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5. Yūsuf va Zulaykhā (Joseph and Zulaykha)
Author: Jāmī, (1414-1492)
Iran: 17th century
This manuscript is a Judeo-Persian transcription of a famous Persian mystical epic. It is based on the biblical story of Joseph and the wife of the Egyptian courtier, Potiphar (she is known as Zulaykha in Muslim tradition). In the Bible, Zulaykha attempts to seduce Joseph, but is spurned. In contrast, in Sufism (the mystical tradition of Islam), the eventual love between Joseph and Zulaykha was a model of the love between God and his mystical devotees. The miniature is divided into three panels-- at top right: Zulaykha is depicted on her rooftop in nightly contemplation of Joseph in prison; at left: Joseph is meditating in his prison cell; he wears a halo characteristic of holiness in Muslim iconography;
at bottom right: apparently an image of Jacob mourning his son, Joseph.
3. Haji Malang (Thane) Haji Malang, is a 300 year old dargah at Kalyan, in Mumbai, where Baba Abdur Rehman Malang has been buried. Malang was a Sufi saint who came to India in the 12th century AD from the middle east. Haji Malang, in true syncretic tradition, was one of the few dargahs where a Hindu vahivatdar (traditional priest from the Hindu Karandekar family) and a Muslim mutavalli (claiming to be distant kin of the saint), had both been officiating at religious rituals.
This Dargah lies in an inside lane of Dongri, and is very popular with visiting Rafaees , Bawas and Malangs who come here to Mumbai to visit their Mureeds.
Most of these visting mystics stay in crampy lodges close to the Dargah of Abdul Rehman Baba.
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Islam is actual Sufism. We should learn Sufism. Read more at: sultanbahoo.net/life/ancestors/
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Zubair his father and brothers are professional masseurs from Bareilly UP and I know him since several years from Mahim , here he is giving my legs an oil massage my legs were in terrible shape as I had climbed the mountain barefeet and even now as I write this in Mumbai a week after the punishing gruel my legs are still hurting, I had them massaged in Mumbai too but the pain does not go.
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Zubair his father and brothers are professional masseurs from Bareilly UP and I know him since several years from Mahim , here he is giving my legs an oil massage my legs were in terrible shape as I had climbed the mountain barefeet and even now as I write this in Mumbai a week after the punishing gruel my legs are still hurting, I had them massaged in Mumbai too but the pain does not go.
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Zubair his father and brothers are professional masseurs from Bareilly UP and I know him since several years from Mahim , here he is giving my legs an oil massage my legs were in terrible shape as I had climbed the mountain barefeet and even now as I write this in Mumbai a week after the punishing gruel my legs are still hurting, I had them massaged in Mumbai too but the pain does not go.
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The rich Hindus or even the less affluent ones bring goats to slaughter and the meat cooked as niyaz which is distributed among the poor pilgrims of Haji Malang Dargah.
The very poor ones bring desi poultry or wild birds for slaughter....the meat is neither cooked nor eaten...just thrown away , sometimes the blood becomes vermilion for the forehead,
The Dargah world is a very strange , so much is happening , it is unbelievable and I shot in moderation , not allowing to be carried away , even when I climbed the Malangad mountains barefeet I shot limited , I wanted to climb higher to the Hindu temples above but could not because of my diabetic condition..
Dargah world is real time moving cinema , I shot on impulse , I could shoot a scene and yet not know why I shot it, I cried most of the time while I did hardcore Kaif outside the courtyard of Haji Malang..my Kaif pictures are ones I will not have any record unless someone shot me on his mobile.
My mind was on a spiritual trapeze.. I was shooting Haji Malang Dargah not as a photographer but as a mystical poet, I had dreams within dreams and strangely I never slept, the only event I refused to shoot after my humiliation by a Trustee of Haji Malang was the Dhamal, I shot it last year you can see it all on my Haji Malang 2010 set at Flickr.com
I impulsively decided to move out of Haji Malang on 20 th morning , despite the fact that the greatest hijra Sandal was later in the night at Sultan Shah Babas dargah..I am not greedy for images I get them and am happy , keeping human gluttony under control.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi my hijra guru, was my support base including Abdul Bawa of Kalyan a holistic healer and soother, Sakib Kumar Ketkar Rahim Bhai Iqbal bhai were my other friends who really understood my pain my inner struggle to come to terms with my despair.
Perhaps this is what God wanted and this is my last documentary on Haji Malang Dargah as a poet photographer and a blogger.
Time to move on to other dargahs that I have not touched and the one I want to visit is Meera Datar in Unjha Gujrat.
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Zubair his father and brothers are professional masseurs from Bareilly UP and I know him since several years from Mahim , here he is giving my legs an oil massage my legs were in terrible shape as I had climbed the mountain barefeet and even now as I write this in Mumbai a week after the punishing gruel my legs are still hurting, I had them massaged in Mumbai too but the pain does not go.
Reference: APAAME_20160523_RHB-0095.jpg
Photographer: Robert Howard Bewley
Credit: Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East
Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical-No Derivative Works
The Urus of Maqdoom Shah Baba got over this Sunday.
Now the action and attention shifts towards this Holy Shrine of Fakruddin Shah Baba situated on main Mahim Road.
I have not been keeping too well, so I visited it this evening to connect with the Chancawalli Rafaees , who have moved their Dhuni here..
I did not hang here for long, tonight is the Qawwali Programe and tomorrow is the main Sandal of this Holy Saint..He has a large following , and is very popular in the Sufi Dargah circuit.
I came here barefeet , and on my way back got into a brawl with some Bawa shop street vendors, they were smoking hash and I shot their pictures.Before they could turn violent I picked up my silver wooden stick to give them a lashing with, but the crowd pacified me and I spat out my anger.
I took a bus home.