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Manouchehr Atashi
Quiescence of a enlightened man in dark years and inspiring hope of fecund years
Regret of Dr. Mohsen Hashtroudi's death
We are infants whereas he was magnanimous. We are ignorant whereas he was wise.
We knew a little whereas he knew so much more and when we knew, he was referee,
an experienced referee with profound awareness based on philosophy, art and inherent
intelligence.
Before we got to know Dr. Mohesen Hashtroudi, we had become to acquainted with a similar
name “Zia Hashtroudi”, Dr. Mohsen Hashtroudi's brother, at a time when confirmation
of modern art, literature and poem, music, ... if not as mortal sin, but was ambiguous and
inferential questionable. A collection of Nima's poems and some other poets, more than
twenty years ago, was an evidence of opportune clairvoyance, and furthermore, an evidence
of awareness of the nation's cultural need that was so far from its intellectuals.
And just, it was simultaneous with such relative wonder event that we found out the existence
of much more profound and far-sighted insight and though it was too late for us, we knew a
person who was eqipped with profound and widespread knowledge from different phenomena
and wisdom and artistic events of his time, namely, of our time.
Dr. Mohsen Hashtroudi, PhD in mathematics, was one of the first Iranian students who was
simultaneous with proficiency in mathematics and modern physics, equipped with knowledge
of art, literature and modern painting, entered intellectual Iranian circles and he was known as
a hub to resolve and look after difficult problems and arduous intellectual subjects.
Dr. Mohsen Hashtroudi's attempt was more devoted to find out the relation between art (in
general) and modern sciences and to inform scholars.
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My first meeting with the wise and intelligent of this time was at the time of beginning of
publication of “Ketab hafteh” (book of the week) in the newspaper Keyhan. In that first
meeting, Dr. Hashtroudi was introduced as the head of editorial board that could naturally
be impressive and encouraging, and lead youth and inquiring and searching thoughts in
ideal direction to effectual working (as it could, and we saw and accepted that the most
brilliant period in the relative short life of “Ketab hafteh” has been indeed the period of Dr.
Hashtroudi's editorship.)
From Prof. Hashtroudi's cultural personality traits was stupendous young attitude, dynamic
thought, uninterrupted query in many intellectual fields and “ism”s. He spoke about modern
art at a time when the most renounced it, and, he succeeded to find out the precise inscrutable
relation between art and sciences and stated it in a brief treatise at a time when others did
not believe in such coordination and unity. What Hashtroudi has done in Iran, certainly in a
smaller criterion, wa similar to what philosopher Russell has done with English literature,
and in a better interpretation, Hashtroudi had thought proximity with many contemporary
intellectuals of the world and he attempted to make to think and to move eminent required
ideas at least in a closer area.
He was a compassionate teacher, a real teacher. And all who have enjoyed to learn from him
however in a short time, know it and testify it. We said that he was extreme young attitude
and it is important that he was aware of truth of this attitude and its naturality and since he
took the most time of his life for it.
From other Hashtroudi's intellectual personality traits was Ishraghi aspects of his thoughts.
The aspects that had origin in his profound knowledge of Iranian theosophy and on the other
hand, with emphasis on it, he attempted to search new bases to justify modern industrial
knowledge and to expose divine relations between art and sciences and from this perspective
to disclose human presence (existence) in all of achievements.
Hashtroudi passed away and we missed one of our wise teacher. We wish, we would make
believes to accept this reality that: he is just asleep, but he has not been dead, because we hold
over his prominent thoughts.
1This article has been quoted from Tamasha magazine No. 278
2Nima Yooshij (1896-1960) contemporary poet, he is known as the father of modern Persian poetry
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3Ishraghi or illuminationism is a doctorine in theology. Shahab al-Din Sohrevardi (1155-1191), Iranian
philosopher founded the school of Illumination which draws on Avicennism thought and the original idea of
Sohrevardi. In this philosophy, Sohrevardi argued that light operators at all levels and hierarchies of reality.
Translated by Fariba Elliee
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