Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

from Iraq in March, 1385 (1966), the man who spread Yazîdism
was a Syrian named ’Âdi. He had fled the ’Abbâsî (Abbasid)
oppression, by taking refuge in the valley of Lâdesh in the midst of
the Sengal mountains north of Iraq, and founded a religion called
’Adawiyya. This religion, which spread amongst Kurds and Arabs,
was called Yazîdism. In 550 [1154 A.D.], he died when he was
eighty years old. ’Âdi the Second, his brother’s son, took his place.
After him, his son Shaikh Hasan became the chief. They increased
during his time; their number reached eighty thousand. The belief
of Yazîdîs is a mixture of the beliefs of Islam and Christianity.
Their most important book, entitled Kitâb-ul-jalwa, is in Arabic
and Kurdish, which was translated into German by Maximillian
Bütner and was edited in 1331 A.H. [1913]. They worship the
Satan. They call the devil “angel” and “peacock.” They will kill any
person who swears at the devil. They say that the devil creates
problems and calamities. They express the things which they have
heard from Muslims and Christians under the name of Yazîdism.
None of the Muslims’ beliefs and worships exists among them.
They call it (hajj) to visit their dead in the village of Baadir in the
valley of Lâdesh. They do it in the month of September. Every day,
they stand towards the sun as it rises. In the morning, they kiss the
soil where the first light falls. At sunset they beg it. They call these
actions of theirs namâz and worship. During the month of January,
they fast for three days. They explain these corrupt deeds of theirs
under the name of namâz, fasting, hajj, and worship. People who
hear these utterances of theirs, suppose that they are Muslims. It is
a grave sin among Yazîdîs to learn how to read and write. For this
reason, they are very uncultured and ignorant. They know nothing
about Islam. Also, it is a sin for them to shave their beard. Against
this corrupt religion, which drifted men into suffering in this world
and the next, Zangî Imâdaddîn, the Amir of Mûsul, was first to
take action. He sent his commander Badraddîn Lu’lu against
Shaikh Hasan. He dispersed them. According to Amâwî, their
chief, there are ten million Yazîdîs today. They are in Iraq, in Syria,
in Yemen, in Azerbaijan, in Turkey, and in India. Since they are
ignorant, they easily succumb to communistic propaganda. Amâwî
announced that there were three million communist Yazîdîs in
Russia and that there were Yazîdîs amongst the one thousand and
two hundred communists whom ’Abdussalâm’s government
hanged in Iraq. Yazîd, one of the Umayyad Khalîfas, has no
connection with them. Their present chief, Amâwî, was born in
Lâdesh in 1930 A.D. He attained the rank of generalship in the
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