Was Salmon e Farsi a traitor?

Daryush
by Daryush
11-Dec-2007
 

My question is simple. What do you think about Persian Salamon (aka Salmon e farsi)?

He was the one who left the Iranian army in order to help Mohammad for his crusade. If I am wrong please correct me otherwise just write your choice blow.

Hints:

1) He was a hero

2) He was a traitor

3) He was nobody

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Get over it people!

by Anonymous KR (not verified) on Wed Dec 12, 2007 07:09 AM PST

Comments like the ones seen here, and on every opinion column on this site related to Islam, show why Iran is such a hell-hole now. Who cares who did what 1300 years ago! Get over it people! Live for today like most of the world does. If the Persian Secular Nationalists would just read any objective Iranian history (instead of sitting around blaming all their problems on foreigners), they'd see how decadent the Sassanian/Zoroastrian society was 1300 years ago, and why it was so easy for the Arab/Muslim army to conquer Persia. Salman probably thought that he was helping the Iranian poor, women, etc. when he helped to defeat the Sassanians, but as "mama" wrote, we have no real way of knowing. This is much like the situation we have today, where some of the Iranian ex-pats support foreign intervention in Iran, and others don't. History repeats itself...


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Are you a historian?

by mama (not verified) on Wed Dec 12, 2007 05:42 AM PST

Only people whom know Salmon and spend some years researching his life can pass an opinion on him. To come here and write a few lines and categorize him under than 3 labels shows the depth of ignorance and the unfortunate way we Iranians go about our everyday lives.
It is like asking about a quantum physics problem and people coming here and passing opinion


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jamshid

Re: Dariushabadi

by jamshid on Wed Dec 12, 2007 05:21 AM PST

It is not a surprise at all when a person like you who in the past had defended "stoning" as a good way of punishing, to run to the defense of your brother Salman.


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dariushabadi

Iran's Savior

by dariushabadi on Wed Dec 12, 2007 05:04 AM PST

Salman al-Farsi (Originally known as Rouzbeh), was a man of intellectual curiosity, who travelled the lands seeking truth. That in of itself is more than I can say of most of you who are dogmatic of what you believe and think the world is black and white (or Iranian versus non-Iranian).

 He was a man, to which the Prophet Muhammad (S), an ARAB, praised Salman as being part of his own family (such a high status in Islam).

 

The Prophet said that while the ARabs were the people of revelation, that the people of SALMAN would be the people of INTERPRETATION. Sunni and Shia islam all derive from Persian scholarship (all the main books of sunni hadith and madhab were all Persians).

 

The Prophet (S) said that Salman does not seek heaven, heaven seeks Salman. That was the status and piety of Salman.

 

He remained pious and down to earth his whole life.

 

Who are you to judge his mission? Who are you to judge his actions? He travelled thousands of miles on foot to seek knowledge, while you guys just sit behind your computers and bash anything that disagrees with your world mindset.

 

Be more open minded like Salman, rather than just openly bash anyone you disagree with (you barely know the guy, yet you already want to judge him in 1 of 3 categories).

 

The world is not black and white. Wake up and smell the brown coffee.


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jamshid

Re: Daryush

by jamshid on Wed Dec 12, 2007 03:07 AM PST

I agree. He was the one who left the Iranian army in order to help Mohammad for his crusade. I don't care what that makes out of him.

 

But the moment he joined the invading Arabs and helped them against the Iranian armies, he became not just a traitor, but the worst traitor in Iran's history.


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