Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Friday, 25 September 2015
دعوات الكواكب للشيخ الاشراق شهاب الدّين السّهروردي الشّهيد (Suhrawardi's prayers to the planetary intelligences)
Below is our transcription and vocalization of the Arabic text of Suhrawardi's invocations to the planetary intelligences from the relevant section of the AyaSofia 2144 MS.
وَارِدُ الشَّمس لِيَوم اﻷحَد
أهلا ً
بـِالحَيِّ النَّاطِق ِ اﻷنْوَر ِ وَ الشَّخص ِ اﻷطْهَر ِ وَ الكَوكَبِ اﻷزْهَر ِ السَّلامُ
عَلـَيْكَ وَ تَحِياتِ اللهِ وَ بَرَكاتِهِ أيُّها النَّيِّرُ اﻷعْظَم وَ
السَّيِّدُ اﻷشْرَفُ الطَائعُ لِمُبْدِعهِ المُتَحَرِّكِ فِي عِشْق ِ جَلال ِ
بِارِئهِ بـِحَرَكَةِ فـَلـَكِهِ المُبْرَى عَن قـَبُول ِ الحَرْق ِ وَ الكَون ِ
وَ الفَسَادِ وَ الحَرَكَةِ المُسْتَقِيمَةِ أنتَ هُورَخْش الشّدِيد قَاهِر الغَسَق
ِ رَئسُ العَالَم مَلِكُ الكَوَاكِبِ سَيِّدُ الاشخَاص ِ العَلَو ِيَّةِ فـَاعِلُ
النَّهَار ِ بـِأمْر ِ اللهِ تعالـَى مَالِكِ رِقـَابِ اﻷنْوَارِ المُتَجسِدِينَ بِحَول
ِ اللهِ المُطـَاع ِ الجُرْمُ النَّيِّرُ البَاهِرُ الزَّاهِرُ العَالِمُ الحَكيمُ
الفَاضِلُ اﻷكـْبَرُ اولادِ القـْدْس ِمِن اﻷضْوَاء ِ المُتَحَجـِمِينَ خَلِيفَة
نُور ِ النـُّور ِ فِي عَالـَم اﻷجْرَاِم نُورُكَ مِن نُور ٍ يَنْتَهـِي إلَى نُور
ِهِ وَ قـَهْرُكَ مِن قَهر ٍ يَنْتَهـِي إلَى قـَهْر ِهِ أنتَ مَثـَلٌ لِكِبْر
ِيَائِهِ وَ ا ُنْمُوذ َجٌ مِن أُنْمُوذ َجَاتِ بَهَائِهِ وَ حُجَةٌ عَلَى
عِبَادِهِ مَن أعَطيْتَهُ نُورَكَ فِي اﻷجْسَام ِ أضَاءَ وَ مَن أسعَدْتَهُ
بقـْوَة اللهِ سَعُدَ تـُعْطِي الكَوَاكِبَ نـُورَكَ وَ لا تَأخُذ ُ مِنـْها وَ
تَكـْسُوها الـَبَهَاءَ وَ اﻹشـْرَاقَ سُبْحَانَ مَن صَوّرَكَ وَ نـَوَّرَكَ وَ
فِي شـَوق ِ جَلالـِهِ سَيَّرَكَ وَ فِي الفَلـَك ِ الرَّابـِع ِ بَوَأكَ وَ فِي
وَسَطِ نـِظام ِ الكـُلِّ قـَرَّرَكَ أسْألـُكَ أيُّها اﻷبُ صَاحِب ِ السَّلاطـَةِ
وَ الهـِيبَةِ عِلـَّة ُ تـَعاقـُب ِ الجَدِيدَين ِ وَ تـَتـَابُع ِ الفـُصُول ِ إن
تـَسْأل باسِط ضـَو نـَفـْسِكَ النـَّاطِقـَةِ الشـَّار ِقـَةِ اباكَ وَ عِلتـُكَ
وَ مَعشـُوقـُكَ وَ مُبْدِا ُ حَرَكـَتِكَ الـَّذ َّي انـْتَ ظِلـُّهُ وَ
طـَلـْسَمُهُ وَ جَمِيع اﻷنوار ِ القـَاهِرَةِ العُقـُول ِ المُجَرَدِ لـَيسَألو
السُّوآل الآتِي إلىَ أين بـِعَالـَم السُّرْمَدِ البَر ِيء ِ عَن ِ التـَّغـَيُّر
ِ وَ التـَّجَدُّدِ اباهُم وَ عِلـَّتـُهُم النـُّورُ اﻷقـْرَبُ المُبْدِعُ
اﻷشـْرَفُ عَقـْلُ الكـُلِّ المَعلـُولُ اﻷعظـَمُ اﻷوَّلُ لـَيسَألُ هُوَ هكـَذا
إلـَهُهُ وَ إلـَهُ الالِهَةِ مُنـْتـَهَى العِلـَل ِ اﻷوَّلُ اﻷوائِل ِ نِظامُ
العوالِم ِ مُبْدِعُ الكـُلِّ القـَيُّوم نـُورُ النـُّور ِ إلـَهُ كـُلِّ عَقـْل
ٍ وَ نـَفـْس ٍ وَ جِسْم ٍ أثِير ِي وَ عُنصُر ِي وَ بَسيطٍ وَ مُرَكـَّبٍ على
النِظـَام اﻷتـَمِّ اﻷكْمَل ِ اللهُ الوَحِيدُ وَاجِبُ الوُجُودِ على سَلـْطانِهِ ان
يـُنَوِّرَ نـَفـْسِي بـِالـَلوامِع القـُدْسيةِ وَ العُلوم ِ الإلهيةِ وَ
الفـَضَائِل ِ العَلـُو ِيَّةِ وَ يَجْعَلـَنِي من المُنـْتـَمِين الـَيهِ وَ
يَعْصِمُنِي مِن اﻵفاتِ النـَّفـْسِيَّةِ وَ البَدَنِيَّةِ وَ يَنـْصُر اهْلَ
النوُّر ِ وَ اﻹشـْرَاق ِ وَ يـُبار ِكـَهُم وَ إيانا وَ يُقـَدِسَهُم وَ إيانا الى
الابَدِ
وَارِدُ
تـَقـْدِيس يَوْم اﻹثـْنـَين لِلـْقـَمَر
لـَكَ المَحَبَّة ُ وَ
عَلـَيْكَ سَلا َمُ اللهِ ايُّها السَّيِّدُ الكَبـِيرُ سِنـْكهَار سـِبْـِهرالكَر
ِيم العَالِمُ الفـَاضِل الجَمِيلُ وَزيرُ هُورَخْش وَ خَلِيفـَتـُهُ واهِبُ
اﻷصْبَاغ ِ فـَار ِسُ الفـَلـَكِ صَاحِبُ السِّيَادَةِ العَلو ِيَةِ مِفـْتـَاحُ
السَّمَوَات ِ مُسَرَّعُ اﻷمْر ِمُمِدُ الجَواهر المَآئِى الرُّطـُوبَاتِ والِى
الكـَون وَ الفـَسَادِ المُطِيعُ لِمُبْدِعِهِ المُتـَحَرِّكُ بـِحَرَكَةِ
فـَلـَكِهِ البَر ِيُ عن اﻻفـَاتِ وَ الحَرْق ِفِي شـَوق ِ مَعْشـُوقـِهِ
العَقـْلِي سُبْحَان َ مُبْدِعَكَ و مُنـَوِّرَكَ وَ مُصَوَّر ِكَ وَ مُفـَيضُ
النـُّور المُقـْتـَضِي الحَرْكَةِ الدَائِمَة عَلـَيكَ وَ مُمْلِيكَ فِي
الفـَلـَكِ اﻷوَل ِ اسألـُكَ تـَسْهـِيل ِ الخـَير ِ وَ أن تـَسأل ِ اباكَ وَ
عِلـَتِكَ العَقـْلِي وَ مَعْشـُوقـُكَ وَ جَمِيعُ العُقـُول ِ الفـَاعِلـَة
اﻷنـْوَار ِ القـَاهِرَةِ المُجَرَد عَنِ المَوَادِ لِيَسْألوا السُّؤَالَ اللايق
بـِعَالـَم ِ المُنـَز َهِ عَن الحَوَادِثِ وَ المُعَصَراتِ مَبْدَاهُم المَعلول ِ
الاوّل النـُّور ِ اﻷقـْرَبُ عَقـْلُ الكـُلِّ ان يَسْألَ الـَهَهُ وَ إلـَهَ
اﻵلِهَةِ إلـَهُ العَالـَمِين َ نـَاظِمُ طـَبَقـَاتكَ الوُجُودِ فـَعَّالُ
المَهَمَّاتِ بـِأجْمَعِها صاحبُ الطـَول ِ وَ البَهَاء واجـِبُ الوُجُودِ ان
يُأيِّدَنِي بـِنـُورهِ وَ يُقـَدِسنِي لـَدَيهِ وَ يَصْرفَ عَنّي الافـَات َ
النـَفـْسَانِيَة َ وَ البَدَنِيَة َ وَ يَنـْصُرَ أهْلَ النُّور ِ وَ اﻹشراق وَ
يُقـَدِّسَهُم وَ يُبار ِكهمُ وَ إيَّانا إلىَ الابَد آمِين
وَارِدُ يـَوْم ِ الثـَّلـَثـَاء لِلمَر ِيخ
السَّلامُ
عَلـَيْكَ وَ تـَقـْدِيسُ اللهِ وَ بَرَكـَاتـُهُ أيُّها السَّيِّدُ اﻷمِيرُ
الفـَاضِلُ الغَالِبُ القـَاهِرَ الظـَّافِرُ اﻷبُ النـَّيِّر بُرهان سِبهـِر المُطِيعُ
لِمُبْدِعِهِ المُتـَحَرِّكُ فِي شـُوق ِ مَعْشـُوقِهِ العَقـْلِي بـِحَرَكـَةِ
فـَلـَكِهِ النـَّائي عَن الكـَوْن ِ وَ الخـَرْق ِ وَ الفـَسَادِ وَ الحَرْكـَةِ
المُسْتـَقِـيمَةِ انْتَ الشـُّجَاعُ الشـَّدَيدُ العَالِي القـَاصِمُ القـَاطِعُ القـَو
ِيُّ ذ ُو السَّلاطـَةِ وَ الهَيْجَاء وَ البَأس ِ الشـَّدِيدِ وَ النـَّار ِ
المُوقـَدَةِ وَالدَّم ِ المُهراق ِ وَ السَّيفِ المَسْلـُول ِ جَلَّ مَن
أبْدَعَكَ وَ نـَوَّرَكَ وَ ألبَسَكَ البَأسَ وَ الهَيْبَة َ وَ السَّطـْوَةَ وَ
القـَهْرَ وَ أفـَاضَ علـَى نـَفـْسِكَ النـُّور ِ الـَّذِي تـَنـْبَعْث ُ مِنـْهُ
حَرَكـَاتِكَ الدَّائِمَة الشـَّوقِيَّة وَ مَكـَّنَكَ فِي الفـَلـَكَ الخَامِس اسألـُكَ
أن تـَقـَهَرَ اعدَاءَ الحَق ِّ وَ ان تـَسألَ اباكَ وَ عِلتـَكَ وَ مَعْشـُوقـَكَ
النـُّور ِ القـَاهِرَ وَ جَمِـيعُ اﻷنـْوَار ِ القـَاهِرَةِ اﻷقـْرَبـِين
العُقـُول ِ المُجَرَّدَةِ أن يَسألوا أباهُم وَ عِلـَتـُهُم المَعلـُولُ اﻷوَّل عَقـْلُ
الكـُلِّ سُؤالا ً يَلِيقُ بالعُقـُول ِ المُقـَدَّسِينَ عَن التـَغيِّر لِيَسْألَ
إلاهَهُ وَ إلهَ كـُلِّ إلـَهٍ إلـَهُ العَالـَمِينَ صَاحِبَ الطـَول ِ اﻷعظـَم وَ
النـُّور ِ اﻷبْهَر ِ المَبْدَ اﻷوَّل الوَاحِدُ مِن جَمِيع الوُجُوهِ وَاجـِبُ
الوُجُودِ قـَيِّم الكـُلِّ أن تـَجْعَلـَنِي مِن مُقـَرَبـِيهِ وَ حَمَلـَةِ
انـْوَار ِهِ وَ اسْرَار ِ الحَقيقـَةِ وَ يَنْصُرَ أهْلَ النـُّور ِ وَ اﻹشـْرَاق
ِ وَ يُبار ِكـَهُم وَ إيَانَا الدَّهَر وَ اﻷبَدِ آمِين
وَارِدُ يَوم الارْبعَاء لِعَطارِد
لـَكَ
التـَقـْدِيرُ وَ الثـَّنَاء وَ عَلـَيْكَ سَلامُ اللهِ أيُّها السَّيِّدُ
الكـَبـِيرُ الفـَاضِلُ اﻷبُ الكـَر ِيمُ فـَوران سِبـِهر العالِمُ العامِلُ الفـاضِلُ
النـَّاطِق ُ الصُّدُوق حَبْر السَّمَوات الخـَبِيرُ باحوال ِ العَالـَم صاحِب
الغَرائِبِ مُتـْقِنُ الاسْرار ِ وَ العَجَائِبِ خَاز ِنُ العُلوم ِ الدَّقِيقـَة
َ مَلـْقىَ الذ ِّكْر ِ المُتـَبَاعَدِ لِسَادَةِ الكـَواكِب ِ فِي طِباعِهم فـَيَّاضُ
الذَّكاء ِ وَ الدَّهاء وَ التحقيق المُطيعُ لِمُبْدِعِهِ المُتَحَرِّكُ
بـِحَرَكَةِ فـَلـَكِهِ المُتـَبَرا عَن قـُبُول ِ الخَرق ِ وَ الفـَسادِ وَ
الحَرَكَةِ المُسْتـَقِـيمَةِ فِي شـَوق ِ مَعْشـُوقِهِ القـُدسِي تـَعَالـَى مُبْدِعكَ
وَ مُنـَوِّرُكَ وَ مُدَبِّرُكَ وَ مُلـْهـِمُكَ وَ يُفـَيِّضُ النـُّور َ المُقـْتـَضِي
الحَرْكَةِ الدَّائِمَةِ عَلـَيكَ وَ مُبَوِّكَ فِي الفـَلـَكِ الثـَّانِي اسألـُكَ
تـَسْهـِيلَ الرَّشادِ وَ أن تـَسْألَ عِلـَّتِكَ وَ مَعْشـُوقـَكَ النـُّورَ
القـَاهِرَ العَقـْلـَي وَ العُقـُولَ المُفـَار ِقـَة َ الأنـْوَار المُتـَعَالِيَة
َ عَن عَلَائِق ِ المَوَادِ أن يَسألـُوا سؤالا ً لائِقا ً بـِالعَالـَم ِ
العَقـْلِي المُنـَزَّهِ عَن التـَّغيير اباهُم وَ مَبْدَأهُم المَعلولَ اﻷوَّلَ
اﻷشـَرَفَ عَقـْلَ الكـُلِّ لِيَسْألَ هُوَ كـَذَلِكَ مُبْدِعَ الكـُلِّ قـَيِّم
جَمِيع ِ الماهِيَّاتِ نـُورُ النـُّور ِ وَاجِبَ الوُجُودِ إلـَهَ العَالـَمِينَ مُسَّـبِّبَ
اﻷسْـبَابِ أن يُنـَوِّرَ نـَفـْسِي وَ يُقـَرِّبَنِي اليهِ وَ يُكـَلـِّمَنِي وَ
يَصْر ِفَ عَنِي سُوءَ الدُّنـْيَا وَ اﻵخِرَةِ وَ يَنـْصُرَ أهل ِ النـُّور ِ وَ
اﻹشـْراق ِ وَ يُبار ِكَهُم وَ ايَانَا وَ يُقـَدِسَهُم وَ ايَانَا الى اﻷبَد
آمِين
وَارِدُ يَوْم الخَمِيس لِلمُشـْتـَر ِي
لَكَ
التـَقـْدِيـسُ وَ السَّلامُ عَلَيكَ وَ مِنـْكَ عَلَى النـُّفـُوس ِ الزَّكِيَّةِ
ايُّها السَّيِّدُ الشـَّر ِيفُ هُرْمُز سِبْهـِر عَظِيمَ الشـَّأن ِ وَالِد
البَرَكَاتِ وَاسِطـَةُ الخَيرَاتِ كَبـِيرُ النـَّفـْس ِ اﻷبُ الرَّحِيم الكَبـِير
الكَر ِيم الظـَّافِر المُبارَكَ السَّعدُ اﻷكبَرُ المُشْرِقُ الزَّاهِرُ صاحِبُ
العِلْم ِ وَ الحِكْمَةِ وَ العَدْل ِ وَ الفَضَائل ِ وَ اﻷخلا َق ِ الجَمِيلـَةِ
وَ مَكَار ِم ِ الشَّيَم ِ وَ عظِيمُ الهـِمَّةِ وَ العِتابِ المُطِيعُ
لِمُبْدِعِه المُتـَحَرِّكُ فِي شُوق ِ مَعْشُوقِهِ العَقـْلِي بـِحَرَكَةِ
فـَلـَكِهِ المُعَافـَى عَن الخَرْق ِ وَ الكَون ِ وَ الفـَسادِ وَ الحَرَكَةِ
المُسْتَقِيمَةِ سُبْحَانَ مُبْدِعُكَ وَ مُبْدِعُ الكـُلِّ وَ مُنَوِّر ِ
الكـُلِّ وَ مُسعِدَكَ وَ مُحَرِّكـَكَ الاعلـَى شَوقاً وَ عِشقاً فانْبَعثَ مِن
شَوقِكَ حَرَكَاتـُكَ الدَائمَةِ النـَّافِعَةِ الرَّاسِخَة ُ لِلخَير ِ وَ
اﻹحْسَان ِ وَ السَّعاداتِ وَ مُبَوَّكَ فِي الفَلَـَك ِ السَّادِس ِ المَسْكَن ِ
الرَّفِيع ِ اسألكَ سَعادَة الدَّارَين وَ اسألـُكَ ايُّها اﻷبُ السَّعِيدُ المُفِيضُ
العَدْل ِأن تَسْألَ ابَاكَ وَ عِلتـَّكَ وَ مَعشُوقـَكَ النـُّور القـَاهِرَ
العَقلِيَ المُفـَار ِقَ ذا الشَّوق ِ وَ البَسْطـَةِ وَ جَمِيعَ العقول ِ
المُفـَار ِقـَةِ اﻷقرَبـِينَ المُجَرَّدِينَ عَن دَنَس ِ الهـِيُولى وَ
عَلائِقِها لِيسألوا سُؤالا ً يَلِيقُ بـِعَالـَم ِ السَّرْمَدِ المُقـَدَّس ِ عَن
التغيـيـر أباهُم وَ عِلـَّتـَهُم المَعلول ِ اﻷوَّل ِ النـُّورَ اﻷقرَبَ عَقـْل ِ
الكـُلِّ لِيَسْألَ هُوَ كَذَلِكَ * الهَهُ وَ الـَهَ اﻷلِهَةِ إلـَهَ
العالـَمِينَ نـُورَ اﻷنوار ِ مُدَبِّرَ كـُلِّ دَوَّارِ ذا السَّناءِ اﻷبْهَر وَ
النـُّور ِ الاقـْهَر ِوَ الشَّرَفَ اﻷرْفـَعَ مُبْدِعُ الكـُلِّ واهِب الحَياةِ واجِبَ
الوُجُودِ عَظِيمٌ شَأنـُهُ لِيحَعَلـَني مِن مُقـَرَبـِيهِ وَ حَمَلـَةِ انوار ِه
ِ وَ عار ِفي اسْرَار ِه ِ وَ يَصْر ِفَ عني آفاتِ النـَّفس ِ وَ البَدَنَ وَ
يَنـْصُرَ اهْل النـُّور ِ وَ اﻹشراق ِ وَ يُبَار ِكـَهُم وَ إيَّاناوَ
يُقـَدِّسَهُم وَ إيَّانا الـَى الدَّهْر ِ الدَّاهِرينَ آمِين
وَارِدُ يَوم ِ الجُمْعَةِ لِلزُهْرَةِ
لـَكِ
التـَقـْدِيسُ وَ الثـَنـَاءُ وَ عَلـَيْكَ السَّلامُ أيـَّتـُها السَّيِّدَة ُ لِلثـُّريَّة ُ العالِمَة ُ العَامِلة أوْرمان أسْبَهْر المُشْرَقـَة ُ
السَّعِيدَة ُ الكَر ِيمَة ُ الصَبيحَة ذات ُ الضـَوءِ المَعْشـَوق ِ وَ البَر ِيق ِ المَحْبُوب
ِ وَ اللـُّطـْفِ
وَ
الزِّيـَنةِ وَ البَهْجَةِ وَ الجَمال ِ وَ العِطـْر وَ الاِعتِدال وَ المَحَبَةِ وَ البَرَكَةِ المُطيعَة ُ لِمُبْدِعِها المُتـَحَرَّكَة ُ فِي شـَوق ِ
مَعْشـُوقِها القـُدسِي
المُفـَار
ِق ِ بـِحَرَكَةِ فـَلـَكِها البَريئَةِ * عَن قـُبُول ِ الخَرْقـَةِ وَ اﻵفـَةِ وَ
الحَرْكَةِ
وَ
مُنـَوِّرُك ِ وَ مُدَبِّرُكَ الاعلـَى شـَوقـًا وَ عِشـْقـًا فانبعثَ من الشـَّوق ِحَركاتـُك ِ المُتناسِبَةِ
الخَيريَّةِ
وَ
مُبَوِّئُك ِ فِي الفـَلـَك ِ الثـَّالِثِ اسألـُك ِ سَعادَة َ الدَّارين ِ وَ أن تـَسألي أباك ِ وَ
عِلـَّتـَك ِالعَقـْلِي المُجَرَدَ أن يَسألَ اباهُ وَ عِلـَّتـَهُ أن يَسألوا
اباهم وَ عِلـَّتـَهم المَعلول اﻷوَّل الافـْضَل عَقلُ الكُل ِّ سُؤَالاً
لائِقـًا بـِعالـَم ِ السَّرْمَدِ المُنـَز َّهِ عَن ِ الحوادِثِ وَ التغييرُ لِيسْألَ
المُبْدِأ اﻷوَّلَ واجِبَ الوُجُودِ إلـَهَ اﻵلِهَةِ قـَيِّمَ الكُل ِّذاتَ الذ
َّواتِ أن يُنـَوِّرَ نـَفـْسِي وَ يُسَهِّلَ امري وَ يُقـَرِّبني لـَدَيهِ وَ
يَنصُرَ أهْلَ النـُّور ِ وَ اﻹشراق ِ وَ يُبار ِكَهم وَ إيانا وَ يُقَدِّسَهُم وَ
ايانا إلـَى دَهْر ِ الدَّاهِر ِين آمين
وَارِدُ يَوم ِ السَّبْتِ لِزُحل
لَـَكَ
التـَّحِبيَّة ُ وَ التـَّقدِيسُ وَ عَلـَيكَ سَلامُ الله أيَّها السَّيِّدُ
الحَكِيمُ الفَاضِلُ الغَالِبُ المُطِـيعُ لِمُبْدِعِهِ المَتَحَرَّكُ فِي شُوق ِ
مَعْشُوقِهِ القـُدسِي بـِحَرَكَةِ فـَلـَكِهِ المُتـَعالي عَن قـُبُول الخَرق ِ
وَ الكَون ِ وَ الفـَسَادِ وَ الحَرَكَةِ المُسْـتَـقِـيمَةِ انتَ كَيان
سِبهـِرعالي المَحَلِّ وَ الشَّأن ِ عَظيمُ المَكان ِ وَ القـَدْر ِ غاير ِ
الفِكـْر ِ بَعـِيد المَراق ِ جَليلُ الهـِمَّةِ صاحِبُ التـَّمْكين وَ التـَّوحيد
وَ الشَّـباتِ وَ اﻷفـْكَار ِ العَمـِيقـَةِ وَ الامُور ِ الهائِلـَةِ العَظيمَةِ
المُتـَطاوِلـَةِ وَ لـَكَ القـَهْرُ وَ المَهَابَة ُ كـُلُّ مَن أبْدَعَكَ وَ
ابدَعَ الكـُلَّ وَ نُورُكَ وَ نُور الكـُلَّ وَ القـَى عَلـَيكَ مِن اﻷشواق ِ
اﻹلهيةِ ما يَنْبَعِثُ عنهُ حَرَكاتـُكَ الدَائِمَة ُوَ بَواكَ فِي المَنْظـَر ِ
اﻷعلـَى الفـَلـَكِ السابـِع ِ اسألـُكَ أيُّها اﻷبُ الكـَرِيمُ ان تـَسْأل بضيا
نَفـْسِكَ عِلـَتـَكَ وَ معشوقـَكَ الَّذي مَهّدَكَ بـِالنُّور وَ جَمِيع
المُفارقاتِ اﻷنْوَار الزَّاهِرَةِ العَقـْلِيَةِ لِيَسألوا اباهُم عَقـْلَ
الكـُلِّ المَعَلـُولَ الاوَّلَ الاشْرَفَ سُوالا ً لائِقـًا بـِالعالَم ِ
العَقـْلِي المنَّزَهِ عن التَغيير ِ وَ التـَجَدُّدِ لِيَسْألَ هُوَ هَكـَذ َى إلَـَهَهُ
الـَهَ اﻵلِهَةِ إلـَهَ العَالـَمِين رَبَّ اﻷرباب مُحَرِّكَ الكـُلِّ قـَيَّام الوُجُودِ
وَاهِبَ العَقـْل ِ وَ الحَياةِ وَاجِبَ الوُجُودِ لِيَجْعَلـَني مِن المُشْتـَاقِينَ
الـَيهِ وَ يَرزُقـَنِي الانوارَ وَ الفضلَ وَ العَلـُومَ اﻹلـَهـِية َوَ يَصرِفَ
عَنِّي آفاتِ النَّفس ِ وَ البَدَن ِ وَ يَنْصُرَ أهْلَ النُّور ِ وَ يُبارِكـَهُم
وَ يُقـَدِسَهُم وَ إيَّانا إلـَى الدَّهْر ِ وَ اﻷبَدِ آمِين
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Elitist Ivory Tower snobbery, the imperial Baha'is and Hamid Dabashi's Great Facebook Tirade of 2015
Also posted as a Pdf here and here.
-
Facebook and Dabashian Vitriolic Knee-Jerkism
-
In response to the tirade above:
Original thinkers
don't need degrees.
~ Hannah Arendt
Whosoever
allows narcissism to enter them is destroyed!
~
Imām Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (ع), ḥadīth
…What the Babi
Movement of the middle of the nineteenth century and the Constitutional
Revolution of the end of the nineteenth/beginning of the twentieth century ultimately reveal is how as soon as the insurrectionary
spirit of Shiʿism degenerates in one case it resuscitates itself in another. As
soon as the Babi movement of the middle of the nineteenth century degenerated
into the Baha’i religion, the Constitutional Revolution of the end of the
century becomes the repository of all the hopes and aspirations that were
brutally murdered with the execution of Bab in 1850. The collective spirit of
protest that is in Shiʿism in its most insurrectionary moments divests its
aspirations from the lofty but irrelevant and megalomaniac claims of Baha’ullah
and invests them in local and anonymous figures far closer to their miseries
and hopes. The Constitutional Revolution thus rises like a sphinx from the
ashes of the Babi Movement...Baha’ullah systematically eradicated every ounce of
revolutionary energy from Babism and put it squarely at the service of the
reigning monarchy and of Russian and then British colonialism. By the time that
Iranians were getting ready to tear down the very foundation of Qajar monarchy
in the course of the Constitutional Revolution, Baha’ullah officially sided
with Muhammad Ali Shah.[i]
His son and successor Abd al-Baha went even further and was knighted by George
V, and under the British mandate established the center of his vanity in Haifa…
~
Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology, 2008, 80 & 83.
Facebook and Dabashian Vitriolic Knee-Jerkism
On 15 September
2015 Counterpunch and Countercurrents published my From Academia to
Hackademia: Hamid Dabashi as Native Informer[ii]
which was a response to a scurrilous, below-the-belt Aljazeera op-ed (11
September 2015) penned by Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi where
false allegations were levelled against Iran and her intake of Syrian
refugees.[iii]
Only a few short hours after the article went live, inexplicably, Facebook arbitrarily
shut-down and deactivated my Facebook account on the spurious grounds that I
was using a fake name; and this, on an account I have maintained for eight straight
years!
It took the better part of the next morning to get my account reactivated,
with Facebook demanding identification in order to do so. This sort of charade
is not new to me since I have experienced all manner of organized online gang
stalking, bullying, the hacking of my accounts (and that of family and
friends), identity theft, incessant cyber-attacks and public defamation during
the entire course of the last decade from Dabashi’s imperial Haifan Baha’i
friends[iv]
with their Baha’i Internet Agency[v]
(about whom more will be said presently below).
While this mess was being sorted out, for a few hours Hamid Dabashi
himself deactivated his Facebook fan page, only to return some hours later by
posting quite an unseemly knee-jerk tirade full of juvenile invective, vitriolic
vulgarities and below-the-belt ad homs – including the usage of
adjectives such as “bully” and “loser” (i.e. the classist language of the perpetrator
and establishment oppressor) - but without deigning to even respond to a single
point raised in the rebuttal to his ope-ed.[vi]
He also used the singular pronoun (i.e. I, me, my) thirty-eight times in a
single paragraph! Lame. His entire diatribe narcissistically revolved around
himself, his hurt pride and bruised Ivory Tower ego, and that how dare a
lowlife, non-credentialed pleb such as I question or interrogate his published
views and the patronage he receives by the Qatari Aljazeera!
Nothing was forthcoming by him – not one word! -- in response to the established
fact that Iran
has indeed taken in Syrian refugees and has no objections in continuing to do
so,[vii]
thus (by his silence on that score) invalidating the entire premise of his totally
disingenuous misdirection published by Aljazeera on 11 September 2015. As wiser
heads keep telling me, whenever one is faced with this sort of reaction, and with
the kind of rapidity that it came, you can bet your sweet patootie that someone
has been rattled – and badly.
Normally in such a situation – and given the manner in which Dabashi completely
shot himself in the foot with that public response – one should declare mission
accomplished and go about one’s merry way because the argument has been won.
However, his tirade raised several germane matters that further expand upon
what Dan Glazebrook and I have already stressed on the pages of Counterpunch regarding
Dabashi, not to mention the presences behind him. [viii]
With that tactless rant Hamid Dabashi further demolished his own credibility and
additionally reinforced the fact that he is absolutely not to be trusted
anymore because he is merely a well-positioned buffoon, an opportunist voice of
establishment shillery - only one who spins better, more sophisticated sounding
sorcery than others - but who when pushed or called on the floor for
articulating nonsense instead explodes into infantile tantrums and fits of public
rage: infantile tantrums and fits of public rage that belie his core elitist
snobbery and conceited Ivory Tower privileges. For his sake, I wish he had not
responded at all because I was totally embarrassed for him with the response he
did offer.
But, seriously, what did Hamid Dabashi honestly expect as a rejoinder to
that nonsense penned by him on Aljazeera: rose petals and palm
leaves strewn upon the pathway of his spouting the bald faced lies of Empire
against his own homeland?
Appositions
It is quite
telling in that regard that contrary to his Columbia colleague Joseph Massad,
who time and again has called a spade a spade and brooks no compromises with the
sell-out antics of westernized gusano Arab liberals and the venal
Western plutocratic interests behind them,[ix]
Hamid Dabashi instead regularly obfuscates and instead calls a spade by
something else while incessantly muddying waters, drawing bogus parallels or painting
patently false equivalences between the world-devouring imperial hubris of this
demonic Anglo-Zionist Atlantic Empire and that of its Eurasian or multipolar opponents
such as Russia, Iran and Syria.
Reality check: What the Empire of the Dajjāl perpetrates daily
upon the world – and has systematically perpetrated upon the world for 500+
years without let-up -- and anything Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad or
Ayatollah Khamenei are accused of pales into an insignificance of vacuous
existential nothingness and so therefore cannot be taken as equivalent or
aligned on any credible parallel line of comparison (at least in the present
ontological universe) with what Empire is up to, whatever the tangled,
convoluted, smoke and mirror sleight of hand in the porous geopolitical theorizing
of Dabashi and his ilk suggests otherwise. Simply put, Hamid Dabashi is being an
utterly irresponsible quisling (i.e. a native informer) towards the best
interests of his own countrymen and homeland (not to mention the region) when
he suggests as much because by asserting such absurdities – and I will say it
again - he is unquestionably playing right into the hands of Empire and its
larger agendas.
The Baha’is and their imperial
hackery
Now, one should
also thank Hamid Dabashi profusely here for opening a golden can of worms and
allowing this heaven-sent opportunity to address something even more potent that
was specifically broached in his Great Facebook Tirade of 2015. This surrounds
his public advocacy on behalf of those imperial hack-stooge extraordinaires:
the Haifan Baha’is, who as a creed represent the consummate colonialist, Anglo-Zionist
lackey, gusano, westoxicated, corrupt nouveau riche, comprador bourgeois-globalist
destabilizers of Iran
and the Iranian people since the late nineteenth century bar none.
This creed and the subculture it represents is precisely the epitome of
everything the great Jalal Al-e Ahmad indicated in his momentous Westoxication/Occidentosis
(gharbzadegī) because vis-à-vis Iran the imperial Baha’i
establishment is the pointy end of coloniality exemplified. Wherever any
attempts, endeavours or efforts exist to undermine and destabilize the Iranian
state and society, there you will find the Haifan Baha’is. Same with
Islamophobia, but that is another discussion for another day. Part of this has
to do with their long-held and long-cherished fantasies of one day ruling Iran
and turning it into an uber-modernist, hyper-corporatized, neoliberal totalitarian
Baha’i theocracy which presumably would be ruled by their all-male (no women
allowed), nine member “infallible supreme body” (known as the “Universal House
of Justice”) from Mt Carmel, Haifa, Israel. For Pete’s sake, they even try
claiming credit for coining the term ‘New World Order’ promulgated in the
writings of their prophet-founder Bahā’u’llāh!
Is this really what Dabashi remotely wishes to be associated with, let
alone defend from the likes of me? Is this what the true agenda behind the
Green movement of Iran is
really all about, i.e. a trojan horse for Empire’s plans of overthrowing the
system in Iran and installing in its place a future Western-friendly Baha’i
theocracy ruled from Haifa, Israel?
It is, of course, no secret that besides the Islamic Republic of Iran
itself yours truly is widely considered to be one of the most vocal critics of Baha’ism.
Of course, when Dabashi attacks his interlocutor on this point he seems to have
forgotten that his interlocutor is an an ex-Baha’i himself and an expressly declared
‘apostate’ in their books (having formally left it for the much greener
pastures of Shīʿi Sufi Islam in 1996 after becoming disillusioned with it much
earlier in adolescence). Moreover, my family and I have been maliciously targeted
by this organization on numerous occasions in the past due to my public exposes
of the litany of their lies, abuses and skulduggery (historical and contemporary)
as well as their quite sinister imperialist links, not to mention their unceasing
cult-like abuses and victimization of former members and critics (some of which
may even constitute genuine human rights violations). So if Professor Dabashi
wants to walk down that road and talk about bullies and bullying, there is a Masnavī-long
tale to tell regarding those imperial bully-stooges of Empire whom he calls
friends and who he beats his chest for in public.
Here is not the place to go into every delicate point of the convoluted
history; but suffice it to say that currently there is not a single Western government,
NGO, think-tank, lobby, organization, business or corporation in the West (or the
Gulf countries, for that matter) with sinister designs on Iran and who the
imperial Haifan Baha’is are not in one way or another connected to. The detailed
evidence for it can be found online connecting this organization to the elite
echelons of high finance within Wall Street and the City of London, both the US
and British intelligence establishments as well as corporate national security ‘mass
surveillance’ contractors of precisely the sort that Edward Snowden blew the
whistle on in 2013 -- and the list goes on and on. Until former Clinton administration
hack Lisa Graves bought out the Center for Media and Democracy’s Sourcewatch,
and overnight turned that whole site into a joke, extensive summaries of this
evidence were compiled and made available on that site (mostly now taken down
by the new admins since the turnover).
Now, the world headquarters of the imperial Baha’is (a decadent and megalomaniacal-looking
religious Disneyland cut from Italian marble and constructed in the form of the
Hanging Gardens
of Babylon revisited) is located in the heart of
the Zionist settler-colony in Haifa,
Mt Carmel, Israel.[x]
This, in itself, should begin by alerting any but the seriously deluded as to
who the imperial Baha’is actually roll with. Why doesn’t this factoid upset Hamid
Dabashi when he offers conceited public lamentations and performs his ridiculously
inverted taziya passion-plays on their behalf? Has he forgotten his own
words from Islamic Liberation Theology quoted above? And how
disingenuous does this make his overall critique of Zionism and Israel appear when
he is not prepared to temper his advocacy for the Iranian Baha’is (and whatever
purported plight suffered by them under the Islamic Republic) with this gaping
embarrassment of a tidbit regarding the locus of their world headquarters with
its opulently lavish, quite expensively maintained gardens which costs quite a
pretty penny – especially with the water bill alone, a resource the Israelis regularly
deny the native Palestinians who Dabashi otherwise professes to champion. Does
the blatant, insoluble, gaping and unbridgeable contradiction here not bother or
phase Dabashi’s conscience in the least?
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 the imperial Baha’is have
incessantly alleged persecution against them (including on one notable occasion
allegations of “cultural” and “ideological genocide”)[xi]
by the Iranian state while always busy lobbying and then mobilizing the entire governmental,
special-interest lobby, academic and human rights apparatus of the West – in
short the globalist glitterati (or as I have elsewhere coined it, the ‘Sorosazzi’)[xii]
- against Iran.[xiii]
While some incidents have indeed occurred (most of which may have been acts of independent
vigilantism rather than any initiated by the Iranian state specifically itself),
on closer examination many of the claims made by them have also turned out to
be either completely exaggerated or outright spurious fabrications designed as targeted
propaganda against both the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well
as the greater Iranian society as a whole.
Some of the incidents they have claimed to constitute persecution by the
Iranian state -- incidents which occurred during the early years of the Islamic
Revolution (1979-84) – later turned out to have nothing to do with religious
beliefs at all but rather with either royalist political connections of the
past or economic crimes committed by prominent individual Baha’is during the
former Pahlavi regime – a regime, by the way, the imperial Haifan Baha’is were
in fact quite chummy with all the way into the Shah’s secret police SAVAK.
Presently the Iranian state considers Baha’ism to be a ‘cult’ in
identical terms as Western countries like France
or Germany
consider Scientology or the Jehovah’s Witnesses to be a cult. Due to the
foreign, and particularly its overtly Zionist and Anglo-American ties, the
Iranian state also considers the Baha’i organization – but not rank-and-file
individuals – to be a national security threat in the same manner as Western
nations would officially consider al-Qaeda, ISIS or any other number of
Islamist (or even neo-Nazi) groups to constitute such threats. The Baha’i adherence
of both the late Dr David Kelly and his Pentagon DIA sidekick Mia Pedersen
al-Sadat – both of whose roles as weapons inspectors in Iraq in the lead up to the
American invasion of 2003 is well noted[xiv]
- would obviously not lead Iranian authorities to change their minds in the slightest
about the real threat this organization poses to the safety and security of Iran.
And why should they? Of course, one should also mention that the Iranian state
is also well aware of the fact that the parent organization in Haifa has been
playing a dirty game with the lives of average rank-and-file Baha’is in Iran
for thirty-six plus years now, often using them as convenient pawns and patsies
in its conceited games of political one-upmanship with the Islamic Republic of
Iran, given that the response of the Iranian state towards the Baha’is has been
relatively muted compared to what it otherwise could’ve been.
Now, during July-August 1953 at the height of Anglo-American meddling in
Iran, prominent Baha’i business tycoon Habib Sabet (a lifelong member of the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran) actively helped the Shah in
the lead up to the CIA-orchestrated coup d’etat toppling Mossadegh (paying
for Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi and Queen Soraya’s brief stay and royal maintenance
in Rome out of his own pocket just before they returned to Iran just after
Mossadegh’s fall). Following the post-coup consolidation by the Shah and his
regime, Sabet was richly rewarded by the Pahlavi monarch with the Pepsi Cola
and Iranian National Radio & Television franchises. In 1967 at the Shah’s
coronation ceremony, Habib Sabet was officially deputized by the Haifa
Universal House of Justice as its chief representative to the event.[xv]
Additionally, the father of prime minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda had been a
lifelong Baha’i. He had even acted for some time in the official capacity of
personal secretary to Baha’i leader ʿAbdul-Bahā in Palestine. The Shah’s own personal physician,
General ʿAbdu’l-Karim Ayadi, was a Baha’i. The notorious Sangsari criminal
underworld figure, Hozhabr Yazdani, whose close ties to the Pahlavi royal court
and SAVAK are well known, was a Baha’i. The deputy-head of SAVAK: Parviz Sabeti
– a Baha’i (albeit the Baha’i establishment currently denies this most vehemently).
Countless other examples such as this could be furnished from that era.
Given such facts, the imperial Baha’is occupied a fundamental cornerstone
of the ancien régime of the Pahlavis as they remain to the Empire
itself presently. In other words, we are talking about a longstanding pillar of
the Anglo-American ‘deep state’ itself. The evidence once offered on Sourcewatch
makes this fact undeniable and beyond the speculative conjectures of any mere
‘conspiracy theories’ alone – and I defy anyone to argue with these facts. In
the insightful words of a Facebook friend, “Haifa has been hitched up to every western scheme of
imperialism to come down the pike.”
The degree to which the events of 2009 itself possessed a surreptitious,
hidden Haifan Baha’i hand is also undeniable. This angle to the story has yet
to be written, but there is no question that there was deep Baha’i infiltration
of the Iranian Greens from its inception; and Empire’s remote-control of those
events was as much with Baha’i connivance as it was with Langley, Virginia’s.
Dabashi’s beautiful faux pas in the Great Tirade of 2015 only further highlighted
the fact.
But to cement the point regarding the monumental treachery committed by
this creed towards Iran in the last century: during the First World War when
the British were busily engineering a genocidal famine in Iran (which according
to the meticulous research conducted by Mohammad Gholi Majd[xvi]
claimed the lives of between 8-11 million Iranians from 1917-19), persuaded by
military intelligence officer Major Wellsley Tudor Pole (a Theosophist and a
Baha’i), the British mobilized a massive force of Indian cavalrymen just to rescue
the Baha’i leader ʿAbdul-Bahā from the clutches of his Ottoman Turkish enemies
in Haifa. This was because the Turks were threatening to kill him at the time due
to him covertly aiding the war effort against them from Acre-Haifa on behalf of
the British.[xvii]
Years later the Baha’is claimed that ʿAbdul-Bahā’s efforts during the war had
been purely humanitarian in nature, although the British themselves specifically
characterized such efforts as being “valuable services rendered to the British government.”
In 1919, as 8-11 million Iranians lay either dead or languishing from
starvation (with the whole country laid to waste devastated from this British
engineered famine), in the now newly British occupied zone of Palestine, ʿAbdul-Bahā
was with great public fanfare officially knighted and made a KBE.[xviii]
Later with the rise of Reza Shah and the Pahlavi regime – a regime the British specifically
helped install and bring to power in 1921 – the Baha’is would have certainly
been involved in those behind the scene, systematic efforts by the Pahlavis to
conceal and cover-up the evidence of this heinous crime (nay, holocaust) –
since this was one of several reasons the British empire installed Reza Shah – seeing
that the Pahlavi shahs elevated the Baha’is into all levels of their administration
from the very beginning.
With that said, those prominent First World establishment liberal voices
for the imperial Haifan Baha’is like Dabashi who are continually attempting to
paint them as meek victims lacking political agency in Iran (and so victims of
state sponsored as well as Muslim sectarian bigotry), only need to look at both
the past and present history of this creed’s active involvement with Western
imperialism to thoroughly disabuse themselves of that notion once and for all. If
the events of the past few years in the Middle East and North Africa have
taught us anything, it is the uncanny ability of such perpetrators and
wolves-in-sheeps-clothing to always masquerade themselves as victims in front
of the corporate mass media, the Western humanitarian interventionists and to public
opinion at large just before the masks come flying off revealing what they’re
really about.
Dabashi and the BIHE
Now, even though
Hamid Dabashi has rightfully railed against early Baha’ism in at least two of
his major publications (as the opening quote above amply demonstrates), in
2011-2012 he was among a dozen prominent North American academics and public
figures who the Haifan Baha’is appropriated for sound-bites on behalf of the
activities of their BIHE in Iran (the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education).
Soon he was publically paraded before cameras beating his chest for the BIHE. In
one clip posted to Vimeo, which is a preview for a longer propaganda piece entitled
‘Education under Fire’, he is quoted as saying that the accomplishments
of the BIHE constitute “nothing short of a miracle”.[xix]
Besides Dabashi and the two Baha’is in the clip, prominent individuals
tied to the foundation-lobby industry in North America
are also represented in this preview clip for ‘Education under Fire’.
These include a former board member of NIAC (the National Iranian American
Council) and contact person for the anti-IRI lobby United4Iran, Hadi Ghaemi
(represented in this video as the executive director for International Campaign
for Human Rights in Iran).
Donors for NIAC and United4Iran, of course, include George Soros’ Open Society
Institute as well as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Predictably, Elise Auerbach (Iran and Mid East specialist for Amnesty
International), a prominent voice for “humanitarian interventionism” in the Mid
East and North Africa (quite vocally at that
during the Arab Spring too), is also given a prominent spot.
The outfit itself (i.e. the BIHE) was at the time operating illegally in Iran and
against the attempts of the Iranian government to shut it down, which they
eventually did. As innocuous as the name sounds, this organization was rumoured
to actually be a front for the activities of the B’nai B’rith in Iran, with other supporters and foreign
donors ranging from, again, the NED, the Open Society Institute, special
interest groups with outright Beltway Neo-Con ties, and even the US State
Department. The operations of this outfit were described by the Haifan Baha’is
themselves as being one designed to offer access to continuing education
modules to socially disenfranchised and “persecuted” Baha’is in Iran up to the
level of university graduate degrees: education which the Iranian state, they
claim, apparently denies them (a debatable point). However, the facts surrounding
the real activities of this outfit were anything but benign (or humanitarian or
educational), as common sense, the evidence of their linkages and then subsequent
events all proved one by one.
In 2012 I
emailed Hamid Dabashi specifically complaining about his involvement with these
people, explaining the issues to him surrounding the BIHE. He brushed me off
initially, but several months later came back unprompted and unexpectedly
apologized confirming what I had specifically warned him about earlier. Now all
of a sudden, after my last Counterpunch piece, he has begun clamorously
defending these people once more in public, this time against yours truly in
his diatribe on Facebook. Tsk tsk.
Whither Dabashi?
As he presently refuses to
acknowledge or rectify his error in the scurrilous accusation he has levelled
against Iran
in his Aljazeera op-ed of 11 September 2015 - throwing an unseemly public tantrum
on his Facebook fan page instead when called out - what is one to make of Hamid
Dabashi? Is he just plain naive or is he one in a long line of self-serving, mercurial
shills whose political ambition exceeds his actual wisdom to wield it? He
pontificates one thing in his theoretical writings but then goes on to do the
diametrically opposite in his activism (or to write up in his published op-eds
on Aljazeera) in the process aligning himself with some godawfully dark,
subversive forces out there, because it should also be noted as well that Hamid
Dabashi has for years been alleged to be a ‘Soros-man’ and quite close to those
specific objectives advanced by the Open Society Institute against Iran.
Given
this, Dabashi ought to first take the mote out of his own humanitarian
imperialist,[xx] Ivy League elitist and
privileged Ivory Tower eyes – and also go back to the proverbial drawing board
when speaking of hegemonic systems of knowledge production or knowledge
industries - before ever again lecturing or accusing anyone of being a “corrupt
mind.” Nor should Dabashi gutlessly brush off his critics by hiding behind his
professional credentials, entrenched academic position or the privileged
interests of his parasitic social class and attempt thereby to squelch or silence
(and, moreover, like the establishment itself, dehumanize) voices who disagree with
his. The issues are the issues, the facts are the facts, and one does not
require Ivory Tower credentials (or connections to think-tank lobbies with deep
pockets) in order to speak to the issues or the facts. Such eminent public
figures as he who insist on such trifles when throwing public hissy-fits on
Facebook because they have been proven wrong have instead conceded to all of
the original points made by their critics.
[i] Professor Dabashi has his history somewhat garbled.
Muḥammad ʿAlī Shāh succeeded his father Muzzafaruddīn Shāh in 1907 and was the
reactionary anti-constitutional/anti-revolutionary monarch the second
generation Bahā’ī leadership sided with. Mirza Husayn ʿAlī Nūrī Bahā’u’llāh,
the founder of Bahāism, died in 1892 in
Ottoman Palestine, nearly thirteen years before the beginning of the
Constitutional Revolution. Indeed, contrary to the earlier Bābī policy of
confrontation with the Iranian monarchy of the time, Bahā’u’llāh and his son
did indeed seek rapprochement with the corrupt Qājārs (who had mercilessly and
violently persecuted the earlier Bābīs). Bahā’u’llāh sought reconciliation with
Nāṣiruddīn Shāh (the father of Muzzafaruddīn Shāh) during the period of the
1870s-80s. Later his son and successor, ʿAbdul-Bahā (d. 1921), sought this
reconciliation with Muḥammad ʿAlī Shāh. Bābīs, or Azalī Bābīs (who are also
known as Bayānīs), and who still exist, are a distinct community from
the Bahā’īs (in fact they are their bitter rivals given that Bahā’īsm
represents a schism of the former). Azalī Bābīs are even credited by some for
initiating the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, see Mangol Bayat Mysticism
and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran (Syracuse University
Press: Syracuse, 1982) and Janet Afary The Iranian Constitutional
Revolution, 1906-11: Grassroots
Democracy, Social Democracy and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia
University Press:, New York, 1996). See also (in Persian) Siyyid Miqdad Nabavi’s
recent Tārīkh-i-Maktūm: nigāhī bi-talāsh-hā’i sīyāsī-i-faʿʿālān azalī dar
mukhālifat bā ḥukūmat-i-qājār va tadāruk-i-inqilāb-i-mashrūtih (Concealed History: An
investigation into the role of Azalī activists in opposition to the Qājār
regime and the genesis of the Constitutional Revolution) (Pardis: Tehran, 2014), a seminally important study
that deserves a full, critical English translation http://shirazehketab.net/tarikh-moaser-Iran/tarikhmaktoom.php
[vii]
See this piece from January 2015, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jan-27/203950-iran-says-ready-to-help-syrian-refugees-in-jordan.ashx
[viii]
See Glazebrook’s “With Enemies Like This, Imperialism Doesn’t Need Friends,” http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/16/with-enemies-like-this-imperialism-doesnt-need-friends/
[ix]
For example, see Massad’s “The Destructive Legacy of Arab Liberals,” online https://electronicintifada.net/content/destructive-legacy-arab-liberals/14385
[x]
See this documentary by independent Israeli filmmakers, https://vimeo.com/22467795
[xii]
See my “The Sorosazzi Do Protest Too Much,” online http://syncreticstudies.com/2014/10/30/the-sorosazzi-do-protest-too-much/
[xiii]
See https://vimeo.com/46953624 and the
blogs http://bahaicultfaq.blogspot.com/
and http://bahaism.blogspot.com/
[xvi]
See, The Great Famine and Genocide in Iran, 1917-19, Second Edition
(University Press of America: Lanham, 2013); see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWc8-P29wIc
[xx]
See Michale Barker’s “Promoting Humanitarian Imperialism,” online http://www.palestinechronicle.com/michael-barker-promoting-humanitarian-imperialism/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)