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Maksade Hussain
The guy in the picture is a beggar.. he is a Sunni from the majority community, they dont commemorate Moharram as we do.. all our practice our sorrow for Imam Hussain the martyred grandson of the Holy Prophet is is condemned as heretical.
Grief and sorrow have a universality shared by all religions.. including Cathlolics and the 14 Stations of the Cross.. I am not here to expound or expostulate.. .dont expect me to change my views or beliefs.. but I take you to a photographic pilgrimage and nothing else..I promise you that..this is not juvenile sufi stuff this is hard core pain..called Ghame Hussain.. the Pain Of Hussain we live it out..and I am sure you know all that Big Brother already rules Iraq by proxy.
I believe in Karbala but the geographical one is a holy site highly venerated in Iraq..My Karbala is in my heart and soul of my beliefs..you cant se it or feel it only I can.... and I stopped posting pictures out of season..but this is my favorite pictorial subject.... skip it.. it would please me too but I am a recorder of the history of my people and this will remain....earlier I knew nothing about galleries so I just went on posting..and more than a Shia..I am Man..a tale of Mankind. And this is grief has no religion.. it belongs to the universality of human pain..
Hussain is Humanity.
Shah ast Hussain, Badshah ast Hussain
Deen ast Hussain, Deen Panah ast Hussain
Sardad na dad dast, dar dast-e-yazeed,
Haqaa key binaey La ila ast Hussain
Loosely translated
Ruler is Hussain, Emperor is Hussain,
Faith is Hussain , guardian of faith is Hussain .
Offered his head and not the hand to Yazid.
Revised
28 June 2008
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