Vasily Isarbekov Biography

Vasily Irzabekov - the thinker and writer of Azerbaijani origin - about why he became a Christian after my arrival at the church, all previous acquaintances were stopped not only with Azerbaijanis, but also with Baku Jews. They did not understand me, they spoke poorly about the Son of God, but I could not tolerate it. I had to make a choice. In the future, we all have to do it more than once.

Islam intensifies, and I would have depressed, because the Savior said that when the world comes to judge, he does not know whether he would find faith on earth. But he also said: “Do not be afraid, small herd! When a Christian dies for faith - this is an honor that you can only dream of.

Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks who stretch to Christ are often coming to me. They ask: “How did you come? No, I do not feel like a renegade, a defector who nailed to a stranger. I returned to the faith of the ancestors who have been Christians for several centuries. As a child, I remember I was very hot -tempered, such a blood. But my grandmother, reassuring me, repeated the Azerbaijani proverb: "You are an enemy - a stone, and you are pilaf." What times did this advice reach us?

The word "man" in Azerbaijani sounds like "Adam", which immediately leads us to the very origins of the Old Testament history. The traitor is pronounced as “hain”-yes, the same Cain, who committed the very first and grave betrayal, the murder of a haggard brother. Alien person is “boor”, which also does not need special comments. An even greater surprise is that in the Azerbaijani language there is a word that denotes not just light, but a non -expert light.

The usual light, for example, the radiance of the Sun, is called “Ishig”, and the divine light is “Nur”. Hence the name Nuriev, Nuraliev. Sleeping to the loved ones to the deceased, they say: "Let the grave be filled with unchanged light." That is, they wish to meet with Christ. I read the Qur'an, this is not close there. Another custom has been preserved from the ancient Azerbaijani priests: to lay the right hand on the head in order to bless, to convey their luck.

The idle, for example, ask them to bless a friend who successfully married, find a good, kind girl. Classmates asked me to put my hand when I left the examiner’s office with a five test. This is still from the apostles. It was in Baku that the disciple of the Lord Bartholomew was crucified and was crucified. Passing through our lands, he spread the word of the God's apostle Thomas, and the first church, “the foreman of all churches in the east,” founded in our town the GIS of St.

Elisha. He was ordained the Savior's half -brother - the patriarch of Jerusalem Jacob. Eighteen centuries ago, we shone the light of Christ's faith. The Persians tried to return our land to fire worship, but after many battles they said that let anyone want something, they worship. And then the Arabs Caucasian Albania came in that era of a prosperous country with a highly developed culture, its own alphabet of 52 letters, and all this was destroyed almost to the ground, erased from the face of the earth.

And here we are faced with the most, perhaps, amazing circumstance. Even in Russia, many heard about Babeke, saw a film shot about him with a huge scope. This is the main national hero of Azerbaijan, everyone else is not standing near him. He is named monuments, he is called children in the name, he is composed of poems and songs about him. And how did he distinguish? The fact that he fought with the Arab conquerors for many years, defeated many of their armies, having hundreds of thousands of supporters, before he was betrayed and issued to execution.

They killed the hero terribly: they cut off their arms and legs, pushing them into the disconnected stomach, and then the dead was nailed to the cross. Why to the cross is clear. Shortly before his death, Babek was baptized in Orthodoxy, and he was captured when he made his way to his co -religionists in Byzantium to gather with his strength. I was 18 years old when I first learned about what faith Babek professed, that he wore a cross under armor.

This was told to me by the writer Jalal Barbushat, he then wrote a book about a woman called “Naked Sword”, collected material about him, got acquainted with sources, mostly Arabic. So imagine, think about it - the protagonist of Azerbaijan was an Orthodox Christian who died in the fight against people who brought us Islam. I talked about this with our Azerbaijani scientists.

He asked: “Do you know that? And then I began to understand why I always, from childhood, was so pulling into the temple. Our land is the blood of the blood of numerous martyrs for faith, among whom there could not be my ancestors. It was they who removed me. There is no other explanation. And when I hear that I betrayed the Azerbaijani people with his faith, I reply: "No, guys, I came home to my place."