My Afghanistan

By Ms. DeLaila Abedi

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669816102

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Contents

Introduction

Ms. DeLaila Abedi

My declaration

A Short Review On Afghan Culture

Afghab Music

Ornamental Art-Work In Afghanistan

Justice And Equality In The Old Afghan Culture

Short Passage Of Women’s Rights In Afghanistan

Afghanistanfter 2001

Ramazan

Four seasons of Afghanistan

The festivities of the years of the Afghan people

The role of youth in today’s comprehensive Afghanistan

Wedding customs in Afghanistan

Afghanistan in the light of today

The virtue of the night for you

INTRODUCTION

D EAR READERS, I am Mr. Armen Saginian, and I have been asked by the author to have her book published. This task is close to my heart, because has reminded me of the bewilderment of the Iranians when the fabled Iranian Revolution happened. The way they were victimized by those in power, and their ignorance of the realities of their lives, fell victim to foreign intrigue.

The author of this book is a lady of statute from Afghanistan, an Afghani, called Ms. DeLaila Abedi, who commiserates and cries for her people and her beloved country.

The publisher of this book, the Xlibris Publishing house, informed us that this book cannot be published in Afghan (Persian) only. It must be accompanied with its English version in the same cover. In a way, it was a blessing of the sorts, because it was our intention to publish it in both languages. With this ruling, we could publish both of the books in one publication.

The other objective of this publication was to preserve the Afghan idiomatic expressions as much as possible. However, there will be more Iranians of this book than Afghan readers. But, as far as the English translation is concerned, that aspect of the concern become irrelevant.

MS. DELAILA ABEDI

M Y NAME IS DeLaila Abedi. I was born in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. My family members were literate and book-readers. My father was a well to do merchant. We were known as The Interesting Family. In 1980 we had to leave Afghanistan for the United States, due to political problems that had just started.

I continued my education in the United States and earned degrees in five different fields. My mail interest has been and is in cultures.

From the day that I entered the United States till now, I have been preoccupied with the thought How can I make the world to understand what kind of calamity has happened to the Afghani people. How the tranquility vanished, and bloodshed replaced it. All because of wars that the Afghan public was not involved in it. Since I had no choice in the matter, I decided to author this book.

When I was traveling in Turkey, the aroma of various flowers reminded me of my birthplace, and I felt an urge to visit my homeland. Finally, in the year 2005 I had the opportunity to visit my homeland. My heart was beating fast, and I could not rest until I saw the house where I grew. That was in the Vezir Mohamad Akbar Khan district.

I saw my home. My heart broke. All the walls were covered with moss, and people were bewildere looking for food. I was afraid. The slightest noise would make me shiver. I used to sit next to the window and gaze at the waterway on the street, or up to the sky.

My trip to Afghanistan was exciting. I was observing the youth who were after their survival instead of enjoying their youth. Life had been confiscated from people. They were breathing to stay alive. There was no life in them.

The beginning years of this task were very tiresome. My collaborator, Mr. Zeki Amini, had to travel thirty of the thirty-six provinces of Afghanistan to collect information. His work was not finished yet when the political unrest began. To top that problem, the Corona Virus started.

I sat and took a trip into my imaginary world. In my mind I imagined about a world that did not have walls or borders. I thought to myself, how would such a world be. I called it World Without Wall.

That is the unsustainable condition of the world we live in; things can change in a second. In a sense, time resembles a game in an arena, situation changes with a single move. It cannot be predicted. One can spend a lifetime without reading a book or experiencing a phenomenon. Some events do give us the chance.

I have always tried to get submerged in books and feel what the authors tried to interject into our minds. Experiences that I had so many times experienced in my childhood.

I had the urge to author my book and tell the world what Afghanistan is, and when entering Afghanistan how one must interact with Afghan people. With this book I started this quest.

Some books, at times, get a life of their own, become powerful, and affect the course of history. That is why many of the rulers are afraid of the writers and their writings and try their best to suppress their voice. But sometimes, some writers become famous, and their name becomes part of the history. In other words, they become immortal. Their words become so effective that they become part of the current conversation and obligate the public to pay more attention to what is going on.

MY DECLARATION

D EAR READERS, IT is clear that a book is similar to a compass and a practice is like a ship. Whenever there is no compass on the ship, the ship goes astray and may be in danger.

I devoted part of my life to education for three purposes.

First. To benefit from science and knowledge.

Second. In this way, I will be a source of service to the homeland, and also for all book lovers, and this pursuit has lasted for the last three decades of my life.

Third. In order to shed light on the ancient culture of the Afghan people for the world, to raise the awareness of the people about the developments that took place in Afghanistan, and of course, to publish and reproduce it, I hope the book will be approved and enthusiastically read by all interested parties.

Finally, I pray to the Holy Court that I have rendered a scientific service to the world of humanity by dedicating this book to the cause.

My wish is peace, prosperity, tranquility, and progress for our beloved country Afghanistan. With the statements I made in this book, I hope it does not cause misunderstanding among the readers. I authored this book for the world to get to know our culture.

A SHORT REVIEW ON

AFGHAN CULTURE

A FGHANISTAN IS A highland surrounded by high mountains that gradually reaches the highest mountain ranges of the world. Afghan people have their own culture. That culture is highly affected by the location of the country and the heights of the mountains.

Its geography has had a significant role in the formation of its history and culture of the nation. The variety of its population has gradually given a mosaic texture to its culture. The land is high, mountain passes are difficult to manure, and winters are very cold, summers are hot and dry, and open flat lands have semi-desert climate. Being isolated from other countries, and interactions between various residents of the land has left its effect on the culture on the Afghani Nation.

Geographically it is referred to as central Asia and is land bound. Its geography and climate have forced many travelers to pass the country by air or bypass it by land. The land and its overall contents had stayed virgin for centuries.

For centuries, many explorers and commercial travelers have come to the land that used to be called Aryana, and now it is called Afghanistan. Their presence in Afghanistan has left its mark in the history and way of life in Afghanistan.

The commercial road known as the Silky Road, and various cultures that were carried with it had their own effect on the local and isolated culture of Afghan people. Those travelers and their activities in bringing information into the country and conducting local information to other destinations, attracted the attention of the two major powers of the times try to what they needed to do. The Russian Empire wanted to fid ways to get to southern warm waterways, while the British Empire had in mind to expand from India to the northern lands. Those conflicts caused the separation of Afghanistan from its original bond with ancient Persian Empire.

In 2001 American military forces entered the county. They came in to suppress the international terrorists who had establishes a base for themselves in Afghanistan. People of Afghanistan were a content and easy-going bunch who were happy with the way they were living.

Most of the Afghan people are religious people, and they give priority to their religion. In fact, they are sensitive when it comes to religion. Some aspects of life in Afghanistan are different from the rest of the world. Among other aspects of life, the lack of standard educational systems in Afghanistan has left its effect on the general population. Many Afghan people go abroad for better and higher education. Some of those who