A recent comment on You Tube really makes me laugh. The You Tube video is about the identification of the remaining 5 elders (of the 24 elders) by Joel B. Marangella, the third Guardian of the Faith.
The comment by a heterodox believer says:
"hahaha. this is just funny and shows how little knowledge these people and their so called guardian have. Abdu'l-Baha himself named Ḥájí Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqí as one of the 24 elders. "so in this letter joel or joe or whoever the so called guardian is, have managed to go aginst the very word of Abdu'l-Baha and omit Ḥájí Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqí as one of the 24 elders. Good job Joe."
This is so typical of the misinformed. They arrogantly correct us when they do not have their facts straight.
I think the mislead commentator is confused by the wrong statement of Adib Taherzadeh in his book: The Child of the Covenant, p. 240 in which he wrote:
“The Vakilu'd-Dawlih was a distinguished believer who was designated by 'Abdu'l-Bahá as one of the 'four and twenty elders which sat before God on their seats' mentioned in chapter 11 of the Revelation of St John the Divine. [Of the other 23 'elders', only 19 have been named by 'Abdu'l-Bahá i.e. the Báb and the 18 'Letters of the Living'.]”
It seems that Taherzadeh has repeated the mistake of one of Persian writers who has quoted only a short section from one of Tablets of Abdu’l Baha to an individual immediately after the title “Chapter forty one - about the twenty-four elders mentioned in the Book of Revelation”:
(Translation): “You have questioned regarding the pentad blessed persons; one of them is Haji Mirza Muhammad-Taqi, the Afnan, four others will be explained later” and then another section from another Tablet from Abdu’l Baha in which He explains:
"Regarding the four and twenty elders, they are they Bab, the 18 Letters of the Living and five others who would be known in the future.”
22 years after ascension of Abdu’l Baha the first Guardian said: “So far we do not know who these five other are”:
"Regarding the four and twenty elders: The Master in a Tablet, stated that they are the Bab, the 18 Letters of the Living and five others who would be known in the future. So far we do not know who these five other are."
(Shoghi Effendi, Directives from the Guardian, p. 21) also (Baha’i News, No. 171, November 1944, p. 2)
If Haji Mirza Muhammad-Taqi, the Afnan (Vakilu'd-Dawlih) was one of the “elders” probably Abdu’l Baha would have mentioned that in the “Memorials of the Faithful” when He wrote about him (page 128) and surely Shoghi Effendi would have not said “So far we do not know who these five other are”
Vakilu’d-Dawlih was named one of Apostles of Baha’u’llah.
Jeffrey
(Thanks to Hand of the Cause of God Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand for his assistance with this article)
Tahereh, the angel of my life, my mother who gave me everything. My champion; salute to all champions, the mothers. Tahereh the champion mother of mine
;I would like to write a real story for you. I was as a visitor in a church and the woman who preached, spoke about a Persian Champion, Ms. Tahereh. She spoke about her one hour and concerning her huge beautiful love.
After she was finished; she came to me and said I know you are Iranian and may be one day you will write this true story for your people. I hope the love and generosity that Tahereh showed in this story, will be admired by Iranian boys and girls one day. I said to the lady who spoke as a pastor, I will never forget this real story. It is similar to many Iranian mothers’ love and actions, especially after so called the revolution in Iran many Iranian mother have to suffer as their children must die in a unnecessary war.
Salute to Tahereh my champion mother who gave me everything she had to make me happy and sucessful in my life. And Salute to all Iranian and non Iranian Mothers, who are the champion in their lives.
I am Arash and try to say this real story to you concerning my mother.I have this mother who help me to be alive.
May be it will help other sons and daughters to see more the love in their mother,s hearts. The unconditional love of mother or father. May be you do not do the same mistake I did. I regret now, but it does not help any more. I was only ten years old as my father who was about one and half years sick and lied in bed ;and every day he got weaker and weaker, after one of half year fighting with the cancer, he died. I could not believe that my strong sportier father with such huge muscles will die at all and from that today my fahter my Rostam, was a weak person who will come out from the body of Rostam, my father in the past. He changed from that body who was like a Rostam to a weak sick person who cannot even sit. Now my strong father, who was like a Rostam, was only bones and skin. You could see all his veins through his skin. His skin was like a glass and under it was not real muscles any more; all the muscles have been disappeared. For me my father was like a king, like Rostam or Nadir Shah.But now he was only bones and skins.
He was sportier and nobody could take his place. He could tear the metal like bread and he could bring a strong tree which was dried out of the ground without any help. Nobody in his life could put his back on the ground. Such a huge champion now was just skin and bones. He could barely move his hand or his head in the bed. One and half year the champion lied in the bed and every day the cancer eats him a little bit.
The last night of his life, after the doctor left us;he told us that may be tonight he will die. As the condition of the cancer is very advanced in his body and the route of it is everywhere. But my father later looke at us, he looked at us again as he wanted to speak with us. We both, my mother and I were sitting next to him, very close to his bed. His hand was in my hand, his hand was just bones and a thiny skin was covering it.
My father did not like that we cry, in the time that we are with him; we tried to be happy and not upset and we did not cry. We cried always in the other room. As he saw my tears in my eye, he said what is it? Why you are crying? What is the matter?
I do not know that he could not imagine seeing a strong father who is reducing every day like a candle which gets smaller and smaller every minute and soon it will be disappeared is pain full for us. We sat the whole night in his bed and in the middle of night he died and let us alone and we closed his eyes for ever as he could not see any more. We could not sleep in the whole night and waited until the day appears. As the first light of the sun lighted the room, my mother took the telephone and called her family and the family of my father to come and help us. That was the first day I got orphan. But in reality I was orphan about one and half year ago, as my father was badly sick and could not go out of the house for one of half year.
The huge frightened sickness was eating my strong father every day. And that night he was eaten completely by the cancer sickness. Next days I tried to change my school as I did not want the children know about the death of my father and tease me, and say. Boy without father. So I changed my school to be not known so soon as possible, about the death of my father who was like a king to me. So I could keep the death of my father secret. This school was far and I had to go over one hour walking to be there. I did not take any black sign with me, too. My mother was a high school teacher for Physic and she went two days later to the school. Two days she took rest to adjust herself. My father was near fourty as he died and my mother was near thirty in the time my father left us.
My mother was a very beautiful woman, tall slim and nice. With long hair and big dark green eyes. She told many of her friends that she is living just to grow me up, because after her husband died, she has no interest to live any more. She was in a very deep love with my father and one and half year she takes care of him just like a good nurse. Only for me and for my education she will be alive.
That is the only reason she does not want to die. Few years later the revolution in Iran happened and the fruit of this glorious and beautiful revolution for us was that my mother lost her job, as she was Bahai. So she could not work for the government any more. My father had not a good retirement so that we could live with it. He worked may be about fifteen years and the retirement was not enough for two persons. So my mother had to work some where. First my mother went to the private companies, but it was difficult for them to hire my mother, as they know she was fired by government, they were not willing to hire her. Sorrowfully the system told her, that she should write the true in the column of religion and she should not let it empty. So as soon as she wrote that she is a Bahai, they did not hire her. Even in the private school and language school she had the same problems. So she tried to teach privately in the house of other people, as our apartment was small and we could not have student there to learn with my mother.
Later I heard that she was going to the house of rich people and help them in the household activities. And keep their children under her supervision or even baby-sits them.But that was not an easy work ,too as the husband of the woman or other male in the house always have tried to take more advantage of her and use her for sexual needs. You can imagine my mother who loved her husband so much and had to earn money to support me, had all these problems also.
She never told any body that her husband had died, because, she knew they will try to have sexual relationship with her and she does not want any relationship . But you can imagine a woman who had BS in Physic which difficulties can have if she should work as a maid or house teacher. She should flee from the men who wanted her ;and the wife as soon as she sees the husband has interest about her, she fired my mother. The wife had right as she sees a woman with a university degree, young and beautiful is in their house, and it is a chanlenging ,dangerous situation for the husband to control himself. Even it was very difficult for us to rent an apartment, the people do not like to rent the house to a woman without husband. My mother has the ring in her finger and as long as they do not ask about her husband, she would not tell that he was dead.
Any way, we went through and soon, I was going to the ten grade of high school. My mother registered my name in good private high school, so that I can get enough knowledge to pass the entry exam of the university. I saw that my mother has only one shoe and some old clothes, so I knew that she had spent the whole money for clothes for me, she does not want the students know that I have no father and I am not rich, she tried to give me the best clothes, so I looked not poor, but rich. She spent the whole money for clothes just for me. She worked like a powerful father and a nice mother and she tries to be a good mother and a nice father to me.
She rented a nice apartment in the best place of Shimiran for us and she paid the whole costs alone. If my mother could stay as a high school teacher we could live much better and she did not need to work so hard and in different places to pay the bills. But what could we do, this was also the gift of the beautiful wonderful Islamic revolution of Iran for us. A nice gift for us.
In the time that my father was sick we did not have like most Iranian a good insurance benefits. So we should sell our Persian carpets and silver or gold to pay the rest of his bill for his sickness, what ever remain was the furniture or materials which could be not sell any more. And as my mother was sent out of the work, for a while we were hunger and/or half hunger for a while, but my powerful and scientist mother soon changed the situation and with her vast knowledge of science and other subjects soon she could earn enough money to pay our bills. And we have a nice life. She had her BS degree with reward and she could easily continue her study to have PhD degree. But the dead of my father and the loans which has been remained after his dead did not let my mother to think about continuing her study. And now after so called revolution in Iran, she could not even think about going to university again.Because they do not let her to continue her stduy or work in any government instituts.
The regime wanted her to be more and less like a physical worker. One time also the system told her, as you are Bahai, we cannot let you work with your mind, you should work with your muscles and be just a physical worker for us You could washe the dishes and clean the houses that is your job as a Bahai not to be teacher or professor, or state secreatry in our system, the Islamic government. In the time that the woman without any education occupied the good places and scientist position, she with her high degree in physic should be a physical worker. I passed the exam for the entry level of the university and started to study Chemistry, I know that later I will have difficulties to find a work, but I hoped that something will change.
I was in the first year that I get a letter; I should go to the committee of the university. I went there and they told me as your mother is Bahai, you cannot study at the university, in an Islamic country. I was from one side happy, because now I could work and help my mother. So I had some income, but my mother told me I should keep all my income in my own account and do not spend it for the house and other costs. One day she told me, Arash we cannot have any future in this country any more. I get older and they do not give any other work to me and you cannot study and you have also no future here. Even if you could finish your degrees you could not be hired here.And with any degree you can be also a physical worker for the Islamic regime. The people in the government do not like other religions members because the government does not like them and Bahai religion is very unwillig for them and they hate it, and the people follow the government strategy. I think we were living ten years after the death of my father, I was about twenty and my beautiful mother was about fourty years old. Now we should have another program to continue the life.We should change our country and go to another courntry to have a normal life.
We decided to go out of the country. We started to save money and sold also the carpets that we bought after my father,s death and other expensive materials like silver and gold. We gathered some money to pay the costs of the journey.
We paid the people who worked for this action and through an illegal way we pass the boarder and came to Pakistan. We used traveling by motor cycle, camels and horses to pass the border. When my mother passed Iran border, she looked back and as she saw the Iran soil, she started to cry. She did not want to go to other country, but what could she do the life get almost impossible for her in Iran. She looked back again and this time her eyes war full of tears; she said will miss my country, my students , my family and my country; I know that so soon I cannot go back to Iran. The young beautiful mother of mine left Iran with tears in her beautiful nice eyes. Like the king of Iran who cried as he should leave Iran. We were months in Pakistan and waited for the visa. The children of Iran were perished in the whole world, and we were one of them. We have enough money to spend for our life there in Karachi and we have a very hard not comfortable life there. After a lot of difficulties they gave us a visa for the USA.
We went to USA and from the very beginning we started to work. Both of us also registered our name in the language classes to learn better English.
My mother tried to be a teacher there. And she could even pass the exam for the MS degree and got her master in Physics. She started to work in a high school as a physics teacher. And I could get my degree, too and started to work in a good company. I was twenty years younger than my mother so I get easier a job and I could learn better also. My accent and language was better than my mother. After two years, because of her accent and because some parent claim against her, because of her language problem; may be the heavy accent, they fired her. And she should again work in the low class and entry level job. Such as employee in a shop or so. The high school students in USA are not like in Iran, they do not respect the teacher and they are after to find an excuse to tease the teacher; in this case the accent of my mother was a good excuse to bother her and their parents forced the school system to fire her. If they would give her a little bit more time, she could correct her accent, but the people and students in American are selfish and cruel also. And the parent supports the children and not the teacher.
They bother also my mother as she was from Iran. In that time because of the problem with American Embassy, the people hate Iranian and they think all Iranian are terrorists and not good people. So we should suffer for the wrong action of the people who occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and took the Americans in Jail.
Even if my mother had the same accent as a white American teacher, as soon as they could find an American white teacher in the same field, they would fire her. They do not need to have any excuse if they want to fire. They just fire. It is the land of freedom, they can easily fire you. Even if in the law; it is written that they should not persecute the minorities, but in reality they can always find a way to destroy the minority’s lives. In our case we could not go back to Iran as we came illegaly out of Iran and as we were persecuted there, too. Here she was persecuted because of nationalities, but they do not mention it. Over there they mentioned, because of religion, we were persecuted. In reality in both countries ;we were persecuted in one obviously fired because of religion problem, and in other one just fired.
It is clear in the time that our own country does not want us and it destroys us, how can we expect the second country would respect us. In the time that your own mother or father sends you out of the house, how you can expect that the neighbor will take you and respect you. But after a while we could adjust ourselves and we had a good life ,and my mother and I work very hard to survive in the land of opportunities. As we did not know the system, a lot of people cheated us also.
My mother get with the time, because of all problems also a bad Asthma sickness. In the month two times or one time, the sickness attacked her, and she could not have Oxygen easily.
I have to take her to the hospital and she stayed few days there until she gets better. My mother did not have a daughter, so she wanted me to marry, so she could have a daughter in law at least. May be she think, that because of this Asthma, she cannot live long, so she wanted to see that her son is married and has a future. She had also the head ache the micron sickness. The both sickness bothers her also.
My champion mother hides all the documents of her sickness from me so I could not know how sick she is. She afraid that I get worried about her sickness and may be known that she will die soon. She did not want that her love and her son be upset because of her diseases. The love of mother feeling guided her so to hide everything from me and I thought I have still the powerful mother, so I had no access to her medical documents and did not know exactly her diseases. But I could read the pain in her big green eyes. May a lot of reasons was there; be to be without husband or friends, be out of her own country, being not with the students who do not like her, the hard unmerciful condition, being foreign in a negative way. To be with a lot of uneducated poor, stupid personals. Fired from school system in Iran, because she was Bahai, and fired from the school system here, because she was Iranian and had accents.
The bothering of the impolite American children and the disrespect of their American parents who are proud to be American and are impolite and hard to foreigners. The laugh of the other people, as she had no husbands and the disrespect of the Iranian community as she was alone. Not having good friends here, as the Iranian are too busy to be friends, and the American have no interest to be friend with her. To be alone and isolated, may be destroyed her. All of these problems together started to damage my champion. Now she thought if I get married, than she will get a daughter in law and later ground children and they will give her hope and love again.
So she has spoken with an Iranian family to have contact with me, they have a nice girl and she was about the same age as me; and my mother tried to contact this family more, so I can marry the girl. She gave a lot of expensive gifts to the family and to the girl and invited them for lunch and dinner, she cooked very well and she was a very good hostess. Sorrowfully my mother keeps all difficult problems with her and did not share with me. So I thought everything is fine, but it was not. I worked also a lot with computers and did sleep enough many days and nights, so I got slowly also head ache and eye problems. Little by little my eye pain gets more serious and more difficult and dangerous. And this pain and diseases bothered my mother a lot, too. My mother had every week an Asthma attack and I should take her to the hospital. I stayed hours with her there until she gets a little bit better than I came home and in two days or three ; I went back to the hospital and drive her home. I tried to visit her in the time that she was in the hospital. She was laughing and she showed that she is happy.
Generally each time that she had an Asthman problems. she stayed two days after that she has released and I drive to the hospital to take her home. So as my eye pain got more and more she was very worried about that also. May be all these trouble effects her diseases?
We lived sixteen years together and we were more like friends to each other than mother and son. My mother took me to a famous eye doctor and he told my mother that you son is going to be blind, soon or late. It is better if we operate him faster. We should operate his eyes and we need two healthy eyes to replace his eyes, but the eyes should be so that his body not destroys them as foreign parts. His body should accept the other eyes, which we will replace to his sick eyes.
My mother did not say anything to me, but later she visited the same doctor and consults him about her own eyes; if her eyes can replace my eyes. So she chose the blindness for herself to keep me not blind, so that her son would stay not blind and sees. I should kiss the feet of such mother. The mother who gave me her beauty, her work, her money and everything she had, now she is trying to give me her eyes so I can see and she will be in total darkness. That is a huge Love. She wanted me to be academic and be very well educated, be in an advanced country, because my own country does not want me. And now she will give also her eyes to me.
As my father died I wanted my mother to marry soon and have a new life for her own ;and many times I have suggested this to her, but each time she told me; I was in love with your father, how can I see other man in his place and now I have you and I have to live and work for you, you are just a small boy, how can I marry, I do not know if he will love you or not. The risk to be married again is too big for me. And I cannot work here properly and they fire me, how can I marry.
How can I trust other man? But she was not happy that the people do not respect a woman who has no husband. And does bad action with her. As if she is free to do what ever they want. So for this reason, she had always her marriage ring in her beautiful finger and she never took them off. She never told the people that she is widow. Only if the people find out by themselves. My mother was a very beautiful woman, with a tall body, slim and a nice face. Beautiful eyes, dark green. If she was married, so for her was may be more difficult to give her eyes to me. Her love was so huge that she wanted to give me everything she had.
One day she told me that she has spoken with the doctor and they have examined her eyes, so her eyes are fine to be replaced in my face and for my sick eyes, so I do not need to be blind. She said I am willing to give my king of body to my great love, to you. I said, but mother one eye will be enough. She laughed and said which girl will marry a man with one eye only. I do not need eyes, I have Asthma and I cannot work any more and do not have clear breath and I cannot get oxygen easily. So I have to stay at home. So I can read books for blind people and rest. She had decided and who can change her mind. She told me you are my love if I cannot give you my eyes to my great love, You, I am more unlucky and upset.
I love to put my eyes in your face. You are mine; you are part of my body. You are mine body and spirit. If I cannot give my eyes to you; it is more disaster, then if I can give it is happiness for me.
How can I look at my blind son? This giving is for me more than having. That is the Love I will give and it is more joy for me than to get something. After your father death, I had no reason to live; it was only you that give me excuse to stay alive. I lived and worked just for you; you are and were my capital. If I cannot give my eyes to you, the life is hell for me, but if I can give them to you. The life is paradise for me; and I hope you will try to understand this feeling. That is the love to be destroy for you love and I get my happiness by giving. You are young and you have the whole life in front of you. How can I let you to be blind?
Any way my mother gave her eyes to me and I stayed not blind and she got blind with love and her proud. Never had I seen in her face the regret to be blind, she was happy to be blind and me not. She loved to give her beautiful eyes to me. She told her mother died when she was just fourty years old. Now she was about fourty seven and she said she lived seven years more than her mother. So my mother encourages me to marry an Iranian girl who was living in our town.
I married that girl, she was going to university and her parent was with her also in USA. They were living with social security money. As they were send out of Iran also like us. We started to work both of us and did not get any help from any governmental institute, but the parent of my future wife; they were richer as us in Tehran,but here they arange documents to get free money from the US. As we both have good income much more than their social security income. We were in much better shape than them here in US. So I married the girl. Her parents were not academic like my father and mother. A year after my marriage my son Sohrab was born, a nice big boy. And as my mother took him in her arm, she feels if he is my father’s spirit. She told us you can go to work and I will take care of Sohrab, but Faranak my new wife told me; I do not trust a blind woman takes care of my son. I will take him to the day care. My mother who loved the boy so much gets upset as she does not let him with her. In this time as usual I should take my mother every week to hospital to be under the oxygen tent and stays there two or three days until she gets better and I drive her home. Our house was a duplex house with two nice apartments. In one we were living and in the other one my mother. My mother feels alone and liked to be with us. But Faranak did not like it. After another year, Faranak give birth to a beautiful girl, whom we called Solmaz. My mother was as happy as we have a girl, that the whole day after her birth she danced and was very happy. She has forgotten all the hard life and the problems she faced to. I had a good salary and my mother got a good retirement and as she was blind, she got good salary. But she gave most of her money to us. To have a better and more comfortable life.
We had a huge house with two separate apartments and a nice environment. My mother was very happy with us and loved the children so much.
My mother was about fifty years old that her Asthma attacked her very badly. Now she should stay more than three day in the hospital. As she stayed longer in the hospital and she did not want to stay alone in her apartment, she said I can rent the apartment and I can got the money for its rent, because you have now two children and need more money. As now I have to pay for four people. Faranak did not work and was student. Actually we need really more money. So I rented her apartment and she got a room in our apartment. Now she got more Asthma attacked and she should stay longer in hospital. Sometime five days or more. I have to be with her and take her back and fort. She was not happy as she said; you can call a taxi and spend not so much time with me. Faranak need your time also. I am so sorry that I take so much time of you especially as you are now married and have two young babies. O Arash I wanted always to help you, but now you spend a lot of time for me and Faranak gets upset and may be angry also. Generally, my mother stayed half of the week in hospital and half of the week at home. Faranak started to be very unhappy; she knows that almost part of costs is paid by my mother.
And we have a comfortable life, because she helps us with her salary. And now the whole rent of her house was us also. But Faranak could not see her in our house as my mother was for her a strange woman . You spend a lot of time for your mother, she touches the wall as she is blind and cannot walk without touching the walls, look all walls are dirty as she touched them. You should take her to hospital back and fort. Why you marry me, you should stay with your blind mother and take care of her. She is not a help for me. She is a last. I should have this for all my life, always she is here. I cannot have any privacy any more. Take her to the house for elderly people. I am tired of seeing her here. I have no privacy any more. By marring you I am unlucky. And she starts also to cry, that she is unhappy.
These type of conversation lasted days and weeks until one day my mother heard that. My mother told me one day, Faranak is not happy to see me here. Rent for me a room close to you and take me there. I will stay there and you can visit me. She does not want me, so it is better that I go away, so you will have also fewer problems with her concerning me. I will have more peace and you, too. May be that is a good solution. I thought my mother likes to go and have a quite place without to be with two noisy children. I thought that is her wish to be alone and rest more. About twenty minute drive from our house I rented a nice big room for her.
I took her with her furniture there. She was very friendly and showed that she is happy. What ever she had gave them to me. She took just a little bit with herself. My father died with fourty and my mother in fifty tries to live alone with the blindness and the serious Asthma.
My mother learned the writing of brills and could read the books in this writing. So she asked me to get some books from the library in that writing for her and also some cassette which is spoken books actually. She told me if I visit her every other day, it is fine. But Faranak always get upset in the time that I visited my mother you go again to her. Let her alone and do not go to her. She was still not happy. Why you do not take her to a house that the people take care of her and you do not need to go there? You spend more time with her than with me. Sorrowfully her parents were not cleaver enough and encourage their daughter to fight with me and push my mother in the nursing home.
It has passed seven months and one day that I was in my work; my mother called me and asked me to go to her. I said OK after my work is finished I will come to you and we will have lunch together. She did not say anything and said OK. Ii will cook for you the food that you like. Come as soon as you finished your work, I am waiting for you Arash Jan. I called Faranak and told her that today I am going to mother. She said with anger go Mr. go your mother; she is important for you not me and children, go Mr. Arash to her, go to her. And cut the conversation. She seams to be very angry or upset. After few hours that I finished my work I drive to my mother’s room.
I parked near the house and opened the door with the key I had. I went to her room. The mother was in the bet, but she was not alive any more. She was dead. I could not believe the mother will die so fast and so easy. In her hand was a peace of paper; I took it and read. She wrote, Arash, my eyes and my love. Arash who had the power of an Iranian hero. The Arash Kamangir. I was deeply in love with you my son. I am happy now that you are OK and have a nice family. I actually died seven months ago as I separated from you. I was not selfish; you know that I could not see that Faranak fighting with you concerning me. And I could not see that your family is going to be destroyed because of me. She wanted you alone for herself and was not willing to share a little time of you also with me. And if I insisted to stay with you, she would divorce you. Today is my last day; I know that; so I called you to come, but you did not know that, you thought I can stay for you for ever. But that was not the case. I wanted to say to you that I am dieing, come now, but I thought again you may drive fast and get a deadly accident; so I said OK, come later. But I knew I cannot be alive later. What ever I have is yours. You can burn my body, because it is cheaper. I left you totally for Faranak and I hope that she will take care of you also as she takes care of her children. I have some money in the bank, all of them is yours and give one third of it to Faranak and keep one third for both your children.
I hope she will be nice with you. I know that her parent tease you, because they are not academic and have some sort of complex concerning your academic background. Do not take that seriously and forgive them and be nice to them. If they are happy to push you down, let them do that and if they have satisfaction for their action to make you cheap ,let them do. They are simple uneducated people and cannot think properly. You should forive them. May be they feel later they did bad things to you.
I had Asthma and saw some round material also in my body. This day I know I will die and for this reason called you and wrote this letter. I cooked for you the food you liked and may be still it is warm. But I turned off the oven. I hope that you like the food I prepared with love for you. The whole day I was busy to prepare the food for you. My Arash. Take the food and eat before you do other thing, the whole day you worked and now you should be very hungry. Take care of my son Arash, my eyes, my ground children and my daughter in law. I pray for all of you and I wish happiness for all of you. Be nice to the parents of Faranak, even they are not nice to you. I love you for ever your Mother Tahereh. I wish for you better days, in the days that your children are grown up and married and you are happy to see their happiness as I enjoy you happiness.
I wished I could keep this diamond my mother with myself and did not take her to this room. I wish I would never marry and let my Tahereh be alone. She suffered for me and gave her whole life to me including her eyes, but I put her in another room far from me. In the darkness and loneliness. I let this heroein alone. The darkness and loneliness that she had because of me. I am very sorry mother, please forgive me. I know that you will forgive me. I love you. I hugged my mother for the last time, but this time she could not feel any more. She was gone.I stayed there for a while kissed her and she could not feel any more. I cried like a small child for her, but she could not see me and listen to me any more. I lost my real support and my mother. It was even much harder than the time I lost my father. This mountain of Love and Support gone.
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:48 PM
The system colonialism of the world had a plan for us. About our brothers and sisters of Azerbaijan. There are may be about also ten million people who are half Pars and half Azeri? What can they do? In Iran there are a lot of pure races, like Persian, or Azeri. But millions of people are also mixed. That is a new way of colonist that they want separate the people through languages, accent, clothes, religions, the different customs and even sex. Now fundamentalist, half fundamentalists, with bread, with moustache, very white, yellow white, fat, not fat, tall, short, women, virgins, not virgins, rich, middle class, poor, Bahai, Shia, Sunni, Dervish, Softies, west influenced, east influenced, traditional, modern, academic, nice, greedy, loving and not loving….you see we can divide the people in many different group and train each group be against the other group and if possible kill them. That is what the colonialism system are doing now very good in our countries. In the Middle Eastern countries we have a lot of different people, but these differences are much less than the differences in USA, they are one country and we are a lot of small countries and still they are trying to divide us. Do you think all German is the same? Or all black people are the same? They have also the differences as we do. We should be united and respect each other thinking, language and religions. That is the only way to be free and independent, the dictator ship and force to believe and force to change do not help at all. We should be free and accept the majority govern. Like in many other countries we should live and try to help to build more universities, create more work and be advance in sport and other activities like advanced countries.
I think in USA more different people are living than as Iran. We should do the same thing. Like in USA, respect our people, their religions, their customs and their language, but one national language, the language of the majority. Our country is divided many times, many Iranian are living in other countries. We should be united again. Like United States of Turan and Iran or of Middle East. Iran is the name of the land and people who are in different countries. Like Pashtons in Khorasan or Aryana. A group of scholar can give the best answer. In many countries in the world many different people are living and the majorities are governing with the help or all other people. Is that not the democracy? The majorities rule and the other people critics and guide. We should try of save the people who are on drug, have no work, have not enough money and live in poverty. Build school and open modern industry. We should work together and not against each other. We should be fair and if we cannot do a job give that one to other people who can perform much better than we do. With other words that is the plan of the politicians who want to separate us and divide us again, like they did before. We should come together and build a huge powerful federal country, like US or European Union. In Our country now live more than eleven nations and eleven languages or more. Should Iran be again divided into smaller countries that are what the great powers want. Separate and govern.
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:39 PM
There is a huge gab between speaking, speech and action. The Bahaullah said as my Bahai mother told me, if the religions bring disunity and hate between people to have no religion is much better. I wrote many real stories about these problems. You say the Bahai, the whole Bahais do not hate other people because of other religion, I saw it and I know that is the principal, but some Bahai if they have the possibilities they do the same as other people. This is my telephone number 4072819704 and I have documents that the some Bahais did the same as the other believers can do. As long as they do not have the possibilities, they cannot do. But if the have the possibilities they act almost the same as others. I take just one example. X was born in a family of two religions, Bahais and Moslem. He was misused by both of them. As a child Moslem children bothered him as Bahai and Bahai children as Moslem. The Bahai children may be were some how trained by parents to bother him. May be they told the children negative words about him. I heard from many Bahai that this boy has two religions and have the benefit of both religions. That means X should forget his father who was Moslem and his Moslems family and just have contact with his mother and her family. He was always referred from Moslem as a Bahai and dirty one and the same form of unfriendly way he experienced from his Bahai family. He was not allowed from his father side to go to the Bahai School, so his knowledge about the Bahais was very little. His mother respected his father and did not teach him about Bahai.
Later he wanted marry, the Bahai girls as soon as they knew he had Moslem father and Moslem family, they run away. The same was with the Moslem girls. So he married a very low class Bahai as the normal Bahai family did not accept him. That means his father in law and mother in law were elementary graduate persons. They started to bother him, because he did not have Bahai knowledge for example he could not read Bahai prayers, also Namaz.
After the glorious, great revolution in Iran by the world leader the great scientist and philosopher Alimam Almosavi Alkhomaieni he was sent out of his job. The Moslem friends of him use the situation and took a great part of his wealth and as he went to the court system of Iran, they supported the other side, because he was known as Bahai.
But the Bahai did the same thing to him and robbed him and destroy his wealth which he has given to them to keep. He wrote letter to the Bahai administration, they ignored him and in opposite they were against him. The Bahai families make a lot of negative advertisement against him and isolated him. The Moslems told him, if he wants to be accepted as a Moslem, he should write materials against Bahai and say bad words against them, he was denied so he was persecuted by them. The Bahai did the same thing to him. His Bahai family in USA took his wealth, because they hoped he will be killed as a Bahai in Iran, as he was here, they were shocked and let him on the streets. The Bahai administration did not take his matter seriously. He was for a long time on the streets, until a church give him a place in church to sleep and his Bahai family in USA told everybody he became a Christian. X with PhD and a lot of experience was misused by his Moslem friend, government of Iran and his Bahai family did the same thing to him. So many people lost their life for believe and the people told him, you are still living, but is it living if you are robbed by many people and they destroyed your life and your wealth. I wish one day we can over this system which is train the people to be cruel or indifferent. I will work for the real Unity of Mankind and Love regardless to the religions, nationalities and races. What you can call all these indifferences and all these cruelty which has happened to X?
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:29 PM
In the hope that Love and unity will replace that existing dislike and hate in our countries ,and all people in the world regardless to their religions, races and nationalities will work together and help each other like human being. And the hate between Bahais and Moslems will disappear for ever. Shahram is not killed and he is living, but he has been persecuted by Moslems as a Bahai and by Bahais as a Moslem or half Moslem. In compare with the people who are killed, he is fine and is in a better situation. But he lost his country, his friends, his job, his respect, his wealth and family, because of the hate between Bahais and Moslems. The hate between Bahais and Moslems and unjust bring more victims and because of this hate innocent people are destroyed.
There are a lot of nice and good Moslems and Bahais, but sometimes in both groups are bad people who misuse the situation for their own benefits. A lot of my friends have been persecuted by both of them. The Moslems killed over 20, 000 Babis and recently over 200 Bahai people in Iran have been killed and thousands of them are persecuted. That is not right. But some Moslems or half Moslems also have been persecuted by Bahais. These types of people have been persecuted by both of them. They took their wealth and destroyed their family. This hate should be stopped. It is not fair that innocent people should be destroyed and persecuted, because of the religions of their parent. We all will lose, because of this hate. We should work for the unity of mankind and bring our countries up and not destroy each other because of religion which is a philosophy and it is not a science or a real fact, it is just believe. Who brings hate between our people in the Middle Eastern Countries and why we do not go further in the science and why we are not advanced? If you look at the history you see that the great powers always tried to push the other nations down. If you listen to just “ you tubes” you can see who bring so much hate between us. Why they bring so much hate between us. If they see a leader of us works for himself or for his people, they (the great powers) will destroy him. They want cheap row materials ,but they want to sell their products as expensive as they want. They need ignorant people on the tops of the governments so they do not understand the situation and they bring hate and disunity between people and they(the great powers) can rob much easier. I ask myself sometimes, why Khomeini and Shah did not work together as they did before. Borojerdi was much more important in his time than Khomeini and he was as the people say, much cleverer and much more knowledgeable than any other clergies. And he cooperate with the king. Why?
Why he worked with Shah and Khomeini did not? Why they should fight with each other for power and destroy the life of the people? In many documents that we can see now, it shows that Jimmy Cater wanted to destroy Shah and Iran. Why? The Shah told the reporters that my country will be soon one of the most important countries in the world and will take the fifth place. And as you listen to the conversation, it is serious and the British reporter also agrees that. Sadam and Iranian leaders were both Moslem, why they fight with each other for eight years and destroy and lot of wealth and people of both countries, why? If both sides were clever, they know that they cannot win and they will lose, both of them will lose. It is obvious that behind Sadam was the great powers and as you see in the” you type” they were behind him and they were also behind the new regime of Iran, yes they were also the great powers, who wanted hate and disunity between our people, why?
And I heard that Jimmy Cater said, I destroy the second Japan in Asia, which is Iran, why? First of all as you see ;they are expert s to bring disunity between people. Now even between the flowers of Khomeini is gab. Why again? It is clear; they want to be the master and us the slaves, the modern slaves. We should work like animals and have nothing and they live in the best situation. Why the Middle Eastern countries should not be united like Europe or America? Because the leaders are ignorant and think about themselves only and they think they are safe, which is not right, example Sadam. They want to sell their weapons, their drugs to us and they make much more money with this business than all other business. They make money and we fight with each other about Sunni, Shia, Bahais, Rashti, Kurd, and Turk and … and they take all of our capitals. They programmed to bring hate between us and destroy our family and system. Our youth have not enough work, cannot study, cannot marry and cannot be useful. They are attracted to the terrorists, drug dealer, take bribes and take drugs, kill themselves and or going to other country as physical workers.
So all the nations of Middle Eastern countries with the same history same religions and same cultures and similar languages should be united. We will be a great power, like India and China if we are united. We can have progress and will in the same level as Europe or America. But now we are not. We are not united and we fight with each other, look in Afghanistan the brothers kill their own brothers, why? Our way is to be united, to be tolerant, to be educated and to learn to cooperate; all of us want to be a king or president, or leaders. We should work together and not against each other and work for the society and nor for our private bank accounts? Even we are super rich, we can be destroy if there is no Just and Love.
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:27 PM
Do you think that all Bahais in the world are good and nice?
Why the people want to say that in their religion is no bad people and all of them are perfect.
I will say the bad people are everywhere like the good people. In each religion we can have bad people, and good people. To say that my church or religion is an utopia is not wrong, because all of us are people and could be bad and good. Bahai religion had a lot of advance guidance and many Bahais are nice and good. But as you heard thousand friends is nothing and one enemy is too much. With other words if you trust for example all Bahais as well, one bad one can misuse this trust and destroy your life. I know a lot of examples that the Bahais did the same thing if they had chance.
The Bahais refers to their teaching, which is advance, but that does not mean the people will flow them totally. The may misuse the good name and take advantage of the good name and good believe. But human is human and I think religion in the history did not make good people. Some people are good in any religions and some are bad also in many other religions. The Bahais can be as cruel as Moslem or other members of other religions and just good words and good guidance cannot make the people better. It is not fair do not say the truth, because of deep love or respect. I respect Bahais and I lost all what had concerning religions, but I never hate Moslems and Bahais.
There is a huge gab between speaking, speech and action. The Bahaullah said as my Bahai mother told me, if the religions bring disunity and hate between people to have no religion is much better. I wrote many real stories about these problems. You say the Bahai, the whole Bahais do not hate other people because of other religion, I saw it and I know that is the principal, but some Bahai if they have the possibilities they do the same as other people. This is my telephone number 4072819704 and I have documents that the some Bahais did the same as the other believers can do. As long as they do not have the possibilities, they cannot do. But if the have the possibilities they act almost the same as others. I take just one example. X was born in a family of two religions, Bahais and Moslem. He was misused by both of them. As a child Moslem children bothered him as Bahai and Bahai children as Moslem. The Bahai children may be were some how trained by parents to bother him. May be they told the children negative words about him. I heard from many Bahai that this boy has two religions and have the benefit of both religions. That means X should forget his father who was Moslem and his Moslems family and just have contact with his mother and her family. He was always referred from Moslem as a Bahai and dirty one and the same form of unfriendly way he experienced from his Bahai family. He was not allowed from his father side to go to the Bahai School, so his knowledge about the Bahais was very little. His mother respected his father and did not teach him about Bahai.
Later he wanted marry, the Bahai girls as soon as they knew he had Moslem father and Moslem family, they run away. The same was with the Moslem girls. So he married a very low class Bahai as the normal Bahai family did not accept him. That means his father in law and mother in law were elementary graduate persons. They started to bother him, because he did not have Bahai knowledge for example he could not read Bahai prayers, also Namaz.
After the glorious, great revolution in Iran by the world leader the great scientist and philosopher Alimam Almosavi Alkhomaieni he was sent out of his job. The Moslem friends of him use the situation and took a great part of his wealth and as he went to the court system of Iran, they supported the other side, because he was known as Bahai.
But the Bahai did the same thing to him and robbed him and destroy his wealth which he has given to them to keep. He wrote letter to the Bahai administration, they ignored him and in opposite they were against him. The Bahai families make a lot of negative advertisement against him and isolated him. The Moslems told him, if he wants to be accepted as a Moslem, he should write materials against Bahai and say bad words against them, he was denied so he was persecuted by them. The Bahai did the same thing to him. His Bahai family in USA took his wealth, because they hoped he will be killed as a Bahai in Iran, as he was here, they were shocked and let him on the streets. The Bahai administration did not take his matter seriously. He was for a long time on the streets, until a church give him a place in church to sleep and his Bahai family in USA told everybody he became a Christian. X with PhD and a lot of experience was misused by his Moslem friend, government of Iran and his Bahai family did the same thing to him. So many people lost their life for believe and the people told him, you are still living, but is it living if you are robbed by many people and they destroyed your life and your wealth. I wish one day we can over this system which is train the people to be cruel or indifferent. I will work for the real Unity of Mankind and Love regardless to the religions, nationalities and races. What you can call all these indifferences and all these cruelty which has happened to X?
May be in this way, we can build the Unity of Mankind with Love and Respect. And the indifferent administration which is useless in the whole world should change to a much better one.
In the USA there are a lot of companies which are cheating the people to give them something and but in reality they want to take something from them and what ever they say is half lie or lie. We can get you modification if you pay us 4000 dollars in advance,or we can get for you free money from the government as ground if you pay us $1000 or you won millions of dollars if you pay us so much money in advance, or they send you scam checks and your bank cash it because of your credits and after 20 days the check is a scam and a bad check. Or the government gives you permission to have a business and after you put all your money and effort in the business they cancel it. And we should always admire. And the people do not like to listen to the truth. The people misuse the trust and make money from the people trust and believe or love or the people get with the time after so many bad experiences indifferent and that is what the system of the world wants. But I think we should punish the bad people and not to be indifferent with good people. The way that we have two choice to be safe , indifferent or cruel should be change to Love and Unity and Help Friendship
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:25 PM
Why we do not listen to clever people like Molavi, Khayaam or Sadi….?
Or other great people like Attar, Ferdowsi or Tolstoy. Why we should kill and disturb other people lives? Who do not listen to prophets, not the philosophers, not the wise people and all of us will lose. Do you think the greedy cruel people are always safe? Do you think the people who are misused by them will forget and forgive them? They are just looking for a possibility to perform their revenge. If; somebody robe you ,and or destroy your house or car. Do you forgive him/her? We are quite, because we afraid to get more difficulties and our quietness does not mean that we are happy or satisfied. Cruelly is bad and hard. But what can we do, the cruel people have power, money and people who defend them. They can even kill us, if they feel we want to revenge them. But we wait also patiently for a good time and for a possibility. If somebody robe your and destroy your life, do you forget this? No, but the system is indifferent, the people will laugh at you, if they know you lost. The Judge will not listen to you. They are indifferent and or cruel. In USA , the attorney wants a lot of money in front. For one hour he/she wants 150 to 300 hundred dollars. In Iran, they say that is your problems, and it is not mine. The other side robbed you and is willing to spend some of that money to the corrupted people to bother you more. You make a mistake or you trusted a friend. So what will be result, you do not trust so easily any body anymore.
I remember a professor in Germany many years ago said, we have two faces, spiritual and materials. The material face forces us to be selfish and take everything for ourselves, even more than we need. We want the best clothes, the best houses and a lot of money the most beautiful women if we are men and rich maybe handsome men, if we are women. We want to destroy other people life for us or for the more welfare of our children. If we get a good position, we think we should take everything for ourselves and we do not think about other people.
But if we clever, we will be nice and Just. So we will be happy and the other people will love us, too. We should not misuse love and trust of other people, because the system or society is corrupted. If the other people who are misused by us got power, they will do the same. If we study those wise people, they show us the way, but we do not listen and we damage our lives and the life of others. So with other words we are not wise enough to use our life for Love and the Unity of mankind. In this way all of us will lose. If the system of the world is so unjust and so indifferent now, one day it is also our time. We cannot keep the power for ever. In the time that we lose it, it is the time of other people to misuses us. O man who is killed here, whom did you kill in the past and who will kill the one who killed you. The life is short; we should be clever and not misuse this short time for bad actions. If we think deeply, we can come to this conclusion, if we be nice; we will have more benefits. Especially if; we have power. O powerful man, eat and give to the others also, so you will have a nice life here and in the other world, the world that we believe.
Who trained Taliban and who is supporting the terrorist? Who gave them weapons and still is giving them? The fear of communists destroyed our countries totally. And even now, the business of drug and weapons and insurance companies misuse the situation. Who was quite in the time that Sadam use chemical weapons? The world rich people want this confusion and this disunity, because they make enormous money with this hate. Who will buy a bomb for one million dollars, if there is not hate? Did you forget that the great powers want hate and disunity, so they can sell their weapons and drugs? Do you know that the business of weapons and drugs has more benefits than other businesses? We are victims of the hate between nationalities, races and religions and who use this hate? Who gave these type of regimes the best equipments to fight with the people? Who make contacts with them? Did you forget the intermediates? Who run the televisions and newspapers in the world and control the Medias? Who has billions of dollars in their bank account, and most of these money is gained from the worst way and is not legal? Who pays taxes in the West, the multi billionaires or the Middle Class? How a man can make billions or dollars and the other man with the same qualification has not even thousand dollars? Where is Just? The whole just system is useless and you can buy them. Legally or illegally. Who programmed inflation and deflations? Who brings the fate between religions? Why they make difficulties for education in the whole world. Do you know that in the West the teacher is not allowed to ask the student bring her/his book with next time. She/he can go to counselor and the counselor will say the student does not need to bring his/her book. She/he can look to the book of her/his neighbor? Why the teacher is baby sitter? Do you think there is love and unity in other religions or all of them are misused for business hate and politics?
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:23 PM
Why there is so many confusion and disunity and hate in the world? The biggest problem in the world is ignorance and self centered dictatorship. As you see the president is for ever and after him his son will be president, until the other groups destroy them. With other world changes in the government is always by force and killing not by vote and in a friendly way. In the Middle Eastern countries we are suffering for the lack of education as the education is against dictatorship. Dictators will influence the people that they are not normal persons and they have connection with God. Or they may say they are sort of God and they people should obey them without any questions and asking, they thing they are much better than other people and they think they are immortal and different. This decease of dictatorship is almost in all dictators. Dictator is may be a bagger, but in the time that he got power and money and unlimited respect from the people around him, he changes to be not a normal human any more. They think they have right and they know everything better.
The system of the world uses dictators for its plans. And the use the ignorant people to hate against each other. They misuse religions and nationalities or races as a device for their action. The hate between Bahais and Moslem, Jew and Moslems bring a lot of benefit for them and destroy people life. The Bahai believe Islam and are based on Shia religion, how can they be against Quran and Islam? I think the best way is that first the people read Quran and its translation and they know what is in Quran and second there should be evident that the Bahais are against Quran and Islam and there is nor proof for what he is saying. Just it brings more hate among the Iranians. That is the way the people brings hate whiteout having any examples and any proof. We will be the victims of the dictators. They will train us to be against each other. Do not respect each other and try to cheat and destroy each other. They are against the Unity of mankind, if the people are united and love and respect each other; they cannot destroy us. The Love and unity and respects between men and women, different religions and different races or nationalities is not well come by dictators. Because in that way the people are strong and they cannot misuse them to fight against each other. Sorrowfully the religion is used as a device in the service of the world politics. The system which is running the world wants hate between religions, races and nationalities, so they can sell their weapons, drug and destroy the production and science in a third world country. So they stay masters and we remain slaves in a modern form. Hate between people and the hard life, make the people be dishonest to each other and so the family trust and friendship will be destroyed. If the people are in need they take bribes and they will be more dishonest and bad. They will try to survive and this way they may destroy other people life. They try to cheat and to kill other people to get enough money to pay their costs.
The system which running the world will this confusion and this hate. So the people are separated and can be controlled very easily. The hate between an Iranian worker and or an American worker, both of them is employed to be slaves. Like the fight between gladiators in the ancient Rom. They have huge benefits from this hate between people and we are the victims of these hates. Many of us will be persecuted by two religions. I know people who are persecuted in Iran as Bahai, because they had Bahai family and here they are persecuted as Moslem, because they had also Moslems friends or family. We should try to work for the unity of mankind and remove all these hate. Everything is relative and we as human being do not know all answers to the questions. The only way is to respect other people idea and try to remove this ignorance which is between people by giving them a better education. The problem is the lack of education and the lack of tolerance. If we want to be free, we should be honest to each other respect each other thinking or religions or not believing in any religions. And love and respect our different languages, cultures and the way of life. We should know that everything is relative and nothing is absolute. What we believe cannot also wrong and what the other people believe can be also right. May be if we listen to each other with love and unity we can learn more and we can find easier the right answer. Only if we are united we can grow, in other way we will be the loser and cruel people will gain.
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:22 PM
How the religions are misused.
I am not a theologize and I do not know much about the religion. But what I see is a hate between different religions. Most people with different religions are not nice to each other and make the life difficult for each other. I heard that Abdolbah said if religion bring hate and difficulties, having no religions is the best way. That means humanity is much more important than any religions. With other words, in the time that religions start to bring hate, war and disunity, it is better that we have no religion. In our time religions bring a lot of confusion and disunity and hate between people. Many families are destroyed because of religions. Many people lost their jobs and country even education because of religions. The Bahai faith which in Iran is hated by government employees and some regular people is continuing to survive. But as in the newspaper wrote the Babi or Bayani are disappearing almost in the world.
I read in the newspaper of Islamic that the Bob had denied his mission and said that he is not the twelve Imam and he is nothing and he did a mistake. My question is why he is executed after his deny? That is a paradox you say, I am sorry and I take off my words and still you will be killed? Is it not questionable?
I wish one day we love each other regardless to our religions which generally we get from the family or parents, races and nationalities. The world needs peace and cooperation. The evil system is trying to get an excuse to start the war and they want to sell their products. They do not care about people and the people are trained to be selfish and very indifferent. I hope one day a prophet of Love will come and will teach the people they should love and respect each other. Sorrowfully now if you love and will try to be nice with the people, you will be misused and they treat you more and less like a victim.
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Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:20 PM
I wish to have contacts with you. My telephone is 4072819704 and I have a boarding school in Orlando, Florida. 104 20 Lehman Road, Orlando ,Florida USa. Amir Ghiassi I am a college teacher.
Posted by: Amir Ghiassi | September 02, 2010 at 07:19 PM