“The Path of Love” was unveiled/ an untold story of the Arbaeen walk – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, citing the public relations of the project, the unveiling ceremony of the documentary series “The Path of Love” directed by Amir Tajik on Thursday, 3rd of Shahrivar, with the presence of Majid Namjoo, the deputy and deputy head of the Development and Reconstruction of Atbat Aliayat, Yusuf Afzali, the deputy of culture and public participation. Atbat development and reconstruction headquarters, Ali Asghar Pourmohammadi, one of the veteran managers of the national media and the head of the expert council for the professional content policy of Satra, documentaries and media people, was held in Tehran’s Abgineh Hall.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Tajik stated that the production of this collection lasted for about a year and said: The production of this collection was accompanied by the special opinion of the imams, especially Imam Hossein (AS) and Hazrat Abul Fazl (AS), and the completion of this collection was a big change in It created the intellectual and cognitive path of my life.
From leg amputation and torture to execution and house demolition for serving the pilgrims of Imam Hussain (AS)
Pointing out that during the research, he got acquainted with a route called Tariq al-Ulama, he added: In the initial research, I noticed that during the Baath regime and the period when Saddam prevented pilgrims from walking, pilgrims used to pass through the palm groves. Due to security issues, they usually rest and hide during the day and move at night. At that time, Saddam had threatened that if anyone served these pilgrims, he would be amputated the first time and executed the second time. As a result of this issue, many of these servants were tortured, some houses were destroyed and they themselves were executed.
The former director of the documentary network recalled: After getting acquainted with the Fadak Al-Zahra charitable cultural institution of Iraq and about 6 months of research and research, I had a meeting with Ayatollah Seyed Mojtabi Hosseini, the representative of Hazrat Agha in Iraq, in the city of Najaf Ashraf, and he emphasized that the story of these people is telling. It has not been done and time should be set aside for it. Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Shahroudi, Ayatollah Hakim and Imam Khomeini (RA) have been among the revivalists of walking on this route, who also answered pilgrims’ religious questions along the way. This route, which is about 120 kilometers long, is also known as Imam Khomeini’s route among Iraqi Shiites.
We shot with both professional cameras and mobile phones
The director of “Mesir Ashaghi” informed about the conversation with the servants of the pilgrims in his series and said: This route starts from Najaf and reaches Kufa, Sahle Mosque and from there it reaches Tuwayrij and Karbala region and it has well-known figures who in an era They served the pilgrims very hard. For the production of this documentary, we have used various methods such as professional cameras, aerial photography, and even mobile phones, and I am trying to include the topic of mobile documentary production.
Stating that Iran’s influence in Iraq is interesting, Tajik emphasized: We went to processions that had special devotion to Imam (RA) and Agha. Each episode is about a character, but about some of the servants who died, we talked to their children and several people are present in the documentary.
The story of poor pilgrims who give everything they have in charity
He also shared his memories of the production of the documentary and broadcast related parts of it to the audience and stated: During the image that was taken of the characters, I tried to remind the lessons that are not being paid attention to these days. How to deal with the pilgrims is very important for the procession leaders. Even many of them were financially weak, but they gave everything they had for the pilgrims, and this was very strange to me.During the Baath regime and the period when Saddam prevented pilgrims from walking, pilgrims used to pass through the palm groves. Due to security issues, they usually rest and hide during the day and move at night. At that time, Saddam had threatened that if anyone served these pilgrims, he would be amputated the first time and executed the second time. As a result of this issue, many of these servants were tortured, some houses were destroyed and they themselves were executed.
He reminded: We even have pictures in the documentary where the processionists fought with each other to take the pilgrim to their house, or a case where even if the pilgrim did not go to their house, they went somewhere and insisted on taking the pilgrim to their house. they took.
Votive food inside the coffin!
This documentary maker continued: Even during the interview, if a pilgrim refused, these servants would interrupt the conversation to invite him to their house. “Om Faris” is one of the women who hid pilgrims in her house and had interesting stories to tell. The question here is that during the Baath regime, was it easy to serve the pilgrims? I have to say no and we even have a character who himself and his 6 sons were executed and their house destroyed. But the more difficult the Ba’ath regime made it, people acted more creatively, for example, they put food in the coffin and distributed it among the pilgrims!
Broadcasting “Mesir Ashaghi” on three TV channels
In the end, Tajik said: Al-Ulama route has not had a map until now, but we found the location of the processions from the beginning of Sahlah Mosque to Karbala and prepared a map of this route. We have provided this map to the Institute of Shia History. “Mesir Ashaghi” has been produced in 15 episodes and will be broadcast from next week on three, Documentary and Nasim channels.
The sapling planted by Haj Qasim
In the following, Majid Namjoo, the deputy and deputy head of the development and reconstruction headquarters of Atbat Al-Ayat, expressed his appreciation for the hard work and efforts that have been made towards the production of “The Path of Love” and stated: Since 1982, when the Atbat headquarters was started by Sardar Soleimani, to We have taken care of Karbala, which was severely damaged during Saddam’s dictatorship. Now we have reached a stage where we are building large projects in 5 Iraqi cities using people’s donations. We have added 230,000 square meters to the shrine of Imam Ali (a.s.). The Headquarters for the Development and Reconstruction of Atbat Aliyat has also created 130,000 square meters of court in Hazrat Zainab (PBUH). In Samarra, we have also been asked to strengthen, and all this was due to the pure will and intention of Sardar Soleimani, who planted a sapling that has now grown.
He emphasized: Atbat headquarters has a mission to attract people’s donations by presenting its works, so that we can reach our other missions, including construction in Iraq and the discussion of housing and feeding the Arbaeen walking pilgrims. These things are done through the people, and the headquarters of Atbat, along with the three thousand processions of people who provide services, only guides. Our goal is to get to know the pure Muhammadan Islam.
Namjoo stated: We need to familiarize more people with these activities with the modern tools of the seventh art and creating works. Of course, we don’t have an independent budget for this, and we interfere to the extent of adding salt to the dish. “The Path of Love” by Amir Tajik is also very worthy and good, especially considering his research approach.
When we say that your reward is with Imam Hussain (AS), it is not about money!
At the end of the ceremony, Ali Asghar Pourmohammadi, a veteran TV director, said: I would like to thank Mr. Tajik. They put in a lot of hard work, God willing, they will be rewarded with Imam Hussain (AS). Of course, when we say this, we are not talking about money! In any case, we are happy that Amir Tajik has fallen on the “path of love”.
Alireza Sabzali, the former representative of Iran in Switzerland, Ramin Velayati, the former vice president of Cima, Keyvan Aggkar, producer and host of the national media, Mohammad Ghasemi, producer, Seyed Mehdi Moveidi, the director of supply and production of the virtual space program, Nazanin Pirkari, the host and producer, Abolfazl Karimi, the documentary maker, was one of the other guests present at the event, at the end of which the production crew of “Mesir Ashaghi” was commended and given to those present at the Karbala funeral ceremony.