The lifestyle of Shahid Aslani according to his wife/ You must run; You cannot become a servant of the people by sitting
group Society; Naima Javidi: It’s hard, isn’t it?! That you want to talk about a wife whose days have not yet passed. On the third night, during the mourning ceremony, you want to interview a journalist and tell how your recently lost loved one died and what he was doing? However, being sad shoulder to shoulder should be strong enough to say: “I was waiting for my wife’s martyrdom, she lived like a martyr.” Our last trip together was Rahian Noor camp. I was in a secluded corner and I was in a good spiritual mood. I prayed to God and whispered to the martyrs. Haj Agha sat next to me with the same love and smile as always, which now had a strange insistence added to it. He brought his head close and said: Dear, we don’t have a single meal! You pray for yourself, pray for me as always. The head of Haj Qasim’s grave also begged for prayers.
It didn’t take long that the desired routine was answered; It was reported that a Takfiri youth attacked three clerics in the shrine of Imam Reza (a.s.) with a knife, and one of them was martyred. Hojjat al-Islam “Mohammed Aslani”. The narrations that we read below are thanks to Mrs. “Zahra Pourali”, the wife of the servant of the Razavi shrine, who agreed to talk with us during the difficult and first days of her husband’s martyrdom.
The honors started after martyrdom…
Our first question to Pour Ali about his condition, his 5 children, especially Rehane; The little daughter of martyr Hojat al-Islam is “Mohammed Aslani” and how do they cope with this amount of grief and shock from that sudden news? The traces of sadness and pain are clearly visible in his voice, but he tries to season his words with a smile with strange patience and sobriety, so that we who are listening don’t come across as bitter. With gratitude, he responds to God: “With the help of God and the balm of people’s presence, it passes… After the martyrdom of my wife, I did not see any lack of dignity. One is that when I cry, Rehana wipes my tears and says: Be strong, mom! The enemy is happy. It is strange for a young girl to comfort her mother, but it is not for me, after all, she was brought up in the school that her father sacrificed his life for; School of Ahl al-Bayt (AS), Province and Revolution.
People knew, not me!
The lady has learned about the news of her husband’s martyrdom a little late. Late because the news went viral very soon. But he was busy doing what his wife entrusted to him in the last hours: “Haj Agha conveyed his message with the last thing he said to me and cleared my way for the days after him. Half an hour before the martyrdom, he called and said: “Haj Khanum, go to the mosque, because Halim Nazri has to come to the iftar table of needy families.” They worked day and night until martyrdom. That incident happened at 2 o’clock in the shrine and my wife was martyred, but I did not know and I was carrying out her order.”
Daghi is new and that’s why he talks word by word to give him a chance to swallow the anger that sometimes closes his throat and then he continues: They had my wife’s shrine and martyrdom. When they saw that I was standing at work and playing Halim, they were surprised but did not say anything and left. The news reached me a little later. First, they said that Haj Agha’s leg was injured, then they said that he was hospitalized, and they gradually prepared me to hear the news of my wife’s martyrdom.
A mother who did not breastfeed her children without ablution
We ask when and how it happened that Zahrakhanam and Sheikh Shahid, companions and companions of 33 years of life together. Pourali says: “We have a close family relationship. I was the grandson of Sheikh’s aunt. Their paternal origin was Yazdi. After the great drought that occurred in Yazd before the revolution, many families came to different cities, especially Khorasan, and stayed. Aslanis were also among them. My mother’s aunt, who was my wife’s mother, was known for her religion and strictness and caution in talking to non-mahrams and observing religion. She did not breastfeed her children without ablution. She was a devoted woman, so much so that God saved two martyrs and a war veteran child for her hereafter, who is now considered the mother of three martyrs with her spiritual wife and my martyr. My father-in-law was also religious and godly. Of course, both of them have gone to God’s mercy.”
We should not make people sad
He says about his wife that he came to propose at the age of 18: “He was a young student. We built life together. Our condition in life was to try to be kind to each other like Hazrat Ali (AS) and Hazrat Zahra (S). Let’s live simply and help each other in God’s service. In the beginning, we had a normal financial situation, but Haj Agha’s financial situation was such that he could provide us with a prosperous life, especially because he had a good reputation among others, but the trust and credit he had before God and people was more important to him; He used to say: Our life should be close to the average society and less than that. People; Relatives, neighbors and friends who came to our house should say that the house and life of this cleric is like ours, not that they will be tormented and regretted.
Haji, have you seen the shrine pigeon?
Pour Ali is the servant of Razavi’s shrine and every morning, around 5 o’clock, his wife accompanied him to the shrine and back home in the evening. He says of those days: “He never once complained, by the way, he ordered me to serve well and properly.” The courier of Imam Reza (a.s.) was taking me and bringing me back. When he was martyred, it crossed my mind that for a lifetime I will be the caretaker of the shrine. See how he got ahead of me. Deli was the servant of the shrine and martyrdom was his reward. Before this, he will take me to the shrine. From now on, I will go to Pabus sir and see him.” I say, “So your wife has become a pigeon of the harem,” he says: “Yes, yes…”
Silence is not always a sign of satisfaction, sometimes it means a woman on the phone, slowly becoming a spring cloud and raining. Tears block the way of words, a little time passes and again the same composure and patience line up the words one after the other to tell his old secret: “When I was young, I used to go to Pabus Hazrat and I wanted a good husband, destiny and sustenance slow down I once said to Mr.: Mr. John, he can get along with his wife without money, but not with his lack of religion and immorality! A pious man whom you approve of, may God bless him, God willing. Sir, he is very generous, he became a day in my life, and every day I became more sure that this is Imam Rezajan’s gift to me. It was so good and approved by them that in the end, he was martyred in their own shrine with the language of fasting, while he went to participate in the hearing of the deprived, and was buried in the shrine as well.”
Free accommodation for pilgrims from Rahiyan Noor
The sweetness of the memory of the last trip they went with the family was still under the teeth of the Aslani family, who upon hearing their father’s oppressed martyrdom, the whole family was covered in black. Pourali says: “My wife was in the front for 9 months and had 2 martyred brothers. When he was 16 years old, he buried his martyred brother Ibrahim with his own hands. There is also a veteran brother who is still alive, thank God, and we have the opportunity to serve him after my martyred wife. In short, he was very interested in the martyrs and issues related to the war and the front. For many years, we were able to go to Rahian Noor during Nowruz. This time, we made two sets of bags, one for the Rahyan Noor camp and the other for going to Karbala. We wanted to go to Karbala as a family if possible, but it was not possible. Just the other day, I said to Haji, do you remember that you said it is forbidden to eat alone? Now I tell you that I ask for your intercession. I know that when you were martyred in Karbala, you became a martyr with thirst…
He remains silent for a while and says: “We don’t know of any place, time or situation where my wife’s phone did not ring and there was no talk of serving others. During this last trip, his phone rang, they said that the weather has turned cold and Razavi Nowruz pilgrims are in the cold. He picked up the phone there and coordinated the mosques in the area where he served for free accommodation for pilgrims. He insisted that the families get blankets, food and a place to rest.”
Witness; Serving the underprivileged
He tries to smile from time to time so that I, the listener, will not be sad to hear the memories of a woman who has just lost her husband. For me, as a reporter, this means the highest level of intelligence of a woman who has lost her life. I ask how he comforts himself these days and he says: “When I heard the news of martyrdom, I told him that he was martyred in Sultan Gharib’s shrine in a strange way, oppressed and with the language of fasting.” As soon as I saw the video of the arrest of that Takfiri by the people, my heart calmed down. The sadness of our family, but when we saw less, people gave up. Shiites, Sunnis, pilgrims, non-pilgrims all came under my wife’s coffin and she was buried with dignity. People became a balm for us. May God protect their loved ones. We were really encouraged.”
I think he has answered my question and I want to go to the next question which says: “But what am I happy with these days?” My heart is warm and calm with the smile of the leader’s satisfaction; I am happy that their unknown soldier; My wife served the people and the revolution well. The deprived areas of Mashhad include 7 zones. On that day, a meeting was supposed to be held in the Razavi shrine with the officials of 7 zones, where my wife, Shahid Hajna, and Haj Agha Pakdaman were in charge of 3 zones out of these 7 zones, when suddenly it happened and the officials of the three zones were attacked. The orphans, the needy, and the deprived in the suburbs of Mashhad were the ones that my wife worked day and night to serve, and finally she became a martyr and was accepted by God, Alhamdulillah.”
He hears me, I’m sure…
Women live with their feelings, and maybe they don’t say wrongly: “I don’t feel it, even these things are fixed by themselves.” I feel that he is still in this house and the room in front of me and the children. He always watched the leadership’s speeches to see what he said in order to act. He used to say that you have to run and act on Mr.’s words, it is not possible to sit and just talk about his words. I ask in this good life, have there been any disagreements and discouragement at all? He smiles and says: “The salt of life is this difference and differences from time to time.” Sometimes it happened, but very transient and short. We were passing by. We talked and it was resolved. When I had a problem, I consulted Haj Agha. Even these days, I feel that he likes me somehow.”
You planted flowers, the servant of the marginals!
He says about his wife’s happy state: “The prayer of his prayers, especially the morning prayer, was martyrdom. When we left Rahian Noor in Kerman, he said to Sardar Soleimani’s grave: Pray for me to become a martyr. Like Haj Qasim, he was very interested in the shrines of Hazrat Madar.” He says about Haj Agha’s love and interest in gardening: “His gardening was good, even agriculture was good and he was interested in flowers and plants. But in my opinion, planting the best flowers in the outskirts of the city is the same as serving the underprivileged. He ran and planted flowers for a lifetime, now the place of his martyrdom has been covered with flowers and green. I think about this, that Takfiri young man martyred my wife in the shrine, and if there were no defenders of the shrine, what would our country be like now? With that way of attack, the enemy only showed his helplessness.”
Free treatment of deprived corona patients
Somewhere between the words, he called his wife an unknown soldier and I asked the reason for this name and badge: “He did not want to be photographed and seen.” He said that work should not be left on the ground. You should not waste time to serve the disadvantaged. During the days of Corona, he was always at work. From the very first days, especially the sixth peak, when the number of dead people exceeded 700, he told the clerics of the mosques in the outskirts of the city not to close the mosques. Care for corona patients at home, quarantine and screening should be carefully taught and carried out. He continued to prepare and donate prescriptions to poor corona patients. It provides food to affected families to gain strength and overcome the disease. “I was at work myself and I saw how many good packages of food, herbal medicine and medicine are prepared for deprived families.”
In a way, he says that he plans to continue with strength after his wife’s martyrdom and expects the authorities and related institutions to do their best: “There are two problems side by side in the outskirts of the city; Economic issue and obscenity. He said that we should do something to improve the economic situation of the people of the region, as is the order of Islam, and create a culture for the hijab so that Muslim women choose the hijab with pride so that their appearance is worthy of a Muslim lady.
I will touch the man’s skirt again
The lady has been serving the shrine of Imam Reza (a.s.) since 1378, and her husband was serving the people and the deprived in another way. He describes the black covering of the “Sidi” neighborhood of Mashhad on the day of his wife’s funeral: “I would not say that it was my wife and that anyone else was also serving like this. I ask God to replace him with someone like him, even better than himself, to serve the deprived people of that neighborhood. Like that day when I went to Agha’s shrine and prayed for a good wife and it was answered, I want to ask Imam Reza (a.s.) to provide a compassionate person like my wife for the orphans and the deprived in this area, so that the people will not be left without a servant.
We were servants for both Shia and Sunni…
He says that the Sunnis were also present at the funeral ceremony and many groups condemned this crime, and they themselves have not discriminated against serving the people in these years, especially his wife: “I am the servant of all Razavi pilgrims in the shrine, including Ahl al-Tsann farmers. During this time, my wife served Shia and Sunni families alike and did not differentiate. We are all Muslims, but if a corrupt, deviant and takfiri movement wants to hurt us, all of us Muslims must be united so that it does not happen again to any of us.
The enemy should know that the famous saying also applies to the student of Haj Qasim school, that Martyr Aslani will be thousands of times more dangerous and stronger than Hojjat al-Islam Aslani. The path of the martyr continues. The hand caress that men like him gave to the underprivileged did not go unanswered, those same children; Orphans and the deprived will follow the work of Islam and revolution.”
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