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Original picture taken by the famous Czech adventurer Rudolf Švaříček from CK Livingstone - I´ve just photographed his picture...
Before his religious status he is an Indian born but his attire his skull cap his tehmat identifies him as a Muslim .
He invokes Allah as he pleads for alms from the public .
Most of these beggars in Mumbai are migrants they come from UP Bihar Jharkhand but I found a lot of them hailed from W Bengal Murshidabad Malda .
Since the pandemic most of them fled the city to their own hometown..some came back but than the second wave the third wave and omicron made them go back.
It's tough living in a city on the streets their only source of income is begging .
Outside religious places mosques dargah etc mind you there are people who help them with food and clothing .
Why do the states from where they come don't rehabilitate them give them work beats me ..when they fall sick they go to quacks in the slums some survive some just don't make it .
As a photographer I thought of telling their stories the darkness in their souls the poetry of their life .
I have helped a lot of them thanks to my friends wellwishers who gave me money to buy ration masks for them.
A friend gave me a wheel chair to I donated it to a village clinic .
Every tear that drops from the beggars eye is the testimony of his painful plight.
Pictures talk but some images need to be explained..words become the narrative of a beggars elegy .
I used to be insulted for shooting beggars some said I was showing my country in a bad light some thought I was selling my beggar images to foreign agencies making lot of money ..
Hell I have come a long way me and my truthful camera ..I find a lot of humans have five senses but have lost the compassion that comes as our birthright ...I know a lot of good people feed expensive pellets to cats ..feed dogs feed crows pigeons but they will not feed humans ..why do they hate the poor hungry boy picking gram from the ground thrown to the pigeons ..I am not a mind doctor kind of person I shoot but I also moderate what I shoot my intention as a people photographer is not to hurt communities gender or religiosity .
I am what I am thanks to my parentage my upbringing and my camera
I am a product of my education that was given to me by the Roman Catholic Church I am lucky my parents were very poor but they kept me away from the seminary and the madrsa .
God was good my landlords daughter took care of my formative schooling In college I got into drugs early 70 s I read books but I am a drop out .
My twin sister! She let me experiment with some lighting and ideas I had for this portrait. It turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted!
Strobist: 580EXII through umbrella in front of subject, high, slightly to the left of camera, about 2 feet away. 430EXII behind subject, camera right, pointed slightly downward at a big white reflector below, in front of subject.
Protests have spread across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The drawings, first printed in Denmark, sparked a fresh row when they were re-run in several newspapers, leading to the sacking of a French editor. The man named to replace the France Soir editor has now resigned.
From the BBC News website:
The cartoons have angered many Muslims in the UK. There was a demonstration outside the BBC after the corporation showed a glimpse of the cartoons on television reports. A demonstration has been planned outside a London mosque to coincide with Friday prayers. It has been organised by Al-Ghuraba, described by the Muslim Council of Britain as "extremist elements". Al-Ghuraba plans to march and protest outside the Danish Embassy in London following the prayers.
A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, Inyat Bunglawala, said while he understood that Muslims would be hurt and offended by the cartoons, he urged them not to be provoked into breaking the law. Muslims are offended by these cartoons for several reasons. The main one is that Muslims do not believe in idols. So any image in any form of any prophet or God is offensive. One imam described it to me by asking me to imagine someone slagging off your parents. This is a million times worse, he said. The Prophet Muhammad is the gateway to Allah, and is his messenger. Offend him and you offend God. Another reason is that some of the cartoons depict the Prophet as a terrorist. Shaykh Ibhrahim Mogra is from the Muslim Council of Britain and an imam in Leicester.
"Muslims will respect the rights of others to choose a way of life for themselves or a religion. But at the same time we reserve the right to disagree most emphatically with those lifestyles, just as others have a right to disagree with our lifestyle. This is the most offensive thing - even the vilification of God is not as offensive as this," he said.
The shah Faisal Mosque is the largest mosque of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is superbly situated near the Margalla Hills, represents an eight-faceted desert 'tent' supported on four towering minarets.
It has sloping roofs, an opulent marble face and four towering minarets. The complex also houses the Islamic Research Centre, library, museum, lecture hall, cafeteria and the offices of the faculty of the Islamic University situated there.
Building work on the masjid started in 1976. The late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia during his visit to Islamabad in 1966 liked the idea of the construction of a grand Mosque as well as the site and offered to bear the expenditure of the Grand National Mosque Project. Accordingly, this Grand National Mosque has been named after the late King Faisal.
In order to select a befitting design of the mosque, an international competition was organized in 1969. All the leading architects of the Muslim World were invited to submit their designs and out of the several designs received from various countries. The design of Mr. Vedat Dalokay, one of the leading Turkish architects was adjudged to be the best. Hence the Masjid is designed by him.
Original photo not by myself
Here's something i've wanted to upload for so long. So here it is. It's a picture of my ustaz/religious teacher.
He taught me what i needed to know. Guided and God bless him. :)
This was actually the first time i started playing with light.
I've written a short commentary on this particular image and what it means to me on my blog:
www.twillightnight.blogspot.com
Shot with the EOS 30D in 2007 if im not mistaken. :D
when the prayer time comes, Muslims perform the prayer no matter where they are
this is inside a big shopping mall in Makkah
note the stage behind them
Uno de los personajes que me encontré por Lonar. Aunque no lo parezca, él me pidió que le hiciera la foto...
A Muslim pilgrim prays atop Mount Al-Noor during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca November 9, 2010
While travelling back to Davao City, coming from General Santos City in Mindanao, I chanced by this beautiful mosque. I think this is in Sultan Kudarat.
Sultan Kudarat is one of Muslim provinces in Mindanao, Philippines. The province is bounded by the province of Cotabato and Maguindanao on the north, Davao del Sur on the east, Moro Gulf on the west and South Cotabato on the south.
Sultan Kudarat was named after the seventh sultan of Maguindanao, Sultan Mohammed Dipatuan Kudarat. Home of the Muslim Maguindanaos in Central Mindanao, it was a well-established settlement long before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines.
Deen Calling Islamic wears
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1 softbox with SB800 inside remotely fired
poser : Samir
Muslims offer the early morning prayerEid-Ul-Fitr or the 'festival of fast breaking' at the Hamidiya Masjid, in Mumbai. Muslims across the nation celebrated Eid that marks the end of the holy month of Ramzan, after the sighting of the new crescent moon.
I shot her accidentally
a moment within a moment
as a street poet I caught
my cosmic camera tried
to understand her world
her thoughts ..
Searching for divine hope
at the Holy Shrine at Makanpur
she looked calm not distraught
This poem too is an afterthought
subjugated by the clergy by Man
her right to be what she was born
to be curtailed ..in a prison of Man
she rots ..give birth to babies ..
take care of his heart and hearth
slavishly domesticated a Woman
the world forgot ...
Triple Talaq Halala ..a curse that
time bought now its the Government
breaching the Muslim Mans citadel
a change that clergy could have
sought but most Muslim Women sad to say
over the years have been treated as
mechanical robots ...
thereby lies another thought
not within earshot ,,
the hijab is not a garment of captivity
but the rusty mind of the Muslim Man
his misadventures as he plots ..
This is a HDR photo of a mosque which is a place where Muslims pray five times a day
In the past, Mosques were like universities, they were established for prayer as well as for getting education in different disciplines
This one seems like the mosque of Prophet Mohammad- piece be upon him- which has the Green Dome.
I hope you like the photo
Enjoy it
Village of Ngadas (which also has a Buddhist vihara and is the centre for local Buddhists from other villages)
these few coins
are all yours ..
said nerjis to
the muslim beggar
of bandra bazar
on her way to
school happy hours
learning humanity
not found in her
play school text book
so far..touch heal
god removes all
pain all scars ..
through the
blessings of a child
in his true image
by far ..in gods
garden children
are his flowers
#nerjisshakir
#firozeshakir
#beggarpoet
#muslimbeggars