If You Kill Us... Poem by Farzad Jahanbani

Our yesterday fellow countrymen!

Please, don't kill us! Yet,

If you kill, don't slice our body

If you slice, don't burn our slices

If you burn, don't abandon our ash in the wind...

We are same, we all are human beings

"If you don't believe in religion, be free in your world" *

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Author's note:
* Speech by Imam Hussein (pbuh)
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Editor's note:
The historical context of the above quotation refers to the battle of Karbala (Oct.10,680
AD) —having Shimr-ibn Ziljushan sent an army against Hussein-Ibn Ali's camp—, where
the term "world" ("donyakom" in Arabic) refers to the general mindset of humanity and
rules of ethics [from a note provided by Elham Jafari].