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Mamarha Afridi
Sheen Khaal or the blue or inexperienced dots, tattooed between the eyebrows or on the chin of younger Pakhtun women are conventional magnificence marks within the Pakhtun tradition. This practice was initially practiced as a option to shield ones from the evil eye.
It was once quite common among the many Pashtun women however right now it’s not often seen on previous age ladies or nomads normally referred to as kochi ladies. Sheen Khaal continues to be thought-about as a magnificence commonplace by many. In an effort to revive the custom, some Pashtun ladies these days make short-term sheen khaal on their faces for particular events.
Peots have praised this magnificence mark in numerous songs. Sheen khaal can be used as a medical remedy for ache within the muscle mass and physique in rural areas the place no medical facility is obtainable. An individual, who masters this talent, takes a stitching needle and inject the identical a number of occasions within the half having ache. The individual then applies kohl/kajal as an antiseptic to cease the bleeding. The purpose later turns right into a inexperienced or blue dot. This apply is much like the Chinese language conventional medicinal apply often called acupuncture.
Acupuncture entails the insertion of very skinny needles by way of the pores and skin at strategic factors on the physique. A key part of conventional Chinese language medication, acupuncture is mostly used to deal with ache. One main speculation is that acupuncture works by way of neurohormonal pathways. Principally, you place the needle by way of particular factors within the physique and stimulate the nerve. The nerve truly sends alerts to the mind, and the mind releases neural hormones akin to beta-Endorphins.
In Chinese language acupuncture, although the needles are extraordinarily effective, they generally hit small blood vessels, inflicting a minor bruise to type in that space. With the time it fades away however sheen khal final for the entire life.
The sheen khal or the blue tattoo has a historical past of 1000’s of years within the area inhabited by the Pashtuns. This area is landlocked and surrounded by excessive mountains. This area known as because the land of lovely individuals. The pakhtun are very lovely individuals. Sheen Khal is the popularity mark of the Pashtun tribes. Ladies used to make sheen khal between their eyes on the brow, on the cheekbones, on the chins or on the lips. Pashtun women usually make sheen khal earlier than marriage as a result of they consider that after marriage, Sheen Khal deliver dangerous luck. And this dangerous luck might kill their husband or another person within the household. Sheen khals are contemplate fortunate solely earlier than marriage.
Some individuals used to make sheen khal on the foreheads of their younger youngsters as a result of they consider it brings good luck and it could assist pores and skin to outlive for lengthy and keep away from pores and skin growing older.
Shen khal are additionally used to deal with sufferers. Not all ladies or males are skilled in making sheen khal. In earlier occasions, there used to a ladies who was skilled in making the tattoo, in nearly each neighbourhood however with the passage of time, such individuals pale away.
The lady making shenkhal, combines two or 4 needles and gently inject them into the particular space of the face the place the sheen khal is meant to be made. When it begins bleeding, she would apply a small quantity of the kajal/ kohl on the wound. For about eight hours, the redness fades, and a scar seems on the wound.
In previous, sheen khal was the one software to extend magnificence because it seems to be lovely too. In Afghanistan, Balochistan, the previous FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, each third aged lady over the age of 60 could also be having a blue dot on their foreheads, cheeks, or fingers.
However now this apply is usually deserted and it has turn out to be a historical past. There are numerous causes for this. An important purpose is the wars within the Pashtun area. These wars have introduced numerous modifications within the lives of the Pashtuns and compelled them to stay nomadic lives.
In these nomadic tribes, the apply of sheen khal was widespread. Because of the wars, many of the nomadic tribes left their nomad’s life and settled close to the cities and a few individuals made the cities as their dwelling. As a consequence of this, the tendency to make sheen khal has decreased.
Some individuals consider that faith has additionally a job behind the abandonment of this apply and so they contemplate these sheen khal as haram. In line with this college of thought, the one who has the sheen khal, would go to hell.
The sheen khal are additionally discovered within the Center East and North Africa. Many nice and revered poets from the pre-Islamic period used imagery of face tattoos of their poetry as a robust image of magnificence. The Mu’allaqāt, a set of seven lengthy poems from the pre-Islamic Arab world, has many references about tattoos and tattooed ladies in reference to magnificence.
Also known as ‘the poor man’s jewelry’, sheen khal had been used a software for adorning the physique and face, appearing as a extra financially reasonably priced different to gold and silver ornaments. The positioning of t sheen khal on the face enhances the areas of a girl’s face thought-about essentially the most lovely, particularly the lips and the eyes.
The apply of sheen khal is dying off earlier in Pakistan as a consequence of colonization, and later the proliferation of Madrasas within the area. In Afghanistan it did not actually begin to wane till the beginning of the Jihad in opposition to Russia and subsequent wave of refugees shifting into Pakistan and gaining Islamic information by way of the madrassas or the spiritual seminaries. Even a number of a long time in the past these khals had been quite common as little individuals khew that these are forbidden.
The precise designs and locations the place they’re performed differed by tribe, the flowery ones which can be usually pictured weren’t truly widespread. Extra generally they’d simply be circles. The apply is dying off although, as persons are being made extra Islamized.
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