‘We in the Muslim world stand with you, heart and soul’
Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. There is a tradition that states that the Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH), once gestured towards his Persian companion Salman and said, “Even if faith were near the Pleiades, men from among the Persians would attain it.”
This tradition points to a few fundamental truths about Persian history and identity. In the pre-Islamic world, the Persian Sassanian Empire extended from Turkey and Egypt in the west to the Indian subcontinent in the east; it was a cultural and political force rivaling that of ancient China, India or Rome.
Eventually, the Persians embraced Islam; the Persian language adopted its own version of the Arabic script and borrowed heavily from Arabic vocabulary. The Persians of greater Khorasan, the name that the Arabs took to designate the geographic area that includes present-day Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, were a key factor in the development of the politics of the Islamic Umma and became an important component in another Golden Age alongside the Arabs; one with far more geographic breadth and cultural diversity than before.
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