Decision Making Based on Investigation
(By Colonel Massoud Goodarzi)
I was serving in Omidieh Base. Some hours of working had elapsed. I left the working place to do a job. I was going to work. And I was approaching the entrance of the army staff headquarters. I saw a person looking like the base commander (Martyr Ardestani) who was sitting on the ground beside the little garden, and was rummaging the flower's soil with a piece of wood in his hand. I went forward a little. It was the commander himself who was sitting there as he had removed his rank unbelievably. As I was familiar with his morale and I knew that he stayed there because he expected something nice to happen, I slowed down a bit hoping to find out why he was there so unexpectedly. In the mean time, a van driven by a soldier passed by Martyr Ardestani very rapidly and although he raised his hand, the soldier didn't stop and moved away heedlessly and rapidly. The driver went a little forward. Suddenly he slammed on the brakes and he made the car stop at once. He put into reverse and slammed on the brakes right beside Martyr Ardestani. As he looked worried and anxious, he got out of the car and said, "Excuse me, sir! I didn't recognize you, here's your key."
Martyr Ardestani answered mildly, "It is not worth heeding me right now. If you had given me a ride when I raised my hand, it would be worthwhile." As the driver felt so shameful of not heeding him, he thought the commander would issue the order of his punishment so he apologized and constantly asked for mercy. But Martyr Ardestani told him kindly "Look my dear fellow!
You don't have to be familiar with someone to give a ride to that person, it will not do any harm if you give a ride to other personnel."
The commander's motivation for being present in that place was to check the report he had been given to. Because some of the personnel were complaining that the drivers of some of the military vehicles didn't give a ride to the personnel in spite of the face that they didn't have any passengers. So Martyr Ardestani himself had come as an unknown unranked person to find out whether this matter was right or wrong and he wanted to make a wise decision. Then, he ordered that passenger military vehicles without passengers are obliged to give a ride to the personnel on their way and get them to their destination, otherwise, they would be treated according to the regulations.
I was serving in Omidieh Base. Some hours of working had elapsed. I left the working place to do a job. I was going to work. And I was approaching the entrance of the army staff headquarters. I saw a person looking like the base commander (Martyr Ardestani) who was sitting on the ground beside the little garden, and was rummaging the flower's soil with a piece of wood in his hand. I went forward a little. It was the commander himself who was sitting there as he had removed his rank unbelievably. As I was familiar with his morale and I knew that he stayed there because he expected something nice to happen, I slowed down a bit hoping to find out why he was there so unexpectedly. In the mean time, a van driven by a soldier passed by Martyr Ardestani very rapidly and although he raised his hand, the soldier didn't stop and moved away heedlessly and rapidly. The driver went a little forward. Suddenly he slammed on the brakes and he made the car stop at once. He put into reverse and slammed on the brakes right beside Martyr Ardestani. As he looked worried and anxious, he got out of the car and said, "Excuse me, sir! I didn't recognize you, here's your key."
Martyr Ardestani answered mildly, "It is not worth heeding me right now. If you had given me a ride when I raised my hand, it would be worthwhile." As the driver felt so shameful of not heeding him, he thought the commander would issue the order of his punishment so he apologized and constantly asked for mercy. But Martyr Ardestani told him kindly "Look my dear fellow!
You don't have to be familiar with someone to give a ride to that person, it will not do any harm if you give a ride to other personnel."
The commander's motivation for being present in that place was to check the report he had been given to. Because some of the personnel were complaining that the drivers of some of the military vehicles didn't give a ride to the personnel in spite of the face that they didn't have any passengers. So Martyr Ardestani himself had come as an unknown unranked person to find out whether this matter was right or wrong and he wanted to make a wise decision. Then, he ordered that passenger military vehicles without passengers are obliged to give a ride to the personnel on their way and get them to their destination, otherwise, they would be treated according to the regulations.
