Firoze Shakir Poet - Frozen Time

Monday, April 9, 2012

I Take A Break Will Post Balance Pictures of Good Friday Tomorrow

I Take A Break Will Post Balance Pictures of Good Friday Tomorrow, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

My Wife said ,.. Did You Not Shoot This Last Year ..

My Wife said ,.. Did You Not Shoot This Last Year .., a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

My wife is a very simple god fearing human loving Muslim lady a Shia with Iranian genealogy,she has no issue what I shoot or how I dress , though she gets hurt when I walk barefeet with her dressed in saffron, she in a hijab,

I mostly walked ahead of her and sometimes if I entered a shop people mistook me for a Sadhu beggar but became apologetic on seeing my wife coming to my rescue..

I have stopped wearing saffron, but I do walk barefeet only in my Malang clothes on Sundays...and when I set out to shoot Good Friday her words Did You Not Shoot This last Year was to remind me that I could post last years pictures , and simply because she knows I dont eat anything unlike the Christians I am not fasting but I am sharing their spirituality and piety and last year I had collapsed due to my diabetic condition while shooting the 14 Stations of the Cross.. so it was her wife's way of trying to dissuade me but not stop me from shooting this again.

And seeing this picture I realized be it a mother wife sister a relative always feels the pain of another relative and this brings to an end one section of the Good Friday documentary I inserted another 16 GB card to complete the rest of this story.

I had only one card but on Thursday wife took a bus to Fort to buy me two more cards of 16GB each as I was at work..to help me shoot Good Friday is aother strange thing about our loved ones .. they say one thing but mean another ..

I Shoot The Fifth Station of The Cross Every Year From Levi Lobos House

I Shoot The Fifth Station of The Cross Every Year From Levi Lobos House, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

Her mother had sever diabetes could not get up from the bed but gave me a smile and I prayed she recovers .. Levi Lobo I meet only once an year .. and most of the people I meet during the Lenten Walk I will never meet .. we go our different ways ..

But I keep their love faith perseverance of piety alive through my blogs ..and I maybe a non Christian but we do share in your pain , your devotion and today on Easter Day we share your spirit of Joy..

Out of the window of this house you can see a section of the crowd this passion play founded by Joe Dias of CSF and the Cross is in its glorious 25 years celebration..

What I got from the Christians as my schooling my upbringing I give back as pictures and the poetry of their Faith....their Faith strengthens my own Shia Faith too..

And as a Muslim I condemn attacks on this peaceful community in Kashmir and the neighboring country..we all have a fundamental right to our religion and it is important we dont abuse this right to live as humans.

When the Christians were attacked in Kandhamal Orrisa I wrote against it ,and if we dont stand up against oppression or persecution , the next time they will come for us too..

And every Muslim is not a Jehadi or a Terrorist , your parentage makes you what you are I had great parents both dead but what they sowed now grows as peace and hope on the soul of my grand children too.

My 4 year old grand daughter Marziya Shakir goes to a convent school and has shot St Peter Church and is highly respected by the Christians of my area..

Fr Jude Mascrenhas and the parish priest of St Peter Church Bandra Fr Jaun..are very fond of her and bless her each time I take her to shoot Jesus.. in their Courtyard.