Many young Iranians want to understand what is said at your wedding ceremony, and get married, therefore, according to Persian rather than to Arabian Tradition. The state sees itself challenged.
A Persian wedding in Arabic? Many young people in Iran see the day of your marriage with amazement. “The preacher was talking about minutes long in Arabic,” recalls Mandana Tehran (Name editorially amended) to the wedding of her sister. “In the end, she was asked in Persian, whether they be now ready to conclude the marriage.”
In the Islamic state, all Muslims must celebrate their wedding according to the Religion, that is, the at the ceremony, the texts used are in Arabic. In the country of origin of the Persian high-culture, with an exceptionally young population (average age about 30 years) in order to meet this regulation with increasing rejection.
More and more young couples are opting for marriage bureaus, specializing in the old-Persian wedding. The difference is that Ehegelöbnisse and congratulations will be delivered in Persian. Accordingly, the Holy Scriptures, of the Koran reading Aloud is omitted.
Religious wedding in the Iran – advertising for the Islamic life style
“I want to understand what is being said”
“We feel a strong rejection of the Arabic language and culture in society,” said Sedigheh Vasmaghi, legal scholar and author from Tehran. As one of the fewer women in Iran teaching Islamic law.
The old Persian marriage ceremony is actually a growing Trend. In social networks, many young Iranians show photos that opt for this type of marriage.
The 30-year-old Mandana had married according to the old Persian Tradition. “I just wanted to understand what is being said at my wedding,” she says as justification.
“It was much nicer than the usual boring religious ceremony,” says Mandana from her wedding two years ago. “It was like a Church Wedding in the Western movies: While my husband and I were holding hands, read the preacher, a beautiful Text, with many good Wishes in Persian. The marriage office had staged it all beautifully, with a lot of flowers in the Background.”
However, the Text did not come from the Persian ancient times. The author was the contemporary Poet Fereydoon Moshiri, who died in the year 2000.
Traditional wedding celebration in Iran
Islamization has its limits
The Renaissance of the ancient Persian traditions concern the moral guardians in Iran, and calls on the state on the Plan. In mid-August, the state’s Stand and clear: “The non-religious marriage is illegal.” Weddings, on which the Holy Scriptures not in Arabic is pronounced, are prohibited.
“Who would have thought that 40 years after the Islamic Revolution, the old Persian wedding is so popular that the authorities see themselves forced to ban you?” the political scientist Sadegh Zibakalam mocks on Twitter.
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, the power to try to establish a commander-in-chief, Islamic customs and traditions in the society. For this, they advertise in all the national media and institutions, from kindergartens up to universities.
A concession to the authorities
“We have an identity crisis,” says Islamic scholar Vasmaghi in the DW-Interview. “Particularly in the past 40 years, the Iranian identity of the people was neglected or even suppressed. The people in a society need a common identity to which they can be proud of.”
In order for your marriage to be officially recognized, must bend to the will of the renegade bride-to-be couples, however, the rules, and twice married. So Mandana: According to the old Persian wedding, she had to leave to the religious Celebration in the family circle, the reading of the relevant Suras of the Koran endure.