Meeting with the Saberi Family

Compiled by: Samira Nafer
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2024-12-17

We were guests an autumn evening in a simple house where the scent of patience and love had been mixed for years. Sir Davoud, a veteran who has been fighting with war wounds for years, welcomed us with a calm smile. His gaze was a sea of ​​bitter and sweet memories, from the days he spent on the front lines to today, when he rested in the arms of his family. He told us about the days when dirt and blood blurred the line between life and death. From the days when the sound of bullets was his nightly lullaby and the scent of gunpowder was the only smell he knew. His wife, Mrs.Tahereh, a woman who had patience in her eyes and love in her smile, narrated the days she spent without her husband. The nights she sat waiting for the morning with longing and the days when she endured the pain with a smile.

In that small house, the silence had many things to say. The silence of a man who, despite all the hardships, had not lost his spirit, and the silence of a woman who had gone through difficult years with love.

Davoud tried to recall memories, but he spoke in a choked voice: he was taking medicine that had erased most of his memories. He had a lump in his throat. It was as if his memories were pieces of the puzzle of his existence that were now lost. He spoke with longing of the days when he had prayed in the Grand Mosque of Khorramshahr, but now the details of those days were blurred in a veil of forgetfulness. Mrs.Tahereh took his hand and said softly: "It doesn't matter what you have forgotten, what matters is that you fought for your cause." At that moment, I was not an interviewer, but a traveler who had traveled to the land of emotions; emotions that cannot be described in words. Emotions that surged in every look, in every word, and in every breath they took. I realized that love is stronger than any bullet and patience is an invincible weapon. Davoud Agha and Mrs.Tahereh became for me a model of love, sacrifice, and life.

The story of Davoud and Tahereh is the story of all those who sacrificed themselves for their homeland and family; stories that should never be forgotten.