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Who Are Yezidi, Ezidi or Yazidi, and Yezidism, A comprehensive Case Study
Yezidis are our brothers whom their Elder brothers have forgotten since centuries.
They came in the knowledge of the common people by the internet when a yezidi girl Dua Khalil Aswad 17 years, was stoned to death by peoples of her town on 7th April- 2007, on the charge of being in relationship with a Muslim boyfriend, & becoming a Muslim.
The video of her honor killing was posted on the internet in May 2007. After this incident, the internet was flooded with the blogs supporting the innocent Dua Khalil, and providing confusing information about the Yezidi religion and their practices, their history and the felonies and hostilities of Muslims against this helpless community.
And some peoples were claiming that the Yezidi religion is an ancient and preislamic pagan religion,
and it has the blend of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism and Sufism, and the Yezidis worship an Angel in the form of a Peacock or Malek Taus, The peacock angel, and that The Yezidism is an ancient Angelic Cult,
and some posted on internet that the Yezidis are the Worshippers of Satan, and that they are Devil Worshippers,
The western media claims that the Muslims have persecuted them and the Muslims have attacked them 72 times in their bloody history and they still struggling for survival in spite of such hostility. All this is wrong. In reality they are Monotheists and heresy Muslims, same as Ismaili Khoja of India.
In this article I have made a detailed research and analysis about the Yazidis and I concluded that " In fact, the Yazidis are a sect of Muslim Sufis, whom the orthodox mainstream Muslims thinks to be heretics,
because the Yazidi scholar and a Muslim Sufi saint Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir has said that the Allah has accepted the repentance of Tawûsê Melek (Satan) and therefore the Allah has bestowed the governance of this world toTawûsê Melek and the Tawûsê Melek has been forgiven by the God, and now the Tawûsê Melek/Satan is his servant and in charge of this worldly affairs till the end of the world.
The Yazidism claims that the Tawûsê Melek cry and wipe for 7000 years in repentance, then the Allah forgave him.
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
For Details please read my research and the information provided by the Western media.
I made a comprehensive research and Analysis of the reality and Therefore in my research I found that the Yazidis are a sect of Muslim Sufism and they are in fact Muslims but they are ignorant and some what non orthodox, they are not kafirs and they are not polytheists either, they are Muslims.
They are Muslims and it is my recommendation that the Muslims must accommodate them in the tenets of Islam.
Now seeing an opportunity for creating chaos and dis integrity in Muslim countries Some people and Organizations even alluring them to make them near to themselves by comforting and soothing them and extending their helping hand, this act caused to create a big gulf of Hatred between the Muslims and the Yezidis,
Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Diyus of Indo European origins, and Malek is a word in Iraq for monsters, but all these comments are nothing but the wishful thinking,
Taoos is not Theos or Zeus, Taoos is Arabic word for Peacock, and Malek is also an arabic word for Angel.
The word for Monster in Iraqi Arabic is Malaq not Malek, the Malaq and Amlaq and Amaleqa are Monsters, Malak is an Arabic word for an Angel, such as Malak Gabriel and Michael etc.
and actually, the Yezidism is very different from all these internet western gossips.
We will study it in detail, but for your information, I am giving here an extract directly copied from the internet pages. So that you will be aware of the false claims of the western media.
First I want to give you some extracts copied from internet about the Yezidis, after that you will see my comprehensive Study on Yazidism, and you will realize what is the reality and what the western media is claiming.
Please Do read my Summary of Arguments just after the internet extract copy to better understand the Yazidism.
What the present internet gossips tell about Yazidis,...
Now please see below,..
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Extracts from the internet and western media starts from here.
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The Yazidis: Myth and Reality of a Religious Group of Proud Anti-IS Fighters
Fabrizio Federici 29 January 2016
Contrary to inaccurate reports, the Yazidis are a Kurdish religious group and not an ethnic group (following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Kurds asked for the Yazidis to be entirely recognise as belonging to their people). The religious community professing Yazidism consists of between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 lives in two Iraqi areas, the aforementioned Jebel Sinjar mountain near the border with Syria and the districts of Badinan (or Shaykhan) and Dohuk (in the northeast of the country), as well as in the Mosul area (ancient Nineveh, a territory that together with Kirkuk is geographically part of southern Kurdistan. This area is of enormous strategic importance and provides 75% of Iraq’s oil exports, now partly controlled by ISIS, which occupied the Mosul area in 2014, later freed by U.S troops). At least 50,000 live in the former USSR (Armenia and the Tbilisi area in Georgia), but there are also others in Syria especially around Aleppo (about 5,000 on Mount Simeon), and finally some also living in various parts of Iran. This religious group lives in all areas in which Kurds are the local majority, and therefore throughout Kurdistan, the vast plateau encompassing five countries (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and former Soviet Armenia). This region also includes the upper reaches of the Euphrates and the Tigris, Lakes Van and Urmia and the Zagros and Taurus mountains with the legendary Mount Ararat and Mesopotamia as its northern and southern borders. Finally, it is estimated that about 50,000 Yazidis, mainly coming from Turkey where they were greatly discriminated against, emigrated to western Europe during the last decades of the 20th century in search of asylum and jobs, settling above all in Germany where there are now about 40,000. There are a number of account on Facebook belonging to Yazidi groups or individuals, but, understandably, they are reluctant to accept ‘friends’.
According to some scholars, the word “Yazidi”, or “Ezidi” is derived from the Persian city of Yazd, or from the Persian word “Yazdan”, which means “God” (in the original language Yezidi, members of this religious group speak Kurdish, a dialect similar to Persian from which they have adopted many words). In “The Yezidis’ Religion” – a now one hundred year old essay of which there is a recent reprint – Giuseppe Furlani (1885-1962), an Assyriologist and historian of religions following in the footsteps of the legendary Raffaele Pettazzoni (the Italian founder of this discipline based on a historical-comparative model), tends towards this hypothesis, supported at the time by the Yazidis themselves. This does not exclude another authoritative hypothesis that links the word “Yazidisyyah” to the presence in the Zoroastrian religion (from which Yazidism has taken a great deal) of beings “worthy of adoration”, more specifically angels who make known God’s will to humankind. They are called “Yazada” in the Avestan language – the language of the “Avesta”, the religion’s Holy Book, and used as the liturgical language in Zoroastrianism – or “Ized” in proto-Persian. Finally, one must not forget the historical existence of Yazid, second caliph of the Omayyad dynasty that reigned in Damascus from 60 to 64 of the Hegira (680-683 AD). According to a Yazidi tradition (with no historical evidence),Yazid had at a certain point abandoned Islam to embrace the new faith, which, from then on, carried his name. ( i.e. the Yazidism !).
Little is known about the specific origins of this community of believers. One corroborated tradition believes they mostly came from what is now north-western Iraq, from south-eastern Anatolia (currently the provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin) and from Syria (where the Kurdish ethnic group they belong to is present in northeast regions), and it is probable they originally spoke Arabic. There are many traditions concerning the origins of their religion, and, unlike Islam, are based on very few historical references.
The Yazidi religion, although basically monotheistic, has fundamentally syncretistic characteristics, which favour the appearance of various supernatural beings, partly explaining the presence of various traditions of origin. Unlike Christianity and more than in Islam, its esoteric characteristics are powerful, with a more authentic nucleus only partially known to expert religious historians and sociologists. Yazidis believe in a primordial God, who created – or became – the universe, making Himself manifest by emanation (a strong link with both Gnosticism and Plotinus’ Neoplatonism) in Seven Holy Angels (important figures both in the three ‘Religions of the Book’ and Zoroastrianism). The most important angel is Melek Tawus and is the central figure in Yazidism, an angel that looks like a peacock (Melek means “Angel”, and Tawus means “Peacock”), “the active essence of God”. But what role did this angel play in Yazidi mythology?
This angel was in reality Lucifer, the rebel angel who led the proud angels’ revolt against God (this event linked to the beginnings of the universe is present in various versions in a number of religions including that of the ancient Greeks, in which the Titans revolt against Zeus). According to the Yazidis, however, Melek (just like the Islamic Lucifer Iblis in Islam) is not as evil as in the Jewish and Christian religions. Banished from paradise, the Peacock Angel, instead, “redeemed himself from his fall. After he repented, he wept for 7,000 years, his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of hell”. Having fallen to earth, Melek, in the form of a peacock (an animal considered sacred or at least worthy of special respect in almost all western Asia, and once also the famous symbol of the Iranian monarchy) was found and lovingly looked after by the shepherd Yezid (this is a common name in the Islamic world), almost a sort of Middle Eastern “Faustolus shepherd”. According to this founding myth, once recovered, Melek presented himself to the shepherd in an ambiguous manner, as the sower of unhappiness and discord among human beings (hence the Greek “diabolos”), but also as a being in need of assistance, asking humankind for compassion as far as evil is concerned, a reference to the help received from Yezid. All this explains the great hostility Muslims feel for the Yazidis, considered devil-worshippers, while the Yazidis instead describe themselves as “those who adore angels” and above all Melek. One must add that Melek is certainly not the Satan of the Jews and the Christians, or the Shaytan of Muslims, but rather a Lucifer in the accepted meaning (hence an angle “bearer of light”, as venerated between the 19th and 20th centuries, also by some Masonic observances that were for this reason – mistakenly – considered satanic by the Church). “It is he who created the material world,” explains a Yazidi quoted by the scholar of religions Danilo Arona, at a gathering of believers held in December to commemorate the birth of the shepherd Yezid and the winter solstice, already so dear to Mithraism and other very ancient forms of worship. (This is a partial reflection of the dualistic vision of the universe based on two divinities, or on two opposing principles, relentless enemies, Good and Evil, positive spirit and negative and basically evil matter, which from Zoroastrianism and Mandaenism then was passed on to Manichaeism, to then permeate various forms of Christianity itself or similar religions ranging from the Cathars to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Editor’s Note). The world was created “Using dismembered parts of the cosmic egg, the Pearl, in which God once lived, the universal spirit” (these are instead reflections of ancient Greek myths such as those sung by Hesiod in the “Theogony”). Although permeated with Judeo-Cristian elements, the Yazidis’ religious philosophy denies the existence of evil and evilness, at least as an unconnected entity or a simple negative force (rejecting therefore the idea of sin, the devil and hell). Evil arises from human beings’ mistaken understanding of the nature of Melek (a concept that strangely reminds one of Seneca’s famous statements that great evil does not so much lie in things, but rather our mistaken assessment of them). In the most serious cases, it is explained that evil is present in the world because human beings can, in any case, inadvertently commit evil actions, resulting in evil’s victory. Human disobedience to divine law is expiated through metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls already dear to ancient eastern forms of worship and Pythagorean doctrine, which allow the progressive purification of the spirit (as already happened to Lucifer/Melek, who fell to earth and transmigrated into the body of a peacock). The righteous instead, as in Judaism, are destined to Paradise.
The form of Yazidism currently known is the result of the predictions made by Adi Hakkari, or Adi b. Musafir, a theologian and religious man who lived in the 12th century (thus a contemporary of the Jewish Aristotelian Maimonides and the Arab Al Ghazali). A presumed descendent of the Omayyad dynasty, Musafir studied in Baghdad under Abu l-Khayr Ammad al-Dabbas. He later settled near Mosul, where he started his preaching. The area was inhabited by nomadic Kurds who professed a non-Islamic and very ancient religion. Musafir reformed it (introducing to a great extent vocabulary taken from Islam). Considered by his followers as an “emissary” or a saviour, following his death his soul was said to have joined that of the Peacock Angel through transmigration. Since then, Musafir’s grave in Lalish (north of Mosul) has been the destination of a devotional pilgrimage for all Yazidis – just like Mecca for Muslims. (In his essay, Furlani, however, considers the convergence between Yazidism and Musafir purely random, recalling that he was a Muslim saint and a Sufi).
This pilgrimage takes place once a year and lasts six days; during the celebration the faithful immerse themselves in the water of a river, and also sacrifice bulls, just as the Assyrians and the followers of Mithraism did. Many scholars also agree on the identification between Adi b. Musafir and the legendary Seyh (or Shaykh) Adi, a character also mentioned in the most ancient Yazidi texts as the founder, or the reformer, of this religion, who lived led to the most incredible legends, just as happened with Muslims and Mohammed. In practice – according to the anthropologist Riccardo Cecchini, an expert researcher on extra-European religions – in Yazidism, God, the Peacock and Adi appear to be perceived as a Trinity; between them and humankind there are a myriad of intermediate beings with supernatural characteristics such as angels, saints etc. It is once again Furlani who provides the amazing number of 124,000 (!) prophets acknowledged by the Yazidis, the first of which in order of time is Adam, and also includes Jesus Christ.
Finally, the Yazidi religion also includes various practices of Jewish or Islamic origin, such as holy ablutions, the prohibition of certain foods, circumcision (widespread but not compulsory), fasting and the interpretation of dreams. Yazidi society has a hierarchical organisation, rather like Islam after the initial, turbulent centuries of expansion, and has a secular leader called the “Emir” (Amir), and a religious leader called “sheik” (Shaykh). The Emir, who lives in Ba’adra (65 km north of Mosul), is the Yazidis’ representative to the Iraqi public authorities. He has the power to appoint the Sheikh who instead lives in the Sinjar and, in addition to being the supreme religious leader, is also the infallible authority as far as the interpretation of Holy Scriptures is concerned. These scriptures are the “Kitab al-jilwa” (“Book of Revelations”) and the “Mishefa Res” (“Black Book” in Kurdish), both written in the Kurdish Kurmanji dialect.
In the 14th century, important Kurdish tribes, whose area of influences even extended to Turkey, are quoted for the first time in historical sources as “Yazidi”. Since then, various sources mention their qualities and their high level of tolerance as far as other cultures and religions are concerned. However, considering themselves as Adam’s only real descendants (they supposedly descend from twins who were in turn born from a jar containing the seed of the first man), Yazidis tend to only live among themselves, rather like Jews belonging to more orthodox communities, and do not allow conversions or interreligious marriage, not even with Muslim Kurds. The most serious punishment for a believer is to be expelled from the community (this would result in losing one’s soul); although there have been cases involving physical violence, as in the case involving the 17-year-old Kurdish Yazidi girl Du’a Khalil Aswad, who was stoned and kicked to death in April 2007 for having been seen with a boy belonging to a different ethnic group.
Yazidi resistance to the Arab conquerors who invaded Mosul in the first turbulent phase of Islamic expansion in the 7th century went down in history. Mossul (since then Mosul, in Arabic) was one of the most important Yazidi cities, set on the Tigris river and at the feet of the Kurdistan mountains, a compulsory passage way for caravans travelling from Central Asia towards Syria, Anatolia and the Mediterranean. Although under Muslim power, the Yazidis remained unscathed by the domination of the Turkish-Seljuq Zengid and the Kurdish-Muslim Ayyubid dynasties (12th -14th centuries), and that of the Ottomans who fought for centuries for control over the city. Hulegu’s Mongols, who after a brief siege had taken Baghdad in 1258, had been obliged to keep Mosul under siege for a whole year. In the centuries that followed, the Yazidis were harshly persecuted by the Ottomans and then by the Turkish government. Just as was to happen two years later to the Armenians, in 1892 they risked extinction for the first time when, due to persecution policies against minorities decided by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman troops penetrated the Lalish Valley and killed thousands with their swords also destroying Shaykh Adi’s Mausoleum.
Persecutions resumed in the second half of the 20th century. The first occurred in 1957 during the last but one year of the reign of Faisal II. Following the bloody coup of 1958 when Iraq became a republic, Ahmed Hasan al-Bakr, the first president of the Iraqi Baath Party in power after another coup in 1968, continued their persecution in 1969 and 1975.
During Saddam Hussein’s regime, the Yazidis were classified as “Arabs” so as to falsify the ethnic balance in the region, in spite of the fact that the regime socially and culturally discriminated against them and alienated them. In 1987-1988, the dictator also ordered their deportation. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were obliged to move hundreds of kilometres to the west to their “Mussa Dagh”, the Jebel Sinjar mountainous area near the border with Syria (their historical place of origin). A German Member of the European Parliament, Feleknas Uca, was the only MP of Yazidi origin until the first free elections held in Iraq in 2005.
And so we come to 2014, when the Mosul/Nineveh plains were attacked by Sunni extremists belonging to ISIS. Following the anti-Yazidi persecutions implemented by “Islamic State”, the United Nations – speaking explicitly of genocide – estimates that of the Yazidis living in Iraq (most of them members of the Kurdish Communist Party) 5,000 were killed and between 5,000 and 7,000 captured and sold as slaves. A further 50,000 were obliged to abandon the region to avoid sharing this fate. In August 2014, the Kurdish news agency “Rudaw” published the heartfelt appeal to the West made a 24-year-old Yazidi girl who, imprisoned by ISIS together with other women, amazingly managed to make herself heard from a prison in the county of Baaji, in the province of Mosul (where jihadists make their prisoners available to emirs every day). On August 30th, ISIS’ medieval horror – similar to what for some time has been spreading in Nigeria with Boko Haram – continues to be seen thanks to the photographs that the Lebanese Arab activist Brigitte Gabriel manages to Tweet. Once again near Mosul, Yazidi women under the age of 35 kidnapped wearing the full veil, in chains and threatened by armed men are loaded onto trucks and taken to the market to be sold as slaves. A year later, in September 2015, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who managed to flee from ISIS prisons with other women published a book in France entitled “Esclave de Daech”, narrating in detail their petrifying experience (women who refuse to submit to the jihadists’ demands are not killed, but tortured in every imaginable way, even obliged to drink water contaminated with dead mice). On November 14th , Kurdish Peshmerga discovered a central-American styled mass grave in Iraq containing the bodies of 80 Yazidi girls. The next day, in Shingal, south of Sinjar, another mass grave was discovered containing the bodies of 50 Yazidi men. Two days earlier, however, on November 13th, almost a year and a half after the so-called Islamic caliphate had been announced by Al-Baghdadi (June 2014), the president of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, was able to officially announce that the offensive carried out by Kurdish Peshmerga and Kurdish-Iraqi troops, with support from United States troops, had managed to defeat ISIS for the first time, freeing Mosul as well as Sinjar. ( Shingal ).
So what action will be taken by the Yazidis, a group whose proud determination has been mentioned in official speeches also by the eternal “allies-rivals” Obama and Putin, in the chaos of the Middle Eastern chessboard? What action will the international community take in order to stop this massacre? Will their ability to fight shown once again in these situations at last guarantee them greater dignity and safety, while fully respecting their identity and culture?
Translated by Francesca Simmons
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Every nation had some ancient religions before they converted to Islam, the Arabs, the Turks, the Iranians, the Afghans and the Chinese and the Africans and the Europeans and the Indonesians and Malays and the Pashtoons and Pathans, The Egyptians, the Pakistanis, all these nations were following some kind of ancient religions before they embraced Islam as their religion.
The Zoroastrianism,
Many religions of the ancient near East and their offshoots can be traced to Proto-Semitic religion.
Other religions in the ancient Near East include Ancient Egyptian religion, the Luwian and Hittite religions of Asia Minor and the Sumerian religion of ancient Mesopotamia. Offshoots of Proto-Semitic religion include Assyro-Babylonian religion, Canaanite religion, and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions influenced the ancient Greek religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian religion primarily the Ancient Iranian religion. In turn these religious traditions strongly influenced the later monotheistic religions of Christianity, Mandeanism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Manicheanism, which inherited their monotheism from Judaism and Zoroastrianism.
Therefore If Kurds and Yazidis were following an Ancient religion in the past then there is nothing to surprise.
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Yazdânism collectively denotes a group of native Kurdish religions: Alevism, and Doctrines of Rifaiya’ Sufis, and Yarsan and Yazidism. The Yazdani faiths were the primary religion of the Kurds until their Islamisation in the 16th century. Yazdanism continues to be primarily practiced in relatively isolated communities. The adherents of Yazdanism are estimated to constitute about 1/3 of the Kurds. Yazdanism has however strongly influenced the Kurdish form of Islam.
( The Yazdanism, Ahle Haqq, Rae Haqq, Alevism, the Angelic Cult, the Yarsanism, Rifaism etc are Islamic heresy sects= Engineer Ishrat Hussain Mohammad ).
The name 'Yazdanism' derives from Kurdish yazdan, literally meaning "worthy of worship" and a place in Iran or Eizd in Persian for God, and referring to a belief in a great heptad (seven) of divine beings (see detail below). The three Yazdani traditions are therefore also known as the Cult of Angels.
Adherents themselves refer to the faith as Rae Haq, i.e. The correct opinion, a reference to the primary deity or "universal spirit".
The principal feature of the Yazdani faiths is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. Another important feature of the religions is a doctrine of reincarnation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism
1. The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: Êzidîtî or Êzidî,
Yazidis Are adherents of the smallest of the three branches of Yazdânism, a Middle Eastern religion with ancient Indo-European roots. Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq.Their principal holy site is in Lalish, northeast of Mosul. The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or Êzîdî or, in some areas, Dasinî. Some scholars have derived the name Yazidi from Old Iranic yazata (divine being), while others say it is a derivation from Umayyad Caliph Yazid I 2. (Yazid bin Muawiyah), revered by the Yazidis as an incarnation of the divine figure Sultan Ezi (this is no longer widely accepted). Yazidis, themselves, believe that their name is derived from the word Yezdan or Êzid meaning God; Iraq, where Arabic is spoken. Kurmanjî is the language of almost all the orally transmitted religious traditions of the Yazidis. Thus, religious origins are somewhat complex.
The religion of the Yazidis is a highly syncretistic one:
Sufi influence and imagery can be seen in their religious vocabulary, especially in the terminology but much of the mythology is non-Islamic. Early writers attempted to describe Yazidi origins, broadly speaking, in terms of Islam, or Persian, or sometimes even pagan religions.
The origin of the Yazidi religion is now usually seen by scholars as a complex process of syncretism, whereby the belief system and practices of a local faith had a profound influence on the religiosity of adherents of the Adawiyya Sufi order living in the Kurdish mountains, and caused it to deviate from Islamic norms relatively soon after the death of its founder, Sheikh Adî ibn Musafir who is said to be of Umayyad descent. He settled in the valley of Lalis (some thirty-six miles north-east of Mosul) in the early 12th century AD. Sheikh Adî himself, a figure of orthodoxy, enjoyed widespread influence. He died in 1162, and his tomb/ Mazar is at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage. During the fourteenth century, important Kurdish tribes whose sphere of influence stretched well into what is now Turkey (including, for a period, the rulers of the principality of Jazira) are cited in historical sources as Yazidi.
The details of their teachings are said to contain elements from most of the known religions in the region. They are clearly instructed to keep their beliefs and rituals hidden from ‘outsiders’. They have two holy books; one of them is called Kitab E Rash or “The Black Book”. Or the Book of Raz, i.e. Asrar or Secrets.
The word for Satan in Arabic is Shaitan. They never utter that word. In fact, they avoid saying any word which has similar syllables - even common words such as ‘shat’ (wide river). They generally avoid saying any word of damnation. For some reason, they never eat lettuce. One well-known Iraqi historian, al Hasani, claims that for many centuries they were forbidden from learning to read and write, except for one family.
As a demiurge figure, Tawûsê Melek is often identified by orthodox Muslims as a Shaitan (Satan), a Muslim term denoting a devil or demon who deceives true believers. The Islamic tradition regarding the fall of "Shaitan" from Grace is in fact very similar to the Yazidi story of Malek Taus - that is, the Jinn who refused to submit to Adam is celebrated as Tawûsê Melek by Yazidis, but the Islamic version of the same story curses the same Jinn who refused to submit as becoming Satan.[18] Thus, the Yazidi have been accused of devil worship.
Anyway, the word Taus (in Melek Taus) is derived from the Indo-European root Diyus and is from Arabic Peacock or Taoos, and Greek Zeus. Ancient Indo-Iranians used to worship the souls of their fathers and grandfathers and glorified the souls of their dead. They also believed in a supreme God (The Father God), who represented natural powers. After the arrival of Zoroaster, he kept Ahoramazda (Supreme God) and abolished the other gods. Over time, Zoroastrians began to associate Devas with Satan and prohibited painting, statues, sacrifice of animals, alcohol and fasting. Zoroaster called those who did not follow his teachings as demon worshipers. Despite zoroasterians' efforts, large parts of the population kept their old beliefs in worshiping natural phenomena. According to scholar Taufiq Wahby and others the word Dasni or Dasny, the ethnic self-designation of Yazidis, is a form of the old word Deva Ysne used by Zoroaster to identify those who did not follow his religion.
Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel, and therefore comparable to the Christians' Saint Michael, who is likewise considered the leader of the "seven who stand before the Lord" and of all other good angels. Also, they hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Melek Taus. The active forces in their religion are Melek Taus and Sheik Adî. The Kitab E Jalwa i.e., Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Illumination) which claims to be the words of Melek Taus, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Melek Taus is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said : "I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: "You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth). God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven."
However, here is the interesting part:
They believe that God first created Melek Taus from his own illumination (Ronahî in Kurdish) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Melek Taus not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Melek Taus. In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to legend he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.) Hence the Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (March/April). Yazidis hold that God created Malek Taus on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Melek Taus, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Taus the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Melek Taus is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê ). Sheikh Adî has observed the story of Melek Taus and believed in him.So, it quite appears that they actually worship Iblis!
Then there is a contradiction arising from "The Black Book" itself:
(They believe in God as the Supreme Being, but they also have seven other lesser gods/angels. A god has come down to earth every 1000 years since the Flood, 7,000 years ago. The most senior of those gods is called “Melek Ta’us” (Arabic for Peacock Angel).)
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
key and interrelated features of Yazidism are:
a) a preoccupation with religious purity and b) a belief in metempsychosis. The first of these is expressed in the system of caste, the food laws, the traditional preferences for living in Yazidi communities, and the variety of taboos governing many aspects of life.
The second is crucial; Yazidis traditionally believe that the Seven Holy Beings are periodically reincarnated in human form, called a koasasa.
Yazidis, who have much in common with the followers of Ahl-e Haqq (in western Iran), state that the world created by God was at first a pearl. It remained in this very small and enclosed state for some time (often a magic number such as forty or forty thousand years) before being remade in its current state. During this period the Heptad were called into existence, God made a covenant with them and entrusted the world to them. Besides Melek Taus, members of the Heptad (the Seven), who were called into existence by God at the beginning of all things, include Sheikh Adî, his companion Shaikh Hasan, and a group known as the four Mysteries, Shamsadin, Fakhradin, Sajadin and Naserdin. The Yazidi holy books are the Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Revelation) and the Mishefa Res (Black Book).
A belief in the reincarnation of lesser Yazidi souls also exists. Like the Ahl-e Haqq, the Yazidis use the metaphor of a change of garment to describe the process, which they call kiras guhorîn in Kurdish (changing the garment). Alongside this, Yazidi mythology also includes descriptions of heaven and hell, with hell extinguished, and other traditions incorporating these ideas into a belief system that includes reincarnation.
Yazidi are dominantly monogamous but chiefs may have more than one wife. Children are baptized at birth and circumcision is common but not required. Dead are buried in conical tombs immediately after death and buried with hands crossed.
According to Mohammed Aš-Šahrastani, “The Yezidis are the followers of Yezîd bin Unaisa, who kept friendship with the first Muhakkama before the Azari?a”[14] “It is clear, then, that Aš-Šahrastani finds the religious origin of this interesting people in the person of Yezîd bin Unaisa. ... We are to understand, therefore, that to the knowledge of the writer, bin Unaisa is the founder of the Yezidi sect, which took its name from him.” [15] “Now, the first Muhakkamah is an appellative applied to the Muslim schismatic called Al-?awarij ... . ...
According to this it might be inferred that the Yezidis were originally a ?arijite sub-sect.”[16] “Yezid moreover, is said to have been in sympathy with Al-Aba?iyah, a sect founded by ‘Abd-Allah Ibn Iba?.” [16]; and the Iba?i sect is another ?arijite sub-sect.Religious beliefsTawûsê Melek, the peacock angelIn the Yazidi belief system, God created the world and it is now in the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft sirr (the Seven Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), the Peacock Angel. According to the Encyclopedia of the Orient,The reason for the Yazidis reputation of being devil worshipers is connected to the other name of Melek Taus, Shaytan, the same name the Koran has for Satan.[17]Furthermore, the Yazidi story regarding Tawûsê Melek's rise to favor with God is almost identical to the story of the jinn Iblis in Islam, except that Yazidis revere Tawûsê Melek for refusing to submit to Adam, while Muslims believe that Iblis' refusal to submit caused him to fall out of Grace with God, and to later become Satan himself.[18]Tawûsê Melek is often identified by Muslims and Christians with Shaitan (Satan). Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsê Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel.
They also hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Tawûsê Melek. The active forces in their religion are Tawûsê Melek and Sheik Adî.The Kitêba Cilwe "Book of Illumination", which claims to be the words of Tawûsê Melek, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Tawûsê Melek is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said:I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: 'You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth'. God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven.Yazidi accounts of creation differ from that of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They believe that God first created Tawûsê Melek from his own illumination (Ronahî ) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Tawûsê Melek not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Tawûsê Melek. In answer to God, Tawûsê Melek replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to the Quran he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.)
( The Story of Satan Disobeying to Bow to the Adam is only in Islam in Quran ). This is the basic fundamental of Yazidism which is purely based on Quranic story and therefore the Yazidism is purely an offshoot of Islamic heresy. by Ishrat Hussain Engineer.
Hence the Yazidis believe that Tawûsê Melek is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (April). Yazidis hold that God created Tawûsê Melek on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's Day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Tawûsê Melek, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Kun, fa Yakun = Bibe, dibe). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Tawûsê Melek the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Tawûsê Melek is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê). Sêx Adî has observed the story of Tawûsê Melek and believed in him.[19]One of the key creation beliefs of Yazidism is that all Yazidis are descendants of Adam rather than Eve.[17] Yazidis believe that good and evil both exist in the mind and spirit of human beings. It depends on the humans, themselves, as to which they choose. In this process, their devotion to Tawûsê Melek is essential, since it was he who was given the same choice between good and evil by God, and chose the good.
Another important festival is the Tawûsgeran (circulation of the peacock) where Qewals and other religious dignitaries visit Yazidi villages, bringing the senjaq, sacred images of a peacock made from brass symbolizing Tawûsê Melek. These are venerated, taxes are collected from the pious, sermons are preached and holy water distributed.The greatest festival of the year for ordinary Yazidis is the Cejna Cemaiya "Feast of the Assembly" at Lalish, a seven-day occasion. A focus of widespread pilgrimage, this is an important time for social contact and affirmation of identity. The religious center of the event is the belief in an annual gathering of the Heptad in the holy place at this time. Rituals practiced include the sacrifice of a bull at the shrine of Sêx Shams and the practice of sema.Tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sheikh Adi = Sêx Adî) in LalishThe most important ritual is the annual seven-day pilgrimage to the tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sêx Adî) in Lalish, north of Mosul, Iraq.[20][22] A sacred microcosm of the world, as it were, it contains not only many shrines dedicated to the koasasa, but a number of other landmarks corresponding to other sites or symbols of significance in other faiths, including Pirra selat "Serat Bridge" and a mountain called Mt. Arafat. The two sacred springs are called Zamzam and Kaniya Sipî "The White Spring".If possible, Yazidis make at least one pilgrimage to Lalis during their lifetime, and those living in the region try to attend at least once a year for the autumn Feast of the Assembly which is celebrated from 23 Aylul (September) to 1 Tashrin (October). During the celebration, Yazidi bathe in the river, wash figures of Tawûsê Melek and light hundreds of lamps in the tombs of Sêx Adî and other saints. They also sacrifice an ox, which is one reason they have been connected to Mithraism, in addition to the presence of the dog and serpent in their iconography. The sacrifice of the ox is meant to declare the arrival of fall and to ask for precipitation during winter in order to bring back life to the Earth in the next Spring. Moreover, in astrology, the ox is the symbol of Tashrin. Purity and taboos.
Now Another web page from the internet,...
In an October 2006 article in The New Republic, Lawrence Kaplan echoes Williams's sentiments about the enthusiasm of the Yazidis for the American occupation of Iraq, in part because the Americans protect them from oppression by militant Muslims and the nearby Kurds. Kaplan notes that the peace and calm of Sinjar is virtually unique in Iraq: "Parents and children line the streets when U.S. patrols pass by, while Yazidi clerics pray for the welfare of U.S. forces."
Yazidi are exclusive; clans do not intermarry even with other Kurds and accept no converts. They claim that they are descended only from Adam. The strongest punishment is expulsion, which is also effectively excommunication because the soul of the exiled is forfeit.
However, in the case of the poor girl in the news, it seems the punishment exceeded much horror of a simple "expulsion"!!!!
The Yazidi community was affected by several acts of violence in 2007. In April, a group of Yazidi men stoned to death 17 year old Du’a Khalil Aswad, allegedly for her involvement with a Muslim boy. On April 23, 2007 masked gunmen abducted and shot 23 Yazidis near Mosul; this was speculated to be a reprisal attack for Aswad's death. On August 14, 2007 Yazidis were targeted in a series of bombings that became the deadliest suicide attack since the Iraq War began.
Another Opinion about Yazidis from internet is as follows,
The Yazidis are linked to the extreme Shi'a (Ghulat) sects and number worldwide some 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 Yazidis live in the Jebel Sinjar mountain and the Shaikhan district of northwest Iraq.The Yazidis call themselves Dawasi. They are called "Devil worshippers" by their Sunni neighbors, who considered them heretics and have cruelly persecuted them over the centuries. They are closely related to similar sects such as the Ahl-i-Haqq.The Yazidi religion is a syncretistic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish and Nestorian Christian with Islamic Shi'a and Sufi elements and has many variants. They believe that they were created separately from the rest of mankind and are descended from Adam only - not from Adam and Eve like the rest of humanity. They have therefore kept themselves strictly isolated from the other communities among whom they lived, and did not intermarry with them. They also call themselves "Children of Adam" and see themselves as a chosen people. Although scattered, they have a well organized society. The Emir (Mirza Beg) who resides at Ba'dari (65 km north of Mosul), is the secular head who represents the Yazidis to the central authorities. He installs the chief Sheikh (Sheikh Nazir, Baba Sheikh) who resides in Beled-Sinjar and is the supreme religious head and the infallible authority on their holy scriptures. Ethnically most Yazidis are Kurmanji speaking Kurds. Their religious practice is centered on the tomb of their founder figure, Sheikh 'Adi ibn Musafir at Lalesh, some 60 km north-east of Mosul, who was probably a Sufi (some think an Isma'ili) preacher of the 12th century.
BELIEFS
Yazidis believe that the supreme God created the world, but delegated its maintenance to a hierarchy of seven angels of whom Malak Ta'us (the Peacock Angel) was the first in rank. Malak Ta'us sinned in not worshipping Adam, and was punished by being cast down from heaven. After shedding tears for 7000 years, with which the fires of hell were quenched, he repented of his sin of pride, was pardoned and reinstated as chief of the angels.In Yazidi belief, Malak Ta'us is also the devil (Shaitan), the ruler of this world, and they seek to appease him as they fear his power. They do not actually worship him, but seek to honor and placate him, believing that the Supreme Being has delegated to him dominion over the world. They will never pronounce his Arabic name "Shaitan" or use any word beginning with "SH". He is seen as a capricious Lord who determines man's fate as he wills and in whom the principles of good and of evil are combined. It is believed that he appeared in different form in various periods of history, the final incarnation being in Sheikh 'Adi ben Musafir (d. 1162). Malak Ta'us rules the universe with the help of six other angels, and he guards the gates of Paradise. The seven angels are worshiped by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze peacock figures called Sanjaq, the largest of which weighs 320 kg. Six of them are taken yearly on a round of the main Yazidi centres. Of the other angels, Sultan Ezi is second in rank to Malak Ta'us and many legends are told about him. He is sometimes identified with the second Umayad Caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiyah. Other important angels are Sherf-Edin (noble lord of religion) who is seen as the Mahdi (returning Messiah), and She-Shims (sun sheikh) who presents the prayers of the Yazidis to God's throne three times a day.As hell was destroyed by Malak Ta'us, it does not exist anymore. There is no concept of the forgiveness of sins. A person's deeds receive due punishment or reward in his next reincarnation. Transmigration of souls is a process of gradual purification of the spirit through the successive rebirths until the final day of judgment. Like all Shi'a groups, the Yazidis believe firmly in Taqiya, the dissimulation of their faith in the face of persecution for the sake of the survival of the community.
RITES AND CUSTOMS
Sheikh 'Adi, the Yazidi founder figure and saint, was a 12th century Sufi mystic whom the Yazidi believe was the final manifestation of Malak Ta'us. His tomb is their religious centre and focal point of their annual pilgrimage. Once a year, early in October, all Yazidis are encouraged to assemble at Sheikh 'Adi. The festivities are supervised by the Emir and the Baba Sheikh. The pilgrims bathe ritually in the river and form a procession in which the various clergy castes carry the Sanjaqs, play the flutes and drums, sing and dance. Hundreds of sesame oil lamps are lighted at the saint's grave and special offerings are brought. White bulls are sacrificed and common meals partaken of. A black serpent, symbol of Malak Ta'us, is carved on the doorway to the shrine and is kissed by the pilgrims. Booths are set up and there is much rejoicing with singing and dancing. The clergy engage in secret rituals to which the laity (murids) have no access. Yazidis pray ritually three times a day facing the sun after first washing their hands and face. The prayers are in Kurdish and express thankfulness and pleas for blessing and help. The weekly holy day is Wednesday, in which they gather at dawn in a Ziyaret (local pilgrimage centre). The day of rest is Saturday. Twice a year they fast for three days: at the sun festival (ida roja, 1st December) and at the Khidr Elias festival (The Prophet Elijah day, 18th February).The new year festival (ida sersale, first Wednesday in April) is a time of much rejoicing. Sheep, goats or hens are sacrificed, and houses decorated with flowers. Bonfires are lit at night. Yazidis celebrate other festivals, including two days at the end of the Muslim Ramadan and a Jesus feast (ida Isa) around Easter time.Yazidis revere their dead, offering gifts, especially the first fruits, at their graves. Many Yazidi villages have a tomb of a holy man nearby which is used as a local pilgrimage centre. Pilgrims seek blessing, protection and healing at these tombs.Yazidi taboos include not eating lettuce, as they believe that evil is found in it. Tradition has it that "the devil once hid in a lettuce patch". This belief, ridiculed by their neighbors, probably goes back to the Manichaeans who believed that Divine Light was contained in plants more than in any other substance. Yazidis must not wear clothes of a specific dark blue colour, or a shirt open down the front. Underwear must be white. Very religious Yazidis do not eat chicken or gazelle meat.Birth to Yazidi parents is the only way into the community. From birth each Yazidi is automatically linked to his or her specific Sheikh or Pir. This relationship cannot be changed. Children are baptized in the first week after birth, whilst circumcision is optional. Between the 7th to the 11th month, boys are initiated into full membership of the community through a special ceremony in which the Sheikh cuts off three locks of the boy's hair which are hidden by the mother.The Sheikhs perform at weddings and funerals with special prayers and liturgies.The sacred scriptures of the Yazidis are two short books written in Arabic: Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) supposed to have been written by Sheikh 'Adi himself, and Mishaf Rash (black writing) by Sheikh Hasan ibn-'Adi. An Arabic hymn in praise of Shaykh 'Adi is greatly respected as part of their liturgy.
SOCIETY
Yazidi society is divided into two classes, the laity and the clergy. Marriage is strictly restricted to one's own class, often to one's own clan and is preferably to a cousin. The laity (murid) who constitute the majority of Yazidis were not supposed to learn to read or write (a privilege kept for an Imam claiming descent from the famous Sufi Hasan al-Basri). They are not initiated into the mysteries of their religion, their duty being to keep the religious rites and taboos and obey their spiritual leaders. Every Yazidi is linked as a disciple to a definite Sheikh or Pir, whose hand he kisses every day. The clergy or priests (ruhan, kahana) enjoy great respect and must not cut their hair or beard. They are divided into six classes: 1. The Sheikhs who are descended from five families closely related to Sheikh 'Adi. 2. The Pirs, descended from some of Sheikh Adi's disciples. The Sheikhs and Pirs are responsible for the spiritual welfare of the murid families under their care, and for teaching them the proper Yazidi rites and ceremonies. They also function at the religious festivals and at the rites of passage (birth, marriage, death, etc.).3. The Fakirs or Karabash who wear black shirts next to their skins and black turbans round their felt caps. They are organized like a Sufi order and have their own ascetic rules. 4. The Kawwals, who sing and play music at the festivals. Their representatives carry the Sanjaqs around Yazidi villages, inviting them to the pilgrimage to Sheikh Adi and gathering their donations to the Emir and to the upkeep of the religious centre. 5. The Kocaks - the dancers who serve at the tomb of Sheikh 'Adi. 6. The Awhan or deacons who perform the menial service at the tomb. Every Yazidi is designated a "Brother or Sister of the Other World" on reaching puberty. This is a spiritual relationship which persists until death and carries certain ceremonial responsibilities (similar to Godparents in Christianity).Yazidi language, both in worship and in secular life, is the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. Yazidis are organized in tribes, with a chief (Agha) at the head of each. Every tribe is divided into clan groups. Marriage is monogamous and restricted to a person's caste and clan. As heretics, the Yazidis were considered fair prey to any rightly believing Sunni. Turkish rulers and Sunni Kurdish tribes repeatedly persecuted them and tried to forcibly convert them. More recently the Iraqi authorities forcibly deported 20,000 Yazidis from Jebel Sinjar in 1975. Since the Gulf War the Iraqi Government is claiming that the Yazidis are Arabs and their areas should be under its jurisdiction, whilst the Yazidis and Kurdish forces assert that they are Kurds and should be part of their safe haven. Iraqi government posts are only one mile away from the Yazidi sanctuary at Lalesh.Many Yazidis were also forced to leave South-Eastern Turkey in the 70s and 80s as a result of general anti-Kurdish and specific Sunni-Islamic anti-Yazidi persecution. They have historically viewed their Syrian Orthodox and Nestorian Christian neighbors as friends and fellow sufferers at the hands of the dominant Sunni majority.
This was an extract from a internet about the Yezidis,
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Now my own Research starts from here please read it...
Now you please see my comprehensive Research and Study on Yazidism, it is as follows,
Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Deos of Indo European origins, but all these comments are nothing but wishful thinking, and actually, the Yezidism is very different from all these gossips.
They are Monotheists, they are not polytheists.
The Muslim community knows very little about Yazidism, so this article is especially for them. Now the world wide Yezidi community is looking towards the west for help and support and they are totally neglected by the Muslim brothers, the Yezidis who could escape from Iraq are now living in Europe and America, but their majority is still living in Mosul in Iraq. If we Muslims did not help our Yezidi Brothers in Time then they will be totally alienated from us and they will be surely get assimilated in Christianity, or they can join hands with our enemies.
Before you read my research about Yazidis in this Article I want to summarize my claim in these paragraphs,...
The western media claims that the Yazidism is a preislamic religion because it is an ancient angelic cult or has Mithraism and Zoroastrian elements and judo christian pagan beliefs,
The Angelic cult is also having Islamic background as there is a story in Islamic tradition about TWO angels in Babylon who were known to public as Harut and Marut, these Two angels were teaching to the people, and they were a test for the people of Babylon, this story of the Angelic cult is also Islamic if the Yazidis were following them,
The story of these Two angels is very interesting and very long, I am not writing it here, but it is from Islamic traditions.
This story of Two Fallen Angels is also in Jewish Midrash, but the Jewish Midrash has copied it from Muslim sources, as the Jewish religious corpus has been heavily benefitted from Muslim influence, during the Spanish Muslim Empire, the codification of Jewish law has been done in that era in Spain by Rambam Maimonides, Jewish Midrash and minhag and seferims are heavily influenced by Islamic sharia and hadith sciences.
in my research, I found that this claim of western media is totally wrong, That the Yazidism is a pre Islamic religion of Yazdanism, because, The Yazdanism is too a Islamic heresy of the Sufis and Shia Muslims.
For any religion to exists independently first it needs a fundamental idea or a core doctrine or belief system around which it connects it adherents, then mythology and other stories can be added in that religion, Now in case of Yazidism, I agree that it has 80 % non Islamic mythology and it has other non islamic elements and it has Zoroastrian influences, etc,
But the main skeleton of the Yazidism is the story from the Quran about the Tawûsê Melek / Satan and Bowing in front of Adam, this story is only in Islam, this is the main core and fundamental structure of Yazidism around which another mythology has been gathered from Mithraism or Angelic cults, etc.
The Backbone of Yazidi Religion is the Story of Iblees from Quran! the Tawûsê Melek/Satan's name was Iblees.
The ideas and doctrines from other ancient religions are not the basis and backbone of Yazidi religion at all, the basic fundamental backbone of Yazidism is Islamic story from the Quran only.
How that religion can be a preislamic one whose main fundamental axis is a story from Quran.?
This story is not in any preislamic religion neither in Torah nor in Bible and Talmud and not even in ancient angelic cults and in zoroastrianism.
How a religion can be ancienter than its main belief which is newer than that religion?
The Yazidism is originated by a Muslim Sufi Saint in 12 Century, that Sufi was Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir.
The story from Quran is the basis of this religion, it is its axis around which other things rotate.
it is the Back Bone of Yazidi religion.
The Sufism in Islam is a secret spiritual brotherhood which has doctrines and concepts which are not endorsed by orthodox Islam, for example, the belief about the pardoning of Tawûsê Melek/Satan and reconciliation between Allah and Satan are secret topics in Sufism which are never discussed publicly.
During 9 th century to 12 th century there were different heresy ideas in Islam, some are opposed to islam at 180 degrees, this does not mean that they are not offshoots of islamic heresy, for example There was a Ismaili Caliph in those time in Kurdish area, In one Ramadan month, During the Fast, in the middle of a Day " He told and ordered his followers that break your fast with a sip of Wine, now no need of Fasting and prayers as I am your Live Caliph and I know the Quran and Allah well, therefore follow me,".
Then people broke their fast with a sip of wine and they abandoned the Prayers and reading of Quran and all other observances dictated by Islam, these people are still today in existence and they claim that they are Muslims too.
These people are Ismaili Nizari Khoja, the followers of Prince Agha Khan.
These people have their religion which is 99% different from Islam, their religion has pagan beliefs, but still, they are Muslims as they claim,
There are Ghulat Shia, there are Druze or Druzi and there are hundreds of other heretic religions which are 99% against Islam, but even though these religions are still called as Islamic heresy sects.
then Why the Yazidis are not Muslims even Though the Yazidism has more than 60 % Islamic structure and fundamentals? and their main belief and doctrine is the Quranic story of Adam and Tawûsê Melek/ Satan!
The Yazidis accumulated various different ideas and rituals from locally dead religions such as Mithraism and ancient angelic and zoroastrian things as mentioned by western media, but the backbone of their religion is the story from the Quran.
Who wrote the Kitêba Cilwe, who wrote the Mishefa Res, these are not preislamic books, these are Sufi Books written in 12th century they gathered preislamic ideas in these books and the writers and the followers of these books were Muslims, same as the Ismaili Nizari Khoja are today.
The Peacock and Snake, which are the main feature of Yazidi religion are the helpers of Tawûsê Melek/Satan to reenter the Paradise to allure and Tempt the Adam and Eve.
According to Islamic traditions, the Snake and Peacock were the Guards on the doors of the Paradise, then the Satan wanted to reenter into the Paradise therefore He Became an ant and sat in the eye of the snake and entered from the Gate of Peacock and at another time He became an ant and sat on the foot of the Peacock and entered from the Gate of Snake, Therefore to represent Tawûsê Melek/ Satan the Yazidi religion uses Peacock and Serpent as their Symbols.
Satan entered in the Paradise to allure Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.
The Quran says that The Satan Did not Bow to the Adam when the God commanded to do so and when the God asked him why he has not bowed down the Satan told that
" In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." ( Kitêba Cilwe ).
This is word by word same statement as in the Quran.
The Yazidi Sacred books tells that then the Satan repented and he became remorseful he wipes and cries.
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell".
This statement is also in the Kitêba Cilwe of Yazidis.
The Mainstream Muslims ignored these poor Yazidi Kurdish people and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore they ended up spinning a religion out of the debris of locally dead mythology which was available to them.
The Yazidi religion was a Sect of Sufi Adawiyyah path in the beginning, but due to recurring ignorance, it accumulated non islamic mythologies and ended-up in present condition.
The Sufi Adawiyyah Tariqa was initiated by Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir in 12th century.
Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir teach them to follow the sharia and to perform Hajj and to Fast in Ramadan and to pay Zakat., He teach them to follow orthodox Islam, he never told them to deviate from the right path and Tawheed Monotheism.
for the answer of this question now please read my research in the following lines.
In this background I myself had viewed the video in April 2007 on internet while I was in Dubai, I was shocked to view the death agony of that helpless girl, and so I came to know that there is an Ancient cult still today alive in the heart of Muslim Arabic country, this was another shock for me,
I personally examined the blogs on Dua Khalil and Yezidis and found that all non Muslims are united for the Yezidis and very few Muslims have comments on those blogs, and Muslims had very little knowledge about Yezidis or they have wrong knowledge about the them.
As I being a researcher of truth and religions, I always tried to find out truth since when I was a small child and since I became aware of my environment in my early childhood, I was longing to find out truth and reasons in each and every matter I come across as a child, since my early childhood I had many questions in my mind regarding religion and all other matters, and I was quite successful to investigate and find out all correct answers and conclusions on matters for which I had questions and doubts. And the question of Yezidism was one of them. When I got the opportunity to study them again long after the unfortunate Dua Khalil's sacrifice, I turned myself again towards the internet to seek information about the Yezidis, which only internet can provide me very quickly, easily and it is very affordable too, it is also a Gift of God. Knowing the fact that the internet can provide me conflicting and misleading information, but I was confident to separate the truth from the falseness after examining vast knowledge on the internet. In my study of the Yezidis I examined the wikipedia, and Yezidi humanitarian web, and a few research articles on Yezidism posted by some researchers and some blogs and articles and views and opinions of different net surfers, all information regarding Yezidism on the net was conflicting and confusing,
even a Yezidi web had declared on its own web page that all the information on Yezidis on the internet is not correct and for correct information one has to log on to their web site only.
There was a very detailed analysis on the customs and beliefs and the religious books and their sacred peoples and places, and the connection between different religions with the Yezidism, what I had to read from the internet, the summary of the information regarding the Yezidis on the net was as above what I copied from the internet. The persons or organizations who were just honest to put the information on the net had written about each and every aspect of the Yezidism very honestly, they showed the Sufi connection with the Yezidism along with Mithraism and pagan beliefs and conflicts with the contemporary Muslim clergy and their persecution, on the internet, but the truth about the Yezidis is not this much, it is far more than this, And the peoples who were Christian or Jewish backgrounds or Atheists were tried hard to show that the Yezidism is a Pagan cult, it predates Islam and Christianity, and they said that probably it is derived from Ancient Kurdish pantheism or Babylonian and ancient Middle eastern religions and early Christianity and it has influence of Sufism and Islam in later centuries after the rise of Islam and popularity of Sufism and its Doctrines, these peoples were interested in detailing the persecution of the Sufis by the Muslim Rulers and clergy and also the persecution of the Yezidi community by the Muslim Rulers and kings.
this act helped to increase the gulf of hatred between Yezidis and Muslims, the intention of some peoples seems to cultivate the seeds of hatred in the hearts of innocent Yezidi young generation towards Muslims,
The Muslims are guilty I agree but it is not the True Islam who is against the Yazidis, the Muslims who misunderstood Yazidism in the past are guilty of their persecution, those persecutors were both shias and Sunnis, because they believed that the Yezidis are descendants of Yazid Bin Muawiya, the ignorant Muslims are not only guilty of persecution of the Yazidis alone but they are guilty of persecution of Various Sufis in the past including the famous mystic Sufi Al Hallaj Hussain Mansoor in Baghdad. 900 AD, and Sufi Sarmad in India, 1700 AD. and many more world wide, these Sufis are still revered in India and Pakistan and by the world wide Sunni Muslim Community. This Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj is the same one to whom the Yezidis revere very much, The Yezidis also revere to the Abdul Qadar Jilani, and Hasan Al Basri, and to the Rabia Basri, and to the Al Ghazali, and Khizar, the Green Man , Abraham etc. and the Sunni Muslims of Pakistan and India also revere them all equally even today.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill-advised by their clergymen since the time of Shiaa Sunni bifurcation at about 750 AD, Although their common peoples are innocent, during this period the Mutazalis, Kharijite, and the Rifaiya etc emerged, and These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, The Sufism itself was also the brainchild of these early Sunni Muslims, The Peoples who killed (Hussain Bin Ali (God Bless him)) the Grandson of Muhammad PBUH. were from the Sunni sect of early Muslims, although the First Sunni Muslims did not killed Hussain GBH, but they also could not stop the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him in Iraq, really they were helpless that time, they were all under fear and shock, they did not had courage to prevent the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him and his 72 people's gang of relatives and friends, because of the continued battles at every 5 to six months interval since Prophet Muhammad PBUH came to Medina, up to the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH at Karbala in Iraq, after Hussain Bin Ali’s sacrifice the Sunni Muslims came under a heavy shock and practically they went in coma, and there was no war and battle for this brief period, and after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Mawiya established a lavish empire from Arabia to Iraq and Syria and there was no resistance to him from any corner, because every body was fearing from the Yazid and his army men, and the commanders of his army gave heavy rewards to all peoples who helped in killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, and after a period of silence and calm down they get assimilated among the Sunni Muslims as if nothing wrong has ever happened, and after the death of Yazid bin Mawiya and his army men and his commanders the common Sunni Muslim started waking up from the state of fear shock and when they wake up from coma they started to bring life on its normal track. they tried to implement Quranic law in the society, now there emerged lawyers who know the Quran and the Hadiths/instructions of Muhammad PBUH, this gave a rise in different schools of law in Islam, the Humbli, Maliki, Shafi schools of law emerged in this time period, and now they needed the help of Hadiths, for making laws as the Yazid’s empire exceeded the borders of the Arabia. More new peoples and more new countries came directly under the Empire, new problems arrived, and Islamic law needed, now the collection of hadiths was started and refining of Hadiths was carried out, and un trust worthy Hadiths were rejected by the authentic Hadiths collectors, and after compilation of a good amount of authentic Hadiths the Islamic Lawyers were in a good position to implement Shariya Law in the society with the patronage of the Caliphs, these Caliphs and rulers and governors were the descendants of the peoples who Killed Hussain Bin Ali GBH, as the Islamic awareness increased in the early Muslims and the ruling class, there emerged a guilt feeling of Killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH among the ruling class in particular and in Sunni Muslims in general about the Guilt of doing this sort of heinous crime of killing the Grandson of the Final Prophet Muhammad PBUH, now they become aware about the worth of Muhammad PBUH, coupled with the guilt feeling and love and admiration of Muhammad PBUH, and knowledge of Islamic Shariya and plenty of wealth and a very large empire encompassing the whole Arabia and beyond, this proved in front of the Muslims the authenticity of Islam and the predictions of Quran and Muhammad PBUH, This made the common peoples to believe in the truth of Islam and there emerged a flood of devout persons in each and every house in the length and breadth of this huge Empire, these devout persons were the early Saint of Islam, these peoples were astonished and amazed and fully admired due to the witness of the truth of Islam and The Truth of Muhammad PBUH and his sayings, in front of their eyes, because they were the witness of the poverty and worthlessness of the Arabia and themselves, these early saints of Islam were truly devout persons, they had true knowledge of Islam, they were not ignorant about the Islamic law, simply they were astonished, and lost in the God, these were the traits of the early Islamic saints and Sufis and Fakirs, now as I told you that a flood of such peoples arrived in the early five centuries of Islam, and after that the flood of devotion over flowed in all the muslim empire, the peoples became addicts of devotion, the knowledge levels of the addict devout persons declined and pure devotion took hold, because there was plenty of every thing, they had no troubles and fear of enemies because the borders of Islamic Empire were ever increasing, and the enemies were far-flung beyond the borders, pure devotion to God prevailed in the Arabia, and Once a person becomes devout and astonished by the glory of God, he lost senses, and if he is less educated, then he can imagine any fantasy, and this situation gave birth to the early Sufism, the devout and lost peoples in God were the first Sufis of Islam, these early Sufis were having some kind of awareness of Islamic law, they were not illiterate and ignorant devout persons, they were simply real devout and lost in the God persons. in this period of addiction of devotion and early Sufism there was very good communication between the Sufis of all over the enormous Empire, in these times the Sufis were holding their meetings with one another and exchanging ideas as different new ideas and doctrines of devotion were coming in from different non Arabic countries of the newly expanded Empire, the Pilgrimage of Makkah or the Hajj provided very good opportunity to all these devout persons and Sufis to meet one another and express ideas and exchange new formulas of devotion, the Sufis made Hierarchy in the Muslim Society such as The Sheikh or Mard e Kamil or Murshad and The Peer and his disciple is called Mureed, they Held meetings of Sama, and There was Qawwals for reciting Qawwalis, in Mehfil e Sama, and the Sufis even held ceremonies near the other Sufis as a Pilgrimage to their house, and Dinners and Dancing, The Shrines of Sufis are known as Mazars, and there are Original Peacock’s tail Feather’s long brushes, highly revered by the pilgrims, as if actually the Peacock is revered Bird of the Sufis, and a lamp is kept always lit in these Mazars, the Muslims also believe in distribution of work among the 7 Archangels, such as the Michael is given the work of Rains and seasons, and the Israfeel is responsible for the End times preparation and the Azraeel is given the task of giving the death to all creatures, and the Gabriel is the messenger of God, and different ask are given to specific Angels, and Azazeel is Satan, etc.
The Muslims also have a tradition that the God sent 124000 prophets, the Yazidis also believe in this.
The Muslims also have Pesh Imams in Masjids, the Ezidis also have the pesh Imam.
the Yazidis also have such ideas of seven angels administration of world, the Heptad, i.e. the prominent Seven, During the time of early Sufism the trade and technology exchange was also carried out through the same channels of communications in those time, 700 AD to 1400 AD,
As the Islam is a pure monotheistic religion and it has very perfect and sufficient law, and now it also had a very gigantic empire and government, so there always existed law enforcement agents among Islamic cities, these agents ensure the law enforcement in all strata of the society, mean while the Rulers and Dynasties changed and the struggle for the power was going on in the elites but the general public was busy in learning and devotion, Up to here we discussed only about the Sunni Muslims part, and what about the Shia Muslim sect which was got completely separated from Sunni Muslims from the time of assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBh the Shia peoples along with the remaining family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBh became underground and secret and they conspired to acquire power from the Sunnis throughout the Islamic History. Their development in the religion was not of equal quality of Sunni sect, but they remained loyal to the family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, but their religious development was of very inferior quality than Sunnis, because they had concentrated solely on conspiracy and they could not devote considerable time for the development of Islamic sciences and law, This leads in them various drawbacks and they were very prone to heresy, and they invented different doctrines as the control of Islamic Knowledge and law was not strong on them and because they could not standardized Islamic Knowledge, such as the compilation of authentic Hadiths, even they could not prevent intermixing of authentic Hadiths and unauthentic Hadiths, many new doctrines emerged from shias, and the shias were not doing any best in the history of Islam , even they were worst than Sunnis, they even joined hands with the enemies of Islam in the past for attaining power and governments, In the mean time the Sunni Muslims were busy in the expansion of the empire, and slowly the high standard of the Sufis and devout persons started to fall down, but still the people were devout and the Sufism has a craze among devout persons, and new doctrines and ideas were accepted in the Sufism and the Sufis had a secret ideas, often written in the form of secret Books, i.e. Book of secret or Kitabe Raz or Ramouz and Isrars, and they assumed that these ideas were also the means of devotion to the almighty God, so there is no harm in it,
Although this knowledge was even blasphemous for Allah SWT, but these Sufis were assuming it to be the means of devotion and nearness to Allah SWT, not only nearness but they assume it the means of attaining dissolution in Allah SWT, The Sufis were not allowing novices to know about this knowledge, this knowledge was written some times and some times it was passed orally to the most trusted disciple of rank, the written book about such forbidden knowledge was very common among the Sufis of India, all the prominent Sufis of medieval period were having such books, the books were kept very hidden and secret, and only made available to the tested and attained disciples, Sufi Shaikh Faridoddin, Sufi Bahoddin Multani and Sufi Nizamoddin of Delhi and Bahoddin Zachariah, and Ruknoddin Multani and many more numerous others, had read them, these books had very blasphemous doctrines, Blasphemous according to Islam, and not according to Sufism, In these books generally very contrary things were mentioned about the God, his modus operandi, his shape and his personality and his powers and his shrewdness and his conspiracy and his power and weaknesses, even the events and reality which is opposite to the Quran and Hadiths, these things are not allowed to talk according to Islam, but these Sufis were assuming that as far as the Sufi is having all true knowledge of Islamic Law and Quran and Hadiths, and he is leading a life according to laid down law of Islam, this type of secret Knowledge will not harm him, because he has control over his sense, and because he has attained the rank of Shaikh or Marde Kamel by hard devotion, and human mind can imagine any thing good or blasphemous but its harm only comes if it is expressed openly to common public, so the Sufis were hiding these books from the general non Sufi persons, but every body know that if any body became a true devout and if he is lost in God then he looses control of his senses, he becomes just like insane and intoxicated person, They were hence called as Majzoobs, i.e. Dissolved one, The devotion and the guilt feeling in the early devout Muslims led them to think about repentance from the crime of killing Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the guilt feeling of Hussain Bin Ali’s GBH assassination created among the early killers of Hussain Bin Ali GBh a feeling of Repentance, now they were in search of any way of repentance, they were in search of any body who can relive them from the guilt feeling and from this sin by showing them any way, any story any parable and allegory which can give them any feeling of comfort was very dear to them, these Sufis became really Absorbed in God, they were real devout persons they were lost in God and they had lost senses, Among them was Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, Sufi Sarmad and Al Ghazali and Abdul Qadar al Jilani al Baghdadi and Hasan Al Basri and Rabiya Basri and Bahoddin Zachariah and Ruknoddin Multani many more innumerable others widely distributed throughout Islamic Territory, the other persons who had not lost in the God, or who has not so strong in Devotion towards God can easily misunderstand these absorbed Sufis as blasphemers due to their thoughts, the thoughts which came on their tongues because of their unconscious state of mind, these Sufis can reveal blasphemous ideas from that secret book, and in the History Mansoor al Hallaj was persecuted by the law enforcement authorities, and many more peoples were persecuted for the same reasons and charges of blasphemy, Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj was saying that I am Allah, i.e. Ana Al Haqq, according to that secret book and according to Sufi doctrine it may be right, but he was lost and absorbed in the devotion so he was telling this statement, the law enforcement agent either misunderstood him or he persecute him to prevent wide spread open blasphemy of God in the common public, to save the dignity of Allah in the society. these types of persecutions were very common, but the wise option was to neglect such Sufis, because they did not do that intentionally. but for the law enforcement agents it is very necessary to maintain law and order in the society. they wanted that the disease of blasphemy of God should not spread in the general public, because Fear of God is the Basis of Law and order.Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir and his contemporary Sufis had sympathy with the Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, and many peoples were having sympathy with the Al Hallaj, his persecution and death made many Sufis uncomfortable and they secretly propagated his message and doctrine among Sufis and public, the secret book was kept under strict vigilance and most of the times the Sufi takes this book in their graves by advising their disciples to put this book under their head as a pillow in their graves, one such book was unearthed in Yemen in a mosque when peoples were digging for the expansions of the mosque, the western media thought this book to be the Original Quran because it has verses very opposite to the teaching of Quran, the people who agreed on the secret doctrine of the Al Hallaj Mansoor were keeping their beliefs very secret due to fear of persecutions, The Secret Sufi sect and their secret book remained in the hands of some highly trusted Sufis and it was in India there are written proofs about this secret book that this book was under the library of Sufi Bahoddin Zachariah and Baba Farid and others and many other closely related Sufis who were allowed to read this book after passing different tests and criteria, this book and its contents were copied and even stolen by various Sufis of that time and it reached throughout the Islamic territories, there are written proofs in Urdu, The idea of Allah SWT is the all excellent and ever potential was the basis of Sufism, and the Sufis could not imagine that Allah can be unjust to any body, he is ever just and he can do any thing and he is all knowing and he knows the past, future and the present equally well, he can not be unjust to any body and he cannot be defeated and fooled by any body, Now the problem of Satan was making them uneasy, they longed to solve this enigma, and the thoughts and imaginations of Sufis had its solution, although the solution was correct and justified according to secret Sufi book but they were blasphemous for the general Muslims, in the eyes of Islamic shariya these types of solutions were worthy of burn down immediately and any proponents of these ideas needed to be immediately put to brutal death and there was no compromise, that’s why these books were kept very secret and only very trusty and tested candidates were allowed to view these books, and the followers and the Sufis who were in agreement of these secret doctrines were advised to keep it strictly secret and confined to the elite Sufis only, no body was allowed to question the Sufi and his deeds if one finds them blasphemous he was advised to assume it’s opposite and that it is a Asrar or Raz or Ramooz i.e. the secrets of Allah SWT which cannot be revealed to commoners. and the general public understood this very obediently and they never questioned any Sufis, because the commoners were thinking that they cannot understand the Ramooz and Asrar of God, and only Sufis can understand them, The Idea of Satan's disobedient to the order of Allah was making the Sufis uneasy and they tried to find any means of reconciliation between Allah and Satan, there are some Hadiths which shows that the Satan knows the Passwords of Allah, i.e. the Isme Aazam, and he is confident that by using these divine passwords he will one day win the heart of Allah and will be forgiven for his sin of disobedience, and he can use them well before the day of judgment, i.e. Qayamah or Doomsday, this type of Hadiths are still in circulation and these types of rumors create hopes in the mind of the Sufis about the repentance of Satan or chances of his reconciliation with God, and they thought that, May be this might have had happened in the Spiritual realms( Aalam e Arwah) that the Satan may have used those passwords and he might have forgiven already, this doctrine is contrary to the Quran, but the imagination of Dissolved Sufi can tell him that the Quran was copied from Loohe Mahfooz ( A kind of Divine memory chip sd card or a sort of Divine Clipboard ), and it may be from among a Ramooz wa Asrar of Allah SWT, the Sufis had questions in there minds, the Sufis were innocent believers of God, they were truly and purely Monotheists, they were not ready to accept that there can be any body who even can dare to disobey God, and survive, this is the defamation of God if any body disobey him from among his nearest ones, such as the Satan, and they might think that there can not be any body deprived of the Grace and mercy of God for longer time, The God’s mercy must encompass him, even if the guilty is unwilling to repentance, the God is all wise, he cannot let the guilty do stupidity, and because he has created every thing from his noor ( Light), This story of disobedience of Satan is in Quran only, it is not in Jewish or Christian Bile, the story is as follows, " when God finished making Adam and when Adam stood up after breathing his life breaths, and after completing demonstrations of Adam’s abilities to various Angels, the God Ordered to all the Angels to prostrate in front of Adam, Now all Angels prostrated but only Satan did not did this,.. Allah became angry upon Satan and stripped off all his ranks, then the Satan asked the God to grant him permission till the end of the world so that he can take revenge from the Adam and his progeny, therefore the Allah granted him permission and the Satan became a snake and then he became an ant and rides in the eye of a peacock and entered the heaven to lure Adam and Eve, And so on the story goes in Quran, according to the Quran and some parts in Muslim traditions which are not in the Quran,.
The peacock and snake of Yazidi people is this story.
See snake symbol on the entrance gate of the Yazidi shrine.
( According to Muslim traditions the snake and peacock were guards of the gates of heaven at the time of the creation of Adam and Eve, Therefore the snake symbol on the entrance of Yazidi shrine symbolizes the guardianship, the shrine is considered to be the heaven and the worshipers are Adam's children in the heaven.)
and there is a Hadith of prophet Muhammad PBUH regarding the repentance by using passwords and the Sufi’s imagination of repentance of Satan in spiritual realms has a comfort for the peoples who were Purely Monotheistic in their beliefs and who were devout men to the God, and this idea can give a sort of comfort and sooth to the persons who were still having some sort of guilt feeling in their hearts, the guilt can be replaced by the idea of repentance, the peoples who have guilt feeling in their hearts always tries to find some sort of sooth or comfort in any possible thing, or even in Fetishes, being among the Sunni Muslims, descendants of the Yazid and Marwan can feel this sort of guilt feeling more than any other person in Shia Muslim sect, the shia Muslims were thinking to be very bad because they could not sided the Hussain bin Ali GBH, and many Sunni Muslims also thinking bad because they too could not help the grand son of the prophet PBUH, although all shia Muslims are not the descendants of the persons who actually supported Hussain bin Ali GBH, the shias are a combination of different ethnically diverse persons, in past many shias got assimilated in Sunni Muslims without knowingly, due to ignorance, on the other hand the Sunni Muslims also decayed and ignorance prevailed in them, slowly they forgot the Islamic sciences and hence started obeying the learned men and clergy, and the clergy and learned men lead them astray, The early clergy of Muslims persecuted the yezidi leaders due to misunderstanding, they saw their religious innovations only but they couldn’t dig into the root cause, And persecuted them so heavily that all the Yezidis were excommunicated and confined them in the hills, all religious books were stripped off from them, they were not allowed to perform the Hajj and visiting Makkah. So their leaders recalled their memories and compiled a religious material from whatever was mixed in their imagination and memories, and for quenching the thirst of Hajj in their disciples they constructed a Makkah in the region were they were confined, Strikingly the landscape and the surrounding of their holy places of pilgrimages closely resembles the cities of Makka and Medina, even they kept the same names to the nearby hills and ponds and spring as are in Original Makka in KSA, their spring is Zam zam, their hill is Arafat etc. They sacrifice a bull all this is a copy of Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, it is in fact the Hajj. they are Muslims.
The Orthodox Muslims too have traditions in their Sufi masters that the Mecca and Holy Kaba can come anywhere for a devote Sufi, There is a Tradition in Sufi circles in Muslims that The Kaaba arrived in Baghdad for the Sufi Saint Rabiya Basriya Adwiyya, then She used to perform his circumambulation around the Kaba without ever traveling to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Rabia Basri was a 10 th century Sufi in Iraq.
If the Kaba can arrive for a single woman according to Muslim Sufi Traditions,
then why not these Yazidi community can make Mecca and Kaba and Mount Arafat and Chah Zam Zam in the hills of Sinjar near Mosul in Iraq? for the isolated and excommunicated community of people who long for performing the Hajj but they are not allowed to enter the Mecca?
Therefore the Yazidis Make their own Mecca in their hills and performed the Hajj.
The Yazid people were accused of being devil worshippers and hence not allowed in mecca as they were thought to be non muslims by the then orthodox muslims of the Iraq region.
The Sufis are true lovers of the God and hence they sometime go in an stage of ecstasy and they feel and hear and see things which are not orthodox according to the Shari'a Islamic Law, when they wake-up from the state of ecstasy they cannot tell to the public what they saw and hear, because it is prohibited in Islam to say anything regarding the unseen knowledge if the person is not a prophet and prophet-hood has ended now, therefore these sufi tells these secret things to their nearest followers or write it down in secret books, book of Asrar.
These Sufis have a strong desire in their heart to make reconciliation between the Allah and the Satan, therefore it is possible that these Sufis might have tried to make a reconciliation in their state of ecstasy and it is possible that these Sufi might have seen in their condition of ecstasy that the God has pardoned the Satan and The God restored his past glory to the Satan,
The Sufism in Islam is a secret spiritual brotherhood which has doctrines and concepts which are not endorsed by orthodox Islam, for example, the belief about the pardoning of Satan and reconciliation between Allah and Satan are secret topics in Sufism which are never discussed publicly.
This can be the Basis of the theory of Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir regarding the pardonment of the Satan.
The Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res is written by him and these books are the secret books of Sufis, the books of Asrar. These secret books were also written in India during the 12th century and after that too by different Sufis of India.
The Teaching of Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir were not against Islam, he was a pious Sufi and He teach correct Islam to the Yazidis, He teach how to perform the Hajj pilgrimmage, He teach all stories of the Quran but after his death due to negligence of mainstream Muslims and due to ignorance the belief system and practices of a local faith had a profound influence on the religiosity of adherents of the Adawiyya Sufi order living in the Kurdish mountains, and caused it to deviate from Islamic norms relatively soon after the death of its founder, Sheikh Adî ibn Musafir who is said to be of Umayyad descent. He settled in the valley of Lalis (some thirty-six miles north-east of Mosul) in the early 12th century AD. Sheikh Adî himself, a figure of orthodoxy, enjoyed widespread influence. He died in 1162, and his tomb/ Mazar is at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.
In the time of arrival of Islam in the Kurdistan The Yazidis were like Roma or Gypsy, they were neglected by the Main stream Muslims and they could not get Islamic Education therefore they became vulnerable to the different heresy groups who infiltrated them and changed their religion from Islam to Yazdanism or Yazidism.
The Yazidis were nomadic sheep herders like Roma or Gypsies, therefore they were living in mountains and hence they could not get true Islamic teachings, and slowly due to neglect from the orthodox Muslims they ended up having a crude idea about religion.
The Mainstream Muslims ignored these poor Yazidi Kurdish people and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore they ended up spinning a religion out of the debris of locally dead mythology which was available to them.
The Yazidi religion was a Sect of Sufi Adawiyyah path in the beginning, but due to recurring ignorance, it accumulated non islamic mythologies and ended-up in present condition.
The Sufi Adawiyyah Tariqa was initiated by Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir in 12th century.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill advised by their clergymen, These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, Although their common peoples are innocent but their clergymen are not intelligent and wise, they distorted the Islam and Quran and hadiths, they are headless clergymen, they have hearsay beliefs and once they erred they were caught in ego and prestige problem and in defending their problem of ego their early clergymen tried to find out far fetched references and slip of the tongue type proofs from the Quran and Hadiths, and even they rely on rejected body of Hadiths to support their rather Difficult to prove hearsay beliefs, Once their early peers erred in the early history of Islam, and due to ego they tried to patch up their mistakes by producing distorted proofs from Quran and Hadiths instead of accepting the mistake and correcting it in first place, their clergy retaliates with their silly ideas on the correctors, They themselves are less intelligent and so they do not becomes shy of their cognizance less ness, Now they do patch ups so the patch up process continued till today along with this less intelligence mind and mentality, and this patch up daring gives birth to new doctrines and ideas along sides, these clergy of Sunni Muslims are low intelligent people they cannot under stand the truth of monotheism and these were the Muslims who persecuted the Hussain Mansoor al Hallaj, and to the Yezidi peoples 72 times in History, the Yezidis are the devout followers of devout saints who revere monotheism, The Yezidis are really the descendants of devout saints who were true monotheist and dissolved saints and lost in the God secret Sufis, they are the followers of the secret Sufi cult, the contemporary Sunni Muslims misunderstood them, because the Sunni Muslims forgot the secret Sufi doctrine due to their own ignorance, and because the Sunni Muslims had allowed many innovations or Bidaa. in their religion and made a religion on Islamic debris, Actually the Islam is not a religion, but it is a Fact of the universe, it is proven fact that There is a God, who created this whole universes, and he only knows every thing and only he can Guide us, and only his guidance has true path, and he only can be all good and benevolent, and the Aim of human life is to Establish peace and justice in society and to keep it functioning and to restore it, if it is lost, Islam is the knowledge about the One God who created this Universe, and every thing and he gave an opportunity to man to lead a peaceful and just life in this world by establishing just society based on human rights and justice and God has given an opportunity for the man to restore peace and justice in the society, and to keep the things going on smoothly according to his Laws, and God had guided the human beings from very beginnings and he sent innumerable prophets and his final message arrived with his Final prophet Muhammad PBUH, but the Religion of Sunnis is totally different from this, and it cannot be called the Islam, it is it’s a parody of Islam, They forgot Islam, long in the distant past, in true Islam it is the aim of a human being to strive for restoring and maintaining peace and justice in the society, all the things, wealth and food and peace and time and happiness is only given for the task of maintaining a justice and peace in the society, it is just like you are a sales man and you are provided the car and food and clothes and accommodations and you are traveling for the cause of business tour, all the provisions given to you are not for enjoyments but all these are given to you so that you make business for your employer, this travel is not your holiday picnic ride, it is for the business of your boss, and we must not forget this in our whole travel, Now you think your self what the humans are doing with this provisions given by God to us, Every body is a Traveler in his life, The Arabic word for Traveler is Musafir, and in this regards every body is Musafir, so we have to perform our travel very successfully in order to give good business to our boss, we should not waste the provisions and traveling allowances given by our boss in our own enjoyments and amusements, if we are wasting it then we are not doing the duty properly. Then why we should not be fired from our boss. Be a good Musafir.
The Yazidis were devout followers of their Sufi teachers, but the Sunni Muslims misunderstood them and they heavily persecuted them 72 times since their inception, many times the Yazidis were excommunicated, their houses were burnt to ashes, their belongings were seized, and the community was made forcefully to disperse, their holy sites were damaged and their books were burnt down, so the Ezidi or Yazidis had no books with them when they settled down in remote mountains, then their Sheikhs and Sufis and Peers and Murids and Fakirs and Baba Sheikhs gathered what they had in their memory about the teachings of the religion, and from here the custom of memorizing the secret doctrines of Ezidis came in to use, Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir was a devout Sufi, from the lineage of Yazid Bin Muawiyah, The Yazidis have the story of Satan as he became Peacock and he entered the Paradise to Tempt the Adam and eve, after Disobeying Allah, the Satan Did not prostrate in front of the Adam, hence Allah became unhappy with the Peacock angel, and after tempting the Adam and Eve, finally the Peacock angel repented and Allah restored him his past glory and made him the Boss of other Archangels, then the peacock Angel managed very peacefully with his colleagues Angels and he assigned them different tasks of the universe, and since then all Angles are working in perfect Harmony and peace due to excellent managerial skills and Administration of the Peacock angel (Malek Taoos), This is the second part of the story, its First Part is in Quran, The Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir who has longing to reconcile between the Allah and Satan, found comfort and sooth in this story and made part of their secret doctrine, but Shaikh adi's intention was monotheism only, it were the ignorant peoples after him who made religions and their laws and customs, as all other religions has undergone metamorphosis, the Yezidism too passed from the process of metamorphosis and it became the heresy of a heresy, because the Sufism is a heresy of Islam. And since because the Yezidis don’t had books with them, due to frequent stripping offs, they had only memory and there was the book of Raz in their memory, the book of Rash is known as Meshefe Rash, and another collection of thoughts is Book of Cilveh, it is the book of Jalwah i.e. the freedom of the Melek Taoos from the sin of Disobedience of Allah SWT, Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir has told the yezidis, that they must follow Sunnah and they Must avoid bida. And the yazidis are advised to keep their Books very secret, and they should not be written down or no body read them except the chosen few.
There is nothing wrong if we try to reconcile between our Yazidi brothers and Muslims, after all they are our brothers, who lost in the wilderness in the remote past, if this work of understanding them had carried out in the past, and had the Yazidis not persecuted and excommunicated in the past, then the innocent Dua Khalil may not had died, on 7th April 2007. if the Yazidis were not termed as non Muslims.
The Former Sheikhs of Yazidis revere the Malek Taus due to love with Allah, they want to protect Allah’s integrity by making Allah the ever Merciful and all potent and benevolent, the reverence of Peacock angel is extreme pinnacle of Devotional monotheism in their opinions, so the Yazidism is not from the Pagan origins and nor they borrowed ideas from Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, they revere flames and the fire only because it is the symbol of Iblees or Satan i.e., Peacock Angel i.e. Malek Taoos or Taer taus, the Story of Satan Becoming Peacock and Entering the paradise is also in the Body of Islamic Hadiths. the Yazidism is an Offshoot of Sufism, the Yazidis are secret followers of the Sufism and the Sufism is an offshoot of Islam, the Sufism has spiritual secret form of Islam, the Sufism and its secret books are blasphemous according to orthodox Islamic law.
The Sunni Muslims Now in modern times have organized in India and Pakistan and in western countries under the banner of Sunni Dawat Islami, and they refer them selves as Ahl Al sunna wa Jamat, or simply Sunni Muslims, they are Mohammedans and Grave worshippers, they are as far from the true teachings of Mohammad PBUH as the present day Christians are from the true message of Jesus Christ, The Christians revere the Christ and the saints, and worship Christ, so they are called Christians, and these Sunnis are called Mohammedans for the same reasons, because they revere Prophet Muhammad PBUH but they are at an enormous distance from the Spirit of his teachings, just as Christians are from The Christ’s, Islam is Millions of Kilometers away from these Sunni Mohammedans. but their common peoples are still innocent because they only know what their clergymen tells them, their clergymen cannot understand any straight thing, they always find twists in that, probably because they have much twisted DNA so they have very little intelligence in their brains. They always explore new deities other than the God, and their expeditions culminated in the form of grave worshiping Muslims of India, There appeared various reformers in Sunni Muslims since last couple of centuries, and these reformist criticized heavily on various religious innovations and due to this criticism there is some improvements in the Sunni Muslims other wise they may have became yet another Yezidi type cult with new names such as Qadris, Chishtis, Naqshabandis, saherwardis, Barelvis, etc, they were quite near to becoming another Yezidi community in the east Asia, and there is already one such community in existence which has become another Yezidis type cult and to which the Muslims have rejected as a non Muslim group, this community is the Sikhs, the Sikhs are one such community in India,
There is another community which became Yezidi like, these are Druze of Lebanon and Golan heights in Israel.
The Orthodox muslims neglected nomadic communities and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore such religions originate in Islamic countries.
There are actually yet another Yezidis in making, because they follow innovations in religion which is not desired by Allah and his Final prophet PBUH, they Sunni Muslim clergymen and common persons even today believe that a certain number of pilgrimages to a Tomb of a sheikh in the city of Ajmer in India is equivalent to One Hajj of makka, and there is a door which is known as Door of paradise, and it is believed that passing through this door qualifies him to enter the paradise. And the call their respected elders and Sufis as Qibla va Kaba, equivalent to the two holy shrines in Makkah and Medina. And they held pilgrimages on the shrines of all Sufis and there is a ceremony of Sandal, in this ceremony they first give a bath to the grave of the sheikh with mixture of Rose water and Zamzam water and the spent water is also revered as sacred among the devotees they often fight each other to get some speck of it, after the bath the grave worshippers and the peoples serving the graves apply a paste of Sandal wood powder and Rose water, ( the Zamzam is a natural spring in Makkah) this embalming of the grave is very similar to the Abhishek ceremony of Hindus of India, the Hindus also perform such ceremony with their Idols in their shrines, first they give bath to the idol with a mixture of water of river Ganga and coconut water and Urine of Cow etc, and after bathing the deity they embalm the Idol with milk, oils, and sandal wood powder paste etc. amazingly the Sunni Muslims and Hindus have many parallels in their religious behaviors and customs, the clergy of Sunni Muslims believes that the dead Sheikhs and Sufis are alive till today, and their help is sought in the prayers, this intercession is called as Wasila, if all the dead Sufis and Sheikhs are alive today then why do they died at first place, why this drama of life and death in front of helpless commoners, the Sunnis are deviated from the true Islam, they are the travelers who have forgot the aim of their business tour, Although the business tour can be very entertaining but it is useless if it does not makes a business for the employer who sponsored it, the aim of life of a Muslim is to restore justice, peace in the society, and this is the business of the traveler, if the Yezidis are devil worshippers then these Sunni Muslims are followers of devil’s agenda, the devils agenda is to deviate the sales men travelers/ Musafir, from their business, then in this respect they are both brothers of each other.WAllah alam bissawab, WAllaho walio Taufiq.
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When anyone shows the modern Yazidis that there is a contradiction in your narration about Tawûsê Melek story,
The Full story is this,......They believe that God first created Melek Taus from his own illumination (Ronahî in Kurdish) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Melek Taus not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Melek Taus. In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth.
( Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Melek Taus, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Taus the choice as a test.),
Then when we show them a contradiction, then,..
Why he (Tawûsê Melek) Repented!
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
Then the Modern Yazidis say that,
Once The Tawûsê Melek descended to earth and he saw a lot of sufferings and injustice and pain and evil in the world that He “ he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
This is the new answer of modern Yazidis.
The modern Yazidis think that this answer will solve the problem of the contradiction,
but actually, this answer has generated another problem for the Yazidism, I argue that " When did the Tawûsê Melek descended to earth to witness all this suffering and pain and injustice and evil on this earth? " Is that descent before of the creation of mankind or after it?"
If it is after the creation of mankind then, the story of Bowing to the Adam must be False,
Because after the creation of Adam, God ordered him to Bow down to Adam, and according to Yazidism God became happy and made Tawûsê Melek lord of the world, and at that time, there were no humans on the earth.
and If it is before the creation of mankind then, again the story of Bowing to the Adam must be False,
Because before the creation of Adam, there were also no Humans on the earth to do evil.
And if this descend was before the creation of mankind then the statement of Modern Yazidis is wrong that the God made him the prince of this world after pleasing with him and praising him due to his not bowing down to Adam.
If my arguments cancels the story of Tawûsê Melek and Adam, then the whole basis of the Yazidism collapses, as their religion is based on the assumption that the "Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth."
And if suppose we assume that the Tawûsê Melek really did cry and filled 7 jars with his tears and these tears then quenched the fires of hell.
Then a Question arises in my mind,...
Then the Hell might have become cool and comfortable then:
"Was the God So stupid to create the Hell in the first place so that to get it quenched by the tears of Tawûsê Melek",.
God is farsighted and wise, He knows the future, and Hell is not a small furnace for getting quenched by tears, the Hell is meant to be for the punishment of evil personalities. and if God creates something then It has some grand Function, not getting damaged or quenched or destroyed.
Getting quenched by the tears was not the function behind the creation of Hell.
Now why God could not prevented the Hell being quenched if as per Yazidism, If God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic).
Then Why He could not save the Hell from being quenched and Why had God created the Hell in the First place, Is he so enough Stupid? or and he is so powerless to stop it being quenched? or weather if He does not have the foresight to see what will happen to his creation in the near future.
The God does not allow anyone to spoil his work or the god is able enough to prevent someone from spoiling his creation.
Because God has a plan in his mind well ahead of doing anything, if he had made Hell for the sinners then it must exist anyway unless all sinners are pardoned and there remains no need of hell.
But you know well that there are sinners in the world and they did not repent and hence they must suffer the pains of visiting the hell.
The God has not pardoned anyone from sinners, it is not written in Yazidism anywhere nor in the orally transmitted hymns of their Qawwals that God has pardoned all sinners and now there is no need of hell.
Anyhow,
But Why he (Tawûsê Melek) Repented!
Why would he Repented and cry if God had rewarded him?
Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
Why would he Repented if God had rewarded him?
This Question remains after all, Why He REPENTED for?
Repented for what ?
This is another contradiction,
The first contradiction is He cried,
The Second contradiction is For what He repented?
The True answer is in Quran,
The Quran says that He denied to Bow down in front of the Adam, then the God expelled him from the Paradise and then he (Tawûsê Melek) descended on to the earth,
Here on earth, he may have cried.
he may have cried in remorse of something,
he may have repented in remorse of something,
Perhaps the disobeying the command of the God might be.
This is a plausible answer.
The answer is in the Quran.
That He did not Obeyed the God.
If he (Tawûsê Melek) has cried by seeing the sufferings of this world, then he must have seen the rewards and remunerations of Paradise.
Because the God did not create the Hell alone he also created the Paradise,
And the Paradise is Par more rewarding than any suffering on this earth by all individuals for the whole of their lives.
The God created Hell and Heaven both, he (Tawûsê Melek) must had seen that, lest he may not had cried so hard.
The Yazidis say that after extinguishing of the Hell, the Heaven and hell does not exists.
No need of Heaven and Hell anymore, as we are rewarded and punished by recurring reincarnations.
In my opinion, This argument will not solve the problem of Hell and heaven,
As for the rewarding and for punishing by reincarnation of a soul, a soul must be aware that for what I am being rewarded or I am being punished in this world.
But as everybody knows that we do not know our previous past deed and our previous past memories,
We do not have any memory from our previous past,
if we are reborn, then We must have our past memories.
This is a big blow to the theory of reincarnation.
Nobody knows why he was born and why he has punished in his life, if he is poor and suffering, and why he has rewarded in his life if he is wealthy and enjoying.
Theory of reincarnation is a dumb attempt to provide an alternative to the Hell and Heaven.
Theory of reincarnation is a dumb attempt to answer the problem of evil in this world.
These above arguments prove that the answers of Modern Yazidis to cover up their contradictions in their religion is firing back on them, and it proves that the Two books of the Yazidis are in fact Genuine and any tampering in them will backfire them badly.
Tampering by covering up or denying anything from these Two books will backfire.
One should not be satisfied by the frame in which he finds himself trapped; he must try to restore justice and peace, by the orders of God for the benefit of all and for the benefits of his own generations, this is the aim of life of human race, becoming rich man’s dog is not the aim, the food and the resources are not for wasting on rich man’s dog, be human.
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Who Are Yezidi, Ezidi or Yazidi, and Yezidism, A comprehensive Case Study
Yezidis are our brothers whom their Elder brothers have forgotten since centuries.
They came in the knowledge of the common people by the internet when a yezidi girl Dua Khalil Aswad 17 years, was stoned to death by peoples of her town on 7th April- 2007, on the charge of being in relationship with a Muslim boyfriend, & becoming a Muslim.
The video of her honor killing was posted on the internet in May 2007. After this incident, the internet was flooded with the blogs supporting the innocent Dua Khalil, and providing confusing information about the Yezidi religion and their practices, their history and the felonies and hostilities of Muslims against this helpless community.
And some peoples were claiming that the Yezidi religion is an ancient and preislamic pagan religion,
and it has the blend of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism and Sufism, and the Yezidis worship an Angel in the form of a Peacock or Malek Taus, The peacock angel, and that The Yezidism is an ancient Angelic Cult,
and some posted on internet that the Yezidis are the Worshippers of Satan, and that they are Devil Worshippers,
The western media claims that the Muslims have persecuted them and the Muslims have attacked them 72 times in their bloody history and they still struggling for survival in spite of such hostility. All this is wrong. In reality they are Monotheists and heresy Muslims, same as Ismaili Khoja of India.
In this article I have made a detailed research and analysis about the Yazidis and I concluded that " In fact, the Yazidis are a sect of Muslim Sufis, whom the orthodox mainstream Muslims thinks to be heretics,
because the Yazidi scholar and a Muslim Sufi saint Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir has said that the Allah has accepted the repentance of Tawûsê Melek (Satan) and therefore the Allah has bestowed the governance of this world toTawûsê Melek and the Tawûsê Melek has been forgiven by the God, and now the Tawûsê Melek/Satan is his servant and in charge of this worldly affairs till the end of the world.
The Yazidism claims that the Tawûsê Melek cry and wipe for 7000 years in repentance, then the Allah forgave him.
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
For Details please read my research and the information provided by the Western media.
I made a comprehensive research and Analysis of the reality and Therefore in my research I found that the Yazidis are a sect of Muslim Sufism and they are in fact Muslims but they are ignorant and some what non orthodox, they are not kafirs and they are not polytheists either, they are Muslims.
They are Muslims and it is my recommendation that the Muslims must accommodate them in the tenets of Islam.
Now seeing an opportunity for creating chaos and dis integrity in Muslim countries Some people and Organizations even alluring them to make them near to themselves by comforting and soothing them and extending their helping hand, this act caused to create a big gulf of Hatred between the Muslims and the Yezidis,
Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Diyus of Indo European origins, and Malek is a word in Iraq for monsters, but all these comments are nothing but the wishful thinking,
Taoos is not Theos or Zeus, Taoos is Arabic word for Peacock, and Malek is also an arabic word for Angel.
The word for Monster in Iraqi Arabic is Malaq not Malek, the Malaq and Amlaq and Amaleqa are Monsters, Malak is an Arabic word for an Angel, such as Malak Gabriel and Michael etc.
and actually, the Yezidism is very different from all these internet western gossips.
We will study it in detail, but for your information, I am giving here an extract directly copied from the internet pages. So that you will be aware of the false claims of the western media.
First I want to give you some extracts copied from internet about the Yezidis, after that you will see my comprehensive Study on Yazidism, and you will realize what is the reality and what the western media is claiming.
Please Do read my Summary of Arguments just after the internet extract copy to better understand the Yazidism.
What the present internet gossips tell about Yazidis,...
Now please see below,..
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Extracts from the internet and western media starts from here.
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The Yazidis: Myth and Reality of a Religious Group of Proud Anti-IS Fighters
Fabrizio Federici 29 January 2016
Contrary to inaccurate reports, the Yazidis are a Kurdish religious group and not an ethnic group (following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Kurds asked for the Yazidis to be entirely recognise as belonging to their people). The religious community professing Yazidism consists of between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 lives in two Iraqi areas, the aforementioned Jebel Sinjar mountain near the border with Syria and the districts of Badinan (or Shaykhan) and Dohuk (in the northeast of the country), as well as in the Mosul area (ancient Nineveh, a territory that together with Kirkuk is geographically part of southern Kurdistan. This area is of enormous strategic importance and provides 75% of Iraq’s oil exports, now partly controlled by ISIS, which occupied the Mosul area in 2014, later freed by U.S troops). At least 50,000 live in the former USSR (Armenia and the Tbilisi area in Georgia), but there are also others in Syria especially around Aleppo (about 5,000 on Mount Simeon), and finally some also living in various parts of Iran. This religious group lives in all areas in which Kurds are the local majority, and therefore throughout Kurdistan, the vast plateau encompassing five countries (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and former Soviet Armenia). This region also includes the upper reaches of the Euphrates and the Tigris, Lakes Van and Urmia and the Zagros and Taurus mountains with the legendary Mount Ararat and Mesopotamia as its northern and southern borders. Finally, it is estimated that about 50,000 Yazidis, mainly coming from Turkey where they were greatly discriminated against, emigrated to western Europe during the last decades of the 20th century in search of asylum and jobs, settling above all in Germany where there are now about 40,000. There are a number of account on Facebook belonging to Yazidi groups or individuals, but, understandably, they are reluctant to accept ‘friends’.
According to some scholars, the word “Yazidi”, or “Ezidi” is derived from the Persian city of Yazd, or from the Persian word “Yazdan”, which means “God” (in the original language Yezidi, members of this religious group speak Kurdish, a dialect similar to Persian from which they have adopted many words). In “The Yezidis’ Religion” – a now one hundred year old essay of which there is a recent reprint – Giuseppe Furlani (1885-1962), an Assyriologist and historian of religions following in the footsteps of the legendary Raffaele Pettazzoni (the Italian founder of this discipline based on a historical-comparative model), tends towards this hypothesis, supported at the time by the Yazidis themselves. This does not exclude another authoritative hypothesis that links the word “Yazidisyyah” to the presence in the Zoroastrian religion (from which Yazidism has taken a great deal) of beings “worthy of adoration”, more specifically angels who make known God’s will to humankind. They are called “Yazada” in the Avestan language – the language of the “Avesta”, the religion’s Holy Book, and used as the liturgical language in Zoroastrianism – or “Ized” in proto-Persian. Finally, one must not forget the historical existence of Yazid, second caliph of the Omayyad dynasty that reigned in Damascus from 60 to 64 of the Hegira (680-683 AD). According to a Yazidi tradition (with no historical evidence),Yazid had at a certain point abandoned Islam to embrace the new faith, which, from then on, carried his name. ( i.e. the Yazidism !).
Little is known about the specific origins of this community of believers. One corroborated tradition believes they mostly came from what is now north-western Iraq, from south-eastern Anatolia (currently the provinces of Diyarbakir and Mardin) and from Syria (where the Kurdish ethnic group they belong to is present in northeast regions), and it is probable they originally spoke Arabic. There are many traditions concerning the origins of their religion, and, unlike Islam, are based on very few historical references.
The Yazidi religion, although basically monotheistic, has fundamentally syncretistic characteristics, which favour the appearance of various supernatural beings, partly explaining the presence of various traditions of origin. Unlike Christianity and more than in Islam, its esoteric characteristics are powerful, with a more authentic nucleus only partially known to expert religious historians and sociologists. Yazidis believe in a primordial God, who created – or became – the universe, making Himself manifest by emanation (a strong link with both Gnosticism and Plotinus’ Neoplatonism) in Seven Holy Angels (important figures both in the three ‘Religions of the Book’ and Zoroastrianism). The most important angel is Melek Tawus and is the central figure in Yazidism, an angel that looks like a peacock (Melek means “Angel”, and Tawus means “Peacock”), “the active essence of God”. But what role did this angel play in Yazidi mythology?
This angel was in reality Lucifer, the rebel angel who led the proud angels’ revolt against God (this event linked to the beginnings of the universe is present in various versions in a number of religions including that of the ancient Greeks, in which the Titans revolt against Zeus). According to the Yazidis, however, Melek (just like the Islamic Lucifer Iblis in Islam) is not as evil as in the Jewish and Christian religions. Banished from paradise, the Peacock Angel, instead, “redeemed himself from his fall. After he repented, he wept for 7,000 years, his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of hell”. Having fallen to earth, Melek, in the form of a peacock (an animal considered sacred or at least worthy of special respect in almost all western Asia, and once also the famous symbol of the Iranian monarchy) was found and lovingly looked after by the shepherd Yezid (this is a common name in the Islamic world), almost a sort of Middle Eastern “Faustolus shepherd”. According to this founding myth, once recovered, Melek presented himself to the shepherd in an ambiguous manner, as the sower of unhappiness and discord among human beings (hence the Greek “diabolos”), but also as a being in need of assistance, asking humankind for compassion as far as evil is concerned, a reference to the help received from Yezid. All this explains the great hostility Muslims feel for the Yazidis, considered devil-worshippers, while the Yazidis instead describe themselves as “those who adore angels” and above all Melek. One must add that Melek is certainly not the Satan of the Jews and the Christians, or the Shaytan of Muslims, but rather a Lucifer in the accepted meaning (hence an angle “bearer of light”, as venerated between the 19th and 20th centuries, also by some Masonic observances that were for this reason – mistakenly – considered satanic by the Church). “It is he who created the material world,” explains a Yazidi quoted by the scholar of religions Danilo Arona, at a gathering of believers held in December to commemorate the birth of the shepherd Yezid and the winter solstice, already so dear to Mithraism and other very ancient forms of worship. (This is a partial reflection of the dualistic vision of the universe based on two divinities, or on two opposing principles, relentless enemies, Good and Evil, positive spirit and negative and basically evil matter, which from Zoroastrianism and Mandaenism then was passed on to Manichaeism, to then permeate various forms of Christianity itself or similar religions ranging from the Cathars to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Editor’s Note). The world was created “Using dismembered parts of the cosmic egg, the Pearl, in which God once lived, the universal spirit” (these are instead reflections of ancient Greek myths such as those sung by Hesiod in the “Theogony”). Although permeated with Judeo-Cristian elements, the Yazidis’ religious philosophy denies the existence of evil and evilness, at least as an unconnected entity or a simple negative force (rejecting therefore the idea of sin, the devil and hell). Evil arises from human beings’ mistaken understanding of the nature of Melek (a concept that strangely reminds one of Seneca’s famous statements that great evil does not so much lie in things, but rather our mistaken assessment of them). In the most serious cases, it is explained that evil is present in the world because human beings can, in any case, inadvertently commit evil actions, resulting in evil’s victory. Human disobedience to divine law is expiated through metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls already dear to ancient eastern forms of worship and Pythagorean doctrine, which allow the progressive purification of the spirit (as already happened to Lucifer/Melek, who fell to earth and transmigrated into the body of a peacock). The righteous instead, as in Judaism, are destined to Paradise.
The form of Yazidism currently known is the result of the predictions made by Adi Hakkari, or Adi b. Musafir, a theologian and religious man who lived in the 12th century (thus a contemporary of the Jewish Aristotelian Maimonides and the Arab Al Ghazali). A presumed descendent of the Omayyad dynasty, Musafir studied in Baghdad under Abu l-Khayr Ammad al-Dabbas. He later settled near Mosul, where he started his preaching. The area was inhabited by nomadic Kurds who professed a non-Islamic and very ancient religion. Musafir reformed it (introducing to a great extent vocabulary taken from Islam). Considered by his followers as an “emissary” or a saviour, following his death his soul was said to have joined that of the Peacock Angel through transmigration. Since then, Musafir’s grave in Lalish (north of Mosul) has been the destination of a devotional pilgrimage for all Yazidis – just like Mecca for Muslims. (In his essay, Furlani, however, considers the convergence between Yazidism and Musafir purely random, recalling that he was a Muslim saint and a Sufi).
This pilgrimage takes place once a year and lasts six days; during the celebration the faithful immerse themselves in the water of a river, and also sacrifice bulls, just as the Assyrians and the followers of Mithraism did. Many scholars also agree on the identification between Adi b. Musafir and the legendary Seyh (or Shaykh) Adi, a character also mentioned in the most ancient Yazidi texts as the founder, or the reformer, of this religion, who lived led to the most incredible legends, just as happened with Muslims and Mohammed. In practice – according to the anthropologist Riccardo Cecchini, an expert researcher on extra-European religions – in Yazidism, God, the Peacock and Adi appear to be perceived as a Trinity; between them and humankind there are a myriad of intermediate beings with supernatural characteristics such as angels, saints etc. It is once again Furlani who provides the amazing number of 124,000 (!) prophets acknowledged by the Yazidis, the first of which in order of time is Adam, and also includes Jesus Christ.
Finally, the Yazidi religion also includes various practices of Jewish or Islamic origin, such as holy ablutions, the prohibition of certain foods, circumcision (widespread but not compulsory), fasting and the interpretation of dreams. Yazidi society has a hierarchical organisation, rather like Islam after the initial, turbulent centuries of expansion, and has a secular leader called the “Emir” (Amir), and a religious leader called “sheik” (Shaykh). The Emir, who lives in Ba’adra (65 km north of Mosul), is the Yazidis’ representative to the Iraqi public authorities. He has the power to appoint the Sheikh who instead lives in the Sinjar and, in addition to being the supreme religious leader, is also the infallible authority as far as the interpretation of Holy Scriptures is concerned. These scriptures are the “Kitab al-jilwa” (“Book of Revelations”) and the “Mishefa Res” (“Black Book” in Kurdish), both written in the Kurdish Kurmanji dialect.
In the 14th century, important Kurdish tribes, whose area of influences even extended to Turkey, are quoted for the first time in historical sources as “Yazidi”. Since then, various sources mention their qualities and their high level of tolerance as far as other cultures and religions are concerned. However, considering themselves as Adam’s only real descendants (they supposedly descend from twins who were in turn born from a jar containing the seed of the first man), Yazidis tend to only live among themselves, rather like Jews belonging to more orthodox communities, and do not allow conversions or interreligious marriage, not even with Muslim Kurds. The most serious punishment for a believer is to be expelled from the community (this would result in losing one’s soul); although there have been cases involving physical violence, as in the case involving the 17-year-old Kurdish Yazidi girl Du’a Khalil Aswad, who was stoned and kicked to death in April 2007 for having been seen with a boy belonging to a different ethnic group.
Yazidi resistance to the Arab conquerors who invaded Mosul in the first turbulent phase of Islamic expansion in the 7th century went down in history. Mossul (since then Mosul, in Arabic) was one of the most important Yazidi cities, set on the Tigris river and at the feet of the Kurdistan mountains, a compulsory passage way for caravans travelling from Central Asia towards Syria, Anatolia and the Mediterranean. Although under Muslim power, the Yazidis remained unscathed by the domination of the Turkish-Seljuq Zengid and the Kurdish-Muslim Ayyubid dynasties (12th -14th centuries), and that of the Ottomans who fought for centuries for control over the city. Hulegu’s Mongols, who after a brief siege had taken Baghdad in 1258, had been obliged to keep Mosul under siege for a whole year. In the centuries that followed, the Yazidis were harshly persecuted by the Ottomans and then by the Turkish government. Just as was to happen two years later to the Armenians, in 1892 they risked extinction for the first time when, due to persecution policies against minorities decided by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman troops penetrated the Lalish Valley and killed thousands with their swords also destroying Shaykh Adi’s Mausoleum.
Persecutions resumed in the second half of the 20th century. The first occurred in 1957 during the last but one year of the reign of Faisal II. Following the bloody coup of 1958 when Iraq became a republic, Ahmed Hasan al-Bakr, the first president of the Iraqi Baath Party in power after another coup in 1968, continued their persecution in 1969 and 1975.
During Saddam Hussein’s regime, the Yazidis were classified as “Arabs” so as to falsify the ethnic balance in the region, in spite of the fact that the regime socially and culturally discriminated against them and alienated them. In 1987-1988, the dictator also ordered their deportation. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were obliged to move hundreds of kilometres to the west to their “Mussa Dagh”, the Jebel Sinjar mountainous area near the border with Syria (their historical place of origin). A German Member of the European Parliament, Feleknas Uca, was the only MP of Yazidi origin until the first free elections held in Iraq in 2005.
And so we come to 2014, when the Mosul/Nineveh plains were attacked by Sunni extremists belonging to ISIS. Following the anti-Yazidi persecutions implemented by “Islamic State”, the United Nations – speaking explicitly of genocide – estimates that of the Yazidis living in Iraq (most of them members of the Kurdish Communist Party) 5,000 were killed and between 5,000 and 7,000 captured and sold as slaves. A further 50,000 were obliged to abandon the region to avoid sharing this fate. In August 2014, the Kurdish news agency “Rudaw” published the heartfelt appeal to the West made a 24-year-old Yazidi girl who, imprisoned by ISIS together with other women, amazingly managed to make herself heard from a prison in the county of Baaji, in the province of Mosul (where jihadists make their prisoners available to emirs every day). On August 30th, ISIS’ medieval horror – similar to what for some time has been spreading in Nigeria with Boko Haram – continues to be seen thanks to the photographs that the Lebanese Arab activist Brigitte Gabriel manages to Tweet. Once again near Mosul, Yazidi women under the age of 35 kidnapped wearing the full veil, in chains and threatened by armed men are loaded onto trucks and taken to the market to be sold as slaves. A year later, in September 2015, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who managed to flee from ISIS prisons with other women published a book in France entitled “Esclave de Daech”, narrating in detail their petrifying experience (women who refuse to submit to the jihadists’ demands are not killed, but tortured in every imaginable way, even obliged to drink water contaminated with dead mice). On November 14th , Kurdish Peshmerga discovered a central-American styled mass grave in Iraq containing the bodies of 80 Yazidi girls. The next day, in Shingal, south of Sinjar, another mass grave was discovered containing the bodies of 50 Yazidi men. Two days earlier, however, on November 13th, almost a year and a half after the so-called Islamic caliphate had been announced by Al-Baghdadi (June 2014), the president of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, was able to officially announce that the offensive carried out by Kurdish Peshmerga and Kurdish-Iraqi troops, with support from United States troops, had managed to defeat ISIS for the first time, freeing Mosul as well as Sinjar. ( Shingal ).
So what action will be taken by the Yazidis, a group whose proud determination has been mentioned in official speeches also by the eternal “allies-rivals” Obama and Putin, in the chaos of the Middle Eastern chessboard? What action will the international community take in order to stop this massacre? Will their ability to fight shown once again in these situations at last guarantee them greater dignity and safety, while fully respecting their identity and culture?
Translated by Francesca Simmons
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Every nation had some ancient religions before they converted to Islam, the Arabs, the Turks, the Iranians, the Afghans and the Chinese and the Africans and the Europeans and the Indonesians and Malays and the Pashtoons and Pathans, The Egyptians, the Pakistanis, all these nations were following some kind of ancient religions before they embraced Islam as their religion.
The Zoroastrianism,
Many religions of the ancient near East and their offshoots can be traced to Proto-Semitic religion.
Other religions in the ancient Near East include Ancient Egyptian religion, the Luwian and Hittite religions of Asia Minor and the Sumerian religion of ancient Mesopotamia. Offshoots of Proto-Semitic religion include Assyro-Babylonian religion, Canaanite religion, and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions influenced the ancient Greek religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian religion primarily the Ancient Iranian religion. In turn these religious traditions strongly influenced the later monotheistic religions of Christianity, Mandeanism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Manicheanism, which inherited their monotheism from Judaism and Zoroastrianism.
Therefore If Kurds and Yazidis were following an Ancient religion in the past then there is nothing to surprise.
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Yazdânism collectively denotes a group of native Kurdish religions: Alevism, and Doctrines of Rifaiya’ Sufis, and Yarsan and Yazidism. The Yazdani faiths were the primary religion of the Kurds until their Islamisation in the 16th century. Yazdanism continues to be primarily practiced in relatively isolated communities. The adherents of Yazdanism are estimated to constitute about 1/3 of the Kurds. Yazdanism has however strongly influenced the Kurdish form of Islam.
( The Yazdanism, Ahle Haqq, Rae Haqq, Alevism, the Angelic Cult, the Yarsanism, Rifaism etc are Islamic heresy sects= Engineer Ishrat Hussain Mohammad ).
The name 'Yazdanism' derives from Kurdish yazdan, literally meaning "worthy of worship" and a place in Iran or Eizd in Persian for God, and referring to a belief in a great heptad (seven) of divine beings (see detail below). The three Yazdani traditions are therefore also known as the Cult of Angels.
Adherents themselves refer to the faith as Rae Haq, i.e. The correct opinion, a reference to the primary deity or "universal spirit".
The principal feature of the Yazdani faiths is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. Another important feature of the religions is a doctrine of reincarnation.
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1. The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: Êzidîtî or Êzidî,
Yazidis Are adherents of the smallest of the three branches of Yazdânism, a Middle Eastern religion with ancient Indo-European roots. Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq.Their principal holy site is in Lalish, northeast of Mosul. The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or Êzîdî or, in some areas, Dasinî. Some scholars have derived the name Yazidi from Old Iranic yazata (divine being), while others say it is a derivation from Umayyad Caliph Yazid I 2. (Yazid bin Muawiyah), revered by the Yazidis as an incarnation of the divine figure Sultan Ezi (this is no longer widely accepted). Yazidis, themselves, believe that their name is derived from the word Yezdan or Êzid meaning God; Iraq, where Arabic is spoken. Kurmanjî is the language of almost all the orally transmitted religious traditions of the Yazidis. Thus, religious origins are somewhat complex.
The religion of the Yazidis is a highly syncretistic one:
Sufi influence and imagery can be seen in their religious vocabulary, especially in the terminology but much of the mythology is non-Islamic. Early writers attempted to describe Yazidi origins, broadly speaking, in terms of Islam, or Persian, or sometimes even pagan religions.
The origin of the Yazidi religion is now usually seen by scholars as a complex process of syncretism, whereby the belief system and practices of a local faith had a profound influence on the religiosity of adherents of the Adawiyya Sufi order living in the Kurdish mountains, and caused it to deviate from Islamic norms relatively soon after the death of its founder, Sheikh Adî ibn Musafir who is said to be of Umayyad descent. He settled in the valley of Lalis (some thirty-six miles north-east of Mosul) in the early 12th century AD. Sheikh Adî himself, a figure of orthodoxy, enjoyed widespread influence. He died in 1162, and his tomb/ Mazar is at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage. During the fourteenth century, important Kurdish tribes whose sphere of influence stretched well into what is now Turkey (including, for a period, the rulers of the principality of Jazira) are cited in historical sources as Yazidi.
The details of their teachings are said to contain elements from most of the known religions in the region. They are clearly instructed to keep their beliefs and rituals hidden from ‘outsiders’. They have two holy books; one of them is called Kitab E Rash or “The Black Book”. Or the Book of Raz, i.e. Asrar or Secrets.
The word for Satan in Arabic is Shaitan. They never utter that word. In fact, they avoid saying any word which has similar syllables - even common words such as ‘shat’ (wide river). They generally avoid saying any word of damnation. For some reason, they never eat lettuce. One well-known Iraqi historian, al Hasani, claims that for many centuries they were forbidden from learning to read and write, except for one family.
As a demiurge figure, Tawûsê Melek is often identified by orthodox Muslims as a Shaitan (Satan), a Muslim term denoting a devil or demon who deceives true believers. The Islamic tradition regarding the fall of "Shaitan" from Grace is in fact very similar to the Yazidi story of Malek Taus - that is, the Jinn who refused to submit to Adam is celebrated as Tawûsê Melek by Yazidis, but the Islamic version of the same story curses the same Jinn who refused to submit as becoming Satan.[18] Thus, the Yazidi have been accused of devil worship.
Anyway, the word Taus (in Melek Taus) is derived from the Indo-European root Diyus and is from Arabic Peacock or Taoos, and Greek Zeus. Ancient Indo-Iranians used to worship the souls of their fathers and grandfathers and glorified the souls of their dead. They also believed in a supreme God (The Father God), who represented natural powers. After the arrival of Zoroaster, he kept Ahoramazda (Supreme God) and abolished the other gods. Over time, Zoroastrians began to associate Devas with Satan and prohibited painting, statues, sacrifice of animals, alcohol and fasting. Zoroaster called those who did not follow his teachings as demon worshipers. Despite zoroasterians' efforts, large parts of the population kept their old beliefs in worshiping natural phenomena. According to scholar Taufiq Wahby and others the word Dasni or Dasny, the ethnic self-designation of Yazidis, is a form of the old word Deva Ysne used by Zoroaster to identify those who did not follow his religion.
Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel, and therefore comparable to the Christians' Saint Michael, who is likewise considered the leader of the "seven who stand before the Lord" and of all other good angels. Also, they hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Melek Taus. The active forces in their religion are Melek Taus and Sheik Adî. The Kitab E Jalwa i.e., Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Illumination) which claims to be the words of Melek Taus, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Melek Taus is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said : "I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: "You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth). God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven."
However, here is the interesting part:
They believe that God first created Melek Taus from his own illumination (Ronahî in Kurdish) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Melek Taus not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Melek Taus. In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to legend he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.) Hence the Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (March/April). Yazidis hold that God created Malek Taus on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Melek Taus, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Taus the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Melek Taus is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê ). Sheikh Adî has observed the story of Melek Taus and believed in him.So, it quite appears that they actually worship Iblis!
Then there is a contradiction arising from "The Black Book" itself:
(They believe in God as the Supreme Being, but they also have seven other lesser gods/angels. A god has come down to earth every 1000 years since the Flood, 7,000 years ago. The most senior of those gods is called “Melek Ta’us” (Arabic for Peacock Angel).)
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
key and interrelated features of Yazidism are:
a) a preoccupation with religious purity and b) a belief in metempsychosis. The first of these is expressed in the system of caste, the food laws, the traditional preferences for living in Yazidi communities, and the variety of taboos governing many aspects of life.
The second is crucial; Yazidis traditionally believe that the Seven Holy Beings are periodically reincarnated in human form, called a koasasa.
Yazidis, who have much in common with the followers of Ahl-e Haqq (in western Iran), state that the world created by God was at first a pearl. It remained in this very small and enclosed state for some time (often a magic number such as forty or forty thousand years) before being remade in its current state. During this period the Heptad were called into existence, God made a covenant with them and entrusted the world to them. Besides Melek Taus, members of the Heptad (the Seven), who were called into existence by God at the beginning of all things, include Sheikh Adî, his companion Shaikh Hasan, and a group known as the four Mysteries, Shamsadin, Fakhradin, Sajadin and Naserdin. The Yazidi holy books are the Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Revelation) and the Mishefa Res (Black Book).
A belief in the reincarnation of lesser Yazidi souls also exists. Like the Ahl-e Haqq, the Yazidis use the metaphor of a change of garment to describe the process, which they call kiras guhorîn in Kurdish (changing the garment). Alongside this, Yazidi mythology also includes descriptions of heaven and hell, with hell extinguished, and other traditions incorporating these ideas into a belief system that includes reincarnation.
Yazidi are dominantly monogamous but chiefs may have more than one wife. Children are baptized at birth and circumcision is common but not required. Dead are buried in conical tombs immediately after death and buried with hands crossed.
According to Mohammed Aš-Šahrastani, “The Yezidis are the followers of Yezîd bin Unaisa, who kept friendship with the first Muhakkama before the Azari?a”[14] “It is clear, then, that Aš-Šahrastani finds the religious origin of this interesting people in the person of Yezîd bin Unaisa. ... We are to understand, therefore, that to the knowledge of the writer, bin Unaisa is the founder of the Yezidi sect, which took its name from him.” [15] “Now, the first Muhakkamah is an appellative applied to the Muslim schismatic called Al-?awarij ... . ...
According to this it might be inferred that the Yezidis were originally a ?arijite sub-sect.”[16] “Yezid moreover, is said to have been in sympathy with Al-Aba?iyah, a sect founded by ‘Abd-Allah Ibn Iba?.” [16]; and the Iba?i sect is another ?arijite sub-sect.Religious beliefsTawûsê Melek, the peacock angelIn the Yazidi belief system, God created the world and it is now in the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft sirr (the Seven Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), the Peacock Angel. According to the Encyclopedia of the Orient,The reason for the Yazidis reputation of being devil worshipers is connected to the other name of Melek Taus, Shaytan, the same name the Koran has for Satan.[17]Furthermore, the Yazidi story regarding Tawûsê Melek's rise to favor with God is almost identical to the story of the jinn Iblis in Islam, except that Yazidis revere Tawûsê Melek for refusing to submit to Adam, while Muslims believe that Iblis' refusal to submit caused him to fall out of Grace with God, and to later become Satan himself.[18]Tawûsê Melek is often identified by Muslims and Christians with Shaitan (Satan). Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsê Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel.
They also hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Tawûsê Melek. The active forces in their religion are Tawûsê Melek and Sheik Adî.The Kitêba Cilwe "Book of Illumination", which claims to be the words of Tawûsê Melek, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Tawûsê Melek is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said:I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: 'You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth'. God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven.Yazidi accounts of creation differ from that of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They believe that God first created Tawûsê Melek from his own illumination (Ronahî ) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Tawûsê Melek not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Tawûsê Melek. In answer to God, Tawûsê Melek replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to the Quran he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.)
( The Story of Satan Disobeying to Bow to the Adam is only in Islam in Quran ). This is the basic fundamental of Yazidism which is purely based on Quranic story and therefore the Yazidism is purely an offshoot of Islamic heresy. by Ishrat Hussain Engineer.
Hence the Yazidis believe that Tawûsê Melek is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (April). Yazidis hold that God created Tawûsê Melek on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's Day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Tawûsê Melek, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Kun, fa Yakun = Bibe, dibe). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Tawûsê Melek the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Tawûsê Melek is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê). Sêx Adî has observed the story of Tawûsê Melek and believed in him.[19]One of the key creation beliefs of Yazidism is that all Yazidis are descendants of Adam rather than Eve.[17] Yazidis believe that good and evil both exist in the mind and spirit of human beings. It depends on the humans, themselves, as to which they choose. In this process, their devotion to Tawûsê Melek is essential, since it was he who was given the same choice between good and evil by God, and chose the good.
Another important festival is the Tawûsgeran (circulation of the peacock) where Qewals and other religious dignitaries visit Yazidi villages, bringing the senjaq, sacred images of a peacock made from brass symbolizing Tawûsê Melek. These are venerated, taxes are collected from the pious, sermons are preached and holy water distributed.The greatest festival of the year for ordinary Yazidis is the Cejna Cemaiya "Feast of the Assembly" at Lalish, a seven-day occasion. A focus of widespread pilgrimage, this is an important time for social contact and affirmation of identity. The religious center of the event is the belief in an annual gathering of the Heptad in the holy place at this time. Rituals practiced include the sacrifice of a bull at the shrine of Sêx Shams and the practice of sema.Tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sheikh Adi = Sêx Adî) in LalishThe most important ritual is the annual seven-day pilgrimage to the tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sêx Adî) in Lalish, north of Mosul, Iraq.[20][22] A sacred microcosm of the world, as it were, it contains not only many shrines dedicated to the koasasa, but a number of other landmarks corresponding to other sites or symbols of significance in other faiths, including Pirra selat "Serat Bridge" and a mountain called Mt. Arafat. The two sacred springs are called Zamzam and Kaniya Sipî "The White Spring".If possible, Yazidis make at least one pilgrimage to Lalis during their lifetime, and those living in the region try to attend at least once a year for the autumn Feast of the Assembly which is celebrated from 23 Aylul (September) to 1 Tashrin (October). During the celebration, Yazidi bathe in the river, wash figures of Tawûsê Melek and light hundreds of lamps in the tombs of Sêx Adî and other saints. They also sacrifice an ox, which is one reason they have been connected to Mithraism, in addition to the presence of the dog and serpent in their iconography. The sacrifice of the ox is meant to declare the arrival of fall and to ask for precipitation during winter in order to bring back life to the Earth in the next Spring. Moreover, in astrology, the ox is the symbol of Tashrin. Purity and taboos.
Now Another web page from the internet,...
In an October 2006 article in The New Republic, Lawrence Kaplan echoes Williams's sentiments about the enthusiasm of the Yazidis for the American occupation of Iraq, in part because the Americans protect them from oppression by militant Muslims and the nearby Kurds. Kaplan notes that the peace and calm of Sinjar is virtually unique in Iraq: "Parents and children line the streets when U.S. patrols pass by, while Yazidi clerics pray for the welfare of U.S. forces."
Yazidi are exclusive; clans do not intermarry even with other Kurds and accept no converts. They claim that they are descended only from Adam. The strongest punishment is expulsion, which is also effectively excommunication because the soul of the exiled is forfeit.
However, in the case of the poor girl in the news, it seems the punishment exceeded much horror of a simple "expulsion"!!!!
The Yazidi community was affected by several acts of violence in 2007. In April, a group of Yazidi men stoned to death 17 year old Du’a Khalil Aswad, allegedly for her involvement with a Muslim boy. On April 23, 2007 masked gunmen abducted and shot 23 Yazidis near Mosul; this was speculated to be a reprisal attack for Aswad's death. On August 14, 2007 Yazidis were targeted in a series of bombings that became the deadliest suicide attack since the Iraq War began.
Another Opinion about Yazidis from internet is as follows,
The Yazidis are linked to the extreme Shi'a (Ghulat) sects and number worldwide some 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 Yazidis live in the Jebel Sinjar mountain and the Shaikhan district of northwest Iraq.The Yazidis call themselves Dawasi. They are called "Devil worshippers" by their Sunni neighbors, who considered them heretics and have cruelly persecuted them over the centuries. They are closely related to similar sects such as the Ahl-i-Haqq.The Yazidi religion is a syncretistic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish and Nestorian Christian with Islamic Shi'a and Sufi elements and has many variants. They believe that they were created separately from the rest of mankind and are descended from Adam only - not from Adam and Eve like the rest of humanity. They have therefore kept themselves strictly isolated from the other communities among whom they lived, and did not intermarry with them. They also call themselves "Children of Adam" and see themselves as a chosen people. Although scattered, they have a well organized society. The Emir (Mirza Beg) who resides at Ba'dari (65 km north of Mosul), is the secular head who represents the Yazidis to the central authorities. He installs the chief Sheikh (Sheikh Nazir, Baba Sheikh) who resides in Beled-Sinjar and is the supreme religious head and the infallible authority on their holy scriptures. Ethnically most Yazidis are Kurmanji speaking Kurds. Their religious practice is centered on the tomb of their founder figure, Sheikh 'Adi ibn Musafir at Lalesh, some 60 km north-east of Mosul, who was probably a Sufi (some think an Isma'ili) preacher of the 12th century.
BELIEFS
Yazidis believe that the supreme God created the world, but delegated its maintenance to a hierarchy of seven angels of whom Malak Ta'us (the Peacock Angel) was the first in rank. Malak Ta'us sinned in not worshipping Adam, and was punished by being cast down from heaven. After shedding tears for 7000 years, with which the fires of hell were quenched, he repented of his sin of pride, was pardoned and reinstated as chief of the angels.In Yazidi belief, Malak Ta'us is also the devil (Shaitan), the ruler of this world, and they seek to appease him as they fear his power. They do not actually worship him, but seek to honor and placate him, believing that the Supreme Being has delegated to him dominion over the world. They will never pronounce his Arabic name "Shaitan" or use any word beginning with "SH". He is seen as a capricious Lord who determines man's fate as he wills and in whom the principles of good and of evil are combined. It is believed that he appeared in different form in various periods of history, the final incarnation being in Sheikh 'Adi ben Musafir (d. 1162). Malak Ta'us rules the universe with the help of six other angels, and he guards the gates of Paradise. The seven angels are worshiped by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze peacock figures called Sanjaq, the largest of which weighs 320 kg. Six of them are taken yearly on a round of the main Yazidi centres. Of the other angels, Sultan Ezi is second in rank to Malak Ta'us and many legends are told about him. He is sometimes identified with the second Umayad Caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiyah. Other important angels are Sherf-Edin (noble lord of religion) who is seen as the Mahdi (returning Messiah), and She-Shims (sun sheikh) who presents the prayers of the Yazidis to God's throne three times a day.As hell was destroyed by Malak Ta'us, it does not exist anymore. There is no concept of the forgiveness of sins. A person's deeds receive due punishment or reward in his next reincarnation. Transmigration of souls is a process of gradual purification of the spirit through the successive rebirths until the final day of judgment. Like all Shi'a groups, the Yazidis believe firmly in Taqiya, the dissimulation of their faith in the face of persecution for the sake of the survival of the community.
RITES AND CUSTOMS
Sheikh 'Adi, the Yazidi founder figure and saint, was a 12th century Sufi mystic whom the Yazidi believe was the final manifestation of Malak Ta'us. His tomb is their religious centre and focal point of their annual pilgrimage. Once a year, early in October, all Yazidis are encouraged to assemble at Sheikh 'Adi. The festivities are supervised by the Emir and the Baba Sheikh. The pilgrims bathe ritually in the river and form a procession in which the various clergy castes carry the Sanjaqs, play the flutes and drums, sing and dance. Hundreds of sesame oil lamps are lighted at the saint's grave and special offerings are brought. White bulls are sacrificed and common meals partaken of. A black serpent, symbol of Malak Ta'us, is carved on the doorway to the shrine and is kissed by the pilgrims. Booths are set up and there is much rejoicing with singing and dancing. The clergy engage in secret rituals to which the laity (murids) have no access. Yazidis pray ritually three times a day facing the sun after first washing their hands and face. The prayers are in Kurdish and express thankfulness and pleas for blessing and help. The weekly holy day is Wednesday, in which they gather at dawn in a Ziyaret (local pilgrimage centre). The day of rest is Saturday. Twice a year they fast for three days: at the sun festival (ida roja, 1st December) and at the Khidr Elias festival (The Prophet Elijah day, 18th February).The new year festival (ida sersale, first Wednesday in April) is a time of much rejoicing. Sheep, goats or hens are sacrificed, and houses decorated with flowers. Bonfires are lit at night. Yazidis celebrate other festivals, including two days at the end of the Muslim Ramadan and a Jesus feast (ida Isa) around Easter time.Yazidis revere their dead, offering gifts, especially the first fruits, at their graves. Many Yazidi villages have a tomb of a holy man nearby which is used as a local pilgrimage centre. Pilgrims seek blessing, protection and healing at these tombs.Yazidi taboos include not eating lettuce, as they believe that evil is found in it. Tradition has it that "the devil once hid in a lettuce patch". This belief, ridiculed by their neighbors, probably goes back to the Manichaeans who believed that Divine Light was contained in plants more than in any other substance. Yazidis must not wear clothes of a specific dark blue colour, or a shirt open down the front. Underwear must be white. Very religious Yazidis do not eat chicken or gazelle meat.Birth to Yazidi parents is the only way into the community. From birth each Yazidi is automatically linked to his or her specific Sheikh or Pir. This relationship cannot be changed. Children are baptized in the first week after birth, whilst circumcision is optional. Between the 7th to the 11th month, boys are initiated into full membership of the community through a special ceremony in which the Sheikh cuts off three locks of the boy's hair which are hidden by the mother.The Sheikhs perform at weddings and funerals with special prayers and liturgies.The sacred scriptures of the Yazidis are two short books written in Arabic: Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) supposed to have been written by Sheikh 'Adi himself, and Mishaf Rash (black writing) by Sheikh Hasan ibn-'Adi. An Arabic hymn in praise of Shaykh 'Adi is greatly respected as part of their liturgy.
SOCIETY
Yazidi society is divided into two classes, the laity and the clergy. Marriage is strictly restricted to one's own class, often to one's own clan and is preferably to a cousin. The laity (murid) who constitute the majority of Yazidis were not supposed to learn to read or write (a privilege kept for an Imam claiming descent from the famous Sufi Hasan al-Basri). They are not initiated into the mysteries of their religion, their duty being to keep the religious rites and taboos and obey their spiritual leaders. Every Yazidi is linked as a disciple to a definite Sheikh or Pir, whose hand he kisses every day. The clergy or priests (ruhan, kahana) enjoy great respect and must not cut their hair or beard. They are divided into six classes: 1. The Sheikhs who are descended from five families closely related to Sheikh 'Adi. 2. The Pirs, descended from some of Sheikh Adi's disciples. The Sheikhs and Pirs are responsible for the spiritual welfare of the murid families under their care, and for teaching them the proper Yazidi rites and ceremonies. They also function at the religious festivals and at the rites of passage (birth, marriage, death, etc.).3. The Fakirs or Karabash who wear black shirts next to their skins and black turbans round their felt caps. They are organized like a Sufi order and have their own ascetic rules. 4. The Kawwals, who sing and play music at the festivals. Their representatives carry the Sanjaqs around Yazidi villages, inviting them to the pilgrimage to Sheikh Adi and gathering their donations to the Emir and to the upkeep of the religious centre. 5. The Kocaks - the dancers who serve at the tomb of Sheikh 'Adi. 6. The Awhan or deacons who perform the menial service at the tomb. Every Yazidi is designated a "Brother or Sister of the Other World" on reaching puberty. This is a spiritual relationship which persists until death and carries certain ceremonial responsibilities (similar to Godparents in Christianity).Yazidi language, both in worship and in secular life, is the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. Yazidis are organized in tribes, with a chief (Agha) at the head of each. Every tribe is divided into clan groups. Marriage is monogamous and restricted to a person's caste and clan. As heretics, the Yazidis were considered fair prey to any rightly believing Sunni. Turkish rulers and Sunni Kurdish tribes repeatedly persecuted them and tried to forcibly convert them. More recently the Iraqi authorities forcibly deported 20,000 Yazidis from Jebel Sinjar in 1975. Since the Gulf War the Iraqi Government is claiming that the Yazidis are Arabs and their areas should be under its jurisdiction, whilst the Yazidis and Kurdish forces assert that they are Kurds and should be part of their safe haven. Iraqi government posts are only one mile away from the Yazidi sanctuary at Lalesh.Many Yazidis were also forced to leave South-Eastern Turkey in the 70s and 80s as a result of general anti-Kurdish and specific Sunni-Islamic anti-Yazidi persecution. They have historically viewed their Syrian Orthodox and Nestorian Christian neighbors as friends and fellow sufferers at the hands of the dominant Sunni majority.
This was an extract from a internet about the Yezidis,
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Extracts from the internet and western media finished here.
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Now my own Research starts from here please read it...
Now you please see my comprehensive Research and Study on Yazidism, it is as follows,
Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Deos of Indo European origins, but all these comments are nothing but wishful thinking, and actually, the Yezidism is very different from all these gossips.
They are Monotheists, they are not polytheists.
The Muslim community knows very little about Yazidism, so this article is especially for them. Now the world wide Yezidi community is looking towards the west for help and support and they are totally neglected by the Muslim brothers, the Yezidis who could escape from Iraq are now living in Europe and America, but their majority is still living in Mosul in Iraq. If we Muslims did not help our Yezidi Brothers in Time then they will be totally alienated from us and they will be surely get assimilated in Christianity, or they can join hands with our enemies.
They are already joined hands with Israel !
Before you read my research about Yazidis in this Article I want to summarize my claim in these paragraphs,...
The western media claims that the Yazidism is a preislamic religion because it is an ancient angelic cult or has Mithraism and Zoroastrian elements and judo christian pagan beliefs,
The Angelic cult is also having Islamic background as there is a story in Islamic tradition about TWO angels in Babylon who were known to public as Harut and Marut, these Two angels were teaching to the people, and they were a test for the people of Babylon, this story of the Angelic cult is also Islamic if the Yazidis were following them,
The story of these Two angels is very interesting and very long, I am not writing it here, but it is from Islamic traditions.
This story of Two Fallen Angels is also in Jewish Midrash, but the Jewish Midrash has copied it from Muslim sources, as the Jewish religious corpus has been heavily benefitted from Muslim influence, during the Spanish Muslim Empire, the codification of Jewish law has been done in that era in Spain by Rambam Maimonides, Jewish Midrash and minhag and seferims are heavily influenced by Islamic sharia and hadith sciences.
in my research, I found that this claim of western media is totally wrong, That the Yazidism is a pre Islamic religion of Yazdanism, because, The Yazdanism is too a Islamic heresy of the Sufis and Shia Muslims.
For any religion to exists independently first it needs a fundamental idea or a core doctrine or belief system around which it connects it adherents, then mythology and other stories can be added in that religion, Now in case of Yazidism, I agree that it has 80 % non Islamic mythology and it has other non islamic elements and it has Zoroastrian influences, etc,
But the main skeleton of the Yazidism is the story from the Quran about the Tawûsê Melek / Satan and Bowing in front of Adam, this story is only in Islam, this is the main core and fundamental structure of Yazidism around which another mythology has been gathered from Mithraism or Angelic cults, etc.
The Backbone of Yazidi Religion is the Story of Iblees from Quran! the Tawûsê Melek/Satan's name was Iblees.
The ideas and doctrines from other ancient religions are not the basis and backbone of Yazidi religion at all, the basic fundamental backbone of Yazidism is Islamic story from the Quran only.
How that religion can be a preislamic one whose main fundamental axis is a story from Quran.?
This story is not in any preislamic religion neither in Torah nor in Bible and Talmud and not even in ancient angelic cults and in zoroastrianism.
How a religion can be ancienter than its main belief which is newer than that religion?
The Yazidism is originated by a Muslim Sufi Saint in 12 Century, that Sufi was Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir.
The story from Quran is the basis of this religion, it is its axis around which other things rotate.
it is the Back Bone of Yazidi religion.
The Sufism in Islam is a secret spiritual brotherhood which has doctrines and concepts which are not endorsed by orthodox Islam, for example, the belief about the pardoning of Tawûsê Melek/Satan and reconciliation between Allah and Satan are secret topics in Sufism which are never discussed publicly.
During 9 th century to 12 th century there were different heresy ideas in Islam, some are opposed to islam at 180 degrees, this does not mean that they are not offshoots of islamic heresy, for example There was a Ismaili Caliph in those time in Kurdish area, In one Ramadan month, During the Fast, in the middle of a Day " He told and ordered his followers that break your fast with a sip of Wine, now no need of Fasting and prayers as I am your Live Caliph and I know the Quran and Allah well, therefore follow me,".
Then people broke their fast with a sip of wine and they abandoned the Prayers and reading of Quran and all other observances dictated by Islam, these people are still today in existence and they claim that they are Muslims too.
These people are Ismaili Nizari Khoja, the followers of Prince Agha Khan.
These people have their religion which is 99% different from Islam, their religion has pagan beliefs, but still, they are Muslims as they claim,
There are Ghulat Shia, there are Druze or Druzi and there are hundreds of other heretic religions which are 99% against Islam, but even though these religions are still called as Islamic heresy sects.
then Why the Yazidis are not Muslims even Though the Yazidism has more than 60 % Islamic structure and fundamentals? and their main belief and doctrine is the Quranic story of Adam and Tawûsê Melek/ Satan!
The Yazidis accumulated various different ideas and rituals from locally dead religions such as Mithraism and ancient angelic and zoroastrian things as mentioned by western media, but the backbone of their religion is the story from the Quran.
Who wrote the Kitêba Cilwe, who wrote the Mishefa Res, these are not preislamic books, these are Sufi Books written in 12th century they gathered preislamic ideas in these books and the writers and the followers of these books were Muslims, same as the Ismaili Nizari Khoja are today.
The Peacock and Snake, which are the main feature of Yazidi religion are the helpers of Tawûsê Melek/Satan to reenter the Paradise to allure and Tempt the Adam and Eve.
According to Islamic traditions, the Snake and Peacock were the Guards on the doors of the Paradise, then the Satan wanted to reenter into the Paradise therefore He Became an ant and sat in the eye of the snake and entered from the Gate of Peacock and at another time He became an ant and sat on the foot of the Peacock and entered from the Gate of Snake, Therefore to represent Tawûsê Melek/ Satan the Yazidi religion uses Peacock and Serpent as their Symbols.
Satan entered in the Paradise to allure Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.
The Quran says that The Satan Did not Bow to the Adam when the God commanded to do so and when the God asked him why he has not bowed down the Satan told that
" In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." ( Kitêba Cilwe ).
This is word by word same statement as in the Quran.
The Yazidi Sacred books tells that then the Satan repented and he became remorseful he wipes and cries.
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell".
This statement is also in the Kitêba Cilwe of Yazidis.
The Mainstream Muslims ignored these poor Yazidi Kurdish people and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore they ended up spinning a religion out of the debris of locally dead mythology which was available to them.
The Yazidi religion was a Sect of Sufi Adawiyyah path in the beginning, but due to recurring ignorance, it accumulated non islamic mythologies and ended-up in present condition.
The Sufi Adawiyyah Tariqa was initiated by Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir in 12th century.
Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir teach them to follow the sharia and to perform Hajj and to Fast in Ramadan and to pay Zakat., He teach them to follow orthodox Islam, he never told them to deviate from the right path and Tawheed Monotheism.
The details of their teachings are said to contain elements from most of the known religions in the region.
They are clearly instructed to keep their beliefs and rituals hidden from ‘outsiders’. They have two holy books; one of them is called Kitab E Rash or “The Black Book”. Or the Book of Raz, i.e. Asrar or Secrets.
Another one is Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) supposed to have been written by Sheikh 'Adi himself, and Mishaf Rash (black writing) by Sheikh Hasan ibn-'Adi. An Arabic hymn in praise of Shaykh 'Adi is greatly respected as part of their liturgy. The Both Books are secret and the Yazidis also have non written traditions only known to few Qawwals and men of Devotion among them.
The word for Satan in Arabic is Shaitan. They never utter that word. In fact, they avoid saying any word which has similar syllables - even common words such as ‘shat’ (wide river). They generally avoid saying any word of damnation. For some reason, they never eat lettuce. One well-known Iraqi historian, al Hasani, claims that for many centuries they were forbidden from learning to read and write, except for one family, Because the Sufism is a secret ideology which is not orthodox and the Sufis want to hide it from common public, this technique of hiding is known as Taqiyya in Islam.
Many Shia and other heretic sects practice Taqqiyya, such as Druze and Ismaili Khoja Jamaat.
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Iraqi Army Kills Kurds
BBC News Iraqi Army Killing KURDS========================
The ISIS was used by the enemies of Islam to kill Yazidi people........
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), officially known as the Islamic State (IS) and also known by its Arabic-language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش, romanized: Dāʿish,
The ISIS
The ISIS was purely created by non-Muslims such as Israel and it's friend countries and some polytheists countries who are fierce enemies of Islam and Muslims, these countries created ISIS in Iraq to show that Islam is evil.
The ISIS got power and it captured huge swathes of lands in Iraq and Syria and established a fake caliphate.
The western countries and Israel and it's friends nurtured it and provided it arms and military data.
This ISIS was also used by the enemies of Islam to frighten the other neighboring countries and Monarchies of the Gulf of Iran & Arabia, and to show that Islam is evil, and if any Muslim country aspires to become an Islamic country then it will end up like the areas ended up which were under control of ISISL.
The ISIS was used to kill and destroy Islamic historical sites and to kill thousands of innocent people.
The ISIS never did any single work which was beneficial for Islam and Muslims.
The ISIS was used by our enemies to kill Yazidi people, and to show Islam's evil face to the civilized world and to create a chance to set up spy hubs in the heart of Muslims countries.
When ISISL killed hundreds of Yazidis, then the enemies of Islam reached out to the Yazidis to help and rescue them.
The enemies want to set up their spy hub in the middle of middle east in the pretext of helping the Yazidis.
The Yazidis were desperate and they were in need of help and rescue, therefore they welcomed anyone who offered to help them.
The enemies of Islam and the polytheists enemies of Muslims and Israel teach the Yazidis that, The Yazidis are followers of an ancient angelic religion, and Your two sacred books the Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) and Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res (The Black Book) are forgeries, because they contain contradictory accounts.
Therefore the Yazidis now tell that these two books are not their books, or these are forgeries.
They tell that our sacred books are orally transmitted hymns and these are in the hearts of the Qawwals only.
Actually the two sacred books the Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) and Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res
(The Black Book) are in fact their genuine books collected painstakingly from oral traditions in 1915 by European researchers, and these two books are in total conformity with the beliefs and religion of the Yazidis.
Any contradiction found in them is from the beginning and not introduced during compilation.
They were faithfully compiled by European researchers and it is not possible to write them as forgeries as they are difficult to write now because these books have concepts and ideas of ancient times and now our modern scholars hardly can imagine them.
And these two books contain beliefs and doctrines in full conformity with the past and present Yazidis.
The Yazidis can deny their books because they do not have any previously written proof of their books in extant form as the Quran has.
The modern polytheists friends of the Yazidis teach them to deny these two books, as these polytheists always deny anything which is against the logic when we show them that it is in your books, then they plainly deny and tell that these are not our authentic books and OR the British have added them in our books.
All polytheists can do this because they too do not have any previously written proof of their books in extant form as the Quran is.
What all religions have is scattered fragments of their sacred writings here and there, they do not have a complete set of books in the extant form 1000-year-old or older than this.
The holy books of the polytheists are also compiled by British researchers During 1800 A.D.
All the polytheistic religions of the world claim that their holy books are very old and they are 5000 or 7000 years old, but actually, all these books are compiled by the European and British researchers During 1800 AD. to 1860 AD.
( Only the Quran is available 1420 years old in written form ).
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There are some arguments about some contradictions in the Yazidism, I have discussed them, please do read my arguments about these contradictions in the END of this page.
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The Yazidis have already joined hands with the enemies of muslims and now the enemies of muslims have set up their spy hubs in the heart of the middle east in the Kurdistan.
In the pretext of helping the Yazidis, These enemies of Muslims are setting up their spy hubs in the Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan is strategically and militarily very important place as it is in the heart of the Middle east and it borders Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Armenia, etc. and all muslim countries are near from KURDISTAN, such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakistan, Chechenia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Kuwait, Qatar, Albania, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Egypt and etc, etc and Israel !
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The Enemies of Islam and polytheist countries who are fierce enemy of Muslims and Islam have set up their intelligence and spy hub in Kurdistan and from these they are doing preplanned terrorists acts in the middle east and in all over the world and they are blaming it on muslims.
They run internet web sites which are extremist and these web site are misleading the muslim youth.
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All predictions of the Quran and Prophet Mohammad PBUH came 100 % true till today
Translation.
Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun ( The Polytheists ),
and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud.
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Why the Yazidis became so alienated from Islam?They are clearly instructed to keep their beliefs and rituals hidden from ‘outsiders’. They have two holy books; one of them is called Kitab E Rash or “The Black Book”. Or the Book of Raz, i.e. Asrar or Secrets.
Another one is Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) supposed to have been written by Sheikh 'Adi himself, and Mishaf Rash (black writing) by Sheikh Hasan ibn-'Adi. An Arabic hymn in praise of Shaykh 'Adi is greatly respected as part of their liturgy. The Both Books are secret and the Yazidis also have non written traditions only known to few Qawwals and men of Devotion among them.
The word for Satan in Arabic is Shaitan. They never utter that word. In fact, they avoid saying any word which has similar syllables - even common words such as ‘shat’ (wide river). They generally avoid saying any word of damnation. For some reason, they never eat lettuce. One well-known Iraqi historian, al Hasani, claims that for many centuries they were forbidden from learning to read and write, except for one family, Because the Sufism is a secret ideology which is not orthodox and the Sufis want to hide it from common public, this technique of hiding is known as Taqiyya in Islam.
Many Shia and other heretic sects practice Taqqiyya, such as Druze and Ismaili Khoja Jamaat.
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Iraqi Army Kills Kurds
BBC News Iraqi Army Killing KURDS========================
The ISIS was used by the enemies of Islam to kill Yazidi people........
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), officially known as the Islamic State (IS) and also known by its Arabic-language acronym Daesh (Arabic: داعش, romanized: Dāʿish,
The ISIS
The ISIS was purely created by non-Muslims such as Israel and it's friend countries and some polytheists countries who are fierce enemies of Islam and Muslims, these countries created ISIS in Iraq to show that Islam is evil.
The ISIS got power and it captured huge swathes of lands in Iraq and Syria and established a fake caliphate.
The western countries and Israel and it's friends nurtured it and provided it arms and military data.
This ISIS was also used by the enemies of Islam to frighten the other neighboring countries and Monarchies of the Gulf of Iran & Arabia, and to show that Islam is evil, and if any Muslim country aspires to become an Islamic country then it will end up like the areas ended up which were under control of ISISL.
The ISIS was used to kill and destroy Islamic historical sites and to kill thousands of innocent people.
The ISIS never did any single work which was beneficial for Islam and Muslims.
The ISIS was used by our enemies to kill Yazidi people, and to show Islam's evil face to the civilized world and to create a chance to set up spy hubs in the heart of Muslims countries.
When ISISL killed hundreds of Yazidis, then the enemies of Islam reached out to the Yazidis to help and rescue them.
The enemies want to set up their spy hub in the middle of middle east in the pretext of helping the Yazidis.
The Yazidis were desperate and they were in need of help and rescue, therefore they welcomed anyone who offered to help them.
The enemies of Islam and the polytheists enemies of Muslims and Israel teach the Yazidis that, The Yazidis are followers of an ancient angelic religion, and Your two sacred books the Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) and Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res (The Black Book) are forgeries, because they contain contradictory accounts.
Therefore the Yazidis now tell that these two books are not their books, or these are forgeries.
They tell that our sacred books are orally transmitted hymns and these are in the hearts of the Qawwals only.
Actually the two sacred books the Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) and Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res
(The Black Book) are in fact their genuine books collected painstakingly from oral traditions in 1915 by European researchers, and these two books are in total conformity with the beliefs and religion of the Yazidis.
Any contradiction found in them is from the beginning and not introduced during compilation.
They were faithfully compiled by European researchers and it is not possible to write them as forgeries as they are difficult to write now because these books have concepts and ideas of ancient times and now our modern scholars hardly can imagine them.
And these two books contain beliefs and doctrines in full conformity with the past and present Yazidis.
The Yazidis can deny their books because they do not have any previously written proof of their books in extant form as the Quran has.
The modern polytheists friends of the Yazidis teach them to deny these two books, as these polytheists always deny anything which is against the logic when we show them that it is in your books, then they plainly deny and tell that these are not our authentic books and OR the British have added them in our books.
All polytheists can do this because they too do not have any previously written proof of their books in extant form as the Quran is.
What all religions have is scattered fragments of their sacred writings here and there, they do not have a complete set of books in the extant form 1000-year-old or older than this.
The holy books of the polytheists are also compiled by British researchers During 1800 A.D.
All the polytheistic religions of the world claim that their holy books are very old and they are 5000 or 7000 years old, but actually, all these books are compiled by the European and British researchers During 1800 AD. to 1860 AD.
( Only the Quran is available 1420 years old in written form ).
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There are some arguments about some contradictions in the Yazidism, I have discussed them, please do read my arguments about these contradictions in the END of this page.
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The Yazidis have already joined hands with the enemies of muslims and now the enemies of muslims have set up their spy hubs in the heart of the middle east in the Kurdistan.
In the pretext of helping the Yazidis, These enemies of Muslims are setting up their spy hubs in the Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan is strategically and militarily very important place as it is in the heart of the Middle east and it borders Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Armenia, etc. and all muslim countries are near from KURDISTAN, such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakistan, Chechenia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Kuwait, Qatar, Albania, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Egypt and etc, etc and Israel !
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The Enemies of Islam and polytheist countries who are fierce enemy of Muslims and Islam have set up their intelligence and spy hub in Kurdistan and from these they are doing preplanned terrorists acts in the middle east and in all over the world and they are blaming it on muslims.
They run internet web sites which are extremist and these web site are misleading the muslim youth.
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All predictions of the Quran and Prophet Mohammad PBUH came 100 % true till today
The Quran Chapter (5) sūrat l-māidah (The Table spread with Food) verse No. 82
Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun ( The Polytheists ),
and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud.
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for the answer of this question now please read my research in the following lines.
In this background I myself had viewed the video in April 2007 on internet while I was in Dubai, I was shocked to view the death agony of that helpless girl, and so I came to know that there is an Ancient cult still today alive in the heart of Muslim Arabic country, this was another shock for me,
I personally examined the blogs on Dua Khalil and Yezidis and found that all non Muslims are united for the Yezidis and very few Muslims have comments on those blogs, and Muslims had very little knowledge about Yezidis or they have wrong knowledge about the them.
As I being a researcher of truth and religions, I always tried to find out truth since when I was a small child and since I became aware of my environment in my early childhood, I was longing to find out truth and reasons in each and every matter I come across as a child, since my early childhood I had many questions in my mind regarding religion and all other matters, and I was quite successful to investigate and find out all correct answers and conclusions on matters for which I had questions and doubts. And the question of Yezidism was one of them. When I got the opportunity to study them again long after the unfortunate Dua Khalil's sacrifice, I turned myself again towards the internet to seek information about the Yezidis, which only internet can provide me very quickly, easily and it is very affordable too, it is also a Gift of God. Knowing the fact that the internet can provide me conflicting and misleading information, but I was confident to separate the truth from the falseness after examining vast knowledge on the internet. In my study of the Yezidis I examined the wikipedia, and Yezidi humanitarian web, and a few research articles on Yezidism posted by some researchers and some blogs and articles and views and opinions of different net surfers, all information regarding Yezidism on the net was conflicting and confusing,
even a Yezidi web had declared on its own web page that all the information on Yezidis on the internet is not correct and for correct information one has to log on to their web site only.
There was a very detailed analysis on the customs and beliefs and the religious books and their sacred peoples and places, and the connection between different religions with the Yezidism, what I had to read from the internet, the summary of the information regarding the Yezidis on the net was as above what I copied from the internet. The persons or organizations who were just honest to put the information on the net had written about each and every aspect of the Yezidism very honestly, they showed the Sufi connection with the Yezidism along with Mithraism and pagan beliefs and conflicts with the contemporary Muslim clergy and their persecution, on the internet, but the truth about the Yezidis is not this much, it is far more than this, And the peoples who were Christian or Jewish backgrounds or Atheists were tried hard to show that the Yezidism is a Pagan cult, it predates Islam and Christianity, and they said that probably it is derived from Ancient Kurdish pantheism or Babylonian and ancient Middle eastern religions and early Christianity and it has influence of Sufism and Islam in later centuries after the rise of Islam and popularity of Sufism and its Doctrines, these peoples were interested in detailing the persecution of the Sufis by the Muslim Rulers and clergy and also the persecution of the Yezidi community by the Muslim Rulers and kings.
this act helped to increase the gulf of hatred between Yezidis and Muslims, the intention of some peoples seems to cultivate the seeds of hatred in the hearts of innocent Yezidi young generation towards Muslims,
The Muslims are guilty I agree but it is not the True Islam who is against the Yazidis, the Muslims who misunderstood Yazidism in the past are guilty of their persecution, those persecutors were both shias and Sunnis, because they believed that the Yezidis are descendants of Yazid Bin Muawiya, the ignorant Muslims are not only guilty of persecution of the Yazidis alone but they are guilty of persecution of Various Sufis in the past including the famous mystic Sufi Al Hallaj Hussain Mansoor in Baghdad. 900 AD, and Sufi Sarmad in India, 1700 AD. and many more world wide, these Sufis are still revered in India and Pakistan and by the world wide Sunni Muslim Community. This Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj is the same one to whom the Yezidis revere very much, The Yezidis also revere to the Abdul Qadar Jilani, and Hasan Al Basri, and to the Rabia Basri, and to the Al Ghazali, and Khizar, the Green Man , Abraham etc. and the Sunni Muslims of Pakistan and India also revere them all equally even today.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill-advised by their clergymen since the time of Shiaa Sunni bifurcation at about 750 AD, Although their common peoples are innocent, during this period the Mutazalis, Kharijite, and the Rifaiya etc emerged, and These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, The Sufism itself was also the brainchild of these early Sunni Muslims, The Peoples who killed (Hussain Bin Ali (God Bless him)) the Grandson of Muhammad PBUH. were from the Sunni sect of early Muslims, although the First Sunni Muslims did not killed Hussain GBH, but they also could not stop the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him in Iraq, really they were helpless that time, they were all under fear and shock, they did not had courage to prevent the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him and his 72 people's gang of relatives and friends, because of the continued battles at every 5 to six months interval since Prophet Muhammad PBUH came to Medina, up to the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH at Karbala in Iraq, after Hussain Bin Ali’s sacrifice the Sunni Muslims came under a heavy shock and practically they went in coma, and there was no war and battle for this brief period, and after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Mawiya established a lavish empire from Arabia to Iraq and Syria and there was no resistance to him from any corner, because every body was fearing from the Yazid and his army men, and the commanders of his army gave heavy rewards to all peoples who helped in killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, and after a period of silence and calm down they get assimilated among the Sunni Muslims as if nothing wrong has ever happened, and after the death of Yazid bin Mawiya and his army men and his commanders the common Sunni Muslim started waking up from the state of fear shock and when they wake up from coma they started to bring life on its normal track. they tried to implement Quranic law in the society, now there emerged lawyers who know the Quran and the Hadiths/instructions of Muhammad PBUH, this gave a rise in different schools of law in Islam, the Humbli, Maliki, Shafi schools of law emerged in this time period, and now they needed the help of Hadiths, for making laws as the Yazid’s empire exceeded the borders of the Arabia. More new peoples and more new countries came directly under the Empire, new problems arrived, and Islamic law needed, now the collection of hadiths was started and refining of Hadiths was carried out, and un trust worthy Hadiths were rejected by the authentic Hadiths collectors, and after compilation of a good amount of authentic Hadiths the Islamic Lawyers were in a good position to implement Shariya Law in the society with the patronage of the Caliphs, these Caliphs and rulers and governors were the descendants of the peoples who Killed Hussain Bin Ali GBH, as the Islamic awareness increased in the early Muslims and the ruling class, there emerged a guilt feeling of Killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH among the ruling class in particular and in Sunni Muslims in general about the Guilt of doing this sort of heinous crime of killing the Grandson of the Final Prophet Muhammad PBUH, now they become aware about the worth of Muhammad PBUH, coupled with the guilt feeling and love and admiration of Muhammad PBUH, and knowledge of Islamic Shariya and plenty of wealth and a very large empire encompassing the whole Arabia and beyond, this proved in front of the Muslims the authenticity of Islam and the predictions of Quran and Muhammad PBUH, This made the common peoples to believe in the truth of Islam and there emerged a flood of devout persons in each and every house in the length and breadth of this huge Empire, these devout persons were the early Saint of Islam, these peoples were astonished and amazed and fully admired due to the witness of the truth of Islam and The Truth of Muhammad PBUH and his sayings, in front of their eyes, because they were the witness of the poverty and worthlessness of the Arabia and themselves, these early saints of Islam were truly devout persons, they had true knowledge of Islam, they were not ignorant about the Islamic law, simply they were astonished, and lost in the God, these were the traits of the early Islamic saints and Sufis and Fakirs, now as I told you that a flood of such peoples arrived in the early five centuries of Islam, and after that the flood of devotion over flowed in all the muslim empire, the peoples became addicts of devotion, the knowledge levels of the addict devout persons declined and pure devotion took hold, because there was plenty of every thing, they had no troubles and fear of enemies because the borders of Islamic Empire were ever increasing, and the enemies were far-flung beyond the borders, pure devotion to God prevailed in the Arabia, and Once a person becomes devout and astonished by the glory of God, he lost senses, and if he is less educated, then he can imagine any fantasy, and this situation gave birth to the early Sufism, the devout and lost peoples in God were the first Sufis of Islam, these early Sufis were having some kind of awareness of Islamic law, they were not illiterate and ignorant devout persons, they were simply real devout and lost in the God persons. in this period of addiction of devotion and early Sufism there was very good communication between the Sufis of all over the enormous Empire, in these times the Sufis were holding their meetings with one another and exchanging ideas as different new ideas and doctrines of devotion were coming in from different non Arabic countries of the newly expanded Empire, the Pilgrimage of Makkah or the Hajj provided very good opportunity to all these devout persons and Sufis to meet one another and express ideas and exchange new formulas of devotion, the Sufis made Hierarchy in the Muslim Society such as The Sheikh or Mard e Kamil or Murshad and The Peer and his disciple is called Mureed, they Held meetings of Sama, and There was Qawwals for reciting Qawwalis, in Mehfil e Sama, and the Sufis even held ceremonies near the other Sufis as a Pilgrimage to their house, and Dinners and Dancing, The Shrines of Sufis are known as Mazars, and there are Original Peacock’s tail Feather’s long brushes, highly revered by the pilgrims, as if actually the Peacock is revered Bird of the Sufis, and a lamp is kept always lit in these Mazars, the Muslims also believe in distribution of work among the 7 Archangels, such as the Michael is given the work of Rains and seasons, and the Israfeel is responsible for the End times preparation and the Azraeel is given the task of giving the death to all creatures, and the Gabriel is the messenger of God, and different ask are given to specific Angels, and Azazeel is Satan, etc.
The Muslims also have a tradition that the God sent 124000 prophets, the Yazidis also believe in this.
The Muslims also have Pesh Imams in Masjids, the Ezidis also have the pesh Imam.
the Yazidis also have such ideas of seven angels administration of world, the Heptad, i.e. the prominent Seven, During the time of early Sufism the trade and technology exchange was also carried out through the same channels of communications in those time, 700 AD to 1400 AD,
As the Islam is a pure monotheistic religion and it has very perfect and sufficient law, and now it also had a very gigantic empire and government, so there always existed law enforcement agents among Islamic cities, these agents ensure the law enforcement in all strata of the society, mean while the Rulers and Dynasties changed and the struggle for the power was going on in the elites but the general public was busy in learning and devotion, Up to here we discussed only about the Sunni Muslims part, and what about the Shia Muslim sect which was got completely separated from Sunni Muslims from the time of assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBh the Shia peoples along with the remaining family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBh became underground and secret and they conspired to acquire power from the Sunnis throughout the Islamic History. Their development in the religion was not of equal quality of Sunni sect, but they remained loyal to the family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, but their religious development was of very inferior quality than Sunnis, because they had concentrated solely on conspiracy and they could not devote considerable time for the development of Islamic sciences and law, This leads in them various drawbacks and they were very prone to heresy, and they invented different doctrines as the control of Islamic Knowledge and law was not strong on them and because they could not standardized Islamic Knowledge, such as the compilation of authentic Hadiths, even they could not prevent intermixing of authentic Hadiths and unauthentic Hadiths, many new doctrines emerged from shias, and the shias were not doing any best in the history of Islam , even they were worst than Sunnis, they even joined hands with the enemies of Islam in the past for attaining power and governments, In the mean time the Sunni Muslims were busy in the expansion of the empire, and slowly the high standard of the Sufis and devout persons started to fall down, but still the people were devout and the Sufism has a craze among devout persons, and new doctrines and ideas were accepted in the Sufism and the Sufis had a secret ideas, often written in the form of secret Books, i.e. Book of secret or Kitabe Raz or Ramouz and Isrars, and they assumed that these ideas were also the means of devotion to the almighty God, so there is no harm in it,
Although this knowledge was even blasphemous for Allah SWT, but these Sufis were assuming it to be the means of devotion and nearness to Allah SWT, not only nearness but they assume it the means of attaining dissolution in Allah SWT, The Sufis were not allowing novices to know about this knowledge, this knowledge was written some times and some times it was passed orally to the most trusted disciple of rank, the written book about such forbidden knowledge was very common among the Sufis of India, all the prominent Sufis of medieval period were having such books, the books were kept very hidden and secret, and only made available to the tested and attained disciples, Sufi Shaikh Faridoddin, Sufi Bahoddin Multani and Sufi Nizamoddin of Delhi and Bahoddin Zachariah, and Ruknoddin Multani and many more numerous others, had read them, these books had very blasphemous doctrines, Blasphemous according to Islam, and not according to Sufism, In these books generally very contrary things were mentioned about the God, his modus operandi, his shape and his personality and his powers and his shrewdness and his conspiracy and his power and weaknesses, even the events and reality which is opposite to the Quran and Hadiths, these things are not allowed to talk according to Islam, but these Sufis were assuming that as far as the Sufi is having all true knowledge of Islamic Law and Quran and Hadiths, and he is leading a life according to laid down law of Islam, this type of secret Knowledge will not harm him, because he has control over his sense, and because he has attained the rank of Shaikh or Marde Kamel by hard devotion, and human mind can imagine any thing good or blasphemous but its harm only comes if it is expressed openly to common public, so the Sufis were hiding these books from the general non Sufi persons, but every body know that if any body became a true devout and if he is lost in God then he looses control of his senses, he becomes just like insane and intoxicated person, They were hence called as Majzoobs, i.e. Dissolved one, The devotion and the guilt feeling in the early devout Muslims led them to think about repentance from the crime of killing Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the guilt feeling of Hussain Bin Ali’s GBH assassination created among the early killers of Hussain Bin Ali GBh a feeling of Repentance, now they were in search of any way of repentance, they were in search of any body who can relive them from the guilt feeling and from this sin by showing them any way, any story any parable and allegory which can give them any feeling of comfort was very dear to them, these Sufis became really Absorbed in God, they were real devout persons they were lost in God and they had lost senses, Among them was Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, Sufi Sarmad and Al Ghazali and Abdul Qadar al Jilani al Baghdadi and Hasan Al Basri and Rabiya Basri and Bahoddin Zachariah and Ruknoddin Multani many more innumerable others widely distributed throughout Islamic Territory, the other persons who had not lost in the God, or who has not so strong in Devotion towards God can easily misunderstand these absorbed Sufis as blasphemers due to their thoughts, the thoughts which came on their tongues because of their unconscious state of mind, these Sufis can reveal blasphemous ideas from that secret book, and in the History Mansoor al Hallaj was persecuted by the law enforcement authorities, and many more peoples were persecuted for the same reasons and charges of blasphemy, Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj was saying that I am Allah, i.e. Ana Al Haqq, according to that secret book and according to Sufi doctrine it may be right, but he was lost and absorbed in the devotion so he was telling this statement, the law enforcement agent either misunderstood him or he persecute him to prevent wide spread open blasphemy of God in the common public, to save the dignity of Allah in the society. these types of persecutions were very common, but the wise option was to neglect such Sufis, because they did not do that intentionally. but for the law enforcement agents it is very necessary to maintain law and order in the society. they wanted that the disease of blasphemy of God should not spread in the general public, because Fear of God is the Basis of Law and order.Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir and his contemporary Sufis had sympathy with the Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, and many peoples were having sympathy with the Al Hallaj, his persecution and death made many Sufis uncomfortable and they secretly propagated his message and doctrine among Sufis and public, the secret book was kept under strict vigilance and most of the times the Sufi takes this book in their graves by advising their disciples to put this book under their head as a pillow in their graves, one such book was unearthed in Yemen in a mosque when peoples were digging for the expansions of the mosque, the western media thought this book to be the Original Quran because it has verses very opposite to the teaching of Quran, the people who agreed on the secret doctrine of the Al Hallaj Mansoor were keeping their beliefs very secret due to fear of persecutions, The Secret Sufi sect and their secret book remained in the hands of some highly trusted Sufis and it was in India there are written proofs about this secret book that this book was under the library of Sufi Bahoddin Zachariah and Baba Farid and others and many other closely related Sufis who were allowed to read this book after passing different tests and criteria, this book and its contents were copied and even stolen by various Sufis of that time and it reached throughout the Islamic territories, there are written proofs in Urdu, The idea of Allah SWT is the all excellent and ever potential was the basis of Sufism, and the Sufis could not imagine that Allah can be unjust to any body, he is ever just and he can do any thing and he is all knowing and he knows the past, future and the present equally well, he can not be unjust to any body and he cannot be defeated and fooled by any body, Now the problem of Satan was making them uneasy, they longed to solve this enigma, and the thoughts and imaginations of Sufis had its solution, although the solution was correct and justified according to secret Sufi book but they were blasphemous for the general Muslims, in the eyes of Islamic shariya these types of solutions were worthy of burn down immediately and any proponents of these ideas needed to be immediately put to brutal death and there was no compromise, that’s why these books were kept very secret and only very trusty and tested candidates were allowed to view these books, and the followers and the Sufis who were in agreement of these secret doctrines were advised to keep it strictly secret and confined to the elite Sufis only, no body was allowed to question the Sufi and his deeds if one finds them blasphemous he was advised to assume it’s opposite and that it is a Asrar or Raz or Ramooz i.e. the secrets of Allah SWT which cannot be revealed to commoners. and the general public understood this very obediently and they never questioned any Sufis, because the commoners were thinking that they cannot understand the Ramooz and Asrar of God, and only Sufis can understand them, The Idea of Satan's disobedient to the order of Allah was making the Sufis uneasy and they tried to find any means of reconciliation between Allah and Satan, there are some Hadiths which shows that the Satan knows the Passwords of Allah, i.e. the Isme Aazam, and he is confident that by using these divine passwords he will one day win the heart of Allah and will be forgiven for his sin of disobedience, and he can use them well before the day of judgment, i.e. Qayamah or Doomsday, this type of Hadiths are still in circulation and these types of rumors create hopes in the mind of the Sufis about the repentance of Satan or chances of his reconciliation with God, and they thought that, May be this might have had happened in the Spiritual realms( Aalam e Arwah) that the Satan may have used those passwords and he might have forgiven already, this doctrine is contrary to the Quran, but the imagination of Dissolved Sufi can tell him that the Quran was copied from Loohe Mahfooz ( A kind of Divine memory chip sd card or a sort of Divine Clipboard ), and it may be from among a Ramooz wa Asrar of Allah SWT, the Sufis had questions in there minds, the Sufis were innocent believers of God, they were truly and purely Monotheists, they were not ready to accept that there can be any body who even can dare to disobey God, and survive, this is the defamation of God if any body disobey him from among his nearest ones, such as the Satan, and they might think that there can not be any body deprived of the Grace and mercy of God for longer time, The God’s mercy must encompass him, even if the guilty is unwilling to repentance, the God is all wise, he cannot let the guilty do stupidity, and because he has created every thing from his noor ( Light), This story of disobedience of Satan is in Quran only, it is not in Jewish or Christian Bile, the story is as follows, " when God finished making Adam and when Adam stood up after breathing his life breaths, and after completing demonstrations of Adam’s abilities to various Angels, the God Ordered to all the Angels to prostrate in front of Adam, Now all Angels prostrated but only Satan did not did this,.. Allah became angry upon Satan and stripped off all his ranks, then the Satan asked the God to grant him permission till the end of the world so that he can take revenge from the Adam and his progeny, therefore the Allah granted him permission and the Satan became a snake and then he became an ant and rides in the eye of a peacock and entered the heaven to lure Adam and Eve, And so on the story goes in Quran, according to the Quran and some parts in Muslim traditions which are not in the Quran,.
The peacock and snake of Yazidi people is this story.
( According to Muslim traditions the snake and peacock were guards of the gates of heaven at the time of the creation of Adam and Eve, Therefore the snake symbol on the entrance of Yazidi shrine symbolizes the guardianship, the shrine is considered to be the heaven and the worshipers are Adam's children in the heaven.)
Hanging colourful threads of cotton or Fabric is also a Muslim practice in India and in Pakistan in sufi shrines or in Dargahs,
the Yazidis also have traditions to hang colourful clothes in the shrines at Sinjar and Lalish and elsewhere they have a shrine for them.
the Yazidis also have traditions to hang colourful clothes in the shrines at Sinjar and Lalish and elsewhere they have a shrine for them.
and there is a Hadith of prophet Muhammad PBUH regarding the repentance by using passwords and the Sufi’s imagination of repentance of Satan in spiritual realms has a comfort for the peoples who were Purely Monotheistic in their beliefs and who were devout men to the God, and this idea can give a sort of comfort and sooth to the persons who were still having some sort of guilt feeling in their hearts, the guilt can be replaced by the idea of repentance, the peoples who have guilt feeling in their hearts always tries to find some sort of sooth or comfort in any possible thing, or even in Fetishes, being among the Sunni Muslims, descendants of the Yazid and Marwan can feel this sort of guilt feeling more than any other person in Shia Muslim sect, the shia Muslims were thinking to be very bad because they could not sided the Hussain bin Ali GBH, and many Sunni Muslims also thinking bad because they too could not help the grand son of the prophet PBUH, although all shia Muslims are not the descendants of the persons who actually supported Hussain bin Ali GBH, the shias are a combination of different ethnically diverse persons, in past many shias got assimilated in Sunni Muslims without knowingly, due to ignorance, on the other hand the Sunni Muslims also decayed and ignorance prevailed in them, slowly they forgot the Islamic sciences and hence started obeying the learned men and clergy, and the clergy and learned men lead them astray, The early clergy of Muslims persecuted the yezidi leaders due to misunderstanding, they saw their religious innovations only but they couldn’t dig into the root cause, And persecuted them so heavily that all the Yezidis were excommunicated and confined them in the hills, all religious books were stripped off from them, they were not allowed to perform the Hajj and visiting Makkah. So their leaders recalled their memories and compiled a religious material from whatever was mixed in their imagination and memories, and for quenching the thirst of Hajj in their disciples they constructed a Makkah in the region were they were confined, Strikingly the landscape and the surrounding of their holy places of pilgrimages closely resembles the cities of Makka and Medina, even they kept the same names to the nearby hills and ponds and spring as are in Original Makka in KSA, their spring is Zam zam, their hill is Arafat etc. They sacrifice a bull all this is a copy of Muslim Hajj pilgrimage, it is in fact the Hajj. they are Muslims.
The Orthodox Muslims too have traditions in their Sufi masters that the Mecca and Holy Kaba can come anywhere for a devote Sufi, There is a Tradition in Sufi circles in Muslims that The Kaaba arrived in Baghdad for the Sufi Saint Rabiya Basriya Adwiyya, then She used to perform his circumambulation around the Kaba without ever traveling to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
Rabia Basri was a 10 th century Sufi in Iraq.
If the Kaba can arrive for a single woman according to Muslim Sufi Traditions,
then why not these Yazidi community can make Mecca and Kaba and Mount Arafat and Chah Zam Zam in the hills of Sinjar near Mosul in Iraq? for the isolated and excommunicated community of people who long for performing the Hajj but they are not allowed to enter the Mecca?
Therefore the Yazidis Make their own Mecca in their hills and performed the Hajj.
The Yazid people were accused of being devil worshippers and hence not allowed in mecca as they were thought to be non muslims by the then orthodox muslims of the Iraq region.
The Sufis are true lovers of the God and hence they sometime go in an stage of ecstasy and they feel and hear and see things which are not orthodox according to the Shari'a Islamic Law, when they wake-up from the state of ecstasy they cannot tell to the public what they saw and hear, because it is prohibited in Islam to say anything regarding the unseen knowledge if the person is not a prophet and prophet-hood has ended now, therefore these sufi tells these secret things to their nearest followers or write it down in secret books, book of Asrar.
These Sufis have a strong desire in their heart to make reconciliation between the Allah and the Satan, therefore it is possible that these Sufis might have tried to make a reconciliation in their state of ecstasy and it is possible that these Sufi might have seen in their condition of ecstasy that the God has pardoned the Satan and The God restored his past glory to the Satan,
The Sufism in Islam is a secret spiritual brotherhood which has doctrines and concepts which are not endorsed by orthodox Islam, for example, the belief about the pardoning of Satan and reconciliation between Allah and Satan are secret topics in Sufism which are never discussed publicly.
The Kitêba Cilwe and Meshef Res is written by him and these books are the secret books of Sufis, the books of Asrar. These secret books were also written in India during the 12th century and after that too by different Sufis of India.
The Teaching of Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir were not against Islam, he was a pious Sufi and He teach correct Islam to the Yazidis, He teach how to perform the Hajj pilgrimmage, He teach all stories of the Quran but after his death due to negligence of mainstream Muslims and due to ignorance the belief system and practices of a local faith had a profound influence on the religiosity of adherents of the Adawiyya Sufi order living in the Kurdish mountains, and caused it to deviate from Islamic norms relatively soon after the death of its founder, Sheikh Adî ibn Musafir who is said to be of Umayyad descent. He settled in the valley of Lalis (some thirty-six miles north-east of Mosul) in the early 12th century AD. Sheikh Adî himself, a figure of orthodoxy, enjoyed widespread influence. He died in 1162, and his tomb/ Mazar is at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.
In the time of arrival of Islam in the Kurdistan The Yazidis were like Roma or Gypsy, they were neglected by the Main stream Muslims and they could not get Islamic Education therefore they became vulnerable to the different heresy groups who infiltrated them and changed their religion from Islam to Yazdanism or Yazidism.
The Yazidis were nomadic sheep herders like Roma or Gypsies, therefore they were living in mountains and hence they could not get true Islamic teachings, and slowly due to neglect from the orthodox Muslims they ended up having a crude idea about religion.
The Mainstream Muslims ignored these poor Yazidi Kurdish people and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore they ended up spinning a religion out of the debris of locally dead mythology which was available to them.
The Yazidi religion was a Sect of Sufi Adawiyyah path in the beginning, but due to recurring ignorance, it accumulated non islamic mythologies and ended-up in present condition.
The Sufi Adawiyyah Tariqa was initiated by Sheikh Adi Bin Musafir in 12th century.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill advised by their clergymen, These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, Although their common peoples are innocent but their clergymen are not intelligent and wise, they distorted the Islam and Quran and hadiths, they are headless clergymen, they have hearsay beliefs and once they erred they were caught in ego and prestige problem and in defending their problem of ego their early clergymen tried to find out far fetched references and slip of the tongue type proofs from the Quran and Hadiths, and even they rely on rejected body of Hadiths to support their rather Difficult to prove hearsay beliefs, Once their early peers erred in the early history of Islam, and due to ego they tried to patch up their mistakes by producing distorted proofs from Quran and Hadiths instead of accepting the mistake and correcting it in first place, their clergy retaliates with their silly ideas on the correctors, They themselves are less intelligent and so they do not becomes shy of their cognizance less ness, Now they do patch ups so the patch up process continued till today along with this less intelligence mind and mentality, and this patch up daring gives birth to new doctrines and ideas along sides, these clergy of Sunni Muslims are low intelligent people they cannot under stand the truth of monotheism and these were the Muslims who persecuted the Hussain Mansoor al Hallaj, and to the Yezidi peoples 72 times in History, the Yezidis are the devout followers of devout saints who revere monotheism, The Yezidis are really the descendants of devout saints who were true monotheist and dissolved saints and lost in the God secret Sufis, they are the followers of the secret Sufi cult, the contemporary Sunni Muslims misunderstood them, because the Sunni Muslims forgot the secret Sufi doctrine due to their own ignorance, and because the Sunni Muslims had allowed many innovations or Bidaa. in their religion and made a religion on Islamic debris, Actually the Islam is not a religion, but it is a Fact of the universe, it is proven fact that There is a God, who created this whole universes, and he only knows every thing and only he can Guide us, and only his guidance has true path, and he only can be all good and benevolent, and the Aim of human life is to Establish peace and justice in society and to keep it functioning and to restore it, if it is lost, Islam is the knowledge about the One God who created this Universe, and every thing and he gave an opportunity to man to lead a peaceful and just life in this world by establishing just society based on human rights and justice and God has given an opportunity for the man to restore peace and justice in the society, and to keep the things going on smoothly according to his Laws, and God had guided the human beings from very beginnings and he sent innumerable prophets and his final message arrived with his Final prophet Muhammad PBUH, but the Religion of Sunnis is totally different from this, and it cannot be called the Islam, it is it’s a parody of Islam, They forgot Islam, long in the distant past, in true Islam it is the aim of a human being to strive for restoring and maintaining peace and justice in the society, all the things, wealth and food and peace and time and happiness is only given for the task of maintaining a justice and peace in the society, it is just like you are a sales man and you are provided the car and food and clothes and accommodations and you are traveling for the cause of business tour, all the provisions given to you are not for enjoyments but all these are given to you so that you make business for your employer, this travel is not your holiday picnic ride, it is for the business of your boss, and we must not forget this in our whole travel, Now you think your self what the humans are doing with this provisions given by God to us, Every body is a Traveler in his life, The Arabic word for Traveler is Musafir, and in this regards every body is Musafir, so we have to perform our travel very successfully in order to give good business to our boss, we should not waste the provisions and traveling allowances given by our boss in our own enjoyments and amusements, if we are wasting it then we are not doing the duty properly. Then why we should not be fired from our boss. Be a good Musafir.
The Yazidis were devout followers of their Sufi teachers, but the Sunni Muslims misunderstood them and they heavily persecuted them 72 times since their inception, many times the Yazidis were excommunicated, their houses were burnt to ashes, their belongings were seized, and the community was made forcefully to disperse, their holy sites were damaged and their books were burnt down, so the Ezidi or Yazidis had no books with them when they settled down in remote mountains, then their Sheikhs and Sufis and Peers and Murids and Fakirs and Baba Sheikhs gathered what they had in their memory about the teachings of the religion, and from here the custom of memorizing the secret doctrines of Ezidis came in to use, Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir was a devout Sufi, from the lineage of Yazid Bin Muawiyah, The Yazidis have the story of Satan as he became Peacock and he entered the Paradise to Tempt the Adam and eve, after Disobeying Allah, the Satan Did not prostrate in front of the Adam, hence Allah became unhappy with the Peacock angel, and after tempting the Adam and Eve, finally the Peacock angel repented and Allah restored him his past glory and made him the Boss of other Archangels, then the peacock Angel managed very peacefully with his colleagues Angels and he assigned them different tasks of the universe, and since then all Angles are working in perfect Harmony and peace due to excellent managerial skills and Administration of the Peacock angel (Malek Taoos), This is the second part of the story, its First Part is in Quran, The Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir who has longing to reconcile between the Allah and Satan, found comfort and sooth in this story and made part of their secret doctrine, but Shaikh adi's intention was monotheism only, it were the ignorant peoples after him who made religions and their laws and customs, as all other religions has undergone metamorphosis, the Yezidism too passed from the process of metamorphosis and it became the heresy of a heresy, because the Sufism is a heresy of Islam. And since because the Yezidis don’t had books with them, due to frequent stripping offs, they had only memory and there was the book of Raz in their memory, the book of Rash is known as Meshefe Rash, and another collection of thoughts is Book of Cilveh, it is the book of Jalwah i.e. the freedom of the Melek Taoos from the sin of Disobedience of Allah SWT, Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir has told the yezidis, that they must follow Sunnah and they Must avoid bida. And the yazidis are advised to keep their Books very secret, and they should not be written down or no body read them except the chosen few.
There is nothing wrong if we try to reconcile between our Yazidi brothers and Muslims, after all they are our brothers, who lost in the wilderness in the remote past, if this work of understanding them had carried out in the past, and had the Yazidis not persecuted and excommunicated in the past, then the innocent Dua Khalil may not had died, on 7th April 2007. if the Yazidis were not termed as non Muslims.
The Former Sheikhs of Yazidis revere the Malek Taus due to love with Allah, they want to protect Allah’s integrity by making Allah the ever Merciful and all potent and benevolent, the reverence of Peacock angel is extreme pinnacle of Devotional monotheism in their opinions, so the Yazidism is not from the Pagan origins and nor they borrowed ideas from Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, they revere flames and the fire only because it is the symbol of Iblees or Satan i.e., Peacock Angel i.e. Malek Taoos or Taer taus, the Story of Satan Becoming Peacock and Entering the paradise is also in the Body of Islamic Hadiths. the Yazidism is an Offshoot of Sufism, the Yazidis are secret followers of the Sufism and the Sufism is an offshoot of Islam, the Sufism has spiritual secret form of Islam, the Sufism and its secret books are blasphemous according to orthodox Islamic law.
The Sunni Muslims Now in modern times have organized in India and Pakistan and in western countries under the banner of Sunni Dawat Islami, and they refer them selves as Ahl Al sunna wa Jamat, or simply Sunni Muslims, they are Mohammedans and Grave worshippers, they are as far from the true teachings of Mohammad PBUH as the present day Christians are from the true message of Jesus Christ, The Christians revere the Christ and the saints, and worship Christ, so they are called Christians, and these Sunnis are called Mohammedans for the same reasons, because they revere Prophet Muhammad PBUH but they are at an enormous distance from the Spirit of his teachings, just as Christians are from The Christ’s, Islam is Millions of Kilometers away from these Sunni Mohammedans. but their common peoples are still innocent because they only know what their clergymen tells them, their clergymen cannot understand any straight thing, they always find twists in that, probably because they have much twisted DNA so they have very little intelligence in their brains. They always explore new deities other than the God, and their expeditions culminated in the form of grave worshiping Muslims of India, There appeared various reformers in Sunni Muslims since last couple of centuries, and these reformist criticized heavily on various religious innovations and due to this criticism there is some improvements in the Sunni Muslims other wise they may have became yet another Yezidi type cult with new names such as Qadris, Chishtis, Naqshabandis, saherwardis, Barelvis, etc, they were quite near to becoming another Yezidi community in the east Asia, and there is already one such community in existence which has become another Yezidis type cult and to which the Muslims have rejected as a non Muslim group, this community is the Sikhs, the Sikhs are one such community in India,
There is another community which became Yezidi like, these are Druze of Lebanon and Golan heights in Israel.
The Orthodox muslims neglected nomadic communities and left them on the mercy of heretics, therefore such religions originate in Islamic countries.
There are actually yet another Yezidis in making, because they follow innovations in religion which is not desired by Allah and his Final prophet PBUH, they Sunni Muslim clergymen and common persons even today believe that a certain number of pilgrimages to a Tomb of a sheikh in the city of Ajmer in India is equivalent to One Hajj of makka, and there is a door which is known as Door of paradise, and it is believed that passing through this door qualifies him to enter the paradise. And the call their respected elders and Sufis as Qibla va Kaba, equivalent to the two holy shrines in Makkah and Medina. And they held pilgrimages on the shrines of all Sufis and there is a ceremony of Sandal, in this ceremony they first give a bath to the grave of the sheikh with mixture of Rose water and Zamzam water and the spent water is also revered as sacred among the devotees they often fight each other to get some speck of it, after the bath the grave worshippers and the peoples serving the graves apply a paste of Sandal wood powder and Rose water, ( the Zamzam is a natural spring in Makkah) this embalming of the grave is very similar to the Abhishek ceremony of Hindus of India, the Hindus also perform such ceremony with their Idols in their shrines, first they give bath to the idol with a mixture of water of river Ganga and coconut water and Urine of Cow etc, and after bathing the deity they embalm the Idol with milk, oils, and sandal wood powder paste etc. amazingly the Sunni Muslims and Hindus have many parallels in their religious behaviors and customs, the clergy of Sunni Muslims believes that the dead Sheikhs and Sufis are alive till today, and their help is sought in the prayers, this intercession is called as Wasila, if all the dead Sufis and Sheikhs are alive today then why do they died at first place, why this drama of life and death in front of helpless commoners, the Sunnis are deviated from the true Islam, they are the travelers who have forgot the aim of their business tour, Although the business tour can be very entertaining but it is useless if it does not makes a business for the employer who sponsored it, the aim of life of a Muslim is to restore justice, peace in the society, and this is the business of the traveler, if the Yezidis are devil worshippers then these Sunni Muslims are followers of devil’s agenda, the devils agenda is to deviate the sales men travelers/ Musafir, from their business, then in this respect they are both brothers of each other.WAllah alam bissawab, WAllaho walio Taufiq.
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There are some arguments about some contradictions in the Yazidism, I have discussed them, please do read my arguments about these contradictions here.
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The Full story is this,......They believe that God first created Melek Taus from his own illumination (Ronahî in Kurdish) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Melek Taus not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Melek Taus. In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth.
( Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Melek Taus, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Taus the choice as a test.),
Then when we show them a contradiction, then,..
Why he (Tawûsê Melek) Repented!
“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
Then the Modern Yazidis say that,
Once The Tawûsê Melek descended to earth and he saw a lot of sufferings and injustice and pain and evil in the world that He “ he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
This is the new answer of modern Yazidis.
The modern Yazidis think that this answer will solve the problem of the contradiction,
but actually, this answer has generated another problem for the Yazidism, I argue that " When did the Tawûsê Melek descended to earth to witness all this suffering and pain and injustice and evil on this earth? " Is that descent before of the creation of mankind or after it?"
If it is after the creation of mankind then, the story of Bowing to the Adam must be False,
Because after the creation of Adam, God ordered him to Bow down to Adam, and according to Yazidism God became happy and made Tawûsê Melek lord of the world, and at that time, there were no humans on the earth.
and If it is before the creation of mankind then, again the story of Bowing to the Adam must be False,
Because before the creation of Adam, there were also no Humans on the earth to do evil.
And if this descend was before the creation of mankind then the statement of Modern Yazidis is wrong that the God made him the prince of this world after pleasing with him and praising him due to his not bowing down to Adam.
If my arguments cancels the story of Tawûsê Melek and Adam, then the whole basis of the Yazidism collapses, as their religion is based on the assumption that the "Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth."
And if suppose we assume that the Tawûsê Melek really did cry and filled 7 jars with his tears and these tears then quenched the fires of hell.
Then a Question arises in my mind,...
Then the Hell might have become cool and comfortable then:
"Was the God So stupid to create the Hell in the first place so that to get it quenched by the tears of Tawûsê Melek",.
God is farsighted and wise, He knows the future, and Hell is not a small furnace for getting quenched by tears, the Hell is meant to be for the punishment of evil personalities. and if God creates something then It has some grand Function, not getting damaged or quenched or destroyed.
Getting quenched by the tears was not the function behind the creation of Hell.
Now why God could not prevented the Hell being quenched if as per Yazidism, If God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic).
Then Why He could not save the Hell from being quenched and Why had God created the Hell in the First place, Is he so enough Stupid? or and he is so powerless to stop it being quenched? or weather if He does not have the foresight to see what will happen to his creation in the near future.
The God does not allow anyone to spoil his work or the god is able enough to prevent someone from spoiling his creation.
Because God has a plan in his mind well ahead of doing anything, if he had made Hell for the sinners then it must exist anyway unless all sinners are pardoned and there remains no need of hell.
But you know well that there are sinners in the world and they did not repent and hence they must suffer the pains of visiting the hell.
The God has not pardoned anyone from sinners, it is not written in Yazidism anywhere nor in the orally transmitted hymns of their Qawwals that God has pardoned all sinners and now there is no need of hell.
Anyhow,
But Why he (Tawûsê Melek) Repented!
Why would he Repented and cry if God had rewarded him?
Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?
Why would he Repented if God had rewarded him?
This Question remains after all, Why He REPENTED for?
Repented for what ?
This is another contradiction,
The first contradiction is He cried,
The Second contradiction is For what He repented?
The True answer is in Quran,
The Quran says that He denied to Bow down in front of the Adam, then the God expelled him from the Paradise and then he (Tawûsê Melek) descended on to the earth,
Here on earth, he may have cried.
he may have cried in remorse of something,
he may have repented in remorse of something,
Perhaps the disobeying the command of the God might be.
This is a plausible answer.
The answer is in the Quran.
That He did not Obeyed the God.
If he (Tawûsê Melek) has cried by seeing the sufferings of this world, then he must have seen the rewards and remunerations of Paradise.
Because the God did not create the Hell alone he also created the Paradise,
And the Paradise is Par more rewarding than any suffering on this earth by all individuals for the whole of their lives.
The God created Hell and Heaven both, he (Tawûsê Melek) must had seen that, lest he may not had cried so hard.
The Yazidis say that after extinguishing of the Hell, the Heaven and hell does not exists.
No need of Heaven and Hell anymore, as we are rewarded and punished by recurring reincarnations.
In my opinion, This argument will not solve the problem of Hell and heaven,
As for the rewarding and for punishing by reincarnation of a soul, a soul must be aware that for what I am being rewarded or I am being punished in this world.
But as everybody knows that we do not know our previous past deed and our previous past memories,
We do not have any memory from our previous past,
if we are reborn, then We must have our past memories.
This is a big blow to the theory of reincarnation.
Nobody knows why he was born and why he has punished in his life, if he is poor and suffering, and why he has rewarded in his life if he is wealthy and enjoying.
Theory of reincarnation is a dumb attempt to provide an alternative to the Hell and Heaven.
Theory of reincarnation is a dumb attempt to answer the problem of evil in this world.
These above arguments prove that the answers of Modern Yazidis to cover up their contradictions in their religion is firing back on them, and it proves that the Two books of the Yazidis are in fact Genuine and any tampering in them will backfire them badly.
Tampering by covering up or denying anything from these Two books will backfire.
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