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HE MOST POWERFUL MINORITY on the face of the earth is that of the Parsis. Number- ing only 110,000, these descendants of the ancient Persians are noted through- out the world for their wealth, learning and culture. Millionaires are common among them; numerous Parsis have the distinction of possessing fortunes worthy of Croesus, and many have been knighted by His Majesty the King for services to the British Empire.
Their history forms one of the most interesting chapters in the grand saga of human progress and goes back to the distant age when the Aryan peoples were still an undivided clan in the fair land of Airyana Vacja (original home of the Aryans), which is said to have been located in the Arctic regions of Asia.
The name "Parsi" signifies "people from Pars (Persia)," and they have been settled in the Province of Gujurat in India since the seventh cen- tury A. D. Their arrival was the re- sult of the Mohammedan conquest of Persia by the victorious Arabs, who within ten years after the flight of the Prophet to Medina in 622 A. D. embarked upon a By career of conquest.
the world are indebted to the Zoroas- trian faith for their essential doctrines. Monotheism, the existence of the angelic heirarchy, the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body and future reward and punishment were first expounded by Zoroaster.
The Prophet himself was a heroic personality, and like other great tea- chers endured a lifetime of hardship. For ten long years after he had em- barked on his spiritual mission, no one regarded him seriously. At length, he found his first convert in his cousin Maidhyoi-Maongha, who thus became. the St John of the new religion. Final- ly, Vishtaspa, the King of Bactria, was won over to the faith, and thencefor- ward the doctrines of Zoroaster spread rapidly throughout Persia and the neighbouring countries. At the time of the death of its founder at the age of seventy-seven, Zoroastrianism had become firmly established as one of the world's great religions.
By
T. PAUL
THE PRECEPTS OF THE ZOROAS- TRIAN FAITH are embodied in the sacred work called the "Avesta," a collection of religious writings in five parts forming the Bible of the Parsis. The gist of their faith is that there is one Supreme Being (Ahura Mazda), Invisible and Omnipotent, the Creator and Preserver of the entire Uni- verse. This First Cause sprang from the primeval light per- vading infinite space, and. has always existed and would always exist According to Zoroastrian theology, the Deity has six attributes: 1. Good Mind; 2. Righteousness; 3. Absolute Power; 4. High Thought; 5. Perfection; 6. Immortality.
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640 A. D., the whole of Persia and every coun- try north of the Indus -and-Oxus-rivers-had-sub-.
to the invaders. mitted Thirty thousand Persian families fled into the Roman Empire and settled in Constantinople. Another group under the leadership of the imperial princes emigrated to China and ultimately settled there, while certain sections of the Persian population moved into Seistan and Russia,
OTHER IRANIAN FAMILIES
who refused to accept the faith of the Koran fled across the Arabian Sea to Western India. Jadi- Rana, the Hindu Prince of the country, granted the strangers' request for re- fuge on the condition that they obey the laws of the kingdom and help him and his successors in time of war. Other stipulations were that the re- fugees should adopt the dress and language of the Hindu people and in- troduce certain changes in their mar- riage ceremony. These conditions the Parsis have observed more or less faithfully to this day, and have distin- guished themselves as one of the most law-abiding communities in the East.
Although India has been, the abode of the Parsis for over twelve hundred years, the majority still consider the Land of the Lion and the Sun as their ancestral home,
religious and the various ceremonies of the people recall the pomp and splendour of ancient Iran.. In order to further commeniorate their long exile, their chronology is based on the reign of Yezdezard, the last Sassinian monarch of Iran, who died in 651 A. D. The present year (1941) is incidentally the year 1311 of the Parsi calendar,
THE PARSIS ARE FOLLOW- THE
ERS OF ZOROASTER, who flourished about 6,000 B,C. The teach-· ings of this Iranian Sage have pro- foundly influenced the spiritual and in- tellectual development of the human race. Almost all the great religions of
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The sun is symbolically regarded as the eye of Ahura Mazda, and, like all the heaven- ly bodies, is animated with a soul. The spirits of the stars are believed to have a beneficent influence on the affairs of men, and hence, one will find that astrology is a favourite study among the Parsis.
Opposed to Ahura Mazda is Ahriman, the author of Evil. Life is thus an internal struggle between the Principle of Good called Spenta Mainyu and that of Evil- termed Angra Matny. This law of polarity pervades the universe, and all nature, ac- cording to Zoroastrianism, is therefore beset with an inescapable dualism, with the forces of Good and Evil in everlasting conflict. Al- though there is so much good in the world, there is also a great deal of evil. Mon ex- ploit and brutalise one another, wars are be- ing constantly fought, and wickedness per- sists everywhere. Zoroastrianism offers the solution of this mystery and provides in its triad of holy teachings--Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds the means of living the Good Life, free from error and
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THE PARSIS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN STAUNCH SUPPORTERS of the enlightened British rule in India, and their Association with Britain goes back to the -time of the Honourable East India Company. The rise of Bombay to the position of one of the greatest emporiums in the East was largely due to Parsi enterprise, so much so that Bombay may be regarded as a Parsi city, for their community comprises the most mumerous, wealthy and powerful section of the population. Most of the business of Bombay is in Parsi hunds, and at one time in the 17th century, British warships were built there for H.M.'s Navy in a dockyard owned by a Parsi family.
The cordial relationship existing be- tween the Parsi community and the British government may be partially explained, inas- much as the former are the most progressivo people of India: Their estimable qualitics have won for them the respect and admira- tion of the world, and their business ability' has placed them foremost among Indian In- dustrialists.
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