You may have seen this before... but for those who havent, it is a heartwarming video about a Bahai Family forced to leave their home in Iran and the influence of their Persian culture on their African neighbors..
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Dear faryam:You are calling Bahai a religion of
by Anonymous 123 (not verified) on Mon Dec 22, 2008 03:34 PM PSTDear faryam:You are calling Bahai a religion of love for humanity but you call others disturbed.Are you not being hypocrite or are you not contradicting yourself?
one of my all time favorites on youtube
by Monda on Mon Dec 22, 2008 01:37 PM PSTAref is just lovely as are his parents. The way he moves to that Persian tune speaks volumes of how well bonded they all are among themselves as well as with the parents' native culture.
ZENDEH BASHAN
by SALTY on Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:11 AM PSTAfarin bar aan pedar va madar.
Iran should be proud of her Bahais. I have yet to see one that is not nice.
Dear AJ...No Body is Perfect
by faryarm on Mon Dec 22, 2008 09:33 AM PSTDear AJ...No Body is Perfect
Especially Bahais, since
The Bahai Faith has set such a high standard, for gaining human qualities of love, justice, sacrifice, patience, forgiveness etc; It is hard work and most people struggle to aspire to that level of perfecton.
Religion is meaningless without these qualities, be it Bahai, islam or any other...
What you are describing is the shortcomings of some people not the source or the substance of their beliefs.
Faryarm
ارث پدر عربها
Persian (not verified)Mon Dec 22, 2008 09:29 AM PST
عربها میتونند تبلیغ اسلام در سرزمین کوروش کبیر بکنند ولی زرتشتی ها و بهایی ها حق نفس کشیدن ندارند چه برسه اینکه تبلیغ دینشان رابکنند.اگر چه هر دو دین برخواسته از قلب ایران است
ایران شده ارث پدر عربها
ارادتمند بی دین
Dear Disturbed Anon..I
by faryarm on Mon Dec 22, 2008 08:41 AM PSTDear Disturbed Anon..I.
Thanks for your comment:
"It was a nice clip except it tries to promote Bahaism again."
Yes, It was a nice clip, but would you rather it promoted:
Fascism, Nazism, or the wisdom and values of our current IRI rulers?.
This clip promotes nothing but the power of faith and love
seasons greetings
fayrarm
Great Post ;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Dec 22, 2008 08:19 AM PSTI had seen this before and its really cute. Thanks Faryarm Jan to post it here again.
Happy X Mas by the way,
DK
Lovely:)
by Carmel (not verified) on Mon Dec 22, 2008 07:59 AM PSTDear Faryar,
Thanks!
What a lovely/cute familly!
Carmel
My German son:))
by Adoptive mother (not verified) on Mon Dec 22, 2008 07:29 AM PSTThank you faryar, I can relate to this story . When we left Iran we knew we can not have our biological child, but at the same time being bahais we could not travel to Iran and adopt. Just by chance we met my son's birth mother and she liked us. the rest is history , we have a blond blue eye 18 yr old son , who loves ashreshteh and every morning has to have sweet tea and feta with lavash bread!!!
He is fluent in farsi too.
One thing that I wanted to tell this commentator who said this is teaching about bahai faith again!! is that :I think in my humble opinion , it is easier for us Bahais to adopt children of different race, because we believe in world citizenship. I could be wrong, so I like to hear from non bahai readers if they know of a non bahai family doing the same thing.
Thanks again , I will show this video to my son .
It was a nice clip except.......................
by Anonymous iranian (not verified) on Mon Dec 22, 2008 02:12 AM PSTIt was a nice clip except it tries to promote Bahaism again.
amazing
by Ali Sefati (not verified) on Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:43 PM PSTamazing. something really good came out of this but still sad people have to leave their home country for their faith!
I wish them well
by AJ (not verified) on Sun Dec 21, 2008 09:23 PM PSTAref seems to be a great kid and his parents seem like very pleasant people too. I wish them well.
I remember almost 35-36 years ago my Bahai school friend's brother and his wife and children went to Africa, and as my friend used to say "to teach a lot of Africans to become Bahais". After some years they moved to another country, I think it was some Island country.
My friend is now a non practicing Bahai.( I'm not quite sure if he has given up religion altogether)
He finds many faults in his religion. Although he has been shunned for saying so, yet he continues to speak of the many faults he sees.
Not unlike what we see here about other religions, in particular, Islam.
Oops
by Adib Masumian on Sun Dec 21, 2008 08:52 PM PSTfaryar*
Beautiful
by Adib Masumian on Sun Dec 21, 2008 08:52 PM PSTI have indeed seen this video before - he has the same kind of affinity for sonnati as I do! :)
Thank you fayar jaan.
Dear K.
by faryarm on Sun Dec 21, 2008 09:03 PM PSTThank you.. The world is full of these stories...
we just have to find more of them on youtube, if not make the stories in our own lives..
best wishes
faryar
Faryar Jaan
by ebi amirhosseini on Sun Dec 21, 2008 07:42 PM PSTI have seen it before,but it is worth seeing more than once.
sepaas
BTW
what happened to your avatar?
Ebi aka Haaji
Nice Clip!!!
by farshadjon on Sun Dec 21, 2008 07:37 PM PSTI went to South Africa couple of years ago. It is absolutely beautiful. I have never forgotten my trip to SA. I hope that one day I will be able to go back there. The country is magnificent and full of opportunity.Thanks, dear Faryam.
P.S. Just a reminder for everyone that Botswana is in the northern part of South Africa .
Faryarm
by Khar on Sun Dec 21, 2008 07:12 PM PSTThanks for posting this great human story!!! Although I've seen it before but every time I see it reinforces my belief in humanity and what great deeds we all are capable of doing. Thanks Again Aziz!