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Today Muslims in Mumbai Sunnis Shias collectively celebrate Idd Ul Fitr popularly known as Ramzan Idd..


I would have missed shooting this ritual that I shoot every year , as I was in pain all night and slept badly , a phone call woke me up and I rushed to shoot the Bandra Staion Namaz.. just in time as it started , this year I shot from ground level using the skywalk in the end..

I shot the namaz barefeet .

Today is the first Idd of my one month old grand daughter Nerjis Asif Shakir , she is being dressed up in Ramzan Idd finery as I write this..

The Bandra Station Road Namaz is very special as it it is recited on a crowded station road ,.Muslims head bowed in prayers invoking Allah for his Bounty His Munificence and Peace at all costs ..

Muslims in Mumbai are mature and live peacefully as Indians with the rest of the populace..

Senior Inspector Shaikh saab was there and his presence assures you of discipline and law and order well maintained ..

The Mumbai photo journalists eagerly waiting to shoot Idd Hugging pictures of the Mansuri Bandra poster boys and a lone girl with roses in hands..

Along with this lined up on all sides of the roads are those Muslims that wont celebrate Idd .. they are the Beggars for them Idd means working overtime .. and from last years Idd to this years Idd and perhaps next years Idd their struggle will continue..

Muslims of this category lowest down the order cant escape their cosmic fate.

As a poet I always felt there is only two major sects in Islam the rich and the very Poor.. Allah Ho Akbar Allah be Praised .

Maybe one day Anna Hazares fight his Jan Lok Pal Bill might add silver to a very dark cloud and for the Muslim community it would be a major help, because I feel for the faults of a few the entire community should not be unnecessarily castigated or hounded ..

One thing is important the bomb that kills - kills only Indians .. be it Hindu Muslim Sikh or Isai we all are victims of fate and the cruelty of time.

So this is my new set at Flickr.com

I wish the Hindu community a Very Auspicious Ganesha Festival

Aum Shrim Hrim Klim Glaum Gam Ganapataye vara varada sarva janamme vashamanaya svaha

And to the Muslim community ...Happy Idd ..Bhar do jholi meri ya Mohammad lout kar main na jaon ga khali

Ya Ali Madad

Dam Madar Beda Par

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