The document reveals another fact: Although Peshawa had great spiritual, social, and political strength, he was not an authoritarian politician, but believed in consultation and collective thought. He consulted the outstanding classes of his time and after these processes made his historic decision and proclaimed the Kurdistan Republic. A decision that is still one of the brightest points of Kurdish political life.
Articles have been written about the leadership of the martyr Peshawar Qazi Mohammad several times, indicating that he was unaware of the consequences of his historic decision. In other words, the situation in the region has changed and due to the deterioration of the balance of power in Iran and the will of the powerful countries, some changes have occurred, and people in Rojhelat and Peshawa, in that situation, decided to announce the Kurdistan Republic.
Obviously, in analysing any political event, all internal and external factors must be considered. We cannot even ignore the influence of global forces in domestic political events. World War II had just ended and the world's major powers, most importantly the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States, were engaged in a new conflict. So of course, all these events had an impact on the establishment of the Kurdistan Republic. But this does not mean that the Kurds themselves did not have the will, thought, and plan to build their own state. A study of the political and social movements before the republic reveals that the Kurds of East Kurdistan, before the republic and nearly 100 years ago, had concluded that a new movement must be started. Therefore, several revolutions and uprisings had already started in different parts of East Kurdistan, and the last one before the Kurdistan Republic, with the help of some political activists in South Kurdistan, The Society for the Revival of Kurdistan, Komeley Jiyanewey Kurdistan, or JK, was established. We can say they were even more radical than the Republic. Whatever the purpose of belittling the Kurdish political movement and courage, the facts tell us something else because there are two groups that follow this opinion, one that belongs to the authorities and accuses the Kurdistan Republic and its leaders of being xenophobic and completely dependent on them and considers them as subordinates of the Soviets and communists. Obviously, the hidden purpose behind the words of this group is to show a republic that came into being in Kurdistan more than seventy years ago as less important. A republic that by all measures met many of the conditions for democratization at the time, and its own and foreign writers have confirmed this fact.
The other group is some Kurds who are critical of the establishment of a national state for the Kurds. They complain about the republic and its administrators that the government established by Peshawa and his comrades did not represent all Kurdish classes and its geography was small and could not spread to all parts of Kurdistan. It has not spread to the south and has remained confined to one area and similar complaints. But if we are realistic and consider the possibilities, because by definition politics is the art of considering the possibilities, not the passions, Qazi Mohammad has tried to involve all classes, intellectuals such as Abdulrahman Zabihi, Hazhar Mukriani, and Hemn Mukriani, even the sheikhs, mullahs, and Aghas participated in this movement so that the least number of people are deprived of it. The republic has not lived long enough to develop further. In terms of geography, the division of the world powers was based in Iran and not in Kurdistan and did not allow the geography of the Kurdistan government to be expanded beyond that. If some think the new government like the Kurdistan Republic could struggle with Britain in the beginning, we can only say they are unrealistic and nothing else.
We can find the facts in the pages of oral and written history to see what the decisions and behavior of the administrators of the Kurdistan Republic were like. Recently, a document has been published that shows that Peshawa Qazi Mohammad had all the dangers in mind even before he proclaimed the Kurdistan Republic.
The document reveals another fact: Although Peshawa had great spiritual, social, and political strength, he was not an authoritarian politician, but believed in consultation and collective thought. He consulted the outstanding classes of his time and after these processes made his historic decision and proclaimed the Kurdistan Republic. A decision that is still one of the brightest points of Kurdish political life.
The same document reveals another fact. Peshawa Qazi Mohammad's second decision, after the republic's collapse, his stay in Mahabad, and his martyrdom, was a conscious decision because, as the document shows, he was well aware of the consequences of his personal life. He decided to stay to save Kurdish people's lives, even at the cost of his life and that of his loved ones. Because as we know, it was he, Hama Hossein Khani Saif Qazi and Sadri Qazi were executed in the square of Mahabad by the corrupt Pahlavi regime. So people stayed safe and a massacre like what happened in Tabriz has not done to them.
The document is a letter written in response to a question in a letter from Peshawa.
The letter was written by Sheikh Mohammad Bejweyi, also known as Sheikh Mohammad Naqshbandi, to Peshawa and published by Faraidun Hakimzadeh.
The text of the letter is:
The photo of Sheikh Mohammed Bejweyi's letter in response to Peshawa Qazi Mohammed
25-6-1945
In the name of the Highest and sanctified: and their greeting in it is peace
My dear respected Mr. Qazi Mohammad, first of all, in order to obey the heavenly command to the human world. First of all, in response to your greeting, I also say hello and greetings. Sir: There are so many sorrows that they cannot be written down. What to say and what to write about the important and complicated work you have written to me in advance - it would have been better to discuss it with someone more skilled and experienced Where do I, the prayerful, how answer these complicated tasks? However, in terms of your trust in me, I think your life will be short and your name will stay great. It means short life with a great and famous name.
As you wish you can choose to live shortly or long.
Sheikh Mohammed Amin Naqshbandi.[1]