Shia Eyes Reservoir of Pain

Shia Eyes Reservoir of Pain, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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I did not plan to write what I wrote below when I posted this picture of Marziya my studious writing loving grand daughter , the look in her eyes bought forth words , Marziya does not go to school yet but her surroundings are school enough..the visibility of the unseen is what she sees ..
There is another picture of her I could never shoot , but will describe it to you, imitating the elders in the house she will pick up a book hold it in both her hands and will begin reciting a noha, than she will balance it in one hand and beat her chest with another hand - we call this matam e hussain.

I shot all these pictures while the house was watching Big Boss and Marziya went about her writing work , and a thought did come to my mind , how can Bakhtiyar and Tanaz Irani leave a 18 month old child to go and live in the house of Big Boss.. How could Big Boss even think of having both of them as contenders beats me this is child abuse and the silent voyeuristic soul of the nation watches it without raising a voice..I am a grand father a day without Marziya kills me..

Money , Glamour Glitz Amitabh Bacchan nothing can be bigger than a childs love for the parents and if Shanti Bai is bringing the child up like Bhaktiyar said than curse the mothers womb that gives birth to a child..



shia eyes
reservoir of pain
tears that we shed
for akka moulah hussain
every day is ashura
bleeding waters
of the Euphrates
flowing through our veins
our hearts hold karbala
our spiritual domain
shah ast hussain
badshah ast hussain
1400 years of a protest
against terrorism
they call us insane
on the soul of Islam
humanity was slain
deen ast hussain
deen panah ast hussain
hussainiyat a path of peace
in our souls we retain
sardaad na dad dast,
dar daste yazeed
we say it vociferously
again and again
haqq ie bina la lilaha
ast hussain
moharam
black clothes
the chant of hussain
from child to father
from father to child
an unbroken chain
dil mashke sakina
hussain al minni
wa ana minal hussain


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Big Boss and Child Abuse