What a shameful and instructive death Afshin had. According to historians, he was asked if he was "circumcised"?
Author: Ahmad Bahar Chupan
When Babak Khorramdin rose and gathered an army to avenge Abu Muslim Khorasani, Caliph Mamun Abbasi sent Yahya ibn Muaz, one of the commanders of the Caliphate, against Babak to Azerbaijan, which turned into a center of dangerous and prolonged resistance to the Caliphate/Arabs. Still, Yahya's army was defeated by Babak Khorramdin's army, which is said to have numbered between 100,000 and 200,000. Babak advanced into an area called "Jebal", which was close to the inner borders of the Abbasid caliphs.
According to historians, the Bedouin Arabs knew how to fight on the plains; However, they had little experience of war in the highlands, so Babak Khorramdin built a strong fortress in the mountains and his army was mainly in the mountains, which did not allow the Arabs to reach and break it.
One of the reasons for the continuation of Khorramdin's rebellion for twenty years and the approach of Babak's army to the caliph is his skill or tactics of using the natural geography of Azerbaijan to his advantage.
Babak's army grew, and his danger to the Abbasid caliphs became greater and greater, until Afshin, the son of Kavus, the prince of Usrushana (Usrushana, the mountainous area between Samarkand and Khojent), received an order from the caliph to arrest Babak.
Afshin, who aspired to become the ruler of Khorasan, was sent by the Abbasid Caliph to war with Babak Khorramdin. Afshin himself was born in the mountains and knew the art of fighting in the highlands.
Afshin, after many battles with Babak, finally lured him into a trap by tricks and handed him over to the caliph, hoping that he would be appointed the ruler of Khorasan and gain power and wealth.
The Abbasid caliph declared Babak a kafir and a rebel and cowardly cut him off. In front of the caliph and courtiers in the middle of the palace, he was chained to a stone, and first his hands, then his legs, and then his proud head were cut off.
According to one source, Babak Khorramdin had four young daughters who were captured by the Arab army and sent to Baghdad to the caliph.
In gratitude for the defeat of Babak and his murder, the Muslim caliph arranged a great feast and went out and returned four times, while the courtiers rejoiced and danced. According to historians, he raped all four young daughters of Babak, who were his captives.
But the death of Babak did not end the cause of the Khurramdins and the anti-Arab movements in Khorasan.
On the other hand, Afshin, counting on the favor of the Abbasid caliph for his cowardice and mercenary work in favor of the Arabs, fell under the ax of the caliph's executioner.
But what a shameful and instructive death Afshin had. According to historians, he was asked if he was "circumcised"?
Afshin answered in the negative. And the caliph's people called him a "hypocrite", and one of the reasons for his hypocrisy was that he was not circumcised. To prove that he was not a "hypocrite", Afshin agreed to be circumcised, but the caliph no longer needed him. First, he cut off Afshin's penis, and after a while, his head!
When I saw the picture accompanying this text and looked at Fasihuddin's helpless face and humiliating position in front of this masked killer, I remembered Afshin and his story, who, out of greed to rule Khorasan, accepted the service of the Abbasid caliph, went to the mountains of Azerbaijan and betrayed Babak by deceit to the caliph.
In the explanation to the attached photo, many wrote that the bodyguard of Mulla Yaqub does not allow Fasihuddin, the chief of the general staff of the so-called Taliban army, to visit Mulla Yaqub, and this is also on the orders of Mulla Yakub!
While Fasihuddin is not the only cog in the Taliban's war machine to suppress their opponents, his ultimate fate will be somewhat similar to Afshin's.
