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00:01:01I kept publishing this magazine for about 12
00:01:05years. After that, when Noor Microfilm
00:01:08came here, they called me.
00:01:12After that, he became associated with that
00:01:15organization, and I have been working
00:01:19there for almost 12 years
00:01:22since I joined that
00:01:25organization. I have done various
00:01:28types of work. Initially,
00:01:41I have two daughters and three sons,
00:01:45among whom one is preparing for the B.
00:01:48Tech entrance exam. He has applied to three places: one in IP,
00:01:52one in JMI, and one in UP Board. Now, the
00:01:56fourth one, Hussam, will be at Jamia Millia
00:02:00Islamia on the 13th. My family consists of my wife, who
00:02:03is a housewife. I work alone. My family lives
00:02:07in this small room. You can
00:02:10see how we are living, but
00:02:13this is a short-term problem. Insha'Allah, Allah
00:02:17will make it easy. Pray that Allah
00:02:20makes it easy.
00:02:32One of the other sections of the Noor Microfilm
00:02:36Center is the art section. Islamic
00:02:39art has served India for more than 800 years.
00:02:43Calligraphers, painters, illuminators, and
00:02:46various artists who came from Iran have created art
00:02:49here. Examples of Iranian Islamic art in
00:02:53India can be found everywhere in this country. Wherever
00:02:57we go, there is a trace of Iranian Islamic art.
00:03:00But later, after India's independence and after the changes that
00:03:04came about,
00:03:06many of these artists lost their
00:03:10jobs.
00:03:16as colonial influence penetrated different layers of Indian
00:03:19society, the people of this land faced numerous
00:03:22challenges to the extent that even today many of India's
00:03:26population of more than a billion people continue to bear the consequence
00:03:30of the policies of that era.
00:03:33The seven-member family of Muhammad Yusuf lives in a room measuring
00:03:37roughly 10 square meters.
00:03:41After finishing his working hours,
00:03:44lineages, including those of Muhammad Yusuf continues creating his works of art at home in this very modest little
00:03:48room. His children are doing their homework beside
00:03:52him, while his wife is preparing food and taking care of the everyday
00:03:55affairs of the
00:03:56household.
00:04:00For most people in India, this kind of life is quite common and
00:04:03accepted. They have learned how to manage their lives through
00:04:07hardship with the fewest possible
00:04:09resources.
00:04:13Since it was necessary in keeping with the center's objectives to take
00:04:17action to preserve the shared heritage of Iran and India
00:04:20and to ensure the continuation of artistic traditions, rooted
00:04:24in authentic Iranian art, we began identifying
00:04:28the last surviving artists of...
00:05:00Choosing and finding these was a very difficult
00:05:03task. Even many of those
00:05:07who were
00:05:09among the statesmen of India or researchers.
00:06:12were great influencers in India, but
00:06:15unfortunately, but unfortunately, in
00:06:19recent years, all these names have been lost,
00:06:22meaning no one knows them. The Noor Microfilm
00:06:25Center did the work of compiling the genealogies
00:06:28of Iranian Sayyid
00:06:31immigrants in India. Some of these
00:06:35genealogies are up to 300 meters
00:06:38long. The genealogies that have been
00:06:41rewritten are various genealogies about Zaydis, Taqvi,
00:06:44Naqvi, and the genealogy that we are
00:06:48currently in the presence of is the genealogy
00:06:52of the Hasani Sayyids. It is a separate
00:06:55collection for each family.
00:06:58A genealogy has been written for each family.
00:07:02The genealogy starts with Bismillah and then Ayah
00:07:06al-Nur al-Samawat. It comes
00:07:09down and mentions all the ancestors of the
00:07:12Prophet up to Adnan in this genealogy. Khwaja-e-Kainat,
00:07:16the essence of creation, Sultan al-Anbiya, Abu al-Qasim,
00:07:19and from here it comes to Amir al-Muminin Ali (peace be upon him) and
00:07:23Lady Fatimah (peace be upon her). Then it
00:07:26mentions the children of Lady Fatimah (peace be upon her) and
00:07:29Amir al-Muminin: Imam Hasan, Imam Husayn,
00:07:32Zaynab, Umm Kulthum, and it is interesting that Muhsin is also mentioned in these genealogies.
00:07:36From there it comes to Imam Hasan, with a brief description
00:07:40of the life of Imam Hasan (peace be upon him), and from
00:07:43there the genealogy begins.
00:08:15Perhaps if it had not been for the skill and dedication of the
00:08:18papermakers, the calligraphers,
00:08:20illuminators, gold leaf artists and other craftsmen,
00:08:24the results of years of painstaking library research
00:08:28would have remained abandoned and forgotten on the shelves, but the
00:08:31collective efforts of these artists have made it possible for
00:08:35the facts of history to be presented beautifully and elegantly
00:08:38before the eyes of the public. Many genealogical charts of this
00:08:42kind have been prepared, each one displaying a part of the shared
00:08:46heritage of these lands in a magnificent, richly
00:08:49ornamented form. The genealogical works created at the
00:08:53newer center deal with different
00:08:56the Sayyids, mystics, scholars,
00:08:59physicians, kings, writers and other prominent families and
00:09:03figures. Each has its own distinctive characteristics.
00:09:06Some are written on leather, others on cloth or specially prepared
00:09:10paper, and they are decorated with illumination and unique
00:09:14ornamental designs. Some of these genealogical charts extend
00:09:18to as much as 300 meters. If we had not made the
00:09:21effort to identify these anonymous and largely forgotten
00:09:25artists of India, many of them might still be struggling through the
00:09:28routines of daily life, while the artistic traditions would
00:09:32eventually have disappeared forever. would eventually have disappeared
00:09:35forever. It is clear to us that people like to live their lives in some
00:09:39forgotten corner of a poor neighborhood, but finding them...
00:09:51The important point for us is that we should record
00:09:54the cultural services of Islam and
00:09:58Iran in India here, because if these are lost,
00:10:01we will have no knowledge of who came, what
00:10:05they did, and what services they provided. This is the root
00:10:09that Sayyids and Iranian immigrants have throughout India.
00:13:18or has written "Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim" in Kufic script or 500
00:13:22salawats in Kufic script. This
00:13:25artist is truly unparalleled. When we
00:13:28found this man, we saw that
00:13:31he was working in a place that was almost
00:13:35like a servant. We called him, and he came
00:13:39here and we asked him, "Why did you give up your art and profession?" He
00:13:42said, "There is no work. With the advent of computers,
00:13:45all the work is done through computers.
00:13:48There is no work for us." I asked him, "How much do you get there?"
00:13:52He told me a large amount. I said, "If it's this much, will you
00:13:56be ready?" He got ready. Today he has created
00:13:59the most beautiful art.
00:14:05every corner and every available space of the center is put to
00:14:08use whether for creating new works or restoring existing
00:14:12ones. In one corner of the facsimile book storage area, for
00:14:16example, we could see the restoration of a precious
00:14:19Quran underway. I am working at the International Noor
00:14:22Microfilm Center. I have been working here
00:14:26for almost 10 years and I am working in the calligraphy section, the calligraphy
00:14:30department. So this Holy Quran is approximately
00:14:33400 years old and may be even older.
00:14:36So it got damaged because it was not properly
00:14:40taken care of. A handwritten document has a very long
00:14:44life, its lifespan is long, but where it was, it came
00:14:48from Gujarat to us. One of our colleagues here bound
00:14:51it and repaired
00:14:54it. This was completely ruined. Some
00:14:57pages were completely torn and damaged.
00:15:00You can see that all these patches
00:15:04are applied to it. We are making it look completely new.
00:15:07We are working very hard to restore
00:15:11it to its original condition.
00:15:24हैं
00:15:50This Quran is on
00:15:51skin.
00:15:55Both its illumination and calligraphy are by one
00:15:58person. Each part of the Quran
00:16:01here is on one sheet. That means
00:16:05one sheet of this Quran is one part of the Quran.
00:16:09And besides being a paper Quran,
00:16:12all the lines of this Quran are also written with
00:16:16Alif.
00:16:18The time taken to write this Quran was approximately
00:16:22one year and a few months. Its script
00:16:24is Naskh.
00:16:28This is another Quran that has been
00:16:31written. It is a Quran
00:16:34in Naskh script with a golden background.
00:16:38Its illumination and all are done by one person.
00:16:42He is one of the calligraphers of this center.
00:16:4630 parts of the Quran on 30 sheets, meaning
00:16:49one sheet is one part of the Quran.
00:17:02Another Quran that has been written here is in
00:17:06Suls script. with
00:17:09gold water.
00:17:17The papers are also handmade papers that we make
00:17:20ourselves here. The types of paper are the same papers
00:17:24that we make here. The script is Suls.
00:17:27All the illuminations are also done by one person,
00:17:31both the calligraphy and the coloring
00:17:33of the paper and the illuminations that it has. We sometimes
00:17:37publish between 8 and 9 Qurans on different
00:17:41sites by different calligraphers
00:17:45in different places where they are. Some of them
00:17:48work in this center, but because
00:17:52our space here is not that large, there are also
00:17:55some people who work at home under
00:17:59our supervision and bring them here. This has
00:18:03caused their families to be encouraged,
00:18:06some of them.
00:18:09to do ancillary calligraphy work, and this
00:18:13is an opportunity for us to be able
00:18:16to revive Islamic art alongside other arts.
00:18:19They are hardworking, active,
00:18:22and talented people who can
00:18:26do this work.
00:18:29I have written this Holy Quran, and it has
00:18:32been almost two years since I started writing
00:18:36it, and it will take another five months. This
00:18:39will be 5 meters long and 3 meters wide.
00:18:43When this book is finished, it will be 5 meters long and
00:18:476 meters wide. On each page, there will be one
00:18:50chapter. There will be 30 pages of the Holy Quran.
00:18:54This is being written in Sulus script. It takes
00:18:5710 days to write one page. It takes a full 10 days to write one
00:19:01page.
00:19:10writing a Quran of this size, especially in such a small
00:19:14environment, is certainly not an easy task, but
00:19:17Sad Faraz Ahmed carries out this work with extraordinary
00:19:21patience, making use of every available resource in his living
00:19:25environment. To prepare each piece of cloth measuring
00:19:2815 square meters, he has to climb onto the roof of his
00:19:32house, and under the scorching Delhi sun put the cloth
00:19:35through five lengthy preparation.
00:19:45The Quran has been written in various scripts: Suls script,
00:19:48Ruqa script, Nasta'liq script, Rayhan script, even Diwani
00:19:52script. The Qurans are written in various
00:19:55sizes. The largest Quran that has been written by
00:19:59artists and calligraphers is a Quran that is
00:20:035 meters by 3 meters. When this Quran is opened,
00:20:07it will be 5 by 6 meters. It is written on
00:20:11fabric. The fabric has been prepared beforehand. All the
00:20:14illumination work, the gold work, and
00:20:17all the work from the beginning of the Quran
00:20:21to the end is done by this artist himself,
00:20:24and perhaps this is the largest Quran
00:20:28that has ever been written in the world. Another
00:20:32Quran has been written by the same calligrapher, 2 meters by
00:20:353 meters, which is in this script.
00:20:50and these don't have it.
00:21:10The creation of magnificent works of art at the newer center
00:21:14extends far beyond these Qurans. In addition
00:21:17to the precious Qurans, another group of...
00:21:31This is the largest Shahnameh
00:21:39that has ever been written by artists. The paper is handmade paper that has been made in this center. All its work is handmade. Its ink
00:21:43is handmade ink. The colors that have been used
00:21:46are also natural colors. It is interesting to
00:21:50know that in each page
00:21:54there is a special illumination. This Shahnameh
00:21:58has about 600 sheets and 600 types of illumination.
00:22:28The calligraphy and artistic supervision of this Shahnameh are under the
00:22:32direction of master Shamim Ahmed Bojnourdi.
00:22:36Two independent teams of eight artists, each based in
00:22:39Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan, worked its illumination and
00:22:43illustrations. So far, they've created around 70
00:22:47miniature paintings to accompany the poems. The time
00:22:50considered for this
00:22:53work was about 4 years, and perhaps
00:22:57the most images that exist in Shahnamehs are in this
00:23:01Shahnameh. After this, they are working on a Khamseh Nezami,
00:23:05which is also in the same dimensions. We have considered
00:23:08about 52 images for it. We
00:23:12have actually employed all the calligraphers, illuminators, and
00:23:16calligraphers for these works.
00:23:20Thousands of manuscripts, more than 100 thousand pages of
00:23:24historical documents, thousands of old Persian newspapers and
00:23:28magazines and hundreds of works of art are the
00:23:31result of more than 20 years of continuous work by the
00:23:35newer Microfilm Center and the family behind it.
00:23:39Today, through various means and especially with the help of the center's new
00:23:43website, this entire cultural and historical treasure
00:23:46can be made readily available to researchers, professor.
00:25:20Our art department, all the works that have been done
00:25:23in this center by our calligraphers, our painters,
00:25:27our artists have done
00:25:30some of them, not all of them, in
00:25:33the gallery of our art department, or we put their pictures in the
00:25:37exhibitions we participated in. This is our
00:25:41publications section, where the books that we
00:25:44ourselves printed and published here are put up for
00:25:48introduction. Actually, Indian people, lots of Indian people
00:25:52use our website, and lots of in
00:25:55Iran, more than Iran,
00:25:58in Iran, actually, some Indian people directly come.
00:26:32Many of our applicants are from America.
00:26:35We email them. It's a very simple
00:26:39process, and they can achieve their goals
00:26:42and use this book.
00:26:56I no longer dream of seeing fire consuming the books.
00:26:59Today hundreds of hands belonging to artists, hundreds
00:27:02of watchful eyes and hundreds of beating hearts are at
00:27:06work, using the limited resources and budgets
00:27:09available to preserve a shared heritage that has
00:27:13emerged from centuries of cultural and religious
00:27:15ties between Iran and India. Yet, in any
00:27:19case, we must recognize that all these efforts are still
00:27:23small compared with the immense volume of work that remains to be
00:27:26done. Perhaps the presence of researchers and their use
00:27:30of this unparalleled culture, real treasure, can help make up for
00:27:34part of what we have neglected and once again and bring the
00:27:38spiritual and cultural relations between these two
00:27:41nations to their former heights.
00:28:19At the cradle of Western Civilization, US
00:28:22Secretary of State, Marco Rubio tells a familiar
00:28:25story: Persians as villains, Athenians
00:28:29as heroes, but is that history or just Washington's preferred
00:28:33vision?
00:28:35Persians plundered the temples, they burned the shrines, they razed
00:28:39the Acropolis to the ground. Case closed, not so
00:28:42fast. History has a habit of talking
00:28:45back.
00:28:48Alexander, he had great respect for the Persian culture, a
00:28:51little inconvenient for a narrative that reduces Persia to an army
00:28:55of barbarians, and Oscar-winning filmmaker, Oliver
00:28:58Stone has a message for those lecturing the world its past.
00:29:02"I think Westerners don't understand completely the history of
00:29:06Iran and Persia. I would suggest this book is a
00:29:10great place to
00:29:10start.
00:29:16Washington may think it can dictate the narrative, but history has
00:29:19outlasted empires before, and it has a warning for those who
00:29:23think they can rewrite it. You cannot change history. You'll be
00:29:27defeated by the forces of history, which are inevitable. They can change
00:29:30that. This is insane. They can change that. This is
00:29:33insanity. This is, it defeats us every time.
00:30:04Your headlines on Press TV. Iran's security chief tells Press
00:30:07TV that the US response to Tehran's conditions for reopening the
00:30:11Strait of Hormuz is inadequate and contains
00:30:14ambiguities that must be cleared. The
00:30:17IRGC Navy warns all vessels not to turn off their navigation
00:30:21systems during Hormuz transit, saying all ships
00:30:24doing this will be considered hostile and
00:30:27targeted.
00:30:29And the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman says a major set
00:30:33of long-range missile and drone strikes has targeted key airports and
00:30:37energy infrastructure across Saudi Arabia.