“My beautiful dear” is the address of Haj Qasim to his daughter; You have no right to consider yourself superior

Mehr news agency Department of culture and literature: The book “Aziz Zibai Man” written by Zainab Moulai contains a documentary account of the last seventy-two hours of the life of martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani.

This book was published by Haj Qasim School Publications and published in the market. In it, the author went to the memories of family members, several commanders of the resistance front and old friends of Sardar Soleimani. It also deals with the spirit and character of Haj Qasim before his martyrdom.

The main source of this book is the documentary “Flight 1:20” directed by Mehdi Naqoyan. Additional points were collected through more interviews and added to the text of the book. At the end of the book, there are pictures related to the text of the memoirs, including family photos, a picture of the martyr's handwriting and his letter to his wife.

In part of the text of this book we read:

My beautiful dear, many days and nights have passed since that midnight between you and your lover.

You reached your beautiful lover, but you left us alone in the middle of the fire whose firewood of love's flames are growing stronger and stronger every day.

Unless it's because the lover and the beloved become eternal when they don't reach each other, and if it's a connection, it's forgotten, but your connection moved the boundaries of love stories, and of course, a history!

Whenever you talked to us about your beloved, our hearts trembled and the fear of this love was mixed with all the moments of our lives, but our hearts and souls never believed it. You don't know how much we are jealous of your lover…!

At the moment when your new beautiful bride hugged you wholeheartedly and left us in your arms for just a warm moment.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the martyrdom of General Hajj Qassem Soleimani and Martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, we talked with Zainab Moulai, the author of this book.

detailed You can read this conversation below:

* Mrs. Moulai, why did you start writing this book?

I had a book titled “Qasim Haj Qasim” before this book, which included the biography of Shahid Vahid Zamani Nia, the youngest bodyguard of Haj Qasim; This book was accepted by Haj Qasim School Publications and they liked the way it was written. This is why they suggested this work.

According to the publications of Haj Qasim School, a documentary titled Flight 1:20 was made focusing on the last three days of Haj Qasim's life, and we wanted to turn it into a book. To begin with, I re-watched the documentary and had questions while writing, which I found the answers to, and finally the book “My Beautiful Darling” was formed.

Several names were suggested for the book. Haj Qasim's manuscripts were also examined for naming the book, and finally, “Aziz Zibai Man” was chosen from Haj Qasim's own text addressed to his daughter, who wrote a letter about death and martyrdom, and Haj Qasim's own handwriting was engraved on the cover.

* The main source of this work was the documentary “Flight 1:20”. How much did watching this documentary affect your writing?

This documentary was broadcast and available. A series of interviews, which were needed and used for making the documentary, were provided to me in a more complete form and in the form of additional interviews by the publishing house of Haj Qasim School. There were questions while writing the book that I tried to complete.

I saw this documentary two or three times and it must have influenced my writing. However, I wrote this book in the style of the previous books and only a few memories were added to the book. This book is specific to the last three days of Haj Qasim's life, which ends in martyrdom, and we had flashbacks to his presence in Syria and his family memories with his wife and friends, and we reviewed them, thus making the book more complete.

Therefore, viewing the documentary must have had an impact, but I wrote the book in my own style, although the Haj Qasim school left me free to write and had guidance.

* Which personality aspect of Shahid Soleimani was attractive to you?

Every moment of his life is a lesson and fascinating; There was a time when I said to myself that even though Haj Qasim is so big in everyone's opinion, how interesting he behaves with his family. When he is among people, he approaches them in a way to say that he has no superiority and high rank over them, and this was attractive to me.

His dealings with his daughters and his advices, how they should behave in society and university or when dealing with people who are not of their type and appearance and a series of other memories that also had their own charm. For example, to one of his daughters who said that you have no right to consider yourself superior to the hijab you are wearing when dealing with that actress.

Even the kind behavior they had towards animals was also attractive. For example, in Syria, he even cared for a cat and took him under guardianship. The regional and management issues that existed in the war, the issue of a family within their family, were all attractive to me. For example, birthdays were very important to them and they wanted to have a grand birthday. There are issues like this in our lives and we look at them as models, and the hero of our life pays attention to these issues, all of this was very attractive to me.

* The text of the book “My beautiful dear” is simple, why didn't you use illustrations?

My personal taste in reading and writing books is like this. When life is real and you read a book where all the moments happened and you are looking for signs of the reality of the book, then all the events and locations of the book must be real. I wasn't looking for a maze of words to get closer to the truth of the book; Because the audience moves away from the main topic. Especially in books that are real and have actually happened.

Therefore, I did not want to involve the audience and myself in a maze of words; All authors do different activities on the text of the book, but it was not my personal taste to use only literary twists and turns and arrange words. In the previous books, I chose a simple and fluent text so that the audience of any age and taste can communicate with the book.

* What do you think are the most important obstacles to producing works centered on martyrs?

If I want to tell the problems, I have to suffer. But mostly the lack of cooperation of publishing houses is the main problem of producing works. I have worked with various publishers. Sometimes there are challenges that take a lot of energy from the writer and convey a frustration that if there is no sacred purpose, many writers may give up.

Sometimes, because the work is specific to the martyrs, it is out of the scope of professional work to produce a book, and sometimes there are obstacles such as financial issues and lack of understanding of the authors. Even when the books are reviewed, the defects must be fixed, but these defects are sometimes marginal and far from the dignity of the author and the book.

Of course, in this field, Haj Qasim School's publications helped me a lot, but in my opinion, the biggest obstacle is the lack of production, lack of cooperation and dissatisfaction at work that sometimes exists.