A Talk to a Spirit...

By Rafig Y. Aliyev

The book is dedicated to Tofig Gasim Oghlu Kocharly, academician, a wonderful man and talented historian. The thoughts are transmitted in a form of a dialogue with him. The author has chosen this style exclusively as a sign of deep respect to his blessed memory. Such an approach seems to give readers an opportunity to feel his presence best of all.
The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of my wife Nushaba khanims uncle, Prof. Tofig Kocharly, a historian, recognized public figure, speaker, wonderful and joyful interlocutor, and famous researcher on the history of Garabagh, a pearl of Azerbaijan, where I was born, grew up in, and studied. May his soul shine in heavens, among stars, like on the cover of the given book. I was talking to him at that state of heart though he was keeping silent, just changing his facial expression from time to time. All this underlie the book, A Talk to a Spirit.
May Allah save all of us and take the souls of those who left a rich instructive heritage of life
I am sure that life on earth is worthy of saving the relation with those who are close and dear

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490712673

Rafig Y. Aliyev

Rafig Aliyev, doctor of philosophy, professor, and founder of IRSHAD Center on Islamic Studies since 1990 was born in Agdam Region of Azerbaijan in 1947. He worked as head of the department and deputy director on foreign relations at the Institute on Oriental Studies, director of the Center for Islamic Researches in the Caucasus of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. June 21, 2001, to June 26, 2006, he headed the State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the Work with Religious Associations. Since June 27, 2006, R. Aliyev worked as director of the Center on Islamic Studies. He is member of World Peace Academy of Professors international interreligious committee. He is the author of more than 250 scientific articles and 17 books, books of political nature: Poverty, Dictatorship, Injustice (252 pages); In Recesses of Being (464 pages); New Europe without Capitalism (150 pages); The Child of Romanticism (116 pages); Family and Marriage in Islam (226 pages), and Islam (332 pages). The above listed books, except Islam, have been translated into English and published by Trafford Publishing in the USA (www.trafford.com). They can be bought in online stores. Rafig Aliyev is married and has two children.

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A TALK TO

A SPIRIT...

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CONTENTS

To the reader

Instead of foreword

A deferential monologue . . .

Family is private, and not only

Forefathers’ heritage

War tragedies . . . Leaders’ mistakes

A referendum is the voice of the established nation . . .

A dispute dialogue

Motherland and nation

Social feeling . . .

State and citizens

A sense of envy. A sentimental talk . . .

The rural past . . . Good, evil and merry-go-round of life

Once again about the village. The mother cow

Evil and money. The bare truth

The mirror reflects and hides something

Thoughts about truth and earthly being

The continuation of the short excursus

The temple of science

The night prayer

Truth in words . . . Life in a pipe

Family secrets

I am not a genius, and the earth is not sinful

Again to the reader

Advice no.1: Good day, man!

Advice no.2: A cosmic marriage or in an embrace with happiness

Advice no.3: Active consciousness . . .

Advice no.4: Envious people do not smile . . .

Advice no.5: Parents and children . . .

Advice no.6: Four elements of life

Advice no.7: The triangle of stability

Advice no.8: Self-esteem and appraisal

Advice no.9: Soul and peace are incompatible

The last advice: touch wisdom!

Parting

The cost of the flight . . .

After parting

Typing and computer design:   N. Aliyeva

Responsible person:                  A. Aliyeva

Editor:                                         N. Kocharli

RAFIG YAHYA OGHLU ALIYEV

Rafig Yahya ohglu Aliyev.

A talk to a spirit...—August, 2013

The book is dedicated to TOFIG GASIM OGHLU KOCHARLY, academician, a wonderful man, talented historian. The thoughts are transmitted in a form of a dialogue with him. The author has chosen this style exclusively as a sign of deep respect to his blessed memory. Such an approach seems to give readers an opportunity to feel his presence best of all.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The book, as is seen from the title, is about the unearthly world, the beyond. The author tries to convince the reader of the fact that the beyond, the world of spirits, exists and one can talk to those whose souls are in heaven after death. We, real people with physical and physiological qualities, are the only bearers of the unreal, future virtual world. Probably, the knowledge of the fact that we will be there one day drives us to attempts to find the evidence of the existence of the unreal world. I think that there are people who have happened somehow to contact with those who are in heaven. They are called channellers, i.e. they write down or draw some pictures on paper dictated from there. Therefore, writers, artists and high-ranking scientists create things that other people cannot reproduce.

There is a share of the divine in them, i.e. there is the substance second after the soul (the author calls it a talent), which does everything instead of a person, using his physical body, as a certain tool of manifestation of divine plans . . .

As you will understand after having read the book, the author of the wonderful book, captivating the reader with sincerity and frankness, has happened to see and feel the presence of a kindred spirit of the man, close to all us, the Kocharlis, who died two years ago and to talk to him. As I understood from the stories I have read, the conversation between the author (my husband) and my uncle was a kind of a deferential monologue. The husband describes their talk with the following words: He was not speaking, just making me understand his opinion about what I was talking with facial expression. I understood his interest in one or another event intuitively.

Once, remembering that evening, the evening of his talk to the spirit, my husband said sincerely: I assure you that I have never experienced something like that in my life, when earthly dimensions lost their meanings; I felt indeed his appearance and approaching, and my desire to be closer to him in return. I think, I did it and decided to share my striking experience with you. I believed my husband, when he read an extract from the book. It seems to me that you, dear readers, could show precious confidence which, I know, he considers the best reward. I wish you godspeed about the pages of the exclusive book . . .

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Nushaba

KOCHARLİ,

the author’s

wife

The book is dedicated to the blessed

memory of my wife Nushaba khanim’s

uncle, Prof. Tofig Kocharly, a historian,

recognized public figure, speaker, wonderful

joyful interlocutor, and famous researcher

on the history of Garabagh, a pearl of

Azerbaijan, where I was born, grown up

and studied. May his soul shine in heavens, among stars, like on the cover of the given

book. I was talking to him at that state of

heart, though he was keeping silent, just

changing his facial expression from time to time. All this underlay the book,

A Talk to a Spirit.

May Allah save all of us and take

the souls of those who left

a rich instructive heritage of life . . .

I am sure that life on earth is

worthy of saving the relation with

those who are close and dear . . .

TO THE READER

Dear readers!

Everything you will read in this small book reflects the reality that separates us from those who have completed their mission on the earth and left for the afterlife. Some thoughts are purely personal. Understanding the unity of two worlds, I failed to keep back anything from you. I think everyone has ever had such thoughts. That’s why I have decided to share my feelings and hoped you would be impartial in assessing my attempt.

Every event or occasion has the beginning, initial cause. In this case, the cause of writing my recollections is repeated requests of Irada khanum, Tofig muallim’s daughter, and of Nushaba khanum, his niece and my wife.

My desire to please people who are dear to me and to Tofig muallim¹ was so great that I have surpassed myself without expecting that. I mean overfulfillment of undertaken committments. Perhaps, the habit of recent socialistic past to do something else besides what is planned played its positive role. Thus, along with my recollections, a lot of episodes of my own life have come to light. That’s why a short excursus to the past has yielded to something more. I do not dare to define the genre of the presented book; it is like an autobiographical story novel, an essay.

I agree to the opinion that the talent of a person you are going to write about has a positive impact on you and his thoughts and actions become somehow yours for a while. Perhaps that makes you courageous to assume the responsibility and to make public the episodes of your own life. That is how I picture the realities for me, my relatives and the reader.

No matter how it is, recollections plus a story novel are in your hands. Do not be strict judges. This is just my conversation to a wise man. Wisdom is a God-given gift. Few people have it. To touch that wisdom, therefore, is in itself a great event in the life of an ordinary man. Such honour has fallen on me as well. The story novel you are taking in your hands is a part of the meeting with wisdom, with a wonderful man whose life is an obvious case worthy of imitation. Like any precious heritage, it is a practical manual.

It is said that good people keep the world turning. Our earthly being is considered to be more interesting at the expense of their deeds and actions. They help many generations to fight for the best place in the world community. I think the hero of my story is one of them. They can be cited as an example for defining the criteria of moral and ethic values of our days and bringing closer the historical past in search of those who managed to keep the rich heritage of our ancestors as the most valuable constituent of the essence of our nation.

Rafig Y. Aliyev

20.12.2008

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INSTEAD OF FOREWORD

I have not been able to make myself to state on paper my reminiscences about Tofig Kocharly for a long time. I did not accept what had happened and refused to believe in his physical absence.

Talks about him in the past tense oppressed my mind and heart.

However, I recollected my strength and ability and succeeded in satisfying myself that he is absent physically, while his soul is among us. We feel his presence every time. This is, perhaps, a qualitatively new feeling.

Recollections are a purely personal notion, I would say, rather intimate to share it with someone.

It is our wealth, a reserve that helps to compensate spent energy. It won’t do to scatter this wealth. Therefore, I came to a decision to discuss such a delicate subject first with Tofig Kocharly himself. By his consent, I am making public the contents of our conversation with great pleasure.

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A DEFERENTIAL MONOLOGUE . . .

Tofig muallim, as the leader of a large family, you shared your love, joy, knowledge and experience with everyone who had a need of that. You felt better because of that. You were a carrier of good information, deep knowledge, from the time of Herodotos to our days. Before I met you and knew you, I could not believe that, because I was not able to imagine that one person could be well-informed about different spheres. Today, I can say with certainty that the most capacious computer is unable to keep in its memory a part of information of your brains. They say God gives a talent as well as a soul. But He is so generous that He deprives a man of none of them. He leaves talent to next generations and releases the soul from serving a sick, getting old body saving and protecting the very soul. You are not among us for about a year. But we are still delighted with your talent; we still bow down before your soul and remember details of talks to you.

Everybody says that Tofig Kocharly was the very man whom you could ask a piece of advice; he was a man of wisdom whose conversations relieved souls. Your kind aura satiated the souls and mind with oxygen. You had a