Monday, January 30, 2012

Showing a Child The First Day of Ramzan On The Soul of Motherhood

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This was shot in Ramzan last year but does it matter nothing much has changed .. perhaps she has another child the Muslim man even married to a woman , he forces to beg has the leisurely time to make babies.. Allah ki den hai bhai.. woh deta hai ham khushi se lete hain

And there is a lady every evening at Bandra Hill Road opposite the Tata Parsi Agairy with two children in a hijab , I shot her once but I am ashamed to shoot her , comes with her husband who makes her sit there and moves out .. so life goes on ..

I am not a judge of her life or the lives of people I shoot ...and below the madrasa guys are shouting for donations for the Mosque ceiling that fell off in the rains.. and he has a loudspeaker so he can be heard and a huge tempo to collect the loot .. if I may call it so..

And I showed all this to a two year old child Marziya Shakir my grand daughter , now she is three and a half and shoots the beggars like I do.. she shot a beggar mother and her child outside the Shia Mosque too..

Yes street photographers are poets that write incomplete poems leaving you to end it with your own thoughts too..

The Beauty of the Hijab

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que sera sera
whatever will be will be
beauty adorned in a hijab
the soul of her ancestry
a garment that adds hope
to her spirituality
only with your inner eyes
you will see her path
her tryst with destiny
tradition customized
enhancing modernity
muslim woman and the hijab
conjoined eternity

the silhouette of the hijab
the beauty of the hijab
the angst of my poetry

dedicated to laurent designldg
in gratitude and humility

The Beauty of the Hijab

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is a poem of delight
you read as poem
with your insight
the hijab faith of
muslim woman
her god given right
in spectral light
a garment
of modesty
garment
of peace
makes those
who dont wear it
mad uptight
they criminalize
it ban it demean it
because they
are white
muslim hate
xenophobic
they want
it out of
their sight