
windowpane
Haqqe [...]

 THE BEST FORM OF SERVICE TO THE DEVOTION OF GOD IS NOT TO MAKE A SHOW OF IT.
SAYINGS OF IMAM ALI .
Yes we show our devotion bombing holy places , decapitating heads , after all , decapitation was the in thing in early Islam.Whether Imam Hussain or Hazrat Ali .
Imagine that the clergy of that [...]

Ashura in Lucknow is moments spirtually sanctified.
Shias and Sunnis dont have many problems as they believe in the Martyrdom of Hazarat Imam Hussain.It is the new faction in Islam, the puritanical one that cannot tolerate ritualism that have existed since time immemorial.
This faction hates Alams, Azadari, Matam, Blood shedding .
This faction hates all Dargahs..including Ajmer [...]

Zuljana  the replica of the Steed of Hazrat Imam Hussain is an integral part of any Shia Juloos , along with Alams , the Zari, the Amary it is the Zuljana  that plays a pivotal role, women adore him, children love him, every city has its own individualistic peculiarity of the Zuljana , you might [...]

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 [...]

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They call us kafirs
They call us heretics
They call us raffidis
They call us by all
Kinds of denigrating names
With our thoughts
They disagree
We are Shia born
We will Shia die
Even after death
We will Shia be
We lovers of
Allah
Rasool
Ahle bait
Karbala
Our lesson in history
Yes call us by any name
We are Shias
Shias we wll be
Ya Hussain
Our destiny
Yazidiyat
By any other name
Is Yazidiyat [...]

today wearing a muslim cap
is a handicap
you are targetted
before you are proved guilty
encouner dead or alive
another mishap
take you
to haunted bungalows
it is not criminals
but policemen who kidnap
poison rape burn your body
a winding sheet
blood stained
your body wrap
the right wingers call
it glorifying the criminal
as indian muslims
a kick on our kneecaps
we have to
prove our nationalism
before the next encounter
before they [...]

I came across an article while surfing the net I have added the title to my body post.
The writer is Makrand Paranjape.I hope he will forgive me , but his title is more apt, I was going to put a questioning title “What kind of Islam?”
I will give you the link , as copying it [...]