He Did Kama Matam With a Penknife

He Did Kama Matam With a Penknife, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

He is a devout Shia boy, I met him last year at the same place at Malad Malvani, he had come with a kitchen knife , he had spent Rs 50 to get it sharpened and he cut his head.. I blogged his passion his love for Imam Hussain.. he had come without any of his elders .. but he had a brother and they took turns cutting their head with their kitchen knife.

This year he was without a kitchen knife so I asked him if he was doing kama matam, he pulled out a pen knife and began cutting his head viciously seeing him I cut my head too on Athvi ..

So the Shias are highly emotive when it comes to their faith and that one pain called Ghame Hussain..