The Emperor Yazdgird III Famous Response to Omar

[kenmirzz]

Hello all my dear human friends especially Mr Ihsan.

As I promised to Mr Ihsan, this is a letter of response by the Persian Yazdgird III to Omar:

From: The Shâhanshâh (The King of Kings), the King of Persia and Beyond, King of many Kingdoms, King of Aryans and Non Aryans, King of Persians and many other races as well as Tâzis (Persian term for Arabs, meaning robin Hound Dogs), Shâhanshâh of Persian Empire, Yazdgird III of house of Sâsân.

To: Umar Ibn Al-Khatab, Khalifat of Tazi


In the name of Ahura Mazda, creator of Life & Wisdom. You in your letter wrote that you want to direct us towards your God, Allah O Akbar, without having the true knowledge of who we are & what do we worship!

It is amazing that you occupy the position of Khalifat (Ruler) of Tazis, yet your knowledge is the same as a lowly Tazi rambler, roaming in deserts of Tazistan (Arabia), & same as a desert tribal man!

"Little Man", you offer me to worship a united & single God without knowing that it has been thousands of years that Persians worship the mono God & they pray to him Five Times a day! In this land of culture & art this has been the normal path of life for years. When we established the tradition of hospitality & good deeds in the world & we waved the flag of "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds" in our hands, you & your ancestors were roaming the deserts, eating Lizards for you had nothing else to feed yourselves & burying your innocent daughters alive (an old Arab tradition, cause they preferred male children to female)!

Tazi people have no value for God's creatures! You behead God's children, even the Prisoners of War, Rape Women, bury your daughters alive, attack the Caravans, mass murder, kidnap people's wives & steal their property! Your hearts are made of stone, we condemn all these Evil which you do. How can you teach us Godly Ways when you commit these actions?

You tell me to stop my Fire Worship! We, Persians see the Love of Creator & power of inventor in the light of Sun & warmth of Fire. Lights & Warmth of the Sun & Fire makes us see the light of truth & warmness our hearts to the creator & to one another.

It helps us to be kind to one another, it enlightens us & makes us to keep Mazda's Flame, alive in our hearts. Our lord is Ahura Mazda & it is strange that you people also, just discovered him & named him Allah O Akbar! But we are not the same as you, we are not in the same level as you. We help other human being, we spread love among humanity, we spread Good throughout the Earth, we have been spreading our culture but in respect for other cultures throughout the whole world for thousands of years, yet you in the name of Allah invade other men's land! You mass murder the people, create famine, fear & poverty for others, you create Evil in the name of Allah. who is responsible for all this catastrophe?

Is it Allah who commands you to murder, pillage & to destroy? Is it you the followers of Allah who do this in his name? Or is it both?

You have risen from heat of the deserts & burnt out infertile lands with no resources, you want to teach people the love of God by your military campaigns & the power of your Swords! You are Desert Savages, yet you want to teach urban people like us who lived in the cities for thousands of years, the love of God! We have thousands of years of culture behind us, a powerful tool indeed! Tell us? With all your military campaigns, barbarianism, murder & pillage in the name of Allah O Akbar, what have you taught to this Muslim Army? What knowledge have you taught the Muslim that you also insist on teaching it to non Muslim? What culture have you learned from your Allah, now that you want to force-teach it to others?

Alas, Oh Alas...... that today our Persian Armies of Ahura have been defeated from your recently Allah Worshiping Armies; Now, our people have to worship the same God, the same Five times a day, but forced by the sword to call him Allah & pray to him in Arabic, cause your Allah only understands Arabic! I suggest, you & your gang of bandits pack up & move back to your deserts where they are used to live. Take them back where they used to the burning heat of the sun, tribal life, eating Lizards & drinking Camel Milk. I forbid you to let your band of thieves loose in our fertile lands, civilized cities & our glorious nation. Don't turn these "beasts with hearts of stone" loose, to mass murder our people, kidnap our women & children, rape our wives & send our daughters to Mecca as slaves! Don't let them do these crimes in the name of Allah O Akbar, put a stop to your criminal behavior.

Aryans are forgiving, warm, hospitable, & decent people and everywhere they went, they have spread seeds of friendship, love, knowledge & truth; therefore, they shall not punish you & your people for your pirate ways & criminal acts. I beg you to remain with your Allah O Akbar in your deserts & do not move close to our civilized cities, for your believes are "Much Fearful" & your behavior is "Most Barbaric"!

signed,

Emperor Yazdgird III of Sasanid



- - The Original copy of this letter (632 AD - 651 AD) is in London Museum - -

I was originally in doubt about the authenticity of the letter though what the Persian sovereign replied was wholly true, at least in the case of the subjugation motive of the Arabian invaders that later devastated the Persian Empire. Here is the source:

www.venusproject.com/Great_Persian_Empire/Emperor_Yazdgird_Letter.html

www.danielpipes.org/comments/49613

It says that there is a copy in London Museum. Anyone in London can verify this?

[Azadan Januspar]

This work highly seems manipulated letter and hasn't been certfied to be genuine by no one as the veracity of narrations regarding any written or oral arguments between Arabs and Iranians are also doubted and studied with caution in modern ways of study of this era.
However I should draw your attention that according to me if there had been some converstations or letters between two warring states, they were more concerning tributes and land rather than religious matters.

[kenmirzz]

This work highly seems manipulated letter and hasn't been certfied to be genuine by no one as the veracity of narrations regarding any written or oral arguments between Arabs and Iranians are also doubted and studied with caution in modern ways of study of this era.
However I should draw your attention that according to me if there had been some converstations or letters between two warring states, they were more concerning tributes and land rather than religious matters.

Mr Azadan Januspar, the Arabian invaders did march towards the East and the West based on religious zeal as their motivation. First and foremost, we have to determine the aggressor party and the defensive party here. Obviously, the Arabs demanded the Iranian to convert but the latter refused on account of their already high attainment of civilization prior to the Arabs.

The genuineness of this letter is in question by some Islamists because it described accurately the ruthlessness of the Arabs in advancing their ideology and we cannot deny the ulterior imperialistic objectives behind those advancement that devastated the Persian Empire.

I hope someone who had been to London Museum can shed light on this matter.

[Azadan Januspar]

Yes, Distinguishing aggressors and defenders especially studying the Islamic historical texts is quite confusing as it may seem that for examlpe the Sassanids were the aggressive party in event like battle of Nahavand and they were invaders fighting in Caliphate lands. here I again suggest that the Sassanid state were a form of kingdom rather than an empire not to be mistaken. In fact the history of the late Sassanians has been a hot subject to study yet always studied with a same cliche that is Arabic biased sources as a foundation of study, but hopefully it is carrying on by new wave of study methods.