salam khaak nasheeno pa sogwaron ka
ghareeb dete hai pursa tumhare pyaro ka
salam un pa jinhe sharm khaaye jaati hai
khule saron pe aseeri ki khaak aati hai
salam us pa jo zahmat kashe salaasil hai
musibaton may imamat ki pehli
shazil parzil
ke jisko sawnp gaye marte waqt ghar sarwar
musafirat ne jise bebasi ye dikhlayi
nisar kar diye bache na bach saka bhai
aseer ho ke jise shaamiyo ke narghay may
husainiyat hai sikhaana ali ke lehje may
sakina bibi tum hai
jaa ki jaa ja ja kam hai ki ja haazir hai
ye sin, ye hashr ye sadmay naye naye bibi
kahan pa baithi ho qaime to jal gaye bibi
pahaar raat bari der hai sawere may
kahan ho shaam-e-ghareeban ke ghup andhere may zameen
garm, yateemi ki sakhtiyan bibi
wo seena jis pa ke soti thi ab kahan bibi
janaab-e-maadar-e-baysheer ko bhi sab ka salam
ajee waqt hai kya dein tasalliyon ka payam
abhi kaleje may ek aag si lagi hogi
abhi to godh ki garmi na kam hui hogi
nahin andhere main kuch soojhta kidhar dhundhen
tumhara chaand kahan chhup gaya kidhar dhundhen
na is tarah koi bhari
uj hai godh bhi ujdi
nahi layeeno may insaan koi khuda hafiz
darinde aur ye be-warisi khuda hafiz
shareek-e-haq darood-o-salam-e-payghambar
salam sayyid-e-lawlaak ke lute ghar par
salam mohsin-e-islam khasta tan laasho
salam tum pe shaeedon ke be kafan laasho
salam tum pe rasool-o-batool ke pyaro
salam mehr-e-shahadat ke gird sayyaro
bache to agle baras ham hain aur ye gham phir hai
jo chal base to ye apna salaam-e-aakhir hai
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I shoot the reality of our times ..I take you back to Moharam Ashura in Hyderabad Badi Bargha 2012 .
Before the Bibi ka Alam procession the Shias congregate at this Imambara which has ancestry of Ghame Hussain ...
Old young men women in a seperate enclosure and the Anjumans recite nohas and first the hand matam begins but as soon as the Noha Aye Sher e Nayastane Haidar Abbas starts a noha by Sacchey sab I draw out my dagger from Pushkar and begin my Kama Matam.
It is a Shaolin Chinese curved dagger that was blessed by my friend Raj Tilak at Brahma,Temple I buy my daggers from him when I go to Ajmer short trip to Pushkar .
Pictures were shot by Aijaz famous Hyderabadi photographer who documents Moharam like me .
Kama Matam is ritual that baffles me and yet facinates my basic senses ..I did my first Kama Matam during Chehlum in Hyderabad years back.
My kama matam is hardcore and I do not glorify this ritual that reflects the Shia pain for martyred Imam Hussain.
In Hyderabad almost all the Shia kids youth do Kama Matam ..rest to zanjir matam flagellating blades on chains .
The Hyderabadis did their Moharam in 2020 at Bargaj ..Imam Hussain is biggest emotion in a Shia mans life in Hyderabad .
Death does not scare him he would die gladly for his Imam ...mourning for his Iman is a duty and an obligation .
That is why I would come to Hyderabad to record 10 says Moharam ..I would come on 7 Moharam and leave back for Mumbai on 11 Moharam.
I made some great lifelong friends .
On my part this Moharam I followed pabdemic guidelines stayed home in Bandra .
Posting images moments of Ashura.
I posted the Ganesha Visarjan images after Ashura for my Hindu friends theirvmemories and love for their deity Lalbagh Chya Raja.
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Shooting Shiasm ...
I would shoot Shiasm Moharam only during Moharam and mostly in my city of Mumbai .
I also shot Shiasm 21 Ramzan Martyrdom of Imam Ali ..I shot this twice in Mumbai.
One thing I would like to reiterate I am not an Islamic scholar nor am I a student of Shia theology .
I shot Shiasm as a photographer photo journalist and as a documentarist ..I did not shoot children with bleeding heads to glorify the kama zani ritual ..I shot it for educational awareness and in most cities childrens kama has almost reduced .
I have not shot Moharam last two years due to my failing heath and recent heart attack.
This year due to low immunity I followed lockdown guidelines stayed at home .
I prefer shooting Moharam Shiasm in Hyderabad Lucknow .
All these I have posted at Instagram just a few samples of the Shia faith archived at Flickr restricted to Flickr members only and as slideshow videos on my Shia playlist at my YouTube Channel.
We photographers in more ways than one are historians too we enter where Angels fear to dwell..
My imagery is not to shock not to ridicule the religions or cults I shoot ..I am a student of my own perseverance and my own photography .
Dont read me here as a Shia adherent but a chronicler of my countrys unity and diversity .
Chehlum in Lucknow 2014
posted at Instagram copied here .
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He is a Hindu high priest of a Hanuman temple he knows me as I pass his temple and pay my respects to him during Ashura he also knows I.am connected to Juna Akhara .
He waits for me on Chehlum day offers me milk as he knows I do my kama matam on this day following the Chehlum juloos to Karbala Talkatora .
This is the essence of our peace and Indianness ..we follow different faiths but are part of Mother India .
Chehlum in Lucknow 2014
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