scythian500
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5000 years ago!!!? Zoroaster himself was born somewhere between 3000 to 3500 years ago!! This is how you devoted Indian Zoroastrians are being taught about your prophet and religion!!You've been doing the same for 5000 years before you became Muslim.
For us, as Iranians, Zoroastrian was and is just a part of our history prior to a more logical and advanced religion got introduced to the people of the world.
It could be seen as Muslims or Christians see Abraham's religion which was Hanif per Quran and also historical and linguistic sources (Hanif means someone who rejected two main branches of star worshiping and idol worshiping and got out of those dominant religions in that time) and monotheist. Because some of our ancestors followed Moses the prophet or Jesus that does not mean we are originally Jewish and we should not be Christians or Muslims today.. Simple logic..
So, Iranian had this Zoroastrian religion for some time, but then that was enough for the level of wisdom and brain humans had in that time... The more human being grew in brain capacity the more complex religions were introduced to them by God.
This is why Islam sees all Abrahamic religions as one religion evolved throughout history. These religions are just a chain of religions who are one religion if Time and Location variables are excluded from them.
Judaism by the time of Pharaohs is = to Christianity by the time of Romans and Christianity is = to Islam by the time of Sassanian and Roman remnants.
So, Zoroastrian was Iran's religion in one time in history but it is no longer our religion as Iranians evolved into more sophisticated religions starting by Judaism and ending up by Shia Islam.
By the way, in a time where whole so called nations and countries are only decades old (UAE, IRAQ, PAKISTAN, EX-SOVIETS, ISRAEL and Saudi land) and some a bit older fake nations like USA, Australia, Canada, why some people insist that Islam is not the religion of Iran while Iran is a MUSLIM nation for 1400 years now!!
It is like some people make some short lived dynasties of Iran as IRAN's identity while they forget to mention much longer lived and by no doubt much more successful dynasties as pages of history which should be ignored!!
Achaemenid empire with all its emperors lived only 220 years and despite its glorious size and system had been subjected to himulation by the hand of the young Alexander of Macedonia while it was the pure Zoroastrian Iranian Parthian or Arsacid dynasty who regained Iran's glory and defeated invaders and guess what stayed in power for nearly 500 years (478 years to be exact).. Parthians were seen by Iranian people as saints... They were seen as purest Iranians who served Iran.. Even purer than Achaemenids... They fought Romans (actually famous Iranian general Surena who defeated the Roman Crassus is from that era) purified Iranian culture from Greek pollution.. They served land, culture, economy, military, language of Iran.. Much better than Achaemenids... but u see there is no sign of them in hearts and wide mouths of so called Iranian nationalists or Indians who are Zoroastrians...
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/شاهنشاهی_اشکانی
It is the same case when we look at how successful Iran was during the Islamic Golden Age which lasted nearly 800 years... Comparing to pre-Islamic Iran.. Iranian post Islam, Islamic Golden Age era is the one of the shiniest part of Iranian history...
The Islamic Golden Age is the era in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century, during which much of the historically Islamic world was ruled by various caliphates, and science, economic development and cultural works flourished.[1][2][3]
This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258 AD.[6] A few contemporary scholars place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries.[1][2]
Causes
Religious influence
The various Quranic injunctions and Hadith, which place values on education and emphasize the importance of acquiring knowledge, played a vital role in influencing the Muslims of this age in their search for knowledge and the development of the body of science.[13][14][15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
So, in brief, we respect Zoroastrian religion as it is monotheistic and as it was the religion of distant forefathers..but nothing more than that..they way you respect your Pentium 4 computer device but don't use it as there are better versions available...
Religion is not ethnic... If it is a religion from God then it can not be ethnic... Only Jews can manipulate a religion into an ethnic tool!!
Iran and Iranians identity is Shia Islam like it or not.. and there is no Arabic or Aramaic or Israelite or Chinese religions!! We worship the God of all creatures.. so there is no Arabic religion here... Its more Iranian religion than being Arabic to be fair... as Iranian scholars were and still are the main pillars of all progress Islam being witnessed in last 14 centuries...
No sane person would stick to a short period of time of your history thousands of years ago and leave its 1400 years of recent history... The more recent data always has more value as it is the current fact..
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