The Rafaee and His Pet Parrots

The Rafaee and His Pet Parrots, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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The Rafaees all cluster at Char Yar , a hang out place for them , and every one comes here to share smoke and bond.

Every Rafaee from an order has his space and around him sit his murids, hangar ons some seek his blessings others tke care of his needs , food , tea etc.

This place has an over all head Noubat Ali Baba and the Dhuni is the prominent place out here of mystic sanctity.


You will fill find the Hijra Bawas , the Ya Waris sect bawas dressed only in a saffron lungi and bare breated with a shawl drape.. they are adherents of Sabir Piya.

The Chancawalli Rafaees headed by Barsati Baba have a place or asthana here.

Hassan Ganda Don Jaun Baba was here with his two beautiful kids and Farukh Baba too both hardcore body piercing rafaees.


A little ahead is the asthana of the Khadims of Ajmer.

Char Yar is the place , and one person I missed terribly was Indorewale Baba who has chains all over his body about 180 kg.

I am a known face here and Noubat Ali Baba has accepted me as one of his Murids too.

Though most of the bawas know me because I meet them on the Urus circuit, they also know I am a cherished guest of Fakhru Miya Hujra No6 .. I stay in his house ..

Now the rafaee in the picture has got the parrots hooked on bidi smoke,they love inhaling it.

This Rafaee was sitting with the Hijda Bawas.

About the Hijra Bawas..

Hijra bawas are transgender , eunuchs who have given up the life of glitz and glamor and become ascetics..they do dua tawiz and exorcism.

No one messes with the Hijda bawas here at Char Yar.

But mind you there a volatile crazy bawas who are on deadly high of hash, and if provoked will smash your camera and your balls too.

I am not exxagerating most of the bawas dont like to be photographed taking hash, but if you pay them or give thm a round of chillum they might end up your best friend.

I dont smoke hash..nor do I give money for their habit so some take an immediate dislike and curse me under their breath.

The Hijda Bawas and the Shia Blogger

The Hijda Bawas and the Shia Blogger, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

The Malangs of Ajmer and The Shia Blogger

The Malangs of Ajmer and The Shia Blogger, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

The Malangs of Ajmer

The Malangs of Ajmer, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

These are dread head ascetic monks known as Dam Madar Malangs .

They are high up in the monastic hierarchy , and I have a ver good equation with them since many years.
They sit at a grave site within the mosque.

I am totally in awe of the Malangs of Ajmer .

The Rafaee at Char Yar Ajmer

The Rafaee at Char Yar Ajmer, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

He was once with the Chancawalli Rafaees but now he moves around on his own at Char Yar where all the rafaees and malangs sit.

At Peersaab Fakhru Miyas House Ajmer

At Peersaab Fakhru Miyas House Ajmer, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

All the years I have been coming to Ajmer I live with Peersaab Fakhru Miya Hujra No 6..he is my mentor and my host.
Peersab along with his children Farid Miya and Qambar Miya.

Javed in the orange shirt is Peersaabs main Murid and his man Friday.

Peersaab is a lover of Ahle Bayt a well known Sunni scholar and associated to the Khadims of Ajmer.

Peersaab is very vocal about Hazrat Ali and his recent seminar and a public rally paying tribute to Imam Ali and Ale Mohomed and denigrating Mauwiyah at Katni MP ruffled the Mullahs and the Brelvis.

But Peersaab folows the path of Ahle Bayt , he is not a Shia nor a Sunni but a Sufi who regards Hussainyat as the Soul of Islam.

He is a slave of Hazrat Abbas and has named his grand son as Hyder Ali..

Peersab does tablik on the Ahlke Bayt..and is very close to Hindu scholars and Pandit and has great bonding with them.


When I had a dream I saw a temple he interpreted it and sent me to the Brahma Temple in Puskar along with a circumcised Hindu Pandit a devotee of Khwajah Garib Nawaz and a custodian of a 750 year old Hanuman Temple in Ajmer.

The Pandit it is said had a dream and circumcised without becoming a Muslim but to appease the soul of Khwajah Gharib Nawaz.

I did not meet Panditji this trip but I met Ramzan Ali mujawir of the Shrine at Taragadh a great pilgrimage site for the Shias from all over India.

The Tap of Wisdom Runs Dry

The Tap of Wisdom Runs Dry, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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pseudo intellectuals
pseudo intellect
from heavy tomes buy
the tap of wisdom runs dry
they come tele evangelists
fuck humanity
with their diatribe
dividing the nation
of peace and brotherhood
with pseudo intellectual lies
to save the pillars of humanity
he paid the ultimate price
godliness in saintly disguise
fighting a yazidi king of flies
it is not in heaven
but in human hearts
you find humility
in eternal paradise