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The Continuing Saga of Prosperous Snow
#748441 added March 6, 2012 at 12:24pm
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I want to speak to Táhirih
March 6, 2012, Tuesday, Day 6 ~ 30-Day Blogging Challenge prompt is “If you could speak to anyone alive or dead throughout history who would you choose and why?”


There are many people in history with which I want to hold a conversation. The problem, I have, is choosing one person. I am the woman who goes into the supermarket for ice cream and cannot decide whether I want double vanilla, real strawberry, or fudge chocolate, so I buy all three. This explains why I do not have room in my freezer to very many leftovers.

Now getting down to my decision, I will not make a list of everyone in history want to speak to; I will limit my list to the top three women (my opinion) in religious history. This list is in chronological order according their appearance: (1) Eve (Garden of Eden), (2) Mary Magdalene (a follower of Christ), and (3) Táhirih (the only woman among The Bab’s 18 Letters of the Living). The one I picked for this entry is Táhirih.

Táhirih was born, Fátimih ZarrĂ­n Táj (the name her parents gave her at birth), sometime between 1814 and 1817 in Qazvin, Persia (Iran). Strangled by a “drunken soldier” in Tehran, in 1852, then soldiers placed her body in a well and covered it with stones. Qurratu’l-‘Ayn or Solace of the Eyes, is another title by which Táhirih, meaning Pure, is known.

Why did I choose Táhirih? I chose her because she was a mystic poet, a scholar of religion, and the first woman to remove in veil in Persia. In 1848, at the Conference of Badasht, she removed her veil and sent shockwaves through the BábĂ­ leaders gathered there. By removing her veil, Táhirih made a statement for Women’s Rights that has echoed down through history.

What would I ask her? I do not have to ask her about her muse because I know her muse was The Bab. I would ask if she rewrote her verses or accepted them as the came out of her pen.

The first stanza of Point by Point
my favorite poem by Táhirih


If I met you face to face, I
would retrace—erase!—my heartbreak,
pain by pain,
word by word,
point by point.

from Táhirih: A Portrait in Poetry
Selected Poems of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn
Edited and Translated by Amin Banai


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