The Pain Passion Pathos Poetry of a Shia Blogger, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
I got a message in my Inbox..from a documentarist photographer from Spain Andres Guttierez .. in a form of a questionnaire that I copy here to express my personal views on Shiasm..as a Shia blogger and prolific street photographer who shoots the poetry and melodrama of street life and the angst of almost every culture existing in India .. including Sufism Hinduism Christianity and my own Shiasm..
His questions and introduction
Hi my friends, im working in Texts for the exposition, on the first of
Feb it might be open to the public, so i have some questions that
appear in my mind.
Whats the name of Moghul Masjid mosque area ?
The word Matam what really means?
Can any one hit his body with the Chains ? or need something special ?
Zanjeer is the right name of the Chains with 5 blades ? what kind of
blades exist for matam ?
What its the price of one Zanjeer ?
What time ends Ashura ?
I remember to hear: Ya Hussein! Ya Sakkina!, can you tell me more of
this shouts?
I have a picture for a baby in Ashura, childs can be part of Ashura ?
Whats the difference between hit the chest and hist the back with Zajeers ?
Whats feel Shias in Ashura ?
Really big thanks for all help, i guess i will have more questions in
a few days.
Big Hug from Spain :)
My answers forgive the loud mouthed fonts they are the silence of my soul bound in screams
1 IMAMWADA
2 FROM RS 100 TO 500 0R MORE
3 IN INDIA AFTER 2 MONTH 8 DAYS IN Iran on the 40 the day of Moharam
4 ZANJIR ..THE SCOURGING IS KNOWN AS ZANJIR ZANI
5 YA HUSSAIN MEANS OH HUSSAIN IN GRIEF YA SAKINA WAS HIS 4 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHO DIED CHAINED IN CAPTIVITY IN DAMASCUS UNDER THE REGIME OF ACCURSED TYRANT YAZID OF THE UMAYAD DYNASTY
6 MOSTLY KIDS HAVE THEIR HEAD CUT IN HYDERABAD CHENNAI MUMBAI
7 FOR THOSE THAT CONSIDER BLEEDING UNISLAMIC THAN BEATING OF THE CHEST VALIDATES THEIR PAIN KNOWN AS GHAME HUSSAIN .. BLEEDING SELF INFLICTION IS A PERSONAL COLLECTIVE FORM OF EXPRESSION VARIES FROM PERSON TO PERSON PLACE TO PLACE THIS ANSWERS YOUR LAST QUESTION TO, MATAM THE WORD FR SELF INFLICTION GRIEF MOURNING IS THE ESSENCE OF SHIASM AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE OPPRESSORS .. FOR 1400 YEARS THE SHIAS PROTESTRED AGAINST OPRRESSION NOW KNOWN AS TERRORISM MISPLACE JIHAD BUT THE EUNUCH MUSLIM WORLD LOOKED THE OTHER WAY AT KARBALA WHEN THE IMAM AND HIS FAMILY WERE SLAUGHTERED THEY LOOK THE OTHER WAY AS SHIA SUFI SHRINES ARE BOMBED BY MODERN PETRO POWERED YAZID SALAFI WAHABBI BACKED DOCTRINE OF SECTARIAN HATE AND THIS BECOMES A BODY OF MY NEW BLOG ON MUHARAM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSING THE QUESTIONS ..ANDRES GUTIERREZ A PART OF THE UMAYADS RULED SPAIN TOO,,THE DEEDS OF YAZID WERE THE BLACKEST CHAPTER IN ISLAMIC HISTORY OF PEACE HOPE AND BROTHERHOOD ..
AND FINALLY BRINGS ME TO THE ESSENCE OFMY BLOGS ON HUMANITY MUSLIM LOVE KILLING MUSLIMS ITS PART OF THEIR BARBARISM AND A DISORDER IN THEIR GENES ,,
AS EVER
FIROZE SHAKIR
BEGGAR POET OF MUMBAII
HINDU SHIA
DAM MADAR MALANG
I ALSO SHOOT WALK BAREFEET IN MUMBAI WITH CHRIST DURING THE ENACTMENT OF A PASSION PLAY ON GOOD FRIDAY 14 STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND IF I WAS IN PHILIPPINES I WOULD ALLOW MYSELF TO BE NAILED ON THE CROSS .. TO TELL YOU THAT PAIN IS THE ONLY EMOTION THAT IS COMMON TO ALL HUMANITY ..
