Satan / Sheitan (Video Satanism In Iran)

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In Rabbinic literature

Early rabbinic Jewish statements in the Mishnah and Talmud show that Satan played little or no role in Jewish theology. In the course of time, however, Judaism absorbed the popular concepts of Satan, most likely inherited from Zoroastrianism. The later a rabbinic work can be dated the more frequent is the mention therein of Satan and his hosts.[16] The Palestinian Talmud, completed around 400 CE has provenance similar to that of the New Testament and is more reserved in its use of Satan. However large portions of this version of the Talmud in its original form have been lost.

An example is found in Genesis: The serpent who had Eve eat the forbidden fruit. The consensus of the Biblical commentators in classical Judaism is that the serpent of the narrative in Genesis was literally a serpent. They differ regarding what it represented: The evil inclination (Yetzer HaRa), Satan, or the Angel of Death. Others have suggested that the serpent was a phallic symbol. According to the Midrash, before this cunning beast was cursed, it stood erect and was endowed with some faculty of communication.

The normative Jewish concept, however, was and remains that Satan cannot be viewed as an independent agent. In the Babylonian Talmud [17], Rabbi Levi asserts that "everything Satan does is for the sake of heaven." When another rabbi preached a similar idea in his town, it is said that Satan himself came and "kissed his knees."

The Babylonian Talmud[18] also states that the Evil Inclination (Yetzer ha-Ra), the Angel of Death and Satan are identical.

In a midrash[19] Samael, the chief of the satans (a specific order of angel, not a reference to demons), was a mighty prince of angels in heaven. Samael came into the world with woman, that is, with Eve[20], so that he was created and is not eternal. Like all celestial beings, he flies through the air[21], and can assume any form, as of a bird [22], a stag[23], a woman [24], a beggar, or a young man [25]; he is said to skip [26], an allusion to his appearance in the form of a goat.

In some works some rabbis hold that Satan is the incarnation of all evil, and his thoughts are devoted to the destruction of man. In this view, Satan, the impulse to evil and the angel of death are one and the same personality. Satan seizes upon even a single word which may be prejudicial to man; so that "one should not open his mouth unto evil," i.e., "unto Satan"[27]. Likewise, in times of danger, he brings his accusations (Jerusalem Talmud, Shabbat 5b). While he has power over all the works of man (Talmud Berachot 46b), he can not prevail at the same time against two individuals of different nationality; so that Samuel, a noted astronomer, physician and teacher of the Law (died at Nehardea, 247), would start on a journey only when a Gentile traveled with him [28].

Satan's knowledge is not everpresent; for when the shofar is sounded on New-Year's Day he is "confounded" [29]. On the Day of Atonement his power vanishes; for the numerical value of the letters of his name (gematria and Hebrew numerals) is only 359, one day being thus exempt from his influence [30].

One rabbi notes that Satan was an active agent in the fall of man [31], and was the father of Cain [32], while he was also instrumental in the offering of Isaac [33], in the release of the animal destined by Esau for his father [34], in the theophany at Sinai, in the death of Moses [35], in David's sin with Bath-sheba [36], and in the death of Queen Vashti [37]. The decree to destroy all the Jews, which Haman obtained, was written on parchment brought by Satan [38]. When Alexander the Great reproached the Jewish sages with their rebellion, they made the plea that Satan had been too mighty for them [39].

Not all Rabbinic commentators agreed on Satan's spiritual nature. Rabbi Saadia Gaon, an 11th century philosopher and scholar, wrote in his commentary to the Book of Job that Satan was simply a human being who resented Job's righteousness and called upon God to test him. This interpretation rests on a literal reading of the Hebrew word שטן or "adversary", which Saadia claims refers only to the intentions of the individual in question and not to any spiritual or supernatural status.

In the Hebrew Apocrypha

In Wisdom ii. 24 Satan is represented, with reference to Gen. 3, as the father of all lies, who brought death into the world; he is apparently mentioned also in Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 21:27, and the fact that his name does not occur in Daniel is doubtless due merely to chance. Allegedly, Satan was the seducer and the paramour of Eve, and was hurled from heaven together with other angels because of his iniquity [40]. Since that time he has been called "Satan," although previously he had been termed "Satanel" [41].

The doctrine of the fall of Satan, as well as of the fall of the angels, is found also in Babylonia. Satan rules over an entire host of angels [42]. Mastema, who induced God to test Abraham through the sacrifice of Isaac, is identical with Satan in both name and nature [43], and the Asmodeus of the Book of Tobit is likewise to be identified with him, especially in view of his licentiousness. As the lord of satans, he frequently bears the special name of Samael.

It is difficult to identify Satan in any other passages of the Apocrypha, since the originals in which his name occurred have been lost, and the translations employ various equivalents. An "argumentum a silentio" can not, therefore, be adduced as proof that concepts of Satan were not wide-spread; but it must rather be assumed that reference to him and his realm is often implied in the mention of evil spirits.

Satan in Christianity

Main article: Devil in Christianity

In Christianity, the Devil is named Satan, sometimes Lucifer. He is a fallen angel who rebeled against God, and is now the king of Hell. In the Bible, he is identified with the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the Accuser of Job, the tempter of the Gospels, and the dragon in the Book of Revelation. Traditionally, Christians have understood the Devil to be the author of lies and promoter of evil.

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Satan is the adversary of God. Thus, Satan is evil personified. Many followers of the Bible consider Satan to be a real being, a spirit created by God. Satan and the other spirits who followed him rebelled against God. They were cast out from Heaven by their Creator. Theologians might speculate as to why the Almighty did not annihilate the "fallen angels," as He is said to have done to his other creations when they failed to be righteous (save Noah and his family, of course). Satan was allowed to set up his own kingdom in Hell and to send out devils to prowl the earth for converts. The demonic world seems to have been allowed to exist for one purpose only: to tempt humans to turn away from God. Why God would allow Satan to do this is explained in the Book of Job. When Job asks why God let Satan torment him the answer is blunt and final: Hath thou an arm like the Lord? The story of Job is interpreted in many different ways by theologians but my interpretation is that nobody knows why God lets Satan live and torment us. God is God and can do whatever He wants. Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do and die.

Satan, being a spirit, is neither male nor female. However, like his Creator, Satan is usually referred to as a masculine being. Many believe that Satan, or the Devil as he is often called, can "possess" human beings. Possession is bodily invasion by the devil. The Catholic Church still performs exorcisms on those considered to be possessed. Jesus is said to have cast out demons, i.e., performed exorcisms, and the Church considers itself to have been given this same power by Jesus. Throughout the centuries, many pious religious people have erroneously considered those with certain mental or physical illnesses to be possessed by Satan.

More frequent than outright possession, however, has been the accusation of being in consort with the devil. Satan is believed to have many powers, among them the power to manifest himself in human or animal form. The consorting has been recorded as often being purely physical and mostly sexual. For most of the history of Christianity there are reports of Satan having sex with humans, either as an incubus (male devil) or succubus (female devil). Witches and sorcerers were thought by many to be the offspring of such unions. They are considered especially pernicious because they inherit some of the devil's powers.

According to Carl Sagan, accounts of diabolical intercourse are common cultural phenomena:

Parallels to incubi include Arabian djinn [jinn], Greek satyrs, Hindu bhuts, Samoan hotua poro, Celtic dusii... (Sagan 1995, 124).

However, as a child being instructed in the ways of Satan by Dominican sisters, stories of nuns being raped by incubi in a priest's clothing were assuredly not told. The Devil was there to tempt us to sin, pure and simple. He was not there to have sex with us or engage in reproductive experimentation or breed a race of witches and magi. To be sure, his main temptations would be sexual. There was no doubt that He spent a lot of time using girls to tempt boys into impure thoughts and deeds. He would invade our minds continuously during adolescence, planting desires for sexual experiences too evil to be mentioned much less performed. I suppose, to be fair, the girls should have been taught to be wary of boys trying to get them to yield to sexual temptation and that we would use every trick in the devil's arsenal to get them to go "all the way." But the girls were taught that they were the temptresses and were therefore the ones who needed to keep from harming the boys with their female charms. We were taught to pray constantly, implore the intercession of the saints and the Holy Mother of God, that they might give us protection against the snares of Satan. It must have occurred to many observers that the fear of Satan seems very much like fear of our own sexuality.

innocent angels

For all the instruction we were given on the Evil One, I don't remember ever being taught about Pope Innocent VIII and his persecution of witches and heretics. The Pope proclaimed in a Bull that "evil angels," i.e., devils, were having sex with many human men and women. He was not the first to have made this claim. Others before him, such as Thomas Aquinas, had explored this territory in great detail. Thomas reminds us that since the devil is not human, he can't produce human seed. So, he must transform himself into a woman, seduce a man, keep the seed, transform into a male, seduce a woman and transfer the seed. Something of the devil is captured by the seed along the way, so the offspring are not normal. Apparently it took Satan a long time to figure out that if he wanted to control the world, the best way to do it would be to breed with humans. Invading our bodies would be more efficient and effective than trying to invade our minds. But the Pope and many other pious men had a plan to exterminate the diabolical offspring: they would torture and burn them all! They would fight fire with fire! The Devil would not outdo them. In fact, the sadistic and monstrous behavior of the holy and pious inquisitors is almost enough to make a skeptic believe in Satan. The inquisitors were nothing short of diabolical.

One of the more interesting aspects of Satanology is the recurring theme of humans making a pact with the devil. The Faust legend is the best-known of these: in exchange for one's soul, Satan will bestow one with wealth or power for a specified time. In most versions of the story, Faust tricks the devil and avoids payment. In the original, the devil mutilates and kills Faust at the end of the contract. His brains are splattered on the walls of his room, his eyes and teeth lie on the floor and his corpse rests outside on a dunghill (Smith, 269).

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Today, there are still those who believe Satan is a real being, but we hear few stories of incubi and succubi any more. The closest thing we have to such stories are alien abduction accounts and star children. Fortunately, for today's alien abduction victims with similar tales of sexual experimentation--the devil being replaced with aliens from outer space--there is no equivalent to the medieval Church to persecute, torture, or exterminate them.

It is interesting, though, that most of these murderers and torturers feel some need to at least appear as if they are doing good while they commit their horrors. What drives the terrorist or ethnic cleanser today to their abominations, or the witch hunters to their destruction of families, seems to be the same forces that drove the pious enforcers of the Inquisitions. Their behavior is almost enough to make a skeptic think that maybe Satan does exist--in the souls of these good people fighting for their noble causes.

From a philosophical perspective, the universal belief in evil demons is based on the need for an explanation of the enormous quantity of moral and physical evil pervading human existence for our entire history. I suppose, too, that devils in some way serve to excuse our own evil actions and mitigate our sense of responsibility for the harm we do. Psychologically, demons may well be a projection of ourselves, the worst part of our nature or the most feared part of our own nature. From a literary perspective, demons must exist. If they didn't, we'd have to invent them. They seem essential to so much of our storytelling--more essential, perhaps, than their goodly counterparts.

the waning of Satan's power

As the power of the Christian Church has waned, so too has the power of Satan. It is no accident that Satan reached the peak of his career at the same time the Church did, during the thirteenth century. During the Middle Ages, the Devil was said to have built Hadrian's wall between Scotland and England, moved huge stones to construct megalithic stone circles and dolmens, built bridges such as that at Saint-Cloud and the Pont de Valentre at Cahors, for the price of the soul of the first one who crossed the bridge, etc. Satan could perform magic, but it must be remembered that the Christian religion is basically a religion of magic, of sacraments which protect one from Satan and which change bread and wine into Christ, of miracles which contravene the natural order for good or ill, of resurrection from the dead and of the promise of eternal life. Satan represents the obverse of that order: black magic, pacts with the devil, wonders done contravening the natural order, the promise of eternal youth and wondrous powers. The Satanic Order was the creation of the Church, necessary to establish its own power over the world. Heretics, witches and sorcerers were a threat to the world dominion of the Church. They had to be eradicated. As the enemies of the Church grew more numerous and more powerful, so did the reign of terror grow and so did the power of the Church get established more and more firmly.

As the power of Christianity waned as the dominant social and political force in western culture, so too did the power of Satan. By the eighteenth century, in Europe at least, witch and heretic burnings had all but ceased. Today, most of us in the Christian world would consider it primitive and barbaric to suggest that anyone be hounded or killed for communing with Satan. Even those who are allegedly doing evil in the name of Satan are usually pursued for the evil they do, not for their alleged association with the devil. It is likely that most police officers, if they had to deal with crimes committed by Satan worshippers, would view the criminals as deluded rather than as really communing with otherworldly beings.

If the rise of modern science had anything to do with the fall of the Christian Church from its position of supreme influence in western culture, then modern science can take partial credit for the exorcism of Satan from western consciousness. Of course, the Devil is not dead yet but he gets his power from God, and as God's power wanes so does Satan's. Someday, perhaps, both God and Satan will become impotent strangers to the human imagination. But don't count on it. Many theists today believe that the evils of today's world, and they are many as we all know, are due to the rise of Satan and the decrease of religious influence. If they had their way, we would all be praying more and working against the snares of the devil. I, however, think we have more to fear from these pious people than we do from the Devil or his admirers. Some might even go so far as to identify these pious advocates of constitutional amendments for prayer in schools as devils in disguise. I don't think so, though when you have God's children murdering people at abortion clinics, there really doesn't seem to be much need for Satan. In fact, if Satan and his crew returned to earth they'd find that all the good jobs for devils have been taken by the pious of the earth.

Finally, there are the modern day Satanists who find solace and power in occult magick, but especially in anything anti-Christian. They draw their inspiration from the great works of imagination in art, literature, and policy created primarily by pious Christians in their zealous wars against their enemies, but also created by pre-Christian cults such as the Egyptian cult of Set or by non-Christian occultists such as Aleister Crowley and Anton LaVey. Today's Satanists have been blamed by pious Christians for ritual murders of children, mutilation and sacrificial killings of animals, writing backwards messages on musical recordings instructing people to kill, sending subliminal or secret messages through diabolical symbols on pizza boxes or soap wrappers, causing the general decay of morals and civilization as we know it, etc. The Satanists deny it. The evidence is not very strong that the Satanists are either as evil or as powerful as their enemies say they are. There is strong evidence for the strength and wickedness of the pious. Witness their witch-hunts in recent years against child care workers and parents and relatives of children. The evidence is strong that the pious have frequently and unjustly accused many of satanic ritual abuse of children. And they have been aided in the witch-hunt by devoted therapists and pious police and prosecutors.

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مراسم حج فرقه "شيطان پرستان"

الوعده وفا! در كسب و كار من دير و زود هست اما سوخت و سوز نيست! هفته پيش، از مراسمىياد كردم كه حالا آنچه از آن مىدانم برايتان مىنويسم. اول از همه بايد به دو نكته حساس اشاره كنم. ۱﴾ نام شيطان پرستى پس از اسلام به پيروان اين مسلك بسيار قديمى داده شده است. اهل اين فرقه به شدت از اين نام بيزارند و آنرا توهين به خود و به فرشته مقرب خدا "ملك طاووس" مىدانند كه در اسلام به صفت شيطان متصف شده است. من از اينكه به رسم عامه به ناچار اين نام را تكرار مىكنم پيشاپيش از رهروان اين مذهب پوزش مىخواهم. ۲﴾ آنچه به اختصار برايتان مىنويسم نه نتيجه يك تحقيق علمى در مورد اين فرقه كه تنها مشاهدات اتفاقى من از مراسم خاص ساليانه پيروان آنست و اطلاعاتم در اين زمينه بشدت محدود است هرچند هنوز هم در صددم فرصتى فراهم شود تا دست به تحقيقى در خور در اين زمينه بزنم.

من همانطور كه قبلا اشاره كردهام تابستان سال ۲۰۰۲ از طرف تلويزيون هلند براى تدريس فيلم به دانشجويان كرد شاغل در تلويزيون كردستان عراق (KTV) به كردستان عراق سفر كردم و كلاسهايم را در "هتل ژيان" در شهر "دهوك"، بزرگترين شهر مرزى كردستان عراق با سوريه، تشكيل دادم. دانشجويانم كه از شهرهاى مختلف كردستان آمده بودند مثل من و ساير همكارانم در تمام طول كورس در همين هتل اقامت داشتند. اواخر ماه جولاى بود كه يكشب در رستوران هتل با يك مرد روحانى خوش لباس كه چشمانى نافذ و سلوكى سنگين داشت آشنا شدم. توجهم از آنجا به او جلب شد كه ديدم در ميان حرف زدن با همراهش از گيلاسى كوچك نرم نرمك عرق مىنوشد! كاك خليل، يكى از مسئولان تلويزيون كردستان كه مامور رتق و فتق امور دانشجويان بود گفت كه او رهبر شيطان پرستان است. به نظرم مذهب جالبى آمد! از كاك خليل خواهش كردم مرا با ايشان آشنا كند و از يكى از دانشجويانم كه حاضر بود خواستم تا دوربينم را راه بياندازد و از اين ملاقات فيلم بگيرد.


نيمساعتى بيشتر وقت ايشان را نگرفتم. در همين وقت كم اما چند گيلاس به احترام هم بالا انداختيم و ايشان با سعه صدر بىدانشى مرا در مورد "دين يزيدى"، نام رسمى مذهب تحت رهبريشان، به ديده اغماض نگريست. بويژه آنجا كه خواستم حرفى زده باشم و گفتم كه مىدانم كه آنها شاخهاى از زرتشتيان هستند و پاسخ شنيدم كه هرگز. دين يزيدى هزاران سال به دين زرتشت قدمت دارد. با اينهمه وقتى گفتم خيال مىكنم عنوان "يزيدى" معرب و كردى شدهى "ايزدى" باشد آنگونه نه نشنيدم كه پيشتر. حاصل بدردخور آنشب اما اين بود كه فهميدم مراسم حج يزيديان دو روز ديگر در "پرستشگاه لالش" به رسم هر ساله برگزار خواهد شد. اجازه حضور و حتى فيلمبردارى از مراسم را هم بعنوان مهمان رسمى همانشب از ايشان گرفتم و كاك خليل قول داد مرا با جيپ تلويزيون كردستان به لالش ببرد.

لالش روستائى است در مركز كردستان عراق كه از شهر دهوك نزديك به سه ساعت با ماشين فاصله دارد. اين روستا مرا به ياد ميگون خودمان مىانداخت با همان كوچههاى خاكى و فراز و نشيب بسيارش. پرستشگاه لالش كه به آتشكدهاى بزرگ مىماند در مركز اين روستا بر فراز تپهاى بنا شده كه ظاهرا بايد خيلى قديمى باشد. وقتى به لالش رسيديم روستا مملو از جمعيت بود. مىگفتند در طول اين سه روز چندين هزار نفر به زيارت خواهند آمد، نه تنها از كردستان عراق كه از سوريه و ايران نيز هم ﴿ظاهرا تعداد بسيارى از پيروان اين دين در استانهاى كردستان و كرمانشاهان ايران زندگى مىكنند﴾. جوانترها، دختر و پسر، با پاى برهنه ﴿مطابق با مراسم﴾ در كوچهها شادمانه قدم مىزدند و برخى از آنها روى بام بلند خانهاى به آهنگ كردى دست در دست هم انداخته بودند و مىرقصيدند. زنها به پخت و پز در ديگهاى مسى بزرگ بر اجاقهاى سنگى مشغول بودند و فضا دقيقا فضاى سيزده بدر خودمان بود در سالهائى كه "بدر كردن" آن مكروه نبود!

پرستشگاه لالش از سه قسمت تشكيل مىشود: شبستان، محوطه حياط و صحن دوزخ جائيكه مراسم حج در آن برگزار مىشود. وقتى من به شبستان مىرسم نزديك به صد نفر مرد، اكثرا در لباس كردى و بعضا با سر و وضع شيك، دور سالن بزرگ نشستهاند و دو بدو و چند به چند دارند با هم اختلاط مىكنند. مردى از قهوهجوشى دسته بلند در استكانهائى به كوچكى انگشتانه قهوهاى به تيرگى قير و به تلخى زقوم مىريزد ﴿زقوم: گويند درختى است در جهنم داراى ميوهاى بسيار تلخ كه دوزخيان از آن خورند - فرهنگ معين﴾ و دور مىگرداند. مردى با چپى عگال به سر مامور مىشود ما را در مراسم حج همراهى كند. كفش و جورابم را در حياط در مىآورم و به دنبال مرد به طرف دوزخ راه مىافتم در حاليكه يكى از دانشجويانم با دوربين روشن دنبالمان مىكند. سر در عمارت مربوطه مثل سر در همه مساجد و كليساها پر از نقش و نگار است. اما آنچه جلب توجه مرا مىكند نام "طاووس ملك" است كه به صورت سنگ برجسته بر ديوار نقش بسته است.

بگذاريد همينجا آنچه از ريشه اين تفكر مىدانم را بياورم. "يزيديان" هم مثل بسيارى از پيروان اديان باستانى اعتقاد دارند كه "جهان و هرچه در او هست" از چهار عنصر اصلى يعنى آب، باد، خاك و آتش تركيب يافته است. خداوند به ادعاى خود، كه در تمام كتابهاى مقدس عنوان شده، انسان را از آب و خاك آفريد در حاليكه به باور خود خداوندى خدا فرشتگان درگاه ابديت همه از جنس آتشند. و آتش به باور آنها بر گل ﴿ممزوج آب و خاك﴾ ارجحيت دارد. از اين رو وقتى خداوند از همه فرشتگان بارگاهش ﴿از جمله ملك مقرب، طاووس﴾ مىخواهد كه در مقابل ساخته دست او، آدم، تعظيم كنند، ملك طاووس از اين دستور نابجاى ايزدى سر مىپيچد و از همان زمان سر به شورش مىگذارد، شورشى كه تا روز حشر ادامه خواهد داشت و يزيديان آنرا شورشى بر حق مىشناسند. ﴿راستش را بخواهيد اين قصه موجب شد كه من هم از شخصيت ملك طاووس "شيطان" خوشم بيايد البته اگر اين اعتراف را به شيطان صفتى ذاتى من منصوب نكنيد!﴾

و اما دوزخى كه من در پرستشگاه لالش ديدم تنها چند دخمه غار مانند تار و تيره بود با خمرههائى كه كنار هم چيده شده بودند و رويشان رنگ مشكى ريخته بودند تا فضا را مرموزتر و ترسناكتر كنند. درهاى دخمه آنقدر كوتاه بودند كه بايد خميده از آنان مىگذشتى و اگر دقت نمىكردى ممكن بود سرت به ديوار ناصاف غار مىخورد. با اينهمه حتى بچهها هم از اين دوزخ نمىهراسيدند چه رسد به بزرگسالانى مثل من كه ده برابر اين را در جشن هالووين امريكائيها ديده بودم.

بخش مهم و تعيين كننده اين مراسم، جدا از گره زدن به پارچههائى كه به ستونهائى بسته شدهاند ﴿مثل دخيل بستن﴾ يا طواف كردن دور مقبرهاى كه لابد گور يكى از قديسان يزيدى است، پرتاب دستمال به سنگ برجستهاى است كه از ديواره غار بيرون زده است. اصلىترين مرحله حاجى شدن اين است كه با چشمان بسته از فاصله شش هفت مترى دستمال سياهى را كه به بزرگى چارقد زنان كرد است به طرف اين سنگ پرتاب كنى. اگر در سه بار موفق شوى دستمال را به برجستگى سنگ گير بدهى حجات قبول شده است وگرنه بايد روز ديگر برگردى و دوباره تلاش كنى. من شاهد بودم كه بسيارى از زوار موفق نشدند از اين آزمايش بگذرند. من اما به شهادت فيلمهائى كه از اين مراسم دارم از اين بوته سربلند به در آمدم و به لقب "حاج رضا طاووسى" مفتخر شدم! من كه ره و رسمم هرگز مورد عنايت "خدا" نبوده است اميدوارم مورد قبول "شيطان" واقع شود!

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حزب شيطان !

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با طناب پوسيده شيطان به چاه نرويد!

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Sheytan

ديروز شيطان را ديدم. در حوالي ميدان بساطش را پهن كرده بود؛ فريب
مي*فروخت. مردم دورش جمع شده* بودند،* هياهو مي*كردند و هول مي*زدند و
بيشتر مي*خواستند.
توي بساطش همه چيز بود: غرور، حرص،*دروغ و خيانت،* جاه*طلبي و ... هر كس
چيزي مي*خريد و در ازايش چيزي مي*داد. بعضي*ها تكه*اي از قلبشان را
مي*دادند
و بعضي* پاره*اي از روحشان را. بعضي*ها ايمانشان را مي*دادند و بعضي
آزادگيشان را.
شيطان مي*خنديد و دهانش بوي گند جهنم مي*داد. حالم را به هم مي*زد. دلم
مي*خواست همه نفرتم را توي صورتش تف كنم.
انگار ذهنم را خواند. موذيانه خنديد و گفت: من كاري با كسي ندارم،*فقط
گوشه*اي بساطم را پهن كرده*ام و آرام نجوا مي*كنم. نه قيل و قال مي*كنم و
نه كسي را مجبور مي*كنم چيزي از من بخرد. مي*بيني! آدم*ها خودشان دور من
جمع شده*اند.
جوابش را ندادم. آن وقت سرش را نزديك*تر آورد و گفت*: البته تو با اينها
فرق مي*كني.تو زيركي و مومن. زيركي و ايمان، آدم را نجات مي*دهد. اينها
ساده*اند و گرسنه. به جاي هر چيزي فريب مي*خورند.
از شيطان بدم مي*آمد. حرف*هايش اما شيرين بود. گذاشتم كه حرف بزند و او
هي گفت و گفت و گفت.
ساعت*ها كنار بساطش نشستم تا اين كه چشمم به جعبه*اي عبادت افتاد كه لا به
لاي چيز*هاي ديگر بود. دور از چشم شيطان آن را برداشتم و توي جيبم گذاشتم
.
با خودم گفتم: بگذار يك بار هم شده كسي، چيزي از شيطان بدزدد. بگذار يك
بار هم او فريب بخورد.
به خانه آمدم و در كوچك جعبه عبادت را باز كردم. توي آن اما جز غرور
چيزي نبود. جعبه عبادت از دستم افتاد و غرور توي اتاق ريخت. فريب خورده
بودم، فريب. دستم را روي قلبم گذاشتم،*نبود! فهميدم كه آن را كنار بساط
شيطان جا گذاشته*ام.
تمام راه را دويدم. تمام راه لعنتش كردم. تمام راه خدا خدا كردم.
مي*خواستم يقه نامردش را بگيرم. عبادت دروغي*اش را توي سرش بكوبم و قلبم
را پس بگيرم. به ميدان رسيدم، شيطان اما نبود.
آن وقت نشستم و هاي هاي گريه كردم. اشك*هايم كه تمام شد،*بلند شدم. بلند
شدم تا بي*دلي*ام را با خود ببرم كه صدايي شنيدم، صداي قلبم را.
و همان*جا بي*اختيار به سجده افتادم و زمين را بوسيدم. به شكرانه قلبي كه
پيدا شده بود .