Memoirs of Seyyed Javad Hashemi

Machine Translation Edited by Mandana Karimi

2026-11-11

Seyyed Javad Hashemi, a writer, actor, and warrior from the Holy Defense era, was a guest on the 291^st Shab-e Khatreh (Night of Memories) program (June 2018). Hashemi spoke about Uncle Hassan Khatreh. He said: “In the army’s propaganda, we had an old man named Uncle Hassan, who was known as Uncle Hassan of the Fronts. He would run around the large field of the Dokuheh barracks ten times in the morning and never get tired. The famous slogans of the time were also for him. He was an honest and simple person. We brought a handsome, graceful, and bright-eyed teenager to Haj Agha and told him that he was afraid of the dead and the jinn. Prescribe something so that he will not be afraid. Haj Agha said, find a ladder and go under its shade and repeat the incantation I tell you twenty times! The young man repeated this incantation for about ten days. Then he went to Haj Agha and said that he could not find a ladder and that he was still afraid of the dead and the jinn. He said, "Come to Haj Hemmat's Hussainiyeh on Tuesday, I will recite your prescription." On Tuesday, the Tawasul prayer was held in Hussainiyeh. A large crowd was sitting there. Haj Agha told the preacher to give me the loudspeaker; I have business with this group. He took the loudspeaker and said that one of the children of the army had cancer and said that if I die, bury me right here in Dokuheh!". After the ceremony, we asked Haj Agha who had cancer? Haj Agha turned to the young man and said, "You!" The young man was scared and said he didn't have cancer, and Haj Agha said, "Don't you want to stop being afraid of the dead?" He said, "Yes." Haj Agha said, "Then don't talk!" On Haj Agha's orders, the guys shrouded the young man in the middle of the army's propaganda, meaning that he had died of cancer! Uncle Hassan, who was a simple man, came and said, "Who died?" We said, "So-and-so." He got very upset and said, "We should turn him around in the morning square and say, "There is no god but Allah!" We all looked at each other. We asked Haji what to do? He said: "It's none of my business anymore" and left! They put the body on their shoulders and buried it. That young man was scared and quietly told me what if they bury me?! I assured him that this would not happen. They buried the body and placed it in front of the building of one of the battalions, whose commander and deputy commander was this Haji, a great cleric. The same cleric explained and said that we prayed for him, a part of the prayer was over and the body moved and I realized that he was alive. I continued the prayer. I saw that he was breathing. After the prayer, I said that I heard this young man say to bury him here. I have dug a grave behind the embankment and I am praying the night prayer in it, take him there and bury him. When that young man heard this, he got up and started running with the same shroud."

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So far, 384 programs have been held to commemorate the Holy Defense by Resistance Literature and Culture and Studies Center. The next program will be held on Thursday, November 26, 2026.

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