As The Bibi Ka Alam Enters The Lane Kama Matam Starts, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
The Hyderabadis , kids adults are very intense passionate about Moharam and Ashura in particular , kama matam is a ritual of cutting the head with a dagger but at Hyderabad Panje Shah the mourners cut their heads with curved Punjabi swords.
Than ahead of the Bibi Ka Alam is the zanjir matam hitting the back with sharp blades on chains and the most quintessential instrument of pain ans self infliction is the blade matam , a piece of blade embedded between the fingers to beat the chest.
And all this is known as Pursa or mourning for the Mother Of Hussain .. the pain she went through and mind you the Mother of Hussain was Princess Fatima Zehra the only daughter of the Holy Prophet of Islam PBUH.
Hussain was not killed by the Jews or a Christian not even a heretic but by those who followed the tenets of Islam.. the custodians of Islam at that time Caliph Yazid and his bunch of murderous goons ..
Terrorism had its seeds in Islam when Imam Ali was killed in a mosque and his sons Imam Hussain and Imam Hassan too died tragically at the hands of Evil .. and this evil continues till today and it is called Jehad.
Oppression and Tyranny , killing of innocent people and above all Muslims Killing Muslims is the new pseudo Islam in the hands of a few with vested interest..
And there is a eunuch silence .. the minarets of Peace bleed too.. as Shia mosques Shrines are bombed .. suicide bombers searching for a Heaven with 72 nubile virgins .. is the order of the day.
