Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Nerjis Asif Shakir The Aspiring Street Photographer in Wating

My Grand Daughter Nerjis Asif Shakir Teaches Me The True Meaning of Charity

Nerjis Asif Shakir .. Charity Begins On The Streets



The old lady in the picture is the Umbrella Lady of Bandra Reclamation , she is a homeless denizen of our city that has more print space for Dhobles than these children of a lesser God.

Who will write about them or shoot them..so God created photo bloggers and their progeny.. Marziya Shakir 4 year old Nerjis Asif Shakir 11 month old shall shoot them and keep the spirit of survival and charity alive.

This is the meaning essence core of my street photography, to tell the story of the poor needy neglected through street pictures.. you see them as images you read them as poetry.


And this is dedicated to my Guru Mr KG Maheshwari who taught me the meaning of Life through photography.. a grand father and a great grand father this father of Indian photography.. a doyen and a humanitarian.

This Is For Jack C Crawford My Good Friend on Google+

Nerjis Asif Shakir 11 Month Old Laptop Girl From Bandra



First it was her sister Marziya Shakir and Lucky as desktop picture she loved to touch feel, than I replaced it with her picture shot recently with Lucky the Labrador.

That made her day , so she comes ogles at herself , and her prime spot in the house is my laptop space.

And if I give her the camera she will take the camera strap place it round her neck.. the birth of a street photographer .. the laptop girl from Bandra Nerjis Asif Shakir..

We are One in our passion for poetry of life.

And we are both Malangs.

Shia Child Does Kama Matam

Shia Child Does Kama Matam

Shia Child Does Kama Matam

Shia Child Does Kama Matam

Shia Child Does Kama Matam

The Havan or Homa

My Sons Studied At St Theresa's High School Bandra

Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn



Abdullah Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn ( April, 61 AH - Tenth of Muharram the 10th of October, 61 AH) was the youngest child of Husayn ibn Ali (the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia Imam) and Rubab (the daughter of the chief of the Kinda Imra al-Qays tribe). He is honored by Muslims as the youngest martyr of the Battle of Karbala.

Abdullah "Ali al-Asghar" ("Youngest Ali") ibn Husayn was born in Medina. He was one of the three sons of Husayn. The other two were Ali ibn Husayn, the fourth Shia Imam, and Ali Akbar ibn Husayn, who was also killed by Yazid's forces in the Battle of Karbala. His sisters were Sakina (Rukayya), 4 years old, Sakinah (Fatema Kubra) and Fatema Sugra. Imam Husain took Ali Asghar in battlefield to show the condition of 6 month old child without water. The tragedy was that in place of giving him water, Ali al-Asghar was killed by Hurmala who shot an arrow that pierced his neck. According to both Shia and Sunni traditions, the arrow was three-headed.


Imam Husayn's Shrine, where Ali Asghar is buried with his father
Ali Asghar's death at 6 months old occurred on, 10 Muharram 61 AH, which is known as Ashura. He is considered a martyr.
[edit]Reverence after his death

Ali al-Asghar is buried along with his brother Ali al-Akbar with Husayn in Karbala, Iraq, which is now the most visited shrine in the world.[1] In Muharram ceremonies and commemorations, Ali al-Asghar is represented as an innocent child suffering unbearable thirst. His death is mourned at length in rawza-khani (recital of the Rawdat ash-Shuhada "The Paradise of the Martyrs") literature and in early ta'ziya (passion play) traditions, a complete majles was dedicated to Ali al-Asghar, with the infant's cradle a conspicuous element on the stage. Ali al-Asghar is also represented in Muharram processions and mourned in folklore.

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