Brother, you left us, but we continued to build the great civilizations, examples of the great victories for the holders of great honors. They entered our villages and towns. They captured us, used us like four legged animals, took us and forced us to build their graves. If, in the meantime, our toleration ended, they used us as stones in the building. But if we finished the building, its honor was recorded in another’s name and not even a memory of a name remained for us. Sometimes they took us to war, war against people we did not know. We drew our swords against someone whom we felt no hatred for, people who were born like us, from the same class and with the same fate. They took us before the eyes of our old and broken mothers and fathers who would await us. Their anticipation was never met. These wars, as a scholar has said, consisted of a war between two groups who fought together without knowing each other for people who did not themselves fight, but knew each other! They took us. We were destroyed and massacred. If we were defeated, our fathers and mothers would have to bear our death and pain, the destruction of our villages and the destruction of our fields. If we were victorious, the honor and power would go to another and we would never have a share in its victory and in its plunder.
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Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the ideologue of the Iranian Revolution. He was born in 1933 in Kahak (a village in Mazinan), a suburb of Sabzevar, found in northeastern Iran, to a family of clerics. Shariati developed fully novice approach to Shi'ism and interpreted the religion in a revolutionary manner. His interpretation of Shi'ism encouraged revolution in the world and promised salvation after death. Shariati referred to his brand of Shi'ism as "Red Shi'ism" which he contrasted with clerical-dominated, unrevolutionary "Black Shi'ism" or Safavid Shi'ism. Shariati's works were highly influenced by the Third Worldism that he encountered as a student in Paris—ideas that class war and revolution would bring about a just and classless society. He believed Shia should not merely await the return of the 12th Imam but should actively work to hasten his return by fighting for social justice, "even to the point of embracing martyrdom", saying "everyday is Ashoura, every place is Karbala." Shariati had a dynamic view about Islam: his ideology about Islam is closely related to Allama Iqbal's ideology as according to both intellectuals, change is the greatest law of nature and Islam. Persian: دکتر شریعتی در سال ۱۳۱۲ در خانواده ای مذهبی چشم به جهان گشود پدر او استاد محمد تقی شریعتی مردی پاک و پارسا و عالم به علوم .نقلی و عقلی و استاد دانشگاه مشهد بود علی پس از گذراندن دوران کودکی وارد دبستان شد و پس از شش سال وارد دانشسرای مقدماتی در مشهد شد. علاوه بر خواندن دروس دانشسرا در کلاسهای پدرش به کسب علم می پرداخت. معلم شهید پس از پایان تحصیلات در دانشسرا به آموزگاری پرداخت و کاری را شروع کرد که در تمامی دوران زندگی کوتاهش سخت به آن شوق داشت و با ایمانی خالص با تمامی وجود آنرا دنبال کرد. در سال۱۳۵۲، رژیم، حسینیهء ارشاد که پایگاه هدایت و ارشاد مردم بود را تعطیل نمود، و معلم مبارز را بمدت ۱۸ماه روانه زندان میکند و درخ خلوت و تنها ئی است که علی نگاهی به گذشته خویش میافکند و .استراتژی مبارزه را بار دیگر ورق زده و با خدای خویش خلوت میکند از این به بعد تا سال ۱۳۵۶ و هجرت ، دکتر زندگی سختی را پشت سرخ گذاشت . ساواک نقشه داشت که دکتر را به هر صورت ممکن از پا در آورد، ولی شریعتی که از این برنامه آگاه میشود ، آنرا لوث میکند. در این زمان استاد محمد تقی شریعتی را دستگیر و تحت فشار و شکنجه قرار داده بودند تا پسرش را تکذیب و محکوم کند. اما این مسلمان راستینخ سر باز زد، دکتر شریعتی در همان روزها و ساعات خود را در اختیار آنها میگذارد تا اگر خواستند، وی را از بین ببرند و پدر را رها کنند سایت هواداران انجمن دکتر شریعتی ــــــــــ فهرست مقالات ــــــــــ صفحه دکتر شریعتی http://drshariati.org
