{"id":36243,"date":"2013-11-11T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=36243"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:14","slug":"muharram-the-islamic-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/11\/muharram-the-islamic-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Muharram: The Islamic New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I Karbala\u2019s battle<br \/>\nHeart breaks up in pieces, crumble<br \/>\nEyes fill with tears, blood scramble<br \/>\nEars hear cries of innocent, tremble<\/p>\n<p>Sweat waves, hairs arise, when I think<br \/>\nBanned when drop of water to drink<br \/>\nKilled all near and dears, one by one<br \/>\nSpared not the six months old even<\/p>\n<p>How mercilessly cut Hussein\u2019s head<br \/>\nShown all over streets with hatred<br \/>\nLeft none, except sick Zainul Abadeen<br \/>\nWhat scenario, imagine, had there been<\/p>\n<p>Amidst oppression, genocide, tyranny<br \/>\nThere was a narrow escape to humanity<br \/>\nChances of survival though were bleak<br \/>\nYet the truth prevailed out of defeat<\/p>\n<p>Still people call terrorists to Muslims?<br \/>\nWhose new year starts with Muharram?<br \/>\nTell, how should I say Happy New Year<br \/>\nExcept holding heart, shedding tears<br \/>\n________________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Dr. M. Ashaq Raza is a Peace worker and Human Rights Activist based in Jammu, India.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I Karbala\u2019s battle<br \/>\nHeart breaks up in pieces, crumble<br \/>\nEyes fill with tears, blood scramble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}