Anjuman Sadka e Sakina Mumbai
Originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1
This is a band of young devoted Shia kids who only cut their foreheads , in the most vicious manner ever seen..
The lighting was very poor here and I was shooting from a parapet on the first floor with my injured right hand and camera flash..
I did request them to come in the light but they refused as soon as they cut their heads they rush with open swords and daggers on foot to the next place on the agenda Zainabia about 10 minutes walking distance or more , here they cut than to Shustri and finally to Amin Imambada the deadliest display, I skipped all the others and managed to reach Amin before them and shot pictures that are absolutely out of mindlessness..
faith and only faith and devotion of the highest order to Bibi Sakina , and her untimely death and her sufferings in captivity ubder Yazid.Bibi Sakina was a thre year old daughter of Imam Hussain..Arab barbarism did not spare kids , women , but they did spare the invalid son of Imam Hussain Zainul Abedin..
Sadke Sakina has my old stafeer Mohsin Hallori a great Kama veteran and he is about Saif my youngest sons age.
Thw members of this outfit wear pure white to signify their status a human shrouds and thats what happens bleeding non stop for over 5 hours or more..
