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
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Posted by photographerno1 on 30 May 2007
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baba ek paise ka sawal hai
moutaj hoon
musalman hoon
badkismati ka yeh hal hai
zindagi bediyon se bandhi
jeena janjal hai
khuda ka khayal hai
alam behaal hai

sir give me a coin or two
my tears soaked in a
dry tissue
no hope no avenue
womanly woes
my residue
shadows that i pursue
to move away from
this heartless world
i wait in a queue

a woman is a woman
its true
a womans pain
in public view
scarred
through and through
whether muslim or hindu
its a mans world
where womanhood
they misconstrue
use abuse misuse
depraved destroyed
by a few
a fallen woman
nothing but a taboo

May 27th, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 29 May 2007
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poverty stricken
muslim woman
in islam
a raw deal
she is a living dead
they see but dont feel
she will beg
but wont borrow or steal
she is far too genteel
like an onion tears unpeel
friday namaz the peshimam the mullah
all spiritual candy floss and spiel
while the poor muslim woman
hand stretched begs for a meal
blood that on her soul congeals
muslim woman is always happy
they complacently reveal
a muslim mother
was not a muslim mans ideal
male dominated
mullah backed society
in all its zeal
a muslim womans destiny
with a triple talaq they seal
fatwas as they unreel
a punctured tyre in a wheel
moving an Islamic Juggernaut
of an automobile

I could have never shot this picture without divine godly intervention

May 26th, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 26 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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marrriage is a social farce
mans legal right to womanize
called holy testament
simply rape legtimized
if she does not bring dowry
humiliate dishonor tyrannize
a woman is bonded labor
one time use several time abuse
merchandise
man with his lust will demonize
produce harvest dehumanize
thus made mother
on one day in her memory
as mothers day
internationalize
futility of sinister lies
brutalize
terrorize
mother beneath her feet
lies paradise
with sufferings pain
you tranquilize
i give you
a picture
of a muslim mother
so you dont need to visualize
begging near gufra map
imambara
the mullahs path
why jeopardize
each majlis on the mimber
he will moralize
sermonize
while a mother shed tears
for her pain and hussain
no money
for her burnt daughter
to be hospitalized
this is lucknow
the city of
my unfortunate birth
adab and tahzeeb
age old charm
mischaracterized
hardliners
that azadari e hussain
jeopardize
politics that
shia sunni riots
patronize
law and order
desensitize
without
constructive change
mutual coexistence
peace and harmony
you will simply fossilize
only a collective
healing touch
can humanize
long live
lucknow
I emphasize

May 14th, 2007
Categories: muslim woman, shias sunnis, firoze shakir, mullahs, lucknow, My Poems

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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SITTING WAITING IN A QUEUE
INVOKING YOUR NAME
FOR A COIN OR TWO
SOME SEE US AND SHOO
SOME HARD RUDE WORDS SPEW
HUMAN HEARTS HAVE BECOME HARD
ITS TRUE
MANGLED HOPES
STRANGLED HOPES
NOTHING NEW
THOUGH A
HEALING TOUCH
IS OVERDUE

May 14th, 2007
Categories: muslim woman, firoze shakir, My Poems

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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covered in our
religions
protective armour
the hijab from head to toe
my face my body
my shame
I need not show
yes I am a muslim
muslim woman
is all that you
need to know
in a muslim mans world
the laws of a muslim man
how can a woman
overthrow
the mullah was made
by god to protect
the rights of man
although
he was born of a woman
a mother that his kind
with fatwas
add to womanly woe
I dont selll my body
nor do I borrow
but yes morning to evening
for the sake of my children
I beg a futureless life forgo
with my open palms
these streets I plough
covered in the Hijab
my lifeless shadow
a today that will become
another today
tomorrow..
nothing less
nothing more
ebb and flow
this is not a penance
but my fate born
as a muslim woman
I undergo

May 14th, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 24 May 2007
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those bearded ulemas
protecting the
muslim masculine
rights of our race
fatwas after fatwas
a muslim womens life deface
she will soon drown
before she can surface
our religion is beautiful
but a womans life a sham
a controversy a disgrace
i will sound like a shia
if i mention bibi fatima
bibi zainab bibi sakina
as my theories base
women in Islam
over the centuries
maligned misused
in silence all torture
did brace
some died unsung
without a trace
woman a mother
a sister a daughter
was never given
a rightful place
it was the Muslim man
powered by the Mullah machinery
that took all the Grace
yes look around
at Friday Namaaz
see how Muslim
womenhood
in Hijabs
frightened eyes
begging palms
come face to face
a chld on the waist
three holding the end
of her tattered garment
another growing as
tumour in her belly
very normal common place
these are pictures
real life life pictures
on my camera I can delete
but from my souls viewfinder
I cannot erase
Misused Muslim Women
unacccompanied baggage
that gets lost in transit
like a beaten bruised
knocked about suicase
our priorities
muslims killing muslims
our jehad of ignorance
misplaced
a path that back
to the Maker
cannot be retraced

Somnolent sanctimonious Muslim society hates to be reminded about Truth, home Truth, they will rubbish this away as street side view, a stray case.. count all the stray cases you will get the statistics of Muslim Womens pain…

We have become numb, Idd time is it is a begging bowl with unknown faces asking for donation to build Mosques , Madarssas, but seldom anything for the Muslim woman.. or the orphan Muslim girl child..

Bakra Idd goats sold at a unheard prices.While the Muslim women is slaughtered free of cost.

We dont have Triple Talaq , so we dont have to send Telegrams calling the Marriage off..but we also have neglected our women..rampant use or abuse of Mutha in Hyderabad I have heard I dont know..but over all Shia or Sunni a Muslim Woman is cornered

May 11th, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 11 May 2007
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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 illallah
A Muslim woman s life
Unexplained
They who close their eyes
Mock pictorial evidence
In their Fatwa reign
It’s a mans world
No man is humane
Woman a commodity
Woman a chattel
A Muslim Woman’s pain

May 8th, 2007

Posted by photographerno1 on 08 May 2007
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