Modares and the Parliament

This page is dedicated to Sayyed Hassan Modares’ famous statements, writings, and speeches in the Parliament and beyond, so that historians and enthusiasts can read his words directly.

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Sayyed Abdol Baghi, Modares’s son (March 1986): 

My father told me to go to France for higher education. He said that Persia needed physicians and educators. He said: come back to serve the people!

One day, when I was taking a test, someone came in and handed me a telegraph. It was about Father’s assassination attempt. I didn’t know what to do. I did not allow myself to disobey Father’s order, let go and come back, even under such circumstances. I put the telegraph in my pocket and continued answering the questions. 

After returning to Iran, I moved to Kurdistan for a few years to serve as a physician. I rented a house that functioned as a clinic, too. Most people were poor. Sometimes they brought me yogurt, bread, or eggs instead of paying for the visits. I was basically living with those foods. I didn’t ask other patients for a fee either. They paid me if they had any money. 

Winter nights were stormy and snowy. I feared that people would knock on the door and I couldn’t hear. I got dressed, kept my bag of medical supplies on my chest, wrapped a few blankets around myself, sat behind the door, and leaned my ear against the door to make sure I could hear people knocking; in case they needed a doctor. I slept there until morning. 

People were kind and respected physicians very much. 

از چپ به راست، ایستاده: آقای کشاورز، آقای کیان، آقای ؟ 

نشسته از چپ به راست: آقای ؟ ، و عبدالباقی مدرس 

عبدالباقی با میرزا سید حسن زعیم، که دوست مدرس و نماینده ی مجلس و عضو گروه اقلیت بود، به نیس رفت و در آنجا با چهار دانشجوی دیگر آشنا شد. این چهار دانشجو توسط دولت به فرانسه فرستاده شده بودند تا تحصیل کنند و به ایران بازگردند. مدرس پسر خود را با هزینه ی شخصی به فرانسه فرستاد

نیس؟، عکاس:؟، تاریخ عکاسی:؟

طبق خاطرات عبدالباقی، سید حسن مدرس به پسر خود گفته بود که برای تحصیل طب به فرانسه برود و بعد از بازگشت به ایران به مردم بعنوان پزشک خدمت کند. سفر عبدالباقی بلافاصله پس از فارغ التحصیلی وی از مدرسه ی دارالفنون بود. سید حسن مدرس از دوست و همفکر خود، میرزا سید حسن زعیم، درخواست کرده بود که به عبدالباقی کمک کند تا لباس روحانیت را از تن بدر آورد، با او به بازار برود، و چند کت و شلوار برای عبدالباقی انتخاب کند. این تصمیم مورد اعتراض تعدادی از روحانیونی که مدرس و خانواده ی وی را شخصن می شناختند قرار گرفت و عمل تغییر لباس عبدالباقی را توهین به سایر روحانیون خواندند. مدرس به اعتراضات آنان بی اعتنا ماند، و پسر وی تغییر لباس داد و برای تحصیل به نیس رفت 

برادر بزرگتر عبدالباقی، اسماعیل، به انتخاب خود در ایران ماند و تا پایان عمر، به عنوان روحانی در یک مدرسه ی مذهبی در اصفهان به تدریس پرداخت 

Left to Right, Standing: Mr. Keshaavarz, Mr. Kiyan, Mr. ? 

Sitting from Left to Right: ? and Abdol Baghi Modares

Abdol Baghi Modares went to Paris with Mirza Sayyed Hasan Zaeem, a friend of Modares, one of the representatives of Shoushtar, and a member of the minority group in the Parliament. In Paris, Abdol Baghi Modares met the other four medicine students who were sent to France by the government to study and return to Iran. Modares sent his son with his own income. 

Nice ?, Photographer:?, Date:?

According to Abdol Baghi, Sayyed Hasan Modares told his son to go to France, study medicine, and go back to Iran to serve people as a physician. This trip occurred right after Abdol Baghi’s graduation from Dar al-Fonoun Polytechnic School in Tehran. Modares asked Mirza Sayyed Hasan Zaeem, his friend, one of the representatives of Shoushtar, and a member of the minority group in the Parliament, to help Abdol Baghi with removing the clergies’ outfit (Aba and Turban) and purchase several western style business suits from Bazaar before leaving for France. This decision was condemned by a few clergies who personally knew Modares and his family. They felt that such an act was an insult toward the community. Sayyed Hasan Modares ignored those comments; his son removed Aba and Turban and left for France for education. 

Abdol Baghi’s older brother, Sayyed Ismail Modares, committed to be a clergy by his own choice and continued teaching at a religious school in Isfahan until his death.