I had posted this at Facebook. .. deleted my Facebook account too
I posted the original picture at Flickr and than cross blogged it here at Facebook , my pictures are street documentary of the people I shoot .
Normally I try to to keep text minimal on my pictures, I am adding text here now.
A Muslim cross dresser posted a comment here on this picture at Facebook..I removed her from my friends list
Her comment was that the Rasul has not said to do all this and dont show such things.
Now for me to add my response will not help or change her mindset ..I have no agenda of promoting Shiasm, but I do look forward to amity between all sects who believe in Allah His Holy Prophet and Ahle Bayt..
The person in the picture is a Sunni beggar who one would see at Makhdoom Shah Babas Shrine at Mahim.
I saw him, got to know him and he is a kindly person , than I began seeing him outside Kaiser Bagh scourging his burnt body with blades.
People gave him alms generously , and I never question a persons faith , I am a street photographer , I shoot and share a cosmic reality of pain.
I have till date never seen this Sunni beggar since the time I last saw him perhaps 5 years back or more.
Some say he died a tragic death ..but nobody knows the truth and I wish him a long life wherever he is.
Now to the Muslim cross dressers remarks on my picture that I give a public response , she finds fault with what I have shot and according to her goes against the Holy Prophets beliefs.
Had I written Lover of Hussain perhaps it would have not provoked her I wrote Sunni and I shot a Sunni doing a ritual that is predominantly done by Shias during Moharam..
Although I have shot Sunni boys cutting up themselves during Ashura in Hyderabad Bibi Ka Alam procession .
What made me remove her from my friends list at Facebook is her short sightedness , she gets upset seeing a guy cut himself up for Hussain and she or her kind dont get upset when Muslims kill Muslims lustfully in the name of Allah and Jihad .
And they maintain a eunuch silence like the rest of the Muslim world it is this blasphemous silence that promoted this war on Humanity.. it is this silence that has destroyed the ethos of Brotherhood and Peace loving Islam.
Here I am happy to be an Indian born Muslim I have no issue with any Muslim sect save the one that promotes sectarian strife under the guise of petro powered apostasy of Hate for all religions save their own kind of Islam..Islam that they have hijacked in the name of Allah Ho Akbar as a war cry instead of a call for prayers
I reiterate I will remove any person from my friends list if he or she ridicules the person I have shot or shows disrespect to the ritual or custom of a person I have shot .I am not forcing you to like what I shoot , I dont shoot porn , I dont ridicule your religion custom or belief so why target me or my picture because you dont like it..
I did not shoot my picture to flatter your bigotry in the first place I shoot what I am destined to shoot it is part of my karma.
I shoot Hinduism Sufism Christianitry you hardly find fault only my Shias pictures of blood letting get on your goat .It hurts me humanly, I follow Facebook Flickr Twitter terms and guidelines and you are not a moderator or web master see my pictures as pictures only and move along.
And knowing the kind of pictures I shoot and public on Facebook you should not add me at all.
Yes I will Remove and Block friends if they attack my integrity as a human being.
I cannot become a Wahabbi or adhere to your beliefs , I am a born Shia I shall die one too .
Stop proselytizing your hate for me through adverse comments.
A simple request and a disclaimer too.
my poem
his body is burnt beyond relief
he a Sunni lover of Hussain
enjoined to a greater devotion
that of pain suffering and grief
he does not need to be a Shia
or turn a new leaf
to each his own belief
a tear that becomes an ocean
true religiosity respecting
man and mankind in brief.
I dont know whether he is alive or dead but he has disappeared completely he used to sit at the Dargah of Makdhoom Shah Baba Mahim but he is not seen there at all..
