Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Award-winning actress pays tribute (7 min) to Baha'is and martyr Muna






Graceful Emmy-winning and Oscar nominee, actress Shohreh Aghdasloo, praises the spirit and ideals of the Baha'i Faith and remembers the 17 year old martyr Muna Mahmudnizhad, quoting a translation of a poem she wrote in her diary (read more on Muna's fate here):


God holds the soul in his hands.
He sees its glowing light
and He knows.
He feels its warmth like a fire,
and every land stands still,
quiet before the universe,
as He stands in admiration of that soul -
that soul who gives its light
without thought of itself,
only in adoration of the Creator
of All.

Ms. Aghdasloo's recording was made in connection with a Baha'i Human Rights event attended by 1400 concerned citizens at George Washington University September 12, 2009, in Washington DC over the issue of human rights in Iran and the plight of persecuted Baha’i community of that land, just days before she won her Emmy for "House of Saddam Hussein." View a full article on that event here.





Image of Mona Mahmudnizhad (above) is copyright the Baha'i International Community (view original here). Images of Ms. Shohreh Aghdashloo (left and right) from here and here.

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