Wednesday 30 May 2018

YEZIDS ARE OVER 100,000



YEZIDS ARE OVER 100,000
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BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU
This is a religious sect of about 100,000  people or even more to be found in areas like Mosul in Iraq,Diyarbakiri in Turkey,Aleppo in Syria,Armenia and the Caucasus region and in parts of Iran.
The religion is a combination of Zoroaster ,Judaism,Manichean, Nestomian Christianity and Islam.
The sect members believe that they are created differently and so try to separate themselves from the rest of mankind.
They have a well organized society with a Chief Sheikh as the supreme religious head and an Emir or Prince as the secular Head.
The Chief divine figure of the Yezidis is the Malak Taus also called the peacock angel and he is worshipped in the form of a peacock as he rules the universe with six other angels but all are seven God who has had no direct interest in the universe since he created it.
The 7 Angels are worshipped by the Yazidi in the forms of 7 casted bronze  called Sanjaq and Yazids deny the existence of evil and therefore also rejects in very strong terms the concepts of sin .the devil and hell as a spiritual theory.
According to them ,the breaking of a divine law is expiated by way of progressive purification of the souls.
Yazids customarily believe that when the devil repented of his sins of pride he was pardoned by God.
The Yazid religious centre and place of pilgrimage is the tomb of Sheikh located at former Christian monastery in the town of Ash Shaykh,North of Mosul in present day,Iraq.
Kitab Al Jilwah [Book of Revelation}and Mashaf Rash [Black Writing]form the sacred scriptures of the Yazidis .
An arabic hymn praising Shaykh Adi is held very much in great esteem in Yazidi circle.

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