December 31, 2007 • 6:52 pm 0
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This was shot by Daniel the German Sufi scholar at Dhuni of Makhdoom Shah Baba of Mahim..I wish all of you a peaceful 2008
All my latest over 200 pic of Rafaees and body piercing are at Flickr
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , 2008, flickr, rafaees
• 7:11 am 0
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Muslims all over the world talk of Islam and there is an evil force of Jehaddis that go on a rampage killing those that do not agree with their ideologies, yet nothing is done to alleviate poverty ignorance from the poor Muslim mans world.Most of the clerics fill their own coffers build seminaries of sectarian hate and corrupt the young kids in their charge with hatred for other communities..
My words might hurt the staunch Muslims many here on Flickr who just dont want to see the sad state of the standards of human living..
Many here on Flickr with hate for Shias and hope of Islam in Wahhabism..
I have nothing against Wahhabism as long as its members dont litter their hate on my photo stream..I do not go to other peoples photo stream to defecate my views.. against their faith or beliefs.
I do not denigerate my religion, only the guardians of my religion who pass fatwas on everything under the sun, but no fatwa to ban illiteracy and ignorance and the sad state of affairs of the poor Muslim woman in third world countries..
Here I am reminded of a Muslim youth wanting to form a federation of Islamic nations , the youth from Sri Lanka had a lofty thought but can it ever work, we as Muslims are bent on killing each other and our enemies who want to destroy Peace on Earth laugh all the way to the bank , a comment passed by my friend Neal Romanek.. on my post Muslims love killing Muslims and he as a white man has the insight we dont want to have..
A cloistered world of the poor Muslim Man
Peace and Brotherhood part of Allahs cosmic plan
but here on Earth Muslims love killing Muslims
as fast as they can …sectarian strife sectarian violence
we are hardly Muslims just Shias Sunnis Jamatis Wahabbis Tabbblikis
hate filled members hurting each tribal rivalry as a clan
Jehhadis destroying the world and the Word of God
Man wanting to be omnipresent Superman
The Jehhad against Ignorance Illitercay
the misery of the pooer uneducated underprivileged Muslim woman
with Fatwas of hate the Rogue Mullahs span
after two atom bombs Nagasaki and Hiroshima
from the fires rose a phoenix called Japan
but we destroy each other as Muslims
in Islamic countries from Pakistan to Sudan
we self destruct Talibanisation of our human soul
from the cauldron into the frying pan
An agony sans ecstacy the rise and fall of
the Muslim World of the Poor Man
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted
• 4:44 am 0
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Jesus watches from a corner in shame
much did he try to raise womanhood
on a pedestal
the lot of the suffering woman
remains the same
woman in a mans world is game
robbed of her treasury of innocence
a fallen woman she became
they her own children
of her loins wound
brutalize and maim
disown her
adding her to ill fame
remember her as fleeting thought
on womans day as a Mother
all in name
throw her in the dungeons
of an old womans home
when she becomes an old dame
the mound of her memories
ashes to ashes dust to dust
the worms her flesh and her soul
will reclaim
mother wife sister
a beast of burden to proclaim
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , jesus watches, love poetry hate racism
• 3:45 am 0
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A thought that
I am her grandfather
she could not duck
Marziya wonderstruck
a photographer a poet
a genealogy of good luck
a photogenic model
with more than 700
pictures that I stuck
one month old
Marziya Shakir
thunderstruck
our lucky mascot
our blossoming good luck
picture shot by my wife
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , Firoze Shakir Poetry, marziya shakir grand daughter
• 3:31 am 0
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a trunk and a branch of a tree
held by love of ahle bait firmly
mir anis a part of her ancestry
pride of shamim and
mohomed shakir lakhnavi
her great grand parents
buried at rehmatabad
the shia cemetery
marziya our hope
our love our destiny
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , Firoze Shakir Poetry, marziya shakir grand daughter
December 30, 2007 • 5:10 pm 0
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born in the womb of a worldly cage
pitfalls at every stage
girl child in human bondage
her destructive destiny
a book and a tattered page
her world in total rampage
persecuted into womanhood
robbed of her innocence
into a faded dried up flower
devoid of fragrance
she will change
a few coins blood money
for her ruptured hymen
in exchange
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , love poetry hate racism
• 4:27 pm 0
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for the poor the underpriviliged
the children of a lesser god
its a regular grind
to grab a morsel wherever they find
every day a new challenge that they find
nothing but their poverty ridden state to remind
caught in jauggernaut of a deathly bind
a god who has not been very kind
now for the rich the noveau rich the happy
no such woes to attack them from behind
for them happy new year is a state of mind
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , love poetry hate racism
December 28, 2007 • 8:09 pm 0
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Muslims all over the world talk of Islam and there is an evil force of Jehaddis that go on a rampage killing those that do not agree with their ideologies, yet nothing is done to alleviate poeverty ignorance from the poor Muslim mans world.Most of the clerics fill their own coffers build seminaries of sectarian hate and corrupt the young kids in their charge with hatred for other communities..
My words might hurt the staunch Muslims many here on Flickr who just dont want to see the sad state of the standards of human living..
Many here on Flickr with hate for Shias and hope of Islam in Wahhabism..
I have nothing against Wahhabism as long as its members dont litter their hate on my photo stream..I do not go to other peoples photo stream to defecate my views.. against their faith or beliefs.
I do not denigerate my religion, only the guardians of my religion who pass fatwas on everything under the sun, but no fatwa to ban illiteracy and ignorance and the sad state of affairs of the poor Muslim woman in third world countries..
Here I am reminded of a Muslim youth wanting to form a federation of Islamic nations , the youth from Sri Lanka had a lofty thought but can it ever work, we as Muslims are bent on killing each other and our enemies who want to destroy Peace on Earth laugh all the way to the bank , a comment passed by my friend Neal Romanek.. on my post Muslims love killing Muslims and he as a white man has the insight we dont want to have..
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , fatwas, muslim poor man, muslims love killing muslims
• 6:55 pm 0
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Every year for last three or four years I was invited by my friend Sakib the Florist to his Sandal that begins at BMC colony Mahim, and ends at the Shrine of the Holy Saint Makhdoom Shah Baba.I have never missed the opportunity to be a part of this procession, Sakib, also participates in the events, managed by Firoze Rafaee an exponent in sword and other forms of body mutilation..
This is the cultural ethos of the Rafaees without blood, unlike those of the Shias.
The Chancawalli Sufis were ther with Handi and were upset that I had not visited the Dhuni for personal reasons that I did not tell them, but Handi guessed as much and told me my tormentor who hates Sufis being publically photographed has been banished to Ajmer Sharif..The Chancawallis sufis to did their body piercings vigorously ..
I shot over 300 pictures from 7 pm to about 9 pm and than breaking away from the procession reached the Dhuni to meet my friend Maun Baba or Barsati Baba who has taken a vow of silence for 11 years.
He was happy to see me including the others , the head of the Chancawalli Babas is Sher Ali Baba.
The Dargah was cordoned off , metal detectors, and heavy police bandobast, I walked from the Dargah to Mahim PoliceStation where a qawwali was in progress organized by Inspector Liaqat head of the Police Makhdoom Shah Baba Committee .I shot a few pictures of the performers and walked home barefeet..
My eldest son Asif Shakir has presented me a new website to house all my poems , so as not to get into anymore head on conflicts with Flickr Support or members of my earlier poetry web site..
However I have deleted all those poems on my own..no use giving importance to bad rubbish and racist too.
www.firozeshakir.com
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• 7:39 am 0
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image courtesy
images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2006/09/08/afghan-topper…
Muslims love killing Muslims
Causing pain causing immense harm
Sabotaging the Soul of Islam
Muslims love killing Muslims
The dead the innocent as they embalm
Driving a stake up the Soul of Islam
Muslims love killing Muslim
Sectarian strife Sunnis killing Shias
Shias killing Sunnis no peace and no calm
Talibanisation of the Soul of Islam
Muslims love killing Muslims
Suicide bombers assassinations
Rape arson pillage kill and bomb
Cowards rogue Mullahs political poison
As it infects the Soul of Islam
Cybernetic hate as it storms
Warring creatures in an Animal Farm
Allah Ho Akbar
Muslims love killing Muslims
Tears shedding blood
Decapitating all that is Truth
From the Soul of Islam
Brotherhood and Peace
In the hands of Jehaddis
Fundamentalists Radicals
Terrorists bent on suicide bombing
The Soul of Islam
Muslims love killing Muslims
A corrupt virus from Yazidiyat.com
*yazidiyat is the earliest form of terrorism and genocide committed by Yazid the Head of The Ummayad Caliphate , on Imam Hussain the beloved grandson of the Holy Prophet on the sands of Karbala..
This was Arab barbarism against its own kind blocking the waters of the Euphrates , heinously decapitating the heads of the Imam and his family and placing them on spears, his women folk and his sickly surviving son Zainul Abeddin taken in chains from KArbala to Damascus, forcefully removing of their Veils , this was the Black chapter in the History of Islam.
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , muslims love killing muslims, Yazidiyat
• 7:16 am 0
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image courtesy
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Event of Ghadir Khumm
The following is a description of the historic event of Ghadir Khumm. Click on the book icons below to see the detailed references backing up each key element of this event. The separation into contexts enables one to see how well each component of the event is attested in the sources.
For example, to see how many Sunni sources record the sentence uttered by the Prophet [s] to appoint Imam ‘Ali [a] – man kuntu mawlahu fa `Aliyyun mawlahu – click here: .
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The Farewell Pilgrimage
Ten years after the migration (hijrah), the Messenger of Allah [peace and blessings be upon him and his Progeny] ordered to his close followers to call all the people in different places to join him in his last pilgrimage. On this pilgrimage he taught them how to perform the pilgrimage in a correct and unified form.
This was first time that the Muslims with this magnitude gathered in one place in the presence of their leader, the Messenger of Allah [s]. On his way to Makkah, more than seventy thousand people followed Prophet [s]. On the fourth day of Dhu’l-Hijjah more than one hundred thousand Muslims had entered Makkah.
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Date
The date of this event was the 18th of Dhu’l-Hijjah of the year 10 AH (10 March 632 CE).
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Location
After completing his last pilgrimage (Hajjatul-Wada’), Prophet [s] was leaving Makkah toward Madinah, where he and the crowd of people reached a place called Ghadir Khumm (which is close to today’s al-Juhfah). It was a place where people from different provinces used to greet each other before taking different routes for their homes.
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Revelation of Qur’anic Verse 5:67
In this place, the following verse of the Qur’an was revealed:
“O Apostle! Deliver what has been sent down to you from your Lord; and if you don’t do it, you have not delivered His message (at all); and Allah will protect you from the people …” (Qur’an 5:67)
The last sentence in the above verse indicates that the Prophet [s] was mindful of the reaction of his people in delivering that message but Allah informs him not to worry, for He will protect His Messenger from people.
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The Sermon
Upon receiving the verse, the Prophet [s] stopped on that place (the pond of Khumm) which was extremely hot. Then he sent for all people who have been ahead in the way, to come back and waited until all pilgrims who fell behind, arrived and gathered. He ordered Salman [r] to use rocks and camel toolings to make a pulpit (minbar) so he could make his announcement. It was around noon time in the first of the Fall, and due to the extreme heat in that valley, people were wrapping their robes around their feet and legs, and were sitting around the pulpit, on the hot rocks.
On this day the Messenger of Allah [s] spent approximately five hours in this place; three hours of which he was on the pulpit. He recited nearly one hundred verses from The Glorious Quran, and for seventy three times reminded and warned people of their deeds and future. Then he gave them a long speech.
The following is a part of his speech which has been widely narrated by the Sunni traditionists:
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Tradition of the Two Weighty Things (thaqalayn)
The Messenger of Allah [s] declared:
“It seems the time approached when I shall be called away (by Allah) and I shall answer that call. I am leaving for you two precious things and if you adhere to them both, you will never go astray after me. They are the Book of Allah and my Progeny, that is my Ahlul Bayt. The two shall never separate from each other until they come to me by the Pool (of Paradise).”
[See also: Hadith al-Thaqalayn: A Study of its tawatur]
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Acknowledgement of Authority
Then the Messenger of Allah continued:
“Do I not have more right over the believers than what they have over themselves?”
People cried and answered:
“Yes, O’ Messenger of God.”
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Text (nass) of the Designation
Then followed the key sentence denoting the clear designation of ‘Ali as the leader of the Muslim ummah. The Prophet [s] held up the hand of ‘Ali and said:
“For whoever I am his Leader (mawla), ‘Ali is his Leader (mawla).”
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[In some narrations the word used was wali rather than mawla - with the same implication]
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The Prophet [s] continued:
“O’ God, love those who love him, and be hostile to those who are hostile to him.”
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These were the key parts of the speech of the Prophet [s]. There are also more detailed versions of this sermon which are recorded by many Sunni authorities.
‘Coronation’ of Imam ‘Ali [a]
[under development]
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Revelation of Qur’anic Verse 5:3
Immediately after the Prophet [s] finished his speech, the following verse of the Qur’an was revealed:
“Today I have perfected your religion and completed my favour upon you, and I was satisfied that Islam be your religion.” (Qur’an 5:3)
The above verse clearly indicates that Islam without clearing up matter of leadership after Prophet [s] was not complete, and completion of religion was due to announcement of the Prophet’s immediate successor.
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Hassan b. Thabit’s poetry
Immediately after the Prophet’s speech, Hassan b. Thabit, the Companion and poet of the Messenger of Allah [s], asked for his permission to compose a few verses of poetry about Imam ‘Ali [a] for the audience. The Prophet [s] said: “Say with the blessings of Allah”. Hassan stood up and said: “O’ people of Quraysh. I follow with my words what preceded and witnessed by the Messenger of Allah [s]. He then composed the following verses at the scene:
He calls them, (on) the day of Ghadir, their Prophet
In Khumm so hear (and heed) the Messenger’s call,
He said: “Who is your guide and leader? (mawlakum wa waliyyukum)”
They said, and there was no apparent blindness (clearly):
“Your God, our guide, and you are our leader
And you won’t find from among us, in this, any disobedient,”
He said to him: “Stand up O’ Ali, for I am
pleased to announce you Imam and guide after me (min ba’di imam(an) wa hadiy(an)),
So whomever I was his leader (mawla), then this is his leader (mawla)
So be to him supporters in truth and followers,”
There he prayed: “Allah! Be a friend and guide to his follower
And be, to the one who is Ali’s enemy, an enemy”
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Oath of Allegiance
After his speech, the Messenger of Allah [s] asked everybody to give the oath of allegiance to ‘Ali [a] and congratulate him. Among those who did so was ‘Umar b. al-Khattab, who said:
“Well done Ibn Abi Talib! Today you became the Leader (mawla) of all believing men and women.”
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Number of Companions in Ghadir Khumm
Allah ordered His Prophet [s] to inform the people of this designation at a time of crowded populous so that all could become the narrators of the tradition, while they exceeded a hundred thousand.
Narrated by Zayd b. Arqam: Abu al-Tufayl said: “I heard it from the Messenger of Allah [s], and there was no one (there) except that he saw him with his eyes and heard him with his ears.”
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Revelation of Qur’anic Verse 70:1-3
Some Sunni commentators further report that the first three verses of the chapter of al-Ma’arij (70:1-3) were revealed when a dispute arose after the Prophet [s] reached Madinah. It is recorded that:
On the day of Ghadir the Messenger of Allah summoned the people toward ‘Ali and said: “Ali is the mawla of whom I am mawla.” The news spread quickly all over urban and rural areas. When Harith Ibn Nu’man al-Fahri (or Nadhr Ibn Harith according to another tradition) came to know of it, he rode his camel and came to Madinah and went to the Messenger of Allah [s] and said to him: “You commanded us to testify that there is no deity but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah. We obeyed you. You ordered us to perform the prayers five times a day and we obeyed. You ordered us to observe fasts during the month of Ramadhan and we obeyed. Then you commanded us to offer pilgrimage to Makkah and we obeyed. But you are not satisfied with all this and you raised your cousin by your hand and imposed him upon us as our master by saying `Ali is the mawla of whom I am mawla.’ Is this imposition from Allah or from you?”
The Prophet [s] said : “By Allah who is the only deity! This is from Allah, the Mighty and the Glorious.”
On hearing this Harith turned back and proceeded towards his she-camel saying: “O Allah! If what Muhammad said is correct then fling on us a stone from the sky and subject us to severe pain and torture.” He had not reached his she-camel when Allah, who is above all defects, flung at him a stone which struck him on his head, penetrated his body and passed out through his lower body and left him dead. It was on this occasion that Allah, the exalted, caused to descend the following verses:
“A questioner questioned about the punishment to fall. For the disbelievers there is nothing to avert it, from Allah the Lord of the Ascent.” (70:1-3)
www.al-islam.org/ghadir/incident.htm
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , eid e ghadeer, man kunto mawla, shias
December 27, 2007 • 4:18 pm 0
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marziya and asif shakir
daughter and newly born father on a high
like the feet of earth being touched by the forehead of the sky
a fountain showering waters from Mashke Sakina
that on the banks of the Euphrates will never run dry
of a world of Ahle Bait hidden in the slivers of a lttle childs eye
silence a peak of eloquence that money cant buy
or rob or steal or get it on the sly
a fathers love for his daughter that you espy
is a sobless tear thanking God the maker in reply
for making Marziya in the image of her mother
the blood sinews of her fathers spirtuality
that he did apply from kazmain in lucknow
to a paradise in mumbai
time held in her tiny fist before it flys by
Marziyas might hits the bulls eye .
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• 2:16 pm 1
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Photo Courtesy AP
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.
“At 6:16 p.m. she expired,” said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto’s party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.
A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed .
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_as/pakistan
political poison a dangerous disease
hate that blows you of the crease
you were alive just a second
frame freeze
gone with the blowing breeze
life body gauards yet no gurantees
like father like daughter
silenced forever
Benazir Bhutto
Rest in Peace
Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , assasination, benazir bhutto, Firoze Shakir Poetry, pakistan, rip, yahoo new
• 10:52 am 0
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The Urus celebration of the Sufi Saint Makdoom Shah Baba began on Dec24 .
Normally I never missed this event, walking bare feet from Bandra to Mahim to sit among the Chancawalli Sufis or Rafaees body piercers , as they sit smoke chillum
at the Dhuni or Holy Fire.
This year I decided to stay away from the Rafaee events and the Dhuni because of personal reasons.On Friday I will go and shoot Saqib the Florist friends Sandal , which I shoot every year , the body piercing performed by Firoze Rafaee under the patronage of my friend Fahad Pathan up and coming political youth leader…
I spoke to Saquib, and he was wondering why I was not seen at the Dhuni.Actually I have shot so many meaningless pictures , mostly portraits and the chillum smoking, some of the Bawas dont take kindly to the picture taking.
So my pictorial quest is on a low key, mostly the Turner Road Hijdas, the beggar kids are part of my quintessential street photography.
I was hoping Mr Glenn Losack MD from America , would come down to shoot the body piercing events but he has postponed his India trip.
The birth of my photogenic grand daughter Marziya , has been a a blessing in disguise , shooting her almost a few frames every day soothes my soul.
She is the finest model, she gives me rare gems of her expressions , and she is demanding too , she is a month old so I cant do much in terms of creativity but I manage .
Marziya is a photographers Muse , and inspiration, she is a sight to be seen when the lady masseur gives her a massage and her bath , all amazing episodes of her daily regimen.One picture I do wish to take of hers is in a tiny Hijab..just her eyes…
She has been part of our luck, and she got ha cradle from Shivani my sister in law wife of brother Firdaus.. I got her a pram from Little Kangaroos , a childs shop that belongs to my friends Alok and Arun Lalwani..a unique shop and must a visit for toddlers and new borns..
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• 7:04 am 0
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He is a man child cub in a zoo
endangered specie its true
on the verge of extinction
a thought hackneyed but new
with his back to the world
a world of hate he left behind
a world of sorrow and suffering
he outgrew
now he eats only what
he can chew
his ancestors once upon a time
roamed the wilds
till evolution charged their intellect
they became from apes
men categorized as Christians Muslims and Jews
assorted races Buddhist Sikhs Parsis Jains Hindus
using religion as a weapon
their own kind without impunity
they mercilessly slew
political powerplay
man destroying man
a heady intoxicating brew
phew
a god who created them
they killed on the cross
now by killing
those that did not kill him
pay off their forefathers
unpaid dues
suicide bombers
misplaced martyrdom
prosleytizing the human soul
with any available excuse
Justice as a precondition
to Peace and Freedom
The only solution
for a global truce
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December 26, 2007 • 12:28 pm 0
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marziya mothers doll
proud blue blooded shia
karbala engrained to her soul
very clear
our faith bound
to a drop of tear
a bond with allah
through ahle bait
without any fear
our belief
our stead fast shiasm sincere
we need not artificially engineer
come moharam
a cry ya hussain
will be heard
far and near
we await the day
when
our Beloved Imam
will re-apppear
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• 6:28 am 0
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A few days left for the New Year
Man half asleep under the Wisdom Tree
dreams of a better life and a handful of prosperity
he has unposted letters to be sent to God
asking for respect and not just charity
man who born helpless poor
wants to live in peace and peaceful dignity
away from racist hate that nestles
like a whore in the heart and soul of poetry
the warmongers of poetic hate
from a racist poety site to a
photography site relentlessly
pursuing me
blocking my right of creative expression
my freedom of poetic speech
harbingers of hate and animosity.
even those who live in an English land
and champion their minority
thinly disguisesd as Indian haters
insecure in their pompous creativity
a searchlight a must on their
hateful nefarious activity
colluding with the might of a racist authority
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December 25, 2007 • 6:32 pm 0
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All my pictures with Marziya my grand daughter were shot by my wife..
Marziya is a camera friendly child , every expression of hers is unique and worth capturing.
She reacts to the camera as though its part of her inheritance and pictorial heritage…
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• 5:53 pm 0
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a loser
with a winning streak
a commonality and yet unique
a womans child
a child woman
so to speak
perforated silence
soundlessly shriek
with her feminine fate
frivolous flippant fastidious
she plays hide and seek
gives birth to a coward
and to Hercules
she who remains outwardly weak
motherhood her inherent streak
her pain her sorrow cheek to cheek
a bodily goddess that turns antique
muted memories that cannot speak
misplaced for ever in a kingdom of the meek
a flowing river and a choked up creek
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• 4:09 pm 0
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Outside the gates of St Peters Church Bandra Hill Road the spirit of Xmas prevails -
among the poor of the world when happiness hope and everything else fails
life like a running train with all its bogeys derails ..
christ hanging on the cross the story of bleeding nails
man meaninglessly searching for peace where war
is the residual in the holy grail
I pray for those whom justice has failed
innocent serving time as undertrials with Xmas in Indian jails
the hard core criminals moving freely – the system sucks but bails..
dedicated to Da Vinca as a Xmas gift of eternal peace
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• 12:32 pm 0
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Hussain the beloved grandson of the Holy Prophet
with whom Allah the Most Omnipotent was pleased
Hussain the name of Humanity beyond caste color or creed
the Bayt of the Holy Prophet he did not conceed
gave his head not his hand to a Monster called Yazid
who born of an illegitimate serpent seed
well known for destroying Islam by his dastardly deeds
every act of his against Allah, Islam humanity woman hood indeed
the laws of civility the human values he and his warriors did not heed
yes a black chapter in Islamic history words that bleed
the accursed Ummayad Caliphate leader Yazid
an insult to the human breed
on the flesh of carrion he did feed
his so called followers of yazidiyat
in todays world we do not need
who give reverence to Yazid
the Ummah at spirtual circus to mislead
they should be crushed God Speed
Hussain a single man army 72 warriors in the lead
against the mammoth forces of accursed yazid..
even afer death and defeat did suceed
Hussain gave up his life not for political supremacy
that he did not need
Hussain our beloved Shaheed
political gains and worldly control of Islamic fortune
thirst of Yazid his wantoness depravity and his ungodly greed
Hussain for his live or his his familys life never did plead
Karbala that became the killing field
it was the fruits of Hussainiyat from the blood of the Martyrs
it did yield
Hussain Allahs most protected Shield
Astride on Zuljana the Indomitable Steed
living words of Nade Ali on him decreed
fearless along with Abbas Ali Akbar Kassim
he did proceed
Ali Asghar the little Mujahid
all battling the evil forces
who prayed the namaz
and the Holy Koran did read
now dont ask me why the Shias
from the major community did secede
“Shah ast Husain,
Badshah ast Husain,
Sardaad na daad dast dar dastey Yazid,
Haqqa ke bana-aey La ilah ast Husain.
” Translation : “Ruler is Husain,
Emperor is Husain,
Religion is Husain,
shield of religion i.e. Islam is Husain,
Gave his head (for Islam) but not his hand to Yazid,
To maintain the truth no one but is Husain.”
my poem dedicated to Maulana Zaki Baqri a Man of Spiritual honor .. who helped in my growth as a good human being..
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• 8:12 am 0
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Outside the St Peters Chrurch Bandra Hill Road
The Hijdas stand in reverence on Christmas Eve Day
knowing the good parishioners will come out
and pay -charity a Christian virtue like prayer
broken bodies of human pain they bare
a god given tragedy they have no money to repair
clapping their androgynous hands in the air
transgenders are human like me and you
a convulted contorted emotional erosion
personal in nature who cares
perhaps Jesus Christ lying in his crib
looks at them than at the clergy
the Rock of St Peter
a castrated silence
chaotic spirtual commotion
that as humans we share
some cry they have no shoes
some cry they have no feet
who stand on stilts of prosthetics
without the need of footwear
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• 3:47 am 0
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she cannot walk
she cannot talk
she is a chip
of a block of a block
pictorial poetic stock
wanting to be photographed
round the clock
the new poet on the block
whose poems will not shock
peace freedom justice
all solid as a rock
she might be the next gen
flick photographer no1
marziya shakir
this friendly eagle hawk
a gift of a drop of tear
from karbala in iraq
named after Princess Fatima
a new world of hussainiyat to unlock
allah ho akbar
inshallah
she too will photo blog
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December 24, 2007 • 7:35 pm 0
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miraculous memories
lyrical joy to share
marziya shakir
our grand daughter
a diamond very rare
camera friendly
poem friendly
monk like head
without any hair
we do make an unusual pair
she is the first child
who is comfortable with what I wear
she a shakir who does not easily scare..
love poetry hate racism
in the eyes of our antagonists we stare
justice is a pre condition
to peace and freedom
da vincas words we swear
on the wings of poetry
we enter leopard lairs
where angels fear to dare
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• 5:45 pm 0
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sir take my photo he said with a smile
covering his fateless face
the turner road traffic signal beggar kid
with humility and human grace
its not dreams but cars he must chase
as the red light comes on
his palms the feel of coins will trace
dignity in child labor
is no more a disgrace
the beggar mafia
controls his destiny
his body his soul
his mind space
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