“Ahmedshahi Nation”
Ahmadshah, Shah Jawanmarg, after he was removed from the kingdom of Iran (although he did not consider himself to be removed), lived for more than four years and four months. He was a harmless young man and his wall was the shortest in the age of transition to modernity. When he was in Paris, he had a Rolls-Royce car that he used to drive around the Champs-Élysées. He himself used to tell a funny story about this car.
It was said that in one of the detective novels, a man was murdered and Sherlock Holmes was informed to discover the secret of the murder. Sherlock examined the autopsy and said many things about the victim, including, “The victim was once a rich man, but he has not been well off for a few years, but he is not so broke that he needs his bread.” They asked Sherlock how he found out about this! Sherlock replied: “The dress that is the victim’s body is for a famous tailor shop that only rich people can buy from, but the dress is from a few years ago and it is clear that the deceased can no longer afford it to buy a new dress from there, but that’s all.” He is not broke enough to sell the same clothes for his nightly bread.”
Ahmad Shah compared himself to that corpse and said: “This is the story of me and this Rolls-Royce. “Anyone who sees me with this Rolls-Royce will know that I was once rich enough to afford a Rolls-Royce, but since my Rolls-Royce is old, I can’t afford to buy a new model, but I’m not broke enough to sell it.”
Today, this is exactly the situation of most Iranians; Especially the middle class who once managed to acquire a small amount of property. We have become far from the life of you who are reading, like the murdered Mr. Sherlock Holmes story or our own Ahmad Shah. What Ahmad Shah said about himself, applies to all of us these days. When we see that someone has a car, we know that he was once rich enough to buy a car! But he can no longer afford to change the same car (even if it is a pride), but the fact that he has that car means that he is not broke enough to sell it because of the cost of maintaining the car and filling his empty pocket. I won’t talk about the other house, whose every square meter, just around the south of the city where I live, is the price of Rosler Roys Ahmad Shah! Of course, cars and houses and such luxurious and aristocratic things do not suit the vassals of the humble servant of Mirzabnavis; To be honest, it’s been a long time since I’ve had that Sherlock Holmes story even about something as trivial as cologne! I say to myself, I was once rich enough to buy a certain cologne, but I can no longer afford to buy its replacement, so I treat the cologne residue like the ashes of the dead. I put it somewhere out of reach and only pay homage to it from afar.
This is why I say that we have become “the nation of Ahmadshahi”. Of course, our similarities with Ahmad Khan are more than these. Like him, we have been exiled from Iran, of course, with the difference that because we cannot afford to live outside of Iran and buy plane tickets and such royal dreams, we preferred to spend our exile here in Iran and here in Andorani in a rented apartment. Let us be the Qibla of the world. Another similarity between us and Ahmad Jan is that he was deposed, just like us. Another similarity between us and him is that he was fond of that Rolls-Royce, each of us has been fond of the stuttering that is left for us and we are content to live in the phase of being deposed, exiled, and exiled. Long live the life of Ahmad Shahane!
Mahdi Tadini
This post is written by amirBRZa