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شبِ مرگِ خونينَت
شبِ "زفاف"ِ توست
زيرا بكارتَت، غنيمت جنگي ست
و بيم آن مي رود
كه اگر دوشيزه بميري
يك راست به باغِ بهشت شوي.

در دادگاه الله، ارزش يك زن
بيش از يك نيمه مرد نيست
با اين همه، دو بار مجازات مي شوي:
يكبار براي بكارتَت
يكبار براي جسارتَت.

پس از خاكسپاريَت
در گورستانِ كُفرآباد،
پاسدار "داماد"
به در خانه ات مي رود
و شيرينيِ "عروسي" را
بدست مادرت مي دهد،
زيرا تجاوز
يك وسيله ي اِرعاب است
و حوريانِ بهشتيِ قرآن
در چشمِ پاسدار اسلام
نسيه مي نمايند.

   هشتم فوريه 1986

Blood Bride

        By Majid Naficy

The night of your bloody death
Is the night of your “wedding”*
Because your virginity is a war spoil
And it is feared if you die a virgin
You will go directly to the garden of Paradise.

In the court of Allah
A woman is not valued
 More than half of a man
And yet, you are punished twice:
One time for your virginity
One time for your courage.

After burying you
In the Cemetery of the Infidels
The “bridegroom” Islamic guard
Goes to your house
And gives your mother a “wedding” cake
Because rape is a means of terror
And the gazelle-eyed virgins
Promised by the Quran in paradise
Seem hard to cash in
To the Islamic guard.

        February 8, 1986

*- In the 1980s, Islamic guards were ordered to "marry", that is, rape
virgin political prisoners before their executions in Iran. The clergy
believed that if the girls remained virgins they would go to paradise
after death.  In this respect, readers may read a letter written by
Hussein Ali Montazeri to Khomeini dated October 7, 1986 included in
Montazeri's Political Memoir available in Persian on the Internet.