Doc Arabs themselves were great poets, Caliph Umer under whose Caliphate Muslim Army entered Persia was a poet himself. And those people were fairly liberal and open minded and had thinking brains, their strategies were the reason that Romans and Persians were defeated simultaneously, the two super powers of their times. I don't deny that Persians weren't smart and civilised ...... I only ask a simple question, how come they achieved all this which you say they achieved after converting to Islam? What changed? These were same people no?
The time for fruit is over doc ....... it's about time to being normal again and drop the fairy tales as part of faith. Many people went Atheist believing these fairy tales and not these fair tales not making any sense to them ..... but fortunately they found a reasonable person to separate fairy tales from truth for them and make them understand Islam easier.
Bro still on the phone so Google and links and references to make a point is not possible.
Suffice to say that if you believe that the Persians had their golden age after Islam and before Islam they were simply waiting, fighting and conquering the world, but waiting, then I'm admittedly at a loss for words.
If Persepolis and it's fabled history means nothing.
It either speaks of a monocular vision or lack of proper research.
Either way, I am not here to teach you.
You speak of Zoroastrianism (and Mithraism before it) as fairy tales, and Islam the final rationalistic panacea to all world evils.
Fine again.
The issue here is simple.
I see Islam as the Arabs finally getting the message.
Don't know about finally either, coz there still seems to be some talk of yet another messenger in the firm if a Mahdi .... yet to come. At the head of a black turbaned army.
We'll see.
Suffice to say, we've received the message 8000 years ago, and are still here.
The fire still burns. Both physically and in our hearts.
Not just a a few thousand remaining Parsi hearts, but many million Persian hearts.
For that is and will always be Ahura Mazda's land, and His chosen people.
A few swords from the adjoining desert lands is not going to change that.
Maybe the two of us will see it in our respective lifetime? Who knows!
Ushta te.
Cheers, Doc
........ I am huge fan and strong follower of the people who brought your great empire to its knees and your king to his senses. Have you forgotten all that they did to your people? We are friends who would clash anytime ....... I am not your average Muslim friend, I have my views very clear about what your forefathers did to avenge their humiliation 
