#shafie

[thozhar]

In the episode Hometown, the narrative delves intriguingly into the cord between the Tamil Muslim diaspora and their ties to the Tamil Motherland, unveiling a unique transnational culture distinct from that of the Indentured Tamils, who form the ancestral roots of most Malaysian Tamils today. Throughout the narrative, viewers encounter characters proudly listing their ancestral villages such as Alangankulam, Panaikulam, Saanthankulam, and Chittarkottai, all nestled within the Ramnad district, a stark contrast to the reality of most Indentured Tamils, who struggle to even identify the district their ancestors had come from. While this intimacy between the diaspora and the mainland is alien to the displaced Indentured Tamils, the narrative presented in the mockumentary form a parallel with the descendants of wealthy Tamil Hindus and Christians who may still bear strong connections to the Tamil lands.

This contrast is also important to note between Tamil Muslims and the Indentured Tamils because it reveals the plurality of both the Malaysian Tamil community, and the contradictory contexts of migration, which have never been linear. While this comparison is between these two distinct but related communities, the narrative however, introspects upon other Tamil Muslims who do not have a transnational link to their ancestral village in Tamil Nadu. The narrative ruptures this hegemonic view of the connections between the Tamil Muslim diaspora and Tamil Nadu, by expressing that to bear no link doesn’t completely uproot one’s identity, consciousness, and culture.

Shafie notes that the insistence within the community to inquire and investigate the roots of another Malaysian Tamil Muslim does not come merely from an innocent sense of curiosity but arises through the need to access how they would need to treat the other person and how they should relate to the other person. In the micro-series, we witness how a character simply stating that his native is Ampang causes dissatisfaction within others, who continue pestering him about his roots. To this annoyance, the simple yet piercing line of “oorachum mayirachum” is delivered; it interprets not just a retort against annoyance but also an affliction against the idea that a person can be reduced to land he bears severed connections with. It iterates that the connection to land alone cannot encapsulate both the dialectical consciousness of man and his ancestral soil.

— The Bhais: Tamil Muslim Mockumentary Explores the Complexities of Being a Minority within a Minority

[endlessdreaming]

I don’t get it 🤷‍♀️

[mashriqiyyah]

نَعِيبُ زَمَانَنَا وَ الْعَيبُ فِينَا وَ مَا لِزَمَانِنَا عَيبٌ سِوَانًا

"We blame time and the fault is in us, There is no fault in time except us."

~ Imam al-Shafi'i رحمة الله

“Diwan Al-Shafi’i” (p. 106)

[yourdailyqueer]

Ghadir Shafie

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Palestinian

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Entrepreneur, activist

Note: Co-director of Aswat, an organization of queer Palestinian women

[hamdosana]

May Allah cure all those who are sick and those who are battling through an illness they find no cure to, for He is As-Shafi, the creator and provider of Shifa.

Ameen.

[tshidar]

[be-a-muslim-1st]

[spvcemnd]

[bollywoodirect]

Tributes to the great Hindi film music director C Ramchandra on his birth anniversary (12/01). Roshan, Jaikishan, Anil Biswas, Hemant Kumar, C Ramchandra, Mohammed Shafi (Sitarist, composer, arranger), Naushad and Madan Mohan. What are your favourite C Ramchandra songs?

[detournementsmineurs]

Répliques d'objets retrouvés dans la tombe et reconstitués dans les ateliers du Musée du Caire sous la direction du Docteur Atef Abdel Shafi dans "Toutânkhamon" expérience immersive aux Galeries Montparnasse, juin 2024.

[thozhar]

“Neither do the Tamil Hindus dictate our Tamilness, nor do the Malay Muslims dictate how we follow Islam. Islam is Islam for all. So we do not face that from both the hegemonies.”

— Director Mohamed Shafie from The Bhais: Tamil Muslim Mockumentary Explores the Complexities of Being a Minority within a Minority

[golzar]

Meesha Shafi

[autisticarachnid]

finally got my drawing done for autism acceptance day !! here’s just some of our autistic mcs for autism day <33

[tshidar]

[nununiverse]

Hadieh Shafie

[990212]

February 2022 - Faizah Shafi & Kehinde Akindojuromi wedding in London

https://www.vogue.in/weddings/content/faizah-shafi-and-kehinde-akindojuromi-rewrote-the-rules-of-tradition-in-their-wedding

Photographer : Danika Magdelena (@sirius.film)