Remembering Martyr Majid Ghorbankhani
This year, during Hajj Tamattu, the mother and father of Martyr Majid Ghorbankhani are guests of the House of God and have come to Mecca for Hajj Tamattu after visiting the shrine of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). They are a very kind and loving family. On this occasion, we introduce this brave and zealous martyr.
The martyr of the shrine "Majid Ghorbankhani" was born on August 20, 1880 in Tehran and was a resident of the Yaftabad neighborhood. After an internal transformation, he was voluntarily sent to Syria to defend the shrine of Hazrat Zainab and the oppressed people of Syria.
On January 11, 1994, Majid was martyred by Takfiri terrorists in the Khan Toman region, and his body remained in the region. Finally, the martyr's body was discovered by the martyrs' investigation teams and identified through DNA testing.
Martyr Majid Ghorbankhani was very fearless and brave.
It was on January 12 that he picked up his bag and left home. He was brave and had a special devotion to Mrs. Zainab (peace be upon him).
Majid was kind and everyone in the house called Majid Dadaash. When his father, mother, and sisters want to talk about Majid, they add the suffix "Dadaash" to Majid's name with all their longing and review his memories.
Majid's absence is very difficult; but Majid has done something to us that we resent his distance and absence and cry, remember his mischief and jokes, and laugh heartily again.
Majid's father also reacts to Majid's tattoo on his hand, and Majid does not come home at night, but his anger is just as strange as his: the tattoo was for 6 months before Majid's martyrdom. He would say I regret it; he would say why are you repeating it? You said it once, I was embarrassed. Don't say it again.
Martyr's mother: For the first 4 months, we didn't know that Majid wanted to go to Syria. Later, when we found out, we saw that Majid wanted to convince us to go to this war. Well, every parent dreams of their child's marriage. We had gone to a matchmaking service for our son and were going through the final stages when my brother passed away and he went to Syria without saying goodbye.
Majid respected his family very much, but when he saw Hazrat Zahra in his dream telling Majid that he would come to me a week before going to Syria; so anyone can be touched. Majid really felt touched and every night he cried and cried and wrote in messages to his friend that he didn't know what had happened to him and what Hazrat Zainab had done to me that I couldn't be calm and I had become a woman reading the Quran and crying and wailing. What was it about Majid that Hazrat Zainab loved Majid so much that Majid was so afraid of everything in the world and modern facilities. God willing, everyone will appreciate these young people.
Majid became the defenders of the shrine and is different from other martyrs. God chose Majid to prove to the whole world that He would take Majid to the throne of the Almighty.
Martyr's father: In the Syrian operation, when they ordered these fighters to retreat, Majid told several fighters that no one has the right to return. We came to defend the shrine of Hazrat Zainab (PBUH). If we retreat, the enemy will come forward and take this area. They did not retreat and Majid reached the front line of the operation. They resisted until 4:00 PM. It was 5:30 PM when 13 people had been martyred, 11 bodies remained, and 2 bodies were returned to the rear. Majid had given my phone number to one of his friends and had said that if anything happened to me, he should inform this number.
That evening, several people were watching with cameras to see how to return and bring the children's bodies back. One of them says that while I was watching the camera, I saw a car come and 3 people got out and they shot the children, the first of whom was Majid, and they threw Majid in the back of the car and took his body away; in 2018, when I went to Syria and was serving the Imam, I stayed for about 10 days and at dusk we were waiting for the plane with 24 martyred fathers, two of whom came and one of them said I have the film of Martyr Qurban Khani.
I asked him to watch the film and I did. He said I saw the body of Mr. Majid that ISIS had hung on a tree, I don’t know what enmity they had with Majid, out of those 11 bodies they only took Majid, I don’t know what he had done; the commander had beaten them and they shot Majid’s body like a drain.
Majid’s mother and father have come to Mecca this year for Hajj Tamattu. His mother talks about Majid with passion and love. There is a photo of Majid on the cover of Majid’s mother’s phone, which is always with her. This young and strong mother deserves praise and admiration.
