*Syed Mostafa Mohagheg Damad*
411 years ago, on February 17, 1600 AD, the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned alive in Rome’s Campo di Fiori after spending 8 years in the terrible dungeons of the Inquisition Court. Bruno was someone who defended the right of all people to think as they want.
It has been written that when Bruno was tied to an iron pillar and a pile of firewood was gathered to burn him, he was silent and surrendered and did not say anything;
But something happened when he said a sentence that remained in history.
What happened was that they suddenly saw an old woman approaching with a piece of firewood in her hand, and after mentioning God’s name, she threw it on the firewood.
Bruno broke his silence and said as if this old woman’s action had burned his bone marrow.
“Curse this holy ignorance!”
The most important or at least one of the most important social plagues not only in the Islamic region, but perhaps all over the world, which religious societies suffer from, is holy ignorance (holy ignorance is ignorance that has a sacred dimension).
In such ignorance, an ignorant person burns in ignorance, but burns for God.
He tolerates hunger, poverty, misery, disease, war and enmity, crime, murder, harassment and abuse of his fellow man with the intention of closeness, and the interesting thing is that he is also afraid of any kind of enlightenment, that too for God!
In Qudsi ignorance, an ignorant person is associated with an institution called “belief”;
That is, for such a person, belief is placed instead of thinking.
Belief comes from the root of “Aqd” which means to close. A person who believes in something binds his thoughts and makes his beliefs his red line.
Those who are caught in holy ignorance, ignorantly make a god for themselves, a god who is unconsciously a collection of their own desires.
Sacred ignorance is accompanied by religious beliefs;
But a religion that is not based on rationality, but based on sensual moods, a person believes and commits the highest crime while imagining that it is for God and becomes close to God.
One of the social disasters that I would like to call the unfortunate disaster for today’s religious communities is holy ignorance;
Ignorance whose heroes commit the most important crimes, thinking that what they are doing is God’s will and they are working for God.
In ancient Greece, the war was between the gods, and in later periods it was formed in the form of a religious war. In the history of Islam, the crimes and bloodshed that occurred are generally the result of this type of ignorance.
Today, in Iranian society, holy ignorance is sometimes the source of disaster, for which we will suffice to mention one example.
In the document of 172/16/2/1382 of the class case of 1131-81-9 of the Kerman General Court, it is repeatedly stated from the words of the defendants of the murders of Kerman gangs that in the case of some of the victims we prayed with the rosary and when the number 6 came and the number 6 means the need to hurry It is action, we decided to kill him and we killed him!
Sometimes ignorance, which wears the clothes of holiness, plunges a nation into darkness and eternal hell. An example in our time is the people of North Korea.
There are people living in North Korea who do not have the minimum conditions of a human being; But the propaganda of Hakim has made their thinking so that they imagine they are in heaven!
These people are in the dark; But the power of the iron fist does not allow enlightenment to any person.
In North Korea, the only person who has the right to think is the leader of the government, who is called the great commander. When the great commander spoke about an issue, no one has the right to comment on it!
*Excerpt from the book of Holy Ignorance*
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