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The Man behind the Chup Tazia 2 – 401 views
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The Healing Touch – 184 viewsThe Healing Touch
Now everyone is trying to add his opinion to stop my bleeding, each one doing his thing and me just keeping silent, hoping to get back into the arena again.. making also sure I dont swallow my overflowing blood a taboo so to speak.
All these pictures were shot by Guddu on my camera..
photographerno1
Buzzwords: aathvi, kazmain, lucknow
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The Good Samaritan – 107 views
The gentleman from Kanpur, who helped stop my bleeding, did much to rebandage my wound.. did a clinically great job..
picture is shot by me..
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN /NAVI KAZMAIN LUCKNOW – 151 viewsDate: 10/30/2005 Time: 06:03 PM Visits: 35
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN /NAVI KAZMAIN LUCKNOW
THE MAULANAS ALL DAPPER COME AND LIGHT THE EFFIGIES AND WAR CRIES AN CURSES KNOWN AS LANAT,,AND TABARAH RENT THE AIR,,THAT IS UNDEFILED INSPITE OF THE HEAVY ODDS.MANY A PHOTOGRAPHER FRIEND WANT ME TO TAKE THEM ON THIS SHOOT
I DECLINE,,I AM NOT RESONSIBLE FOR MY NEIGHBOURS CAMERA OR HIS LIFE,
Buzzwords: lanat, shias, tabarah
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The Chup Taazia procession – 258 viewsTo reach the Kazmain cemetry from Nakhaas , the juloos takes about almost close to three hours, I did not follow it entirely that I have done year after year instead I rushed ahead to shoot from roof tops , when it is about to enter Kazmain cemetry, and I am bare feet and in pain too as the night before I walked two places on fire at a fire pit ,one at Diyanud daulah s Karbala and the second at Kazmain, the stray embers do burn your feet..but at Kazmain I am well known as my sister in law stays here and Guddu her husbands brother who shot my pictures of my forehead cutting about 100 frames..
Asif my eldest has married his wife from this area.
Tags: asif[x], chup taazia[x], guddu[x], kazmain
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The Chup Taazia on Aathvi – 351 viewsThis procession is called the Amari , it has Taboots, the cradle of Ali Asghar the youngest son of Imam Hussain 6months old whose neck was pierced by an arrow from the bow of Harmulla, and the Taazias , and Zuljana the loyal steed of Imam Hussain..
Tags: ali asghar[x], chup taazia[x], lucknow[x], zuljana[x]
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the burial cloth over the Tazia 2 – 416 views
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The Agony and The Ecstacy...Shias – 167 viewsThe Agony and The Ecstacy...Shias
This is what remains.. of Umar and this is to show you the mood and ambience of Navi or Eid E zahra in the old quarters of Lucknow.
Buzzwords: eid e zahra, navi, umar
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Taboot of Imam Hussain – 347 viewsTaboot means coffin, and this is a replica.. which is an important part of the Juloos.
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Deen Panah Ast Hussain – 135 views
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Syed Pidvi The Shooting Star – 154 viewsSyed Pidvi The Shooting Star
And here you can see the crowd even kids in raptures and the gesture needs not to be translated by me..
Buzzwords: 9th rabbilawwal, eid e zahra, lucknow, navi, syed pidvi
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My Introduction to this Gallery – 348 viewsImportant but not a Disclaimer.
I began photo blogging in August 2005.
My religious beliefs , are a part of my personal baggage , I don’t carry an arm band that says I am only a Shia, sorry I more human most of the time.
My Imam knows who I am what I am..
So stop judging me by your country made yardsticks,
I do not belong to a world that lives in bigotry and promotes Jahalat.
I shot pictures of Moharam , as a Shia as I knew what each tear that fell from a Shia eye meant to Janabe Sayyada the mother of Hazrat Imam Hussain.
Every year the only picture of Moharam , during Ashura that appeared in the Mumbai papers was of Amin Imambada, an upside down hanging child , this hurt me , as there is more to Moharam , than this,, but the person who shoots pictures of any faith must be forewarned , his pictures should never hurt the sentiments of religious feelings or cultural ethnicity, I shoot all religions, will continue doing so.
This is my inalienable right to portray the diversity and unique bonding of my country.,
I shot Moharam five years back let it be known, I did not participate in Moharam publically for 17 years, this was perhaps my greatest drawback, but my faith in the Ahle Bait was rock firm.
It was the camera that bought me back as a prodigal to my Faith, I shot events I had never celebrated, living in Bombay since 1954, I had never seen a Shia Shabarrat my parents house being 5 minutes from the Gateway of India.
My friends , some good Maulanas , Maulanas are all good we see them differently , through our personal glares, did guide me , I dreamt that a lady wanted me to go to places in other parts of India to shoot Moharam, I carried my camera as her handkerchief , to record such events, so I left Mumbai visited Hyderabad, I can never forget Hyderabad, I learnt much over here , the intensity of a Hyderabadi is purely Ahle Bait, I learnt from them to wear only black clothes for 2 months 8 days, surely for a colorful man like me , it was tough but I did it for my Imam, my heart that is Karbala.,
I went to Kolkatta , I was highly impressed here to , this little community of Shias giving all they got for the Imam and I am crying as I write this, believe me, the Kolkatta people that one Matam on 8 th Moharam , where little children , break their little heads with steel glasses crying Al A Tash , I will never ever forget.
I wanted to show all this, the pathos and pain of my community in India, I am not an Anjuman or congregational man, but to the friends I had made mostly American, at Buzznet.
Yes I had unfortunately being a married man, also fallen madly in love with a American Alaskan woman, such is the cybernet, so the desire to make her part of my Shiasm was very strong, knowing that I was going to wrong my loving wife and kids..
So I came to Lucknow last December, to get out of this crazy Dichotomy of Love, I fell at the Dargah of Hazrat Abbas, hoping to change, I did , America and my American woman were out of my system…
I went Shaeede Salis, to Taj Mahal ,with my wife and my mother in law , who I consider my mother as my own passed away. My father in law too has been a father figure and has seen my earlier stages of Alcoholism, in the 80s..
So there was no need to empty out all this, but just to tell you my travails, my Shia pictures opened a new vista, I made more friends, I continued showing and shooting.
Till my cybernetic popularity and my hate for terrorism and Yazidiyat got me into trouble , my sites were hacked , but it did not bother me, as I let those pictures be ,due to the instructions of the site developer, I had the URL address on my visiting card I never changed it or erased it. He was investigating from his end in California, I had no access it was completely viewable to all.
Than all the trouble in Lucknow after I came back from Ashura , I had unintentionally rubbed a Maulana with my words in public, because of the fiasco at the Ag ka Matam, at the Bada Imambada within the vicinity of his august presence, , the picture of a child accidentally falling from the hands of a boy into the fire , cleverly shot by Hindustan Times Azam Hussain, and front page the next day.
There were Iranian ladies too shooting this, yet nobody bothered not even the respected Maulana who I have nothing against, but some respect must be shown by the fire matam walkers..
I never posted this child falling in the fire picture, it was not deliberate, accidents happen, but yet I was unnecessarily targeted for no fault of mine by the so called culture vultures of the city of my birth Lucknow.,
While I was in Lucknow I used my old pictures of Lucknow , my new pictures are still on CDS ,that my sincere brother in law Mohomed Arif of Diamond Cassettes copied from my memory cards. I have yet not seen a singe picture till date.
I deleted most of my tainted sites, but what hurt me was deleting my Words Press account , where I was bringing in the bulk of my 6000 blogs from Buzznet to this highly professional site, I deleted this because the so called hardliners did not want Shia images with the pictures of Kumbh and Naga Sadhus.,
I deleted 1002 poems at Poem hunter as here too my Shia poetry and my adult poetry was on the same storyboard, so many poems that I had only posted here and not saved all deleted. All Gone.
Except my home site that I have saved for posterity that is my unborn grandson.
After deleting my poetry, a web survey comes of me being listed among 500 poets in the world among living and dead.
Yes I am more a member of a Dead Poets Society
I have opened my Moharam sites, as my all exclusive Shia site is taking a lot of time, my son is a soft ware programmer, is busy with his work.
I got many messages from my friends, Shias in America and including the person that would have been my American wife.
I have thus opened the galleries, here you must note I talk on my pictures, mostly to Buzznet members, so just see the pictures, the words are sometimes incongruous.,
I have separate galleries, so just see that pertains to your ideology.
I have of course kept my Shia poetry, my Urdu s awful, but the words of Ahle Bait are beyond the lexicon of Hate or Ambiguity, they are live emotions you have to live them before you read them, here I have also placed the more sensitive ones that I copied from Shia sites to educate the American friends and expose my Faith, without bigotry, sensationalism, of showing children hung upside down..
Some of my poems on my other poetry site are for adult consumption, so please avoid them, I am not a Shia outpost, but to know more about my Faith do visit a friendly site
On Word Press , Shia Online, Muslim Unity, or contact
Syed Mohamad Masoom Abidi
smma59@gmail.com
He has been a trustworthy guide, a well-wisher.
So this introduction is very important, I have told all I could as my frailty as Man, I sometimes say an extra Fatiah to the Late Kalbe Abid Saab , who solemnized my marriage in Nov 27th 1977, I think its because of his incomparable spiritual stature and his blessings my Marriage in spite of all the storms in the tea cup has lasted 29 years.
I was a lousy husband a selfish man, towards my wife and my children.
But the introduction to my house of my daughter in law from Lucknow changed much of my lifestyle , I know when Samiya my daughter leaves my family , my sons wife will take her place , she already has, I am crying again.
We are all born good, till we allow ourselves to turn bad.
The hope of any religion on Earth to make life beautiful and worth living for the short time we are here is Tolerance.
This was a message below, the words of Maulana Syed Zaki Baqri , his words that ameliorated my wounds , make me think positive .,.
Excerpts of his message.,
“Salamunalaikum,
Thank you for your emails, I know you have been hurt and it is painful.
Islam teaches us tolerance.
We need to learn Islam from its origins rather from the people who are
misleading ummah either they willingly or through lack of knowledge.
Each and every aspect of Islam is clearly defined nothing is left for
debate, what we need to do is to become simple students of Islam.
Insha Allah.”
Thank You respected Maulana Zaki Baqri Saab for showing me the way through my turmoils..I am indebted to you for my spiritual frame of mind and quietude.
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