1) Mammad, you weren’t here to see
In Qazvin, an incident has occurred.
35 of our newly graduated boys and girls, each have been flogged 99 times.
17 workers from the Aq-Darreh mine have also been flogged.
Mammad, you weren’t here to see the city liberated
The blood of your comrades has borne fruit
2) Mammad, you weren’t here to see
This time, I am talking about myself.
I, Mohammad Mahdavifar, wasn’t there to see the ceremony of humiliation and the suffering of workers and newly graduated girls and boys during the flogging.
If I had seen it, I would have died of grief, and now that I have heard, I tell myself I wish I were dead so that I wouldn’t hear such tragic news.
3) Mammad, you weren’t here to see
This time, I am referring to Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him).
O Muhammad, you weren’t here to see that after 1400 years, when the world talks about Islam, in some corners, they remember knives, beheadings, and enslaving vulnerable and defenseless girls and women, and in other corners, they think of flogging, violence, execution, ropes, and solitary confinement.
Muhammad, rise and save Islam, for now, beheading with a knife, hanging with a rope, and lashing the spirit and body of humans has become the symbol of being Muslim, instead of love.
Mohammad Mahdavifar
Deminer and Diver of the Sacred Defense
12th Khordad 1395 [June 1, 2016]