In southern Tehran, Iran, there is a tourist attraction called the Shahrbanu Zoroastrian Temple. In fact, the temple is named after the last Persian princess, Shahrbanu. Her and other Persian women were occupied by the Arabs, a history of humiliation. But today's Iranians are so proud and proud that they have a divine bloodline and regard the invaders of hundreds of years ago as their ancestors. The tragic story of Princess Shahrbanu is still something iranians today, believing that it was because of her that they chose Shia thought as their state religion.
Shahrbanu, born in Ctesiphon, the daughter of the last Emperor of Persia, Ishir, was very beautiful. The Sassanid Empire was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, beginning in 224. It replaced the Sabbath Empire, which was regarded as one of the two major powers in West Asia and Europe, and coexisted with the Roman Empire for more than 400 years, but it did not escape the fate of annihilation.
The Arabs, led by Muhammad, grew stronger and launched a fierce attack on the Persian Empire. The long war exhausted the strength of the Sassanid Dynasty. In 651 AD, the once-illustrious Sassanid Empire collapsed. Shahrbanu's father died in Mulu, and his brother Belus fled to China. She, on the other hand, was captured by the Arabs. The Arabs brutally slaughtered and plundered the persian capital, and a large amount of treasure was taken away. In Ctesiphon alone, more than 40,000 beautiful noblewomen were captured. They loaded women into prison carts or strung them one by one with ropes and brought them to slave markets in distant mecca and other places for sale. At that time, the price of Persian women was very cheap, and the lowest only donkey could be exchanged.
After being captured, Shahrbanu also became a slave and was almost trafficked in Medina. Because of her beautiful birth, she was married to the fourth Arab caliph, Ali's son Hussein ibn Ali as a concubine, and even gave birth to children for this destroying enemy. The relevant history books do not record her life in detail, except that her son was ali ibn hussein, the fourth Imam of Shiites, who was an idol of the Persians. As for how she died, it is not known. A noble, beautiful, civilized princess, but married a barbarian as a concubine, Shahrbanu's tragic fate is emotional.
After the fall of the Sassanid Dynasty, the religious beliefs of the Persians were replaced by the religions of the Arabs, and the once glorious history was destroyed by the Arabs. More than a thousand years have passed, and the persians of the past and the Iranians of today know less and less about their ancestors, but have a good impression of the former invaders. In 1979, after Khomeini and others launched the "Islamic Revolution," this trend became even more pronounced.