A Sufi Shrine

[IvNoName]

When living in another city in India for a month, I picked up a disease that literally stopped me from eating anything. I didn't have appetite and I could not take in food. I survived on bread, date palm and water. When I returned I looked like someone who has returned from a prisoner of war camp.

I was so starved that my vision had become blurred, but everyday I still managed to visit a small shrine of some Sufi, I never learned who it was, and prayed that I live to go back home.

I have spoken a lot here about my lack of faith and religious belief but when I was very close to dying I was praying to a Shrine. I did not pray to Allah, I prayed to that Shrine to help me.

[afghan]

When living in another city in India for a month, I picked up a disease that literally stopped me from eating anything. I didn't have appetite and I could not take in food. I survived on bread, date palm and water. When I returned I looked like someone who has returned from a prisoner of war camp.

I was so starved that my vision had become blurred, but everyday I still managed to visit a small shrine of some Sufi, I never learned who it was, and prayed that I live to go back home.

I have spoken a lot here about my lack of faith and religious belief but when I was very close to dying I was praying to a Shrine. I did not pray to Allah, I prayed to that Shrine to help me.

its very common in india to ask a grave for help in india but also people have easy access to grass.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

When living in another city in India for a month, I picked up a disease that literally stopped me from eating anything. I didn't have appetite and I could not take in food. I survived on bread, date palm and water. When I returned I looked like someone who has returned from a prisoner of war camp.

I was so starved that my vision had become blurred, but everyday I still managed to visit a small shrine of some Sufi, I never learned who it was, and prayed that I live to go back home.

I have spoken a lot here about my lack of faith and religious belief but when I was very close to dying I was praying to a Shrine. I did not pray to Allah, I prayed to that Shrine to help me.

You are polytheist.

[Darkness]

You are polytheist.

He's/She's an infidel Tajik with Hindu tendencies while on PF.
However, he/she probably claims to be Muslim in real life due to fear of persecution and rejection from his/her family and fellow Afghans.

[IvNoName]

its very common in india to ask a grave for help in india but also people have easy access to grass.

The only people in India who smoke grass are the people from northeast India, Indians in general drink alcoholic drinks, most often homemade. In India hashish is the common drug of all Sadhus and holy men, of all religious denominations.

Praying to the grave is not the right word, its praying to the spirit of the one who has been buried there; therefore, the shrine is simply a place of peace and a reference point.

[Darkness]

The only people in India who smoke grass are the people from northeast India, Indians in general drink alcoholic drinks, most often homemade. In India hashish is the common drug of all Sadhus and holy men, of all religious denominations.

Praying to the grave is not the right word, its praying to the spirit of the one who has been buried there; therefore, the shrine is simply a place of peace and a reference point.

Actually you are wrong.
Sadhus/holy men of all religions smoke weed and drink "bhang".
Hashish is regarded as a drug in India but weed is not.

[IvNoName]

I'm for legalization of all drugs.

[IvNoName]

Back home women were not allowed in the mosques and the only place they could go for peace and prayer outside of their homes was the shrines.

So, I grew up with seeing my grandmother in particular having a strong faith in the helping power of shrines, so I simply followed what I knew.

[IvNoName]

Sometimes I pray to the spirit of my paternal grandfather.

[کیش]

LoL

you're blind, deaf, dumb and benighted all wrapped into one.

you might as well pray to your cell phone.