Ancient Persian Religion Zoroastrianism sees Resurgence

The Zoroastrian faith has been around since before Islam and Christianity. Journalist Avijah Scarbrough discovers why there has been a recent interest among young Iranians in this religion you may have not heard of, but most likely you've been influenced by. Famous Zoroastrians include rock icon Freddy Mercury from Queen.

[pragu]

As an Indian this makes me very happy. Indians have a lot of respect for Parsis (Zorastrians) and Parsis have contributed immensely to our country.

[NRG]

Respect to one ancient religion ( Zoroastrianism) from another ancient religion (Hinduism) 🕉🙏

[prakashtiwari]

As a Hindu from India, the day will be the happiest day in my life when I will hear that entire Iranians rejected Islam and embrace the religion of their forefathers i.e zorastrian. I am 100% confident that the day will come soon. Lots of love and respect to my Parsis brothers and sisters. May you all live happy and prosperous life. 🙏🕉️

[vishvapradhan]

Wow! Zoroastrians persecuted by Islamic rulers seeked refugee in India over 1000 years ago and over the period of time they played instrumental role in building our nation and perhaps one of the wealthy community in our country. I am proud of our nation which provided safe home for them and also for our Zoroastrian community in India.

[supersonic]

Parsis made huge contribution in Indias development. Great religion and follwers are peaceful, nationalist and faithfull to their motherland.

[the_unfiltered_truth]

Every Indian will vouch for the amazing community that the Zorastrians are. Glad to hear about it's revival in Iran.

[peacockmcp]

❤🔥❤ Its very very very important now to convert Iran back to Zoroastrianism.

[naruto]

Maximum zorastrians live in india....they are highly educated and very rich...like companies made by them TATA, godrej, serrum institute, wadia etc. are billionaire and are immensely rich ❤️

[daveray]

My biggest fear for Iran is that once people leave Islam, they turn to atheism instead of this religion. It's important to remember your people's heritage and history.

[MrNazarester]

In India the Zoroastrian religion is still being followed in some parts. They are known as "Parsees ". Or Persians. They live mostly in Mumbai ( Bombay) and the Indian State of Gujarat. They came to India from Persia ( now Iran) to avoid Islamic persecutions. One of the three kings who came to see Child Jesus
was believed to be a Persian.

[PeacePlease.]

I'm a Hindustani Zoroastrian from India. Both my parents were Zoroastrian, so I was born into the faith & chose the faith because it is Good & Sound. It makes perfect sense to me, & I feel proud to be a Zoroastrian. That said, I don't believe in conversion!! When you convert some1, you do so because yours is better than theirs - And that in it self is wrong!! I prefer my faith to Christianity & Islam, but I know many Christians & Muslims who would disagree & argue that theirs is better - because they are the prominent & largest of all religious faiths. To them I say Zoroastrians focus on quality over quantity so although only a few, we are pure & going strong. Zoroastrian Parsis have also been respectful of allll religious faiths, and have even adopted some Hindu customs into our prayer rituals, because they comfort and suit us, and converting or coursing others is NOT something we practice as a rule. We don't preach our religion to be better, we simply believe it to be good - If practiced properly, because Good Thoughts, Good Words & Good Deeds is a part of EVERY religious teaching, but PROMINANT in Zoroastrianism. I guarantee you, that the only reason we have survived without combat & conflict allll the years, after we escaped Mughal invasion in Iran, and why Iranians are able to practice Zoroastrianism today is because we don't push conversion or compete with other faiths. It saddens me when people do, because that will in fact create problems & conflicts, as we see amongst Christians, Muslims Jews for centuries. Other faiths who use this "better than" or invite/convert others at random, create problems and bitterness, & might want to consider this. PeacePlease!!

[jagadish]

Ratan Tata, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Aadhar poonawala, Homi Jehangir Baba and the list goes on. The Indian Parsis who made an immense contribution to India and its economy.

[armstrong]

Make Iran Zoroastrian again. Greetings from your centuries old friend

[saratsaratchandran]

Zoroastrian religion was a contemporary religion with the Vedic civilization of India! The tenants of both have similarities! To start with the fire, both have a place in their religions! They blended in the Dharmic civilization as their priest pointed it to the Gujarat king who gave them asylum as ‘sugar in a full cup of milk’ and they never betrayed us. They are the most loyal, progressive citizens of India as a minority, unlike the virulent and pestilent ones who invaded us later to establish hegemony and corroding the society through conversion! All my wishes that the Zoroastrian religion returns to its past glory once again! The world needs Dharmic people and religions and they are one of them!

[peterasp]

And why not ?? Why should not Zoroastrianism not see a revival in Iran ??? Of course it should ! After all the entire culture and civilisation of Iran is based on Zoroastrianism and its glorious forebear the old Indo Aryan religion. Islam came to Iran in a terrible set of circumstances but it is not Iranic at all. Iran is not meant to be Islamic.

[AchintyaPandey-ib]

As a Hindu I love zoroastrianim.
Respect to Parsis.❤❤❤❤❤

[ShahanshahShahin]

*Humata* (Good Thoughts)
*Hukhta* (Good Words)
*Hvarshta* (Good Deeds)

Is the threefold path to *Asha* (Truth & Righteousness)

[patricksharp]

Zoroasterism is a beautiful ancient religion, well worth learning about, and a thousand times better than the demonic cult that followed it.

[MrDfernz]

Parsis settled in India( Gujerat ) since 1000AD after their nation was brutally conquered by Arabs. They have contributed heavily to Indian nationalism. Sam Maneckshaw, Zubin Mehta, Birla and Tata come to mind when Parsi connection with India is made.

[DorchadasAgusSolas]

As somebody from Turkish descent, i say, very nice job Iran ! :) please keep your cultures reserved don't let them get destroyed by other cultures and Zoroastrisism is a very old religion, don't forget that . be proud of that and preserve that culture please . Like i said, i am from Turkish descent myself, and i just hate to see that our own ancient Shamanistic religion, our own religion ( Tengrism ) and our own culture was litteraly replaced by something else .. The Farsi's were an ally to the old Turks (close ties Central Asia ), but then Arabification came if you know what i mean