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 [...]

June 7th, 2007
Categories: Moharam in Lucknow, kama zani,

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 [...]

enemies of shiasm
wonder
the defiance
in our kids bleeding eyes
truth love of a imam
rainbow of ahle bait in the skies
the euphrates in eyelids
never dries
a child
called
karbalaiee
moulaiee
tempered steel
protective armour
a human skull
that pays tribute
to a shia samurai
the curses
of the wahhabi
the salafi the nasbi
left high and dry
allah ho akbar
dare khaibar ki
yaad aati hai ladie
haider e karar
ka alam abbas
moulah akka hussain
ka sipahi
kahan [...]

 

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Categories: azadari e hussain, ghame hussain, kama zani, arbaeen, bibi fatima, man kunto maula, holy koran, ahle bait, enemies of shiasm, Ashura [...]

I spoke to Dr Shabeeb Rizvi Shia Islamic scholar on my mobile , it was his Sms to me on Bibi Fatima that inspired me to write the two articles on her trial and tribulations, sometimes being the daughter of the Holy Prophet , is a huge mantle of a spiritual responsibility, people around you [...]

This is Ashura Lucknow , I captured the guy on the extreme right in my cameras view finder, I stalk him, as there was so much unsaid, but Hussainiyat characterized his pain, he was volatile till the end, these are a few frames of him.
In the picture at the end is Baney Qama a doyen, [...]

Step No 1
You wash your head with water , to soften your skull, you take the short sword in your hand, grasp it firmly, look at the edege of the blade tauntingly, yes you will cut the blade with your forehead , assymetrical warfare, scaring the blade.

Step 2
Around you the begin the chants of Ya [...]

 
This is forehead cutting by a sharp dagger or sword that this Matam is called Kamazani by the Shias
 

I start a new series taking a excerpt from an atricle on the net , titled Ashura Awareness..
Imam Husain And His Martyrdom
By: Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Renown English Translator and Commentator of the Quran)
The Final Agony; placid face of the man of God
On the day of Ashura, the 10th day, Imam Husain’s own person was surrounded [...]

Kama Zani is the ritual of cutting your forehead with a dagger or a sword.
The head is washed with water, the hair parted in the center , you take the dagger make seeps across the top of the head , while the group surrounding you encourage you invoking the name of Hazrat Ali..you slash perhaps [...]