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| Peacock God, Satan worshiper and an unlucky people |
Do you take into account what befell in Iraq in June 2014? Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and its environs have been swept away by using black flags as 1,500 Sunni warring parties rose thru the desert. Huge authorities forces simply went into the air overnight. The caliphate of the Islamic State used to be mounted in massive areas of northern Iraq. People be aware of all this.
Two months after the June attack, IS militants started out cracking down on Kurds in the region. The Yazidis, a Kurdish tribe, have been the primary victims of the attack. Thousands of Yazidis died, many extra have been made slaves or intercourse slaves. The identify Yazidi is no longer unknown, as there has been a lot of writing in the press about the Yazidi human beings fleeing the Sinjar Mountains or the Kurdish paramilitary Peshmerga. But many do now not recognize the small print about them.
There is a debate about who Yazidi is. Many declare them as a Kurdish tribe. Many say the Yazidis have constantly been a separate ethnic group. They are now not Kurdish. We will now not go into that for the time being as the pupils have failed to decide how lengthy this debate will last. However, it is actual that the Yazidis have been scattered in Armenia, Georgia, Syria and Iraq for lots of years and think about themselves definitely distinct from the Kurds or Arabs. The whole variety of these historical inhabitants of the Zagros Mountains is between 5 million and twelve million. At current there are many Yazidis in Turkey and Germany. The phrase Yazidi comes from the historical Persian language. It skill ‘sacred’. They talk a Kurdish dialect known as Kurmanji Kurdish.
The faith of the Yazidis
The Yazidis, however, are now not Sunni Muslims like different Kurds. The faith of the Yazidis is referred to as Yazidism. This faith got here from the historical faith Yazdanism. In the pre-Islamic era, the Kurds had been followers of Yazdanism. Over time, the modern-day Yazidi faith has developed into a department of that religion, a aggregate of Zoroastrianism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir is a very holy man to the Yazidis. The Yazidis reflect onconsideration on this man of the eleventh century to be one of their prophets. ‘Kitab al-Jilwa’ and ‘Meshefa Race’ are their holy scriptures. There are many ‘kaols’ in the texts. Kaul is a form of exceptional poetry. These kauls have been practiced orally considering historic times. Later in the eleventh or twelfth century they had been accumulated and written.
The seven-day ‘Sejna Semaiya’ is the largest spiritual competition of the Yazidis. By slaughtering bulls in the autumn, they pray for the coming iciness and the subsequent joyful days. The tomb of Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir in the Lalis Mountains in Iraq's Nineveh Province is their holiest pilgrimage site. They quickly for three days in December. Holy locations of different religions, such as Mount Arafat, are additionally essential pilgrimage websites in Yazidism. The snake is a very essential personality in Yazidi religion.
In the Yazidi religion, it is a a long way cry to get married to humans of different religions, and it is forbidden to appear at them for a lengthy time. The Yazidis do now not spit on the floor or pour water on the fire. Because in their faith air, fire, soil and water are regarded as sacred objects. Facing the sun, they pray in their personal shrines.
The Yazidis consider that they are solely descendants of the Prophet Adam (peace be upon him). The Yazidis had been created on earth as a end result of the marriage of a Hurri to the infant of Adam (a). People of all different religions come from the union of Adam (a) and Bibi Hawa (a). But the Yazidis agree with that Adam is holy however now not air. So properly and evil merged with human beings of different religions, however the Yazidis remained the holiest. Of course, that does no longer imply that the Yazidis do no longer sin. The Yazidis trust that sin forgets people. Their faith has nothing to do with Satan or Iblis. There is no area for hell in their religion. The Yazidis accept as true with in reincarnation.
But the Yazidis have been persecuted because the time of the Ottoman rulers. They have been the victims of repeated massacres and bombings in post-Saddam Iraq. And all and sundry is aware of about the loss of life of heaps of Yazidis at the fingers of IS. While killing the Yazidis, the IS media over and over shouted that they had been warfare towards the worshipers of Satan. Many Arabs and Kurds see the Yazidis in this light.
Why are Yazidis referred to as Satan worshipers? If you desire to be aware of the reply to that question, you have to examine the story of Melek Taus first. This is a odd personality in the faith of Yazidis, in different Abrahamic religions he seems in the guise of the most condemned Satan. What is his story?
Melek Taus
In the Yazidi religion, Melek Taus was once created from the mild of God Himself. This is an angel. Later, Bidhata created six greater angels and made Melek Taus their leader. The easiest Bengali of Melek Taus is 'Peacock God'.
Melek Taus was once a very loyal angel. Bidhata as soon as created Adam via bringing dirt from the earth. He then ordered the angels to prostrate earlier than Adam. Although absolutely everyone prostrated, Melek did now not do Taus.
Recognized? Isn't this what is stated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Satan did no longer curse Adam. Later, it is nicely recognised that Bibi Hawa was once fed aromatic fruits and sat on the human race. And it is right here that the faith of the Yazidis has taken a unique turn.
Melek Taus is a follower of Bidhata, he is a section of Bidhata, Bidhata, why ought to humans prostrate? Moreover, Bidhata ought to have pressured Melek Taus if he wanted. But as a substitute he took the Melek Taus test. Bidhata used to be blissful to see that Melek Taus did no longer prostrate to Adam. Melek ordered Taus to act as the solely ability of verbal exchange between mankind and himself.
Many years later. The earth will be destroyed by using the descendants of Adam and Eve. Everywhere there used to be a nation of beating. Human society is poisoned. Melek Taus cried when he noticed this injustice. For seven thousand years his tears flowed, the fireplace of hell was once extinguished. But human beings misunderstood Melek Taus. They all again Melek Taus wondering he used to be a disobedient servant of Bidhata. But the Yazidis understood the actual story. In the trust that Melek Taus had surpassed the take a look at of God, regarded as an angel, the Yazidis gave him big recognize and adoration. This story coincides with the story of Iblis i.e. Satan. As a result, Yazidis have been persecuted through human beings of different religions for heaps of years as worshipers of Satan. Although the Yazidis think about Melek Taus and Satan of different religions to be of the identical character, no proof has been found. The non secular story of the Yazidis is completely their own.
Malek Taus descends to Earth on the first Wednesday of April each and every year. The Yazidis think about this day as their New Year. The Yazidi calendar is however very ancient. Their 6768th 12 months will begin in April 2018. During the pageant referred to as Tausgeran, the Yazidis cross from village to village on the common idol of Melek Taus. Many Yazidis admire Sheikh Adi Ibn Musafir as the incarnation of Melek Taus.
The actual query was once no longer answered. Why this name? What is the relationship with the peacock? The Yazidis agree with that the peacock signifies immortality. That's why they seem to be like peacocks. Numerous portraits, images and drawings of the peacock god can be located in Yazidi's residences and spiritual places.
Current
The Yazidis desperately prefer to keep their personal faith and social system. They have strict regulations about being distinct from different religions and nations. Although polygamy is forbidden in Yazidi society, leaders have some leeway. Amir Tahsin Saeed is their supreme leader. And the title of the present day non secular chief is Sheikh Haji Ismaili.
The faith and different customs of the Yazidis have remained hidden at the back of a number barriers. So no longer a lot is recognized about this mysterious race. Many Yazidis are fleeing to a number places, which include Europe, to break out persecution that has been going on for hundreds of years. Peace is installed in the north of Iraq by using pressure of arms, however the fragility of that peace can be considered in the press. The Yazidis additionally have their personal militia below the Peshmerga, however it is inadequate. If each mother and father are no longer Yazidis, their toddler is no longer regarded a Yazidi. As a end result of the war, this conservative machine is regularly collapsing, the quantity of Yazidis is decreasing. And in this way a mysterious historical state is regularly disappearing in the route of time.
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