Shared by Tahir Mahmood
An Iranian woman has been barred from office – apparently because religious conservatives deemed her “too attractive”.
Nina Siahkali Moradi took more than 100,000 votes in Qazvin city’s council elections, finishing 14th out of 163 candidates and winning a seat, The Times reports.
But despite her victory, it seems the 27-year-old was effectively disqualified because she was regarded too good-looking to take up the post.
اے حُسنِ مہوشم کہ تو بر من بلا شُدی ۔ ۔ ۔ اشرف
O my moon like beauty you became the cause of my misfortune!
Mirza Ashraf
I remember having read the following.
Ae taiz-i-ey tab’aa tu bar man bala shudi !
The famous verse is by Sheikh Saadi as here:
Ae rooshani-e-taba’a tu bar man bala shudi ! which in fact related to intellectual cognition.
Because here the subject was beauty I changed it to befit the situation as:
Ae husn-e-mehwasham keh tu bar man bala shudi !
There is a literary-cum-philosophical term the “Hellenic Beauty” which means “destructive beauty.” It was coined after the famous Helen of Troy whose beauty became the cause of ten years war between the Greeks and the Trojans which ended with the total destruction of Troy. Since then many super beauties are mentioned in history who became the cause of destruction.
Mirza
(Editor, please post this reply instead of the first one)
There is no surprise here. When people stop using their brain, and opt to act by dogma, they make such ridiculous decisions. Moradi did not create the beauty she is blessed with. Nor the power that be had any thing to do with the ordinary looks of others. How come her beauty features in their decision ? Morons, period!
The Aethiop (Aesop’s fable)
THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of
his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his
former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means
of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The
servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or
complexion.
Moral: What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.