Iqbal Latif

O Sultan if my clothes are ripped and torn...

 @"laalaayi baladan, vali khabeshoon nemire..."

O Sultan, my master,
if my clothes are ripped and torn
it is because your dogs
with claws are allowed to tear me

It is a saga of a nation sans unity, sans tolerance, sans justice and sans compassion. I wrote in 2002 ‘Defeatism has become prevalent in the Islamic World and self-inflicted pain has become pleasure. Forbearance, fortitude, patience - key qualities to make any nation great, has been sacrificed on the altar of hostility towards the US. The famous Khomeinite slogan of "murg bey Amerika" has become the clarion call of the extremist Shiites and OBL faction of the extremist Wahabbis alike. The commonality of purpose to establish a medieval order and arrest the lightening progress of mankind has taken precedence over traditional sectarian disputes of the centuries.

The goal of the orthodox clerics and the Shiite "Marjaiiya" is to establish Najaf as the next Vatican of Islam, dethroning Qom and Mecca along the way. This should put them at odds with the Wahabbis who take pride and seek legitimacy from their custodianship of the two holies mosques in Islam; Mecca and Medina. However the two seek to “cleanse” the "cradle of Islam" from the "threat" of freedom, democracy and dissent in the region. The unholy troika of Shiite Qom, Alqaeda and Allawite Syria have buried their dissimilarities for their own continued existence; they very well realize that the new emerging "waft of freedom" in the Middle east like the recent peaceful Iraqi elections will mark these 'extremists' as first casualty. Bogged minds cannot sustain freedom; freedom of expression is an antidote for the poison they endorse.’ Sadly things have only become worst:  

O Sultan! Because I dare to approach your deaf walls,
because I tried to reveal my sadness and tribulation,
I was beaten with my shoes

O Sultan, my master,
if my clothes are ripped and torn
it is because your dogs
with claws are allowed to tear me

Nazar

Unity and peace

"...... expressed their confidence that Unity, Peace and Stability would prevail all over the Islamic world. They also urged Muslims to uphold the values of tolerance, justice and compassion."

Iqbal jaan, this is yet another case of, as we say in Parsi: "laalaayi baladan, vali khabeshoon nemire..."

It is the muslims who are killing muslims for the past 10 or so years in increasing numbers. This unity is as elusive and non-existent as the liberties they have afforded their people.....and as nonsensical as the peace they claim to be based upon...Wouldn't you agree?

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IRAN FIRST

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“der ayad durust ayad”

This is sign of magnanimity at its best Ms:Hojjat. I am so grateful for your thoughtfulness. It is never too late to mend fences. Merci

I apologize Mr. Latif for being ignorant

Being honest I did not read whole article and lost my patience to continue reading the point of article. Now, after I read it and your comment I realized that you have pointed out at great shortcoming & flaws of these mollahs. 

sorry for makling premature judgement.

Not about 'Eid' it is about 'reason and faith' at two extremes!

Hi Ms. Maryam; you missed the point here that the whole issue of this article was not about Eid, may be you are right who cares; but it was about 'reason and faith' at two extremes on what is the most important event on the calendar of Mr Khamenei and Saudis.

From Jeddah and Tehran the message was 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and The office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Monday/Tuesday expressed their confidence that Unity, Peace and Stability would prevail all over the Islamic world. They also urged Muslims to uphold the values of tolerance, justice and compassion.

It was about this funny side of event:

''Saudi Arabia announced Monday that the Eid-ul-Fitr feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramazan will be on Tuesday, in a statement aired on state television Al-Ekhbariyah.

Religious authorities in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest shrines, said the new moon had been sighted and that Ramadan ends on Monday with the feast to follow the next day.

The office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei released a statement late on Tuesday, announcing August 31 as the first day of the Islamic calendar month of Shawwal.

The statement said that the perception of the new moon had been confirmed for the Leader through several crescent observers in various parts of the country.''

The point of the article is that the 'two prime cradles of Islamic thoughts' made an appeal but that did not cater for either unity, or tolerance, or justice or compassion. If any of these elements would have been applied they would have agreed on a scientific resolution of the issue.

Persian scientest Tusi was used 1000 years ago to fix Nowruz.Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī born 18 February 1201 in Ṭūs, Khorasan (a Persian polymath and a prolific writer: an astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, physician, physicist, scientist, theologian and also a Marja Taqleed. The Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) considered Tusi to be the greatest of the later Persian scholars)

Why can't they agree now on a scientific process that ensures the unity they plead for? They are ready to break the heart of the atoms using nuclear science; device centrifuges to enrich weapon grade uranium, but are not ready to use the same science to 'listen' to the movements of planets in their orbits

Days are made of earth movement around the Sun and the science they need is 'Astronomy.'

Physical laws of nature that have conquered 'escape velocity' the final hurdle that had yied us to earth gravity; that has helped man to put a 'human on the moon' and sent extra terrestrial voyagers in search of life. We are nomads of the Universe.

Here on our own real estate called 'this earth' the 1.5 billion cannot agree on a single day, you know why because here we become traditionalists and demand science to be out of the window, we need to see the moon, with six by six a luxury of choice with Mullahs no one can see a moon and they end up fighting over a lot moon for 24 hours sometime 48. It is a shame and failure of the system.

It is most important to fix the dates of celebrations. In 11th century CE major reforms of Iranian calendars took place; the principal purpose was to fix the beginning of the calendar year, i.e. Nowrūz, at the vernal equinox.

Accordingly, the definition of Nowruz given by the Iranian scientist Ṭūsī was the following: "the first day of the official new year [Nowruz] was always the day on which the sun entered Aries before noon". Nowrūz officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityMarch equinox, is the first day of spring. At the time of the equinox, the sun is observed to be directly over the equator, and the north and south poles of the Earth lie along the solar terminator; sunlight is evenly divided between the north and south hemispheres.

A broad based rainbow coalition of masses bring about great revolutions; Revolution without harmony and accord are not likely, too much of factionalism and too much of radical rhetoric sometime is counterproductive. The fault lines of this system in Iran and Saudi meander through the core issue of unity and cohesion of entire ummah, a dream that is so surreal. This article highlights rhetoric versus the act of not agreeing on one day of feast; a basic issue that can be resolved with the help of science.

May be Nowruz is far bigger occasion on the minds of Iranian Diaspora (Nowrūz is officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) but look at this video most kindly and see the priorities and concerns of the Iranian nation; the rank and file on the street, the Bazaars and the elements that makes middle Iran cares about these ideological underpinnings.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiQPEYpCbTQ

There can be no counter revolution if the revolutionaries are devoid of slogans that attract the masses on nearly every issue that has been bungled by the clergy. A counter revolution that is made on the views of Locke and Rousseau may sell well to few self absorbing activists but for a self conscious writer it is important to raise issues of the society that make us look like fools vis the vis the world, people should be reminded how devoid is 'reason from faith; that Mullahs and Ayatollahs have less of unity and more of divisions in their heads.

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Who Cares!

about this Eid staff.  We have more important things to be concern about and it is to topple the IRR?IRI.