Women’ role in sacred defense

Although, in history, have been emphasized on affective and sentimental aspects, but during myth of holy defense, our women have resisted bravely beside this region’s courageous and zealous combats and have proved to world that they are ready to neglect their own affections and emotions because of their aspiration and belief. Love to Islam and country had caused to forget their own and families and think alone interests of government. During imposed war, to follow Ashore school and its massager, Zeinab Cobra, Iranian women have created unforgettable myths. In those days, informed, active, and powerful women of our country have participated in heavy and plentiful activities such as resistance in battle scenes, aid, backing services and so on that we explain them:

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چهارشنبه - ۰۱ مهر ۲۰۰۸ / 2008 01 July

1) Attending in front
Iranian Muslim women through inspiration from Islam instructions and with indescribable brevity and courage have attended in various scenes even in battlefields. Khoramshahr aligned sisters and corps were among women who have remained in operation region and engaged in jobs such as preserving munitions storehouse and watering Islam combats, digging blockhouse, providing and cooking food for combats. Iranian zealous and courageous women, with empty hands or by stick, have captivated aggressive mercenaries. A heroin from Susangerd has captured few Iraqi soldiers by stick and the other heroin have imprisoned a number of them and delivered to Islam soldiers. They have resisted bravely in border cities, as if they have forgotten fear and thought alone god. They have enjoyed very high resistant morale. They have buried pure bodies of their fathers, brothers, and friends with their own hands. War, in spite of all difficulties and disasters, could not disturb their daily life and they, without regard to war circumstances, have engaged in their usual and daily activities.
Brave women in those days were unknown myth creators who have taught brevity to their own men and children and prided themselves on their self-sacrificing children. They were full-length mirrors of scatter and self-denial and myths of martyrdom, brevity, escaping from enemy was senseless for them, and they believed that the enemy should not be fled to the last breath. Iranian knight heroes have revived memento of endeavors and self-denials of champion women in advent of Islam. They have bordered on devotion and martyrdom and desired to be martyrdom. It is said in description of late Fahimeh Babayian poor, martyr Gholamreza Sadegzadeh, when Imam Khomeini asked Fahimeh to depute for executing their marriage, she told Imam loudly: My positive answer is conditional! Relatives much to their surprise asked: what is your condition? Fahimeh told Imam: “
On condition your prayer for martyrdom both of us in this world and acceptance of our intersession in afterlife.”? This is very martyrdom seeking spirit assured Imam Khomeini to victory and he says: ”?whenever I confront honorable ladies who are ready to any kind pains even martyrdom, in the way of our destination, I am assured that this way will end in victory.”?
In addition, he says:
“A number of ladies swear me to prayer for them martyrdom. I prayer that they would receive reward and become victorious.”? martyrdom
2) Backing from combats
Beyond doubt, during history the number of combatant women have been very less than combatant men, but in commencement of war and defense of a nation against enemy, alone dispatching men to battle scene won’t guarantee victory, on the contrary, supporting and backing in war, stimulating and motivating men to continual attendance in front, looking after the children and preserve family’s warm circle, caring for and treating the wounded, accepting responsibility and performing duties instead of men to their leisure and attendance in war, preserving blockhouses in back of front and even establishing, managing and developing resistance movements and many other things accounted duties of women, are among important factors that will have direct effect on combats’ morale and destiny of battle. During eight years of holy defense, a great portion of country’s income have been expended in equipping fronts and satisfying provision requirements. Because of the battle field’s breadth from the most northern point of western borders to its the most southern point, also to all width of blue seas in Persian gulf, being long the war, economic blockade and unfavorable situation of interior economy, government could not suitably satisfy all expenses of backing the front. Therefore, intervention of popular forces was very important and vital.
To stimulate and motivate combats, especially their children and husbands, during history women have played main role in war.
It is evident, if combat is not anxious about managing his home and children, he can go to battlefield in tranquility and can fight undisturbed. However, existence of a problem in home back of front might prevent him to go to battlefield or it is possible that during fight, back of front will draw a part of his attention that can have negative effect on quality of fighting in combats. Combats’ wives and mothers and especially holy defense martyrs’ mothers, not only have not prevented to dispatch their own husbands and children to operation regions, but also, they have been the best aids and teachers for them. In absence of their husbands, they have been the best guardian for family and have managed home in the best way and grown up combatant and martyr children.
In spite of descriptions and features that have been mentioned for hour and he himself had reminded those features to his soldiers several times, knight and accomplished commander such as martyr Bronsi has considered his wife better than 100 hurries. It shows that his self-sacrificing wife’s value and dignity and indicates that his accomplished wife has played a vital role in development of this courageous commander’s personality.
Keeping martyrs’ children and training them is very difficult and exhausting, but martyrs’ wives have done this dangerous task in the best way, as today martyrs’ children are preeminent in various arenas in compare with the other classes.
Motherly love and attachment to child is indescribable, but martyrs’ mothers who have been trained in excellent school of chaste Zahra and Zeinab Cobra, have sacrificed their own natural tendency to god’s will and consent , and willingly and eagerly dispatched their children to front and signed their letters of attestation.
Women played a important and vital role in stimulating and motivating combats and guarding home and children and they prepared circumstances for combats’ attendance in front; besides, they have attended actively in backing headquarters. In addition to financial aids to headquarters, sometimes they have stayed round-the-clock at there and engaged in packing and preparing required things of fronts. Iranian combatant women have changed mosques into headquarters for backing of true front against untrue, and whenever they were asked to help fronts, they have gone voluntarily and not anything could prevent them in this way, because they have thought only to satisfy their own combatant brothers, requirements.
Young and self-sacrificing girls of this region, who have grown up in their own follower and paragon, Zahra, have exposed themselves to damage and danger in vital crisis and rushed to help the revolution and holy system of Islamic republic and knight combats; besides, with indescribable self-abnegation and self-denial, they have accepted to marry with devotes and combats. Although they have informed because of accepting this attachment, they should tolerate calamities and difficulties they got married with devotees eagerly.
With such a self-sacrificing act, they have boosted morale of Islam combats; in addition to they have added golden leaves to humanity history of this region. Mrs. Keyhani is a great doctor who services to the wounded at Sar Pol Zahhab hospital. To motivate children of front, not only she did not accept to get marry in her own city (Tehran), but also after executing marriage in Tehran, hold her marriage ceremonies in the same battle zone and their decorations were spoil military equipments.
3) Treating the wounded
In last ages that wars often were individually and body power was important, duty of defense and fight were undertaken by men and women often have engaged in aid measures such as treating the wounded and nursing them, because they were more patient than men. To study the history of advent of Islam, we discover that responsibility of nursing the war wounded have been undertaken by women.
“Zahra (peace be upon her) were informed that her father was wounded in Ohod; a stone had been hit his face and his face had blood stained. She got with a group of women, took water and food, and went to battlefield. Women have watered the wounded and tied up their wounds, and Fatima has washed his father’ wounds. “Blood did not stop. She burned a bit of wad and put it on the wound for stopping blood. The golden leaves of Islam history are evidence that there were many aid women in battlefield. Islamic Iran’s women followed women of advent of Islam, in advent of Islam, have engaged in service in this holy arena, in the most difficult circumstances of war. During holy defense, hospitals and other remedy and medicine sites, have witnessed self-denial and self-abnegation of women who engaged in medical profession, and volunteer women who have passed short-term aid courses with love and motivation, have presented godlike service to the wounded and injured of war. Through initiative, they have changed proper places into remedy sites. They have engaged in aiding in war-tone zones and without any fear, have treated the wounded in cities where have continually become target of canon-bulls and mortars. During 35 days of Khoramshahr myth, role of women was beyond the place and time restrictions. In fact, they were original guardian of these difficult and wearing measures, and they have shouldered the aiding and attending the wounded, because of decreasing the number of men.
They have done everything was needed from evacuating the wounded and nursing and working at kitchen to guard the hospital. Whole effort of those believer heroes was to give aid and help combats, and in this way, not only they have not feared captivity; but also were not afraid of to be killed. Except for discharging religious duty of defending Islamic region, they have forgotten anything and their hearts have beaten only for god’s satisfaction and guarding Islamic revelation.
In these scenes full of eagerness and myth, we meet women who, early in youth, with a thin body, have shouldered the wounded under the enemy’s hail of bullets and carried them to hospitals.
Zahra was a 21-years-old young whose job was to help the war wounded in those fevered days. Zahra has confronted such shortage of aid possibilities that she tied up a wounded hurts by pieces of cloths.
There are many evidences of women’ aiding during holy defense, that indicates indefatigable resolution and will of this region’s zealous women. Servicing in field hospitals and remedy sites in operation zones of west and south are samples of these efforts. However, unfortunately, wide measures of Islamic Iran’s heroes in these centers are unwritten and only few cases of them have been written. For example, Mr. Sayyed Amir Masumi has accumulated mementos of some nurses, aids, and doctors in operation zones, in two volumes was entitled “Pillow of light”? and “War’s women.”?
In these 2 books, little of self-abnegations, braveries, courage, and pains and difficulties of Islamic Iran’s devote women in operation zones have been written and studying them can familiarizes us with highest role of our region’s Muslim women.
Muslim sisters’ role in aid is engraved in history of holy defense like an eternal document. Depth of these measures is so much that pen cannot describe them. However, as much as possible, this effort should been portrayed and people should been acquainted with dignity and courage and devotion of Iranian Muslim women.
Share, value and dignity of these women who, beside observing veil, Islam’s rules and affairs, have discharged their own duties in the best way, is not less than combats and martyrs, because except for discharging their responsibility, they have boosted morale of combatant men.
An Iranian Muslim woman deems recovery of his own identity indebted to effort of the founder of Islamic republic, Imam Khomeini. He has talked repeatedly about positive roles of women and said “May Iranian great women’ Islamic movement is victorious and glorious! This great class is honor to us, that caused Islamic region, Koran, and revolution has gained the victory, with their own worthwhile and courageous, attendance, and now they are working at front and back of front and are ready for self-abnegation.”?
Women are a half of society body and have vital role in training and educating other half. Without participating of this great class, any society would not achieve the grades of progress and development. In fact, with regard to women’ sensitive and vital role in various scenes of society and enjoyment from their power, we can achieve the system of Islamic republic’s great and holy aims.