Iran
Cornelius Hamelberg
Cornelius Hamelberg
The video was put together by Dr Khashayar Lohrasbi.
As he explains, “This clip is the result of years of filming, months of reflection, and days of editing. Let it remain as a memory that I filmed moment by moment with love and edited second by second with love, with love for this land and its people, for its culture, customs, and traditions, for its historical buildings and cultural heritage... With love for the land of Iran…”
The nostalgia impact that the video has on voluntary and involuntary exile Iranians must be enormous. Some three and half decades ago an exile Persian was complaining to me that “in “ the good old days of the Shah” there was a separation of state and religion, but no separation of the sexes, no compulsory hijab, no hide-and-seek, and no morality police, that men and women could mingle freely, in peace, love and harmony, in the swimming pool “
Well, as Dr Nkrumah lamented, "Is that all they wanted? I thought we had a future together. If I knew I would have planted milk taps in their homes”
“See the white man sailing his ship up on the sea,
Watch the white man shackle the black man to a tree.
To the invader go the fruits of war,
He misses home and his boots are sore.
He has not got no roots no more,
He comes for your gold,
Watch out for your soul.” (Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now)
The nostalgia that exiles feel all over the planet, cannot be underestimated.
Even in the Happy New Year Christmas season of harmony over here in Sweden,
there’s sometimes this uncanny, tropical
everybody loves the sunshine kind of feeling
resulting in the likes of Lamin saying,
” I’m going back to Africa, I’m leaving”
Then he (Imam Ali -alaihi salaam) quoted al-A’sha’s verse):
My days are now passed on the camel’s back (in difficulty) while there were days (of ease) when I enjoyed the company of Jabir’s brother Hayyan.3
فَرَأَيْتُ أَنَّ الصَّبْرَ عَلَى هَاتَا أَحْجَى، فَصَبَرتُ وَفي الْعَيْنِ قَذىً، وَفي الحَلْقِ شَجاً، أرى تُرَاثي نَهْباً، حَتَّى مَضَى الاْوَّلُ لِسَبِيلِهِ، فَأَدْلَى بِهَا إِلَى ابْنِ الْخَطّابِ بَعْدَهُ. ( ثم تمثل بقول الاعشى):
شَتّانَ ما يَومي عَاى كُوْرِها * و يَوْمُ حَيَّانَ أخي جابِرِ
(Shaqshaqiya sermon) bearing in mind that Iranians are always quick to point out that they are Persians, not Arabs. Some of the even more traditional cultural chauvinists and supremacists among them are quick to assert that Zoroaster never claimed to be a messenger of God or that “God” had sent him
God willing, once there’s Peace in the Middle East , once again the great nation of Iran and what was once The Persian Empire will attract pilgrims and tourists from the four corners of the world.
It is being said that we are now living at the end times . Whether this (the end) will happen before the arrival of Dajjal //the Antichrist ,especially the AntiChrist according to Roman Catholic belief, and the Great Tribulation , before the Battle of Armageddon “the place where the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history, before the return of Jesus and before - according to Islamic eschatology
the advent of The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (Al-Mahdi-Sahib Uz Zaman) alaihi salaam ,remains to be seen
Cornelius Ignoramus asked Pa Google, will the Great Tribulation happen before the Battle of Armageddon?
I don’t know how authoritatively he was speaking, when a Jehovah Witness told me that soon enough, all the nations of the world will lay siege on Israel - and I have forgotten how long he said the siege would last until the Lord of Hosts will show the whole of mankind that He is God, when He comes to the rescue of His people !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-xVTiNqtQ