This book is an effort to present questions and speculations about religion that in the traditional societies, especially Kurdish society, will face problems and maybe prohibitions. Beginning chapters of the book, starts with a flash back to the depth of history, with a review of the initiation and growing of religious thoughts in the old society, when the tale starts, and the detail of their progress and development, changes and transitions happened to these thoughts A brief explanation of world's famous religions, their characteristics, and a comparison of their differences and similarities. In the following chapters, traditional methods of interpreting of holy books are reviewed .Especially the effect of time, location and appetite and personal opinion of interpreters. These are due to misunderstandings, abusing the religion, superstitious thoughts, and changing religion to superstitions that create animosity and taking side against science as a result. In this regards, it suggests, for keeping the holy books from being influenced by politics and ideologies, use the literary theory and aesthetics method to interpret them. In this book theology has not been discussed and no question has been asked about the existence of God .Neither it prefers any religion over the other. However it does criticize and challenges the kind of behaviors that by using religion as a mean promote extremism, religious racism, and killing and devastation. In this book the writer is trying to achieve possible mechanism that helps the tolerance spirit and respects for each other religious beliefs. Also in this book, thoughts and efforts of eastern philosophers are widely used, especially Islamic ones, in the past or present. Those who have done valuable work in understanding religion and using it in a way that serves the humanity. Moreover the western style experience and modernity philosophy has been utilized.
About the Author: I was born in 1955 in Quladiza, Kurdistan of Iraq. When I was young, under the influence of my family, especially my father, I was inclined towards communism and socialism. So under this type of ideology I started to write, first poems and social articles those were published in the communist party magazines. In 1980 Iran- Iraq war broke out. Like all other young people I had to join the army and go to the battlefield. I declined and joined Kurdish rebellion fighting against Saddam Hussein Regime. For Almost four years I lived in a very harsh condition among the Kurdistan Mountains in the Iran- Iraq borders. In 1984, following an intense conflict along with a group of people, we were forcefully entered the Iran soil, and there I applied for political asylum and never returned back to Iraq. In Iran I restarted writing literature articles, and they were published in the "Serwah" magazine. "Serwah" was published in Orumieh city-Iran under editorial of "Hemen" the great famous Kurdish poet. In 1984 my first Novel, called Three Nights in Jail, was published that later on I regretted writing it since it had a very weak literary context. Even though later on it was translated in Farsi. In 1985, I met my future wife, Chimen, and married together the same year. It was a pivot point in my life, since she was a great book reader and till now she has been a great support for my writing. More importantly with her assistance I learned Farsi language that opened the doors of Farsi literature to me. The fruit of our marriage was two boys ( Ribaz and Dydar) who live separately from us. In 1986, with the help of my wife, I translated a short story called (Hiroshima Kids) from Farsi to Kurdish that was published in Iran. In 1987 I wrote a story book called "Shilan" that was printed and published in Iran. In 1989, my family and I immigrated to former Soviet Union. There, we saw the realities of life in USSR that was completely different from my assumption that I had in my mind. As a result I went through a big ideological transformation. In 1992 my family and I took refugee status in Netherland. After a short period I restarted writing in Netherland. I wrote a set of literary critical articles. Also I reviewed and commented the products of present poets that were published in European magazines. Later on along with above, following significant changes in the Middle East and Iraq and Kurdistan I wrote articles about political philosophy ad sociology and it still continues.