Please Note
1 I do not interact with people on Whats Up
Even if you give me your number I will NEVER call you
I dont interact with people I dont know I will not share my
number with you or my Email.
You can abuse me for what I shoot but your comments
will never see the light of day ,, as I block you and than report abuse .
I am a a hobbyist Photographer but I am not a Bawa
I cannot solve your problems please ask from God directly
I am not into Dua Tawiz though I shoot hazri possession exorcism
occult both among Sufis and Tantrics and Aghoris .
Whatever kind of Muslim I am...I dont need a character certificate
from Wahabis Salafis Tablikis Jamatis and Barelvi and Ala Hazrat .
I am a Shia born Indian Muslim and will never convert to your fundamental
ideas and spirituality ,,, I cannot and will be never be like you as I cannot change
my upbringing and my multi culture interfaith and parentage .
I delete all comments in Urdu ..if you want to interact please use Hindi or
English.
Lastly my target audience of my images videos are my foreigner friends who are researching Sufism and Hinduism,...
I only shoot Shiasm during Moharam Ashura Chehlum Athvi in different cities of India,
I dont shoot Moharam in Mumbai for personal reasons .
As you dont read my profile before commenting do read this post ,,,
My face is real my videos and images are real I am unlike you without a profile and no a single video on your You Tube timeline .
Most important I strictly follow YouTube terms conditions
I dont shoot porn but frontal nudity is visble in my Naga Sadhu documentary as the
Naga Sadhus followers of Lord Shiva dont wear clothes ,,
I have age restricted those videos ,, but it is all part of photo journalism I shoot
I have a valid international Press Card ,,
I am a You Tuber and documentarist .
Professionally I am a fashion stylist in Bollywood last 40 years ..
I have designed for Govinda Salman Amitabh Bachchan sab Sanjay Dutt and many others .
I have been designing for Mr Danny Denzongpa last 36 years and Mr Prem Chopra and Mr Shakti Kapoor ,
o please do not take me for a chapri uneducated Muslim..
So be civil be polite and most of all be human..
Before you change others do learn to change yourself into a better person..
Firoze Shakir
Bandra Mumbai
5 March 2019
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All my original content posts since 2005 are at Flickr though I joined Flickr in 2007
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My posts are also on Blogspot ,,, Poetry Shiasm and Kumbh Melas
https://firozeshakir.blogspot.com/
https://shahasthussain.blogspot.com/
https://firozekumbhmela.blogspot.com/
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran
An Ode to Craig Boehman
Your camera
needs no raincoat
Once you enter the
waters of JuhuBeach
It will remain afloat
Giving you company
In a fisherman s boat
Or evangelizing the
Methi farmers in the rains
That you dote
The camera paints with light
Adding a spectral coat
Praying for another person to die.
Outside Bhaba hospital Bandra
He lies.. He will get a bed
If another patient dies.
The flesh in pain the soul
Of this seriously sick person
In deathly throes cries.
Life is nothing but self sacrifice
I shoot human blood sweat tears
Through the indomitable spirit
Of my cosmic camera eye
Don't ask me why.. Death is the only
Reality a loaded dice..
Every moment snatched from
Eternity comes with a price
Man is just a shadow in disguise
Over the Cuckoos nest he rebels
Flies...
Leaving behind memories
On frozen Ice.
Dedicated to my subscribers followers
Friends and we'll wishers
The beggar poet...
Following in the footsteps of Ali
Hussain and Jesus Christ..
Sometimes being stupid
Is far better than being wise
Mukka Baba From Nagpur Tajuddin Baba Dargah
At Haji Malang ..
I have been shooting him for a very long time while I took his leave at the Dhuna a climb of 3.5 hours down Malangad Mountains he was kind enough to give me grapes apples ..
I mostly met him at Ismail Shah Baba dargah Parel during Urus ,..
The Old Monk of Bandra with the Old monk of Dharavi.
Views on my @Flickr stream 4 March 2019
171338 Thanks
Today I shot the MahaShivratri
Maha Kali Puja close to Kumbharwada Dharavi.
The people were curios seeing me dressed in my Sufi attire.
#Hinduism
I got a new Leather #camera jacket made for me at my friend Shaukat Bhais workshop at #Dharavi.
Styled by me in Tan Nappa.
Pockets for lenses and accessories.
First time shot the Kumbharwada Dharavi Potter video
Abdul Razzak Baba..
The Sufi monk who feeds a mixture of flour and sugar sprinkling it beneath the palm trees at Bandra Talao.
Later he feeds biscuits to the fish in the pond.
He is Chishti Qadri and is a follower of Holy Saint Makdhoom Shah Baba Mahim.
He lives on rent close to Bandra reclamation.
I love talking to him when I meet at the Talao or JJ Colony Bandra.
Many a times I have seen him buy Water bottles for the poor and needy.
So it is not just ants and fishes but he has compassion for human beings too.
It's people like him that touch me and inspire me to be humble like them
Religion has no meaning it it divides Humanity.
Religion is service to God through Humanity.
So what ever your religious background if you insult hate people all your Namaz can never save you..
The essence of Namaz is Humility to God and his creation..
This is my personal view and I respect every person..
It is only Faith that moves Mountains.
I am nothing.. And through Nothingness God created me..
He had a purpose for me on Earth.
And so my existence and my photography has a purpose..
To serve my Maker through Humanity.
12 Years Flickr Pro
I joined @Flickr in June 2007 has been the greatest journey of my life I used #Flickr as my textbook to learn #photography ,,the person who inspired me the most was @thomashawk my lifes dream is to do a thesis on his work. @DonMacAskill has changed the face of Flickr forever
This is #Bandra Bazar an insult to Modijis vision of #SwacchBharat.
Be it #Congress or #BJP
Nothing changed
Hon @Dev_Fadnavis Ji
@CMOMaharashtra
MS @poonam_mahajan MP
#BMC
I have posted over 200 videos on #YouTube but to no avail.
https://t.co/vsXiIL2hJC
My Flickr Stats 3 March,,, Showcases Incredible India and Original Content
Thank you all for your love and support ,,,without which it could not have been possible.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/firozes...
Har Har Mahadev
#MahaShivratri
#Dadar
Blessings to All
#LordShiva
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Due to unavoidable reasons I could not go to Varnasi to shoot the Naga sadhus
MahaShivratri ShahiSnan .
I am invited by my Aghori Guru Manikandan to shoot the Holi rituals at the crematorium.
I will try to go.. I am chained like a dog to my Destiny.
Tennis Monk of Bandra
tennis under
coach surendra
pawar has changed
me quite a bit
a powerful back
hand I can hit
because of my
leg injuries
after a few games
i watch others play
while I sit ..
my right hand is
shaped like a cobras
hood but the tennis
ball says dont quit
I am not into religious diatribe
or partisan politics ..
my destiny is a crest
on a wave ..
I am a storyteller
maverick ..
I stay the * fuc...away from pricks
Returning from Mr #KRK
Kamal Khan house. MHADA
I have been styling his wardrobe more than 20 years.
A great patron of my work.
https://t.co/HarcK6ejaZ
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It was my Mother who made us what we are ..
Living peacefully
with Hindus Christians
Jews Buddhists
Parsis ..
mutual coexistence
tolerance ..
respect for humanity
on our hearts radar
This was shot on our rozakushai .. my sister and me our first roza
My mother Mohtarma Shamim Shakir was 14 year old when she married my father a Lucknowi who lived in Bombay early 50s he was a tailor by profession working for an English Couturier ..he had witnessed the explosion of the ship too.
My mother belonged to an illustrious Syed family her father was late Daroga Nabban Sab descendant of poet Mir Anis sab.
After the death of her father her late fathers first wife children moved away to Pakistan.
My grandmother a staunch Lucknowi Nazmi Begum refused to take the train to
Pakistan a widow with 4 children she preferred to live in penury making envelops
for Chutan Printing Press Pata Nala Lucknow Imliwali gully ,,
She bore the brunt during Sunni Shia riots but faced it all ,,,
She was my teacher too..
My parents in the early years in Bombay lived in the fetid slums at Kurla till my dad
got a room on rent from the family of doyen film actor late Nawab Kashmiri at Wodehouse road Colaba ,,
It was the Nawab Sabs family descendants of Nawab Waji Ali Shah ..Shias that helped us educated me in a Private European School and changed our lives .
From Wodehouse Road the new landlord shifted us to Neelam Breach Candy till my dad got his own house at Strand Cinema Colaba.
My father passed away .. my mother took care of us ,,she died an untimely death due to diabetes ..
We 4 brothers 3 sisters are products of their vision of peace ,,,
My kid brother is in UK...
So this is our story ,,, we never needed to hide behind an empty thumbnail..
We lead our lives ..
Whether I am a Hindu Muslim should not bother you at all.
I shoot Truth.. photography is not my source of income .
I am a fashion stylist for Bollywood ..since 36 years ..
Thank you all each one of you for your kind comments and respect for my mother
I never consider her dead she lives within my soul and the souls of my siblings
she guides us to take the right path and right decision..
I certainly would never attack a person because his faith is different from mine
he has as much right to exist as I have ,,
I refuse to believe in a God that created humanity and his followers kill suicide bomb others ,,The God I believe in the God of Peace and Brotherhood ..
The God I believe in did not create Kafirs he created humans we call them kafirs ,
I alienate myself from bigots radicals and misguided Muslims and Mullahs .
“Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry.... Shams Tabrizi
Ghulam E Hussain..
My Kama Matam Ashura Mohaam Chennai TN
https://vimeo.com/62771565
The Beggar Poet and his Shia Roots
To Imam Hussain my humble tribute
blood sweat tears I shoot
My Kama Matam Ashura Mohaam Chennai TN
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