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Who Are Yezidi, Ezidi or Yazidi, and Yezidism,
A comprehensive Case Study

Yezidis are our brothers whom their Elder brothers have forgot since centuries.
They came in the knowledge of the common people by internet when a yezidi girl Dua Khalil Aswad 17 years, was stoned to death by peoples of her town on 7th April- 2007, on the charge of being in relation with a Muslim boyfriend, & becoming a Muslim.
The video of her honor killing was posted on the internet in May 2007.
After this incident the internet was flooded with the blogs supporting the innocent Dua Khalil, and providing confusing information about the Yezidi religion and their practices, their history and the felonies and hostilities of Muslims against this helpless community.
And some peoples were claiming that the Yezidi religion is an ancient and preislamic pagan religion, and it has the blend of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism and Sufism, and the Yezidis worship an Angel in the form of a Peacock or Taus, The peacock angel, and that The Yezidism is an ancient Angelic Cult, and some posted on internet that the Yezidis are the Worshippers of Satan, and that they are Devil Worshippers, and the Muslims have attacked them 72 times in their bloody history and they still struggling for survival in spite of such hostility. All this is wrong. In reality they are Monotheists.

Some people and Organizations even alluring them to make them near to themselves by comforting and soothing them and extending their helping hand, this act caused to create a big gulf of Hatred between the Muslims and the Yezidis,
Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Diyus of Indo European origins, and Malek is a word in Iraq for monsters, but all these comments are nothing but the wishful thinking, and actually the Yezidism is a very different from all these gossips. We will study it in detail, but for your introduction I am giving here an extract directly copied from the internet blog.
First I want to give you some extracts copied from internet about the Yezidis, after that you will see my comprehensive Study on Yazidism,

Yazdânism collectively denotes a group of native Kurdish religions: Alevism, and Doctrines of Rifaiya’ Sufis, and Yarsan and Yazidism. The Yazdani faiths were the primary religion of the Kurds until their Islamisation in the 16th century. Yazdanism continues to be primarily practiced in relatively isolated communities. The adherents of Yazdanism are estimated to constitute about 1/3 of the Kurds. Yazdanism has however strongly influenced the Kurdish form of Islam.

The name 'Yazdanism' derives from Kurdish yazdan, literally meaning "worthy of worship" and a place in Iran or Eizd in Persian for God, and referring to a belief in a great heptad (seven) of divine beings (see detail below). The three Yazdani traditions are therefore also known as the Cult of Angels.
Adherents themselves refer to the faith as Rae Haq, i.e. The correct opinion, a reference to the primary deity or "universal spirit".
The principal feature of the Yazdani faiths is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. Another important feature of the religions is a doctrine of reincarnation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism

1. The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: Êzidîtî or Êzidî, Arabic: (( يزيدي أَو إزيدي Are adherents of the smallest of the three branches of Yazdânism, a Middle Eastern religion with ancient Indo-European roots. Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq.
Their principal holy site is in Lalish, northeast of Mosul. The Yazidis' own name for themselves is Êzidî or Êzîdî or, in some areas, Dasinî. Some scholars have derived the name Yazidi from Old Iranic yazata (divine being), while others say it is a derivation from Umayyad Caliph Yazid I
2. (Yazid bin Muawiyah), revered by the Yazidis as an incarnation of the divine figure Sultan Ezi (this is no longer widely accepted). Yazidis, themselves, believe that their name is derived from the word Yezdan or Êzid meaning God; Iraq, where Arabic is spoken. Kurmanjî is the language of almost all the orally transmitted religious traditions of the Yazidis. Thus, religious origins are somewhat complex.

The religion of the Yazidis is a highly syncretistic one: Sufi influence and imagery can be seen in their religious vocabulary, especially in the terminology but much of the mythology is non-Islamic. Early writers attempted to describe Yazidi origins, broadly speaking, in terms of Islam, or Persian, or sometimes even pagan religions.

The origin of the Yazidi religion is now usually seen by scholars as a complex process of syncretism, whereby the belief system and practices of a local faith had a profound influence on the religiosity of adherents of the Adawiyya Sufi order living in the Kurdish mountains, and caused it to deviate from Islamic norms relatively soon after the death of its founder, Sheikh Adî ibn Musafir who is said to be of Umayyad descent. He settled in the valley of Lalis (some thirty-six miles north-east of Mosul) in the early 12th century AD. Sheikh Adî himself, a figure of orthodoxy, enjoyed widespread influence. He died in 1162, and his tomb/ Mazar is at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage. During the fourteenth century, important Kurdish tribes whose sphere of influence stretched well into what is now Turkey (including, for a period, the rulers of the principality of Jazira) are cited in historical sources as Yazidi.

The details of their teachings are said to contain elements from most of the known religions in the region. They are clearly instructed to keep their beliefs and rituals hidden from ‘outsiders’. They have two holy books; one of them is called Kitab E Raz or “The Black Book”. Or the Book of Raz, i.e. Asrar or Secrets.

The word for Satan in Arabic is Shaitan. They never utter that word. In fact, they avoid saying any word which has similar syllables - even common words such as ‘shat’ (wide river). They generally avoid saying any word of damnation. For some reason, they never eat lettuce. One well-known Iraqi historian, al Hasani, claims that for many centuries they were forbidden from learning to read and write, except for one family.

As a demiurge figure, Tawûsê Melek is often identified by orthodox Muslims as a Shaitan (Satan), a Muslim term denoting a devil or demon who deceives true believers. The Islamic tradition regarding the fall of "Shaitan" from Grace is in fact very similar to the Yazidi story of Malek Taus - that is, the Jinn who refused to submit to Adam is celebrated as Tawûsê Melek by Yazidis, but the Islamic version of the same story curses the same Jinn who refused to submit as becoming Satan.[18] Thus, the Yazidi have been accused of devil worship.

Anyway, the word Taus (in Melek Taus) is derived from the Indo-European root Diyus and is from Arabic Peacock or Taoos, and Greek Zeus. Ancient Indo-Iranians used to worship the souls of their fathers and grandfathers and glorified the souls of their dead. They also believed in a supreme God (The Father God), who represented natural powers. After the arrival of Zoroaster, he kept Ahoramazda (Supreme God) and abolished the other gods. Over time, Zoroastrians began to associate Devas with Satan and prohibited painting, statues, sacrifice of animals, alcohol and fasting. Zoroaster called those who did not follow his teachings as demon worshipers. Despite zoroasterians' efforts, large parts of the population kept their old beliefs in worshiping natural phenomena. According to scholar Taufiq Wahby and others the word Dasni or Dasny, the ethnic self-designation of Yazidis, is a form of the old word Deva Ysne used by Zoroaster to identify those who did not follow his religion.

Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel, and therefore comparable to the Christians' Saint Michael, who is likewise considered the leader of the "seven who stand before the Lord" and of all other good angels. Also, they hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Melek Taus. The active forces in their religion are Melek Taus and Sheik Adî. The Kitab E Jalwa i.e., Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Illumination) which claims to be the words of Melek Taus, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Melek Taus is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said : "I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: "You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth). God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven."

However, here is the interesting part:

They believe that God first created Melek Taus from his own illumination (Ronahî in Kurdish) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Melek Taus not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Melek Taus. In answer to God, Malek Taus replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to legend he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.) Hence the Yazidis believe that Melek Taus is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (March/April). Yazidis hold that God created Malek Taus on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Melek Taus, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe or God Says Kun fa Yakun, in Arabic). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Taus the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Melek Taus is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê ). Sheikh Adî has observed the story of Melek Taus and believed in him.
So, it quite appears that they actually worship Iblis!

Then there is a contradiction arising from "The Black Book" itself:

(They believe in God as the Supreme Being, but they also have seven other lesser gods / angels. A god has come down to earth every 1000 years since the Flood, 7,000 years ago. The most senior of those gods is called “Melek Ta’us” (Arabic for Peacock Angel).)

“After he repented he cried for 7,000 years, his tears filling 7 jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.”
Why would he cry if God had rewarded him?

key and interrelated features of Yazidism are: a) a preoccupation with religious purity and b) a belief in metempsychosis. The first of these is expressed in the system of caste, the food laws, the traditional preferences for living in Yazidi communities, and the variety of taboos governing many aspects of life. The second is crucial; Yazidis traditionally believe that the Seven Holy Beings are periodically reincarnated in human form, called a koasasa.

Yazidis, who have much in common with the followers of Ahl-e Haqq (in western Iran), state that the world created by God was at first a pearl. It remained in this very small and enclosed state for some time (often a magic number such as forty or forty thousand years) before being remade in its current state. During this period the Heptad were called into existence, God made a covenant with them and entrusted the world to them. Besides Melek Taus, members of the Heptad (the Seven), who were called into existence by God at the beginning of all things, include Sheikh Adî, his companion Shaikh Hasan, and a group known as the four Mysteries, Shamsadin, Fakhradin, Sajadin and Naserdin. The Yazidi holy books are the Kitêba Cilwe (Book of Revelation) and the Mishefa Res (Black Book).

A belief in the reincarnation of lesser Yazidi souls also exists. Like the Ahl-e Haqq, the Yazidis use the metaphor of a change of garment to describe the process, which they call kiras guhorîn in Kurdish (changing the garment). Alongside this, Yazidi mythology also includes descriptions of heaven and hell, with hell extinguished, and other traditions incorporating these ideas into a belief system that includes reincarnation.

Yazidi are dominantly monogamous but chiefs may have more than one wife. Children are baptized at birth and circumcision is common but not required. Dead are buried in conical tombs immediately after death and buried with hands crossed.

According to Mohammed Aš-Šahrastani, “The Yezidis are the followers of Yezîd bin Unaisa, who [said that he] kept friendship with the first Muhakkama before the Azari?a”[14] “It is clear, then, that Aš-Šahrastani finds the religious origin of this interesting people in the person of Yezîd bin Unaisa. ... We are to understand, therefore, that to the knowledge of the writer, bin Unaisa is the founder of the Yezidi sect, which took its name from him.” [15] “Now, the first Muhakkamah is an appellative applied to the Muslim schismatic called Al-?awarij ... . ... According to this it might be inferred that the Yezidis were originally a ?arijite sub-sect.”[16] “Yezid moreover, is said to have been in sympathy with Al-Aba?iyah, a sect founded by ‘Abd-Allah Ibn Iba?.” [16]; and the Iba?i sect is another ?arijite sub-sect.
Religious beliefs
Tawûsê Melek, the peacock angel
In the Yazidi belief system, God created the world and it is now in the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft sirr (the Seven Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), the Peacock Angel. According to the Encyclopedia of the Orient,
The reason for the Yazidis reputation of being devil worshipers is connected to the other name of Melek Taus, Shaytan, the same name the Koran has for Satan.[17]
Furthermore, the Yazidi story regarding Tawûsê Melek's rise to favor with God is almost identical to the story of the jinn Iblis in Islam, except that Yazidis revere Tawûsê Melek for refusing to submit to Adam, while Muslims believe that Iblis' refusal to submit caused him to fall out of Grace with God, and to later become Satan himself.[18]
Tawûsê Melek is often identified by Muslims and Christians with Shaitan (Satan). Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsê Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. They also hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Tawûsê Melek. The active forces in their religion are Tawûsê Melek and Sheik Adî.
The Kitêba Cilwe "Book of Illumination", which claims to be the words of Tawûsê Melek, and which presumably represents Yazidi belief, states that he allocates responsibilities, blessings and misfortunes as he sees fit and that it is not for the race of Adam to question him. Sheikh Adî believed that the spirit of Tawûsê Melek is the same as his own, perhaps as a reincarnation. He is believed to have said:
I was present when Adam was living in Paradise, and also when Nimrod threw Abraham in fire. I was present when God said to me: 'You are the ruler and Lord on the Earth'. God, the compassionate, gave me seven earths and throne of the heaven.
Yazidi accounts of creation differ from that of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They believe that God first created Tawûsê Melek from his own illumination (Ronahî ) and the other six archangels were created later. God ordered Tawûsê Melek not to bow to other beings. Then God created the other archangels and ordered them to bring him dust (Ax) from the Earth (Erd) and build the body of Adam. Then God gave life to Adam from his own breath and instructed all archangels to bow to Adam. The archangels obeyed except for Tawûsê Melek. In answer to God, Tawûsê Melek replied, "How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust." Then God praised him and made him the leader of all angels and his deputy on the Earth. (This likely furthers what some see as a connection to the Islamic Shaytan, as according to the Quran he too refused to bow to Adam at God's command, though in this case it is seen as being a sign of Shaytan's sinful pride.) Hence the Yazidis believe that Tawûsê Melek is the representative of God on the face of the Earth, and comes down to the Earth on the first Wednesday of Nisan (April). Yazidis hold that God created Tawûsê Melek on this day, and celebrate it as New Year's Day. Yazidis argue that the order to bow to Adam was only a test for Tawûsê Melek, since if God commands anything then it must happen. (Bibe, dibe). In other words, God could have made him submit to Adam, but gave Tawûsê Melek the choice as a test. They believe that their respect and praise for Tawûsê Melek is a way to acknowledge his majestic and sublime nature. This idea is called "Knowledge of the Sublime" (Zanista Ciwaniyê). Sêx Adî has observed the story of Tawûsê Melek and believed in him.[19]
One of the key creation beliefs of Yazidism is that all Yazidis are descendants of Adam rather than Eve.[17] Yazidis believe that good and evil both exist in the mind and spirit of human beings. It depends on the humans, themselves, as to which they choose. In this process, their devotion to Tawûsê Melek is essential, since it was he who was given the same choice between good and evil by God, and chose the good.

Another important festival is the Tawûsgeran (circulation of the peacock) where Qewals and other religious dignitaries visit Yazidi villages, bringing the senjaq, sacred images of a peacock made from brass symbolizing Tawûsê Melek. These are venerated, taxes are collected from the pious, sermons are preached and holy water distributed.
The greatest festival of the year for ordinary Yazidis is the Cejna Cemaiya "Feast of the Assembly" at Lalish, a seven-day occasion. A focus of widespread pilgrimage, this is an important time for social contact and affirmation of identity. The religious center of the event is the belief in an annual gathering of the Heptad in the holy place at this time. Rituals practiced include the sacrifice of a bull at the shrine of Sêx Shams and the practice of sema.
Tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sêx Adî) in Lalish
The most important ritual is the annual seven-day pilgrimage to the tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Sêx Adî) in Lalish, north of Mosul, Iraq.[20][22] A sacred microcosm of the world, as it were, it contains not only many shrines dedicated to the koasasa, but a number of other landmarks corresponding to other sites or symbols of significance in other faiths, including Pirra selat "Serat Bridge" and a mountain called Mt. Arafat. The two sacred springs are called Zamzam and Kaniya Sipî "The White Spring".
If possible, Yazidis make at least one pilgrimage to Lalis during their lifetime, and those living in the region try to attend at least once a year for the autumn Feast of the Assembly which is celebrated from 23 Aylul (September) to 1 Tashrin (October). During the celebration, Yazidi bathe in the river, wash figures of Tawûsê Melek and light hundreds of lamps in the tombs of Sêx Adî and other saints. They also sacrifice an ox, which is one reason they have been connected to Mithraism, in addition to the presence of the dog and serpent in their iconography. The sacrifice of the ox is meant to declare the arrival of fall and to ask for precipitation during winter in order to bring back life to the Earth in the next Spring. Moreover, in astrology, the ox is the symbol of Tashrin.
Yazidi are exclusive; clans do not intermarry even with other Kurds and accept no converts. They claim that they are descended only from Adam. The strongest punishment is expulsion, which is also effectively excommunication because the soul of the exiled is forfeit.
However, in the case of the poor girl in the news, it seems the punishment exceeded much horror of a simple "expulsion"!!!!

News:
The Yazidi community was affected by several acts of violence in 2007. In April, a group of Yazidi men stoned to death 17 year old Du’a Khalil Aswad, allegedly for her involvement with a Muslim boy. On April 23, 2007 masked gunmen abducted and shot 23 Yazidis near Mosul; this was speculated to be a reprisal attack for Aswad's death. On August 14, 2007 Yazidis were targeted in a series of bombings that became the deadliest suicide attack since the Iraq War began.

Another Opinion about Yazidis from internet is as follows,

The Yazidis are linked to the extreme Shi'a (Ghulat) sects and number worldwide some 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 Yazidis live in the Jebel Sinjar mountain and the Shaikhan district of northwest Iraq.
The Yazidis call themselves Dawasi. They are called "Devil worshippers" by their Sunni neighbours, who considered them heretics and have cruelly persecuted them over the centuries. They are closely related to similar sects such as the Ahl-i-Haqq.
The Yazidi religion is a syncretistic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish and Nestorian Christian with Islamic Shi'a and Sufi elements and has many variants. They believe that they were created separately from the rest of mankind and are descended from Adam only - not from Adam and Eve like the rest of humanity. They have therefore kept themselves strictly isolated from the other communities among whom they lived, and did not intermarry with them. They also call themselves "Children of Adam" and see themselves as a chosen people.
Although scattered, they have a well organized society. The Emir (Mirza Beg) who resides at Ba'dari (65 km north of Mosul), is the secular head who represents the Yazidis to the central authorities. He installs the chief Sheikh (Sheikh Nazir, Baba Sheikh) who resides in Beled-Sinjar and is the supreme religious head and the infallible authority on their holy scriptures.
Ethnically most Yazidis are Kurmanji speaking Kurds. Their religious practice is centered on the tomb of their founder figure, Sheikh 'Adi ibn Musafir at Lalesh, some 60 km north-east of Mosul, who was probably a Sufi (some think an Isma'ili) preacher of the 12th century.
BELIEFS
Yazidis believe that the supreme God created the world, but delegated its maintenance to a hierarchy of seven angels of whom Malak Ta'us (the Peacock Angel) was the first in rank. Malak Ta'us sinned in not worshipping Adam, and was punished by being cast down from heaven. After shedding tears for 7000 years, with which the fires of hell were quenched, he repented of his sin of pride, was pardoned and reinstated as chief of the angels.
In Yazidi belief, Malak Ta'us is also the devil (Shaitan), the ruler of this world, and they seek to appease him as they fear his power. They do not actually worship him, but seek to honour and placate him, believing that the Supreme Being has delegated to him dominion over the world. They will never pronounce his Arabic name "Shaitan" or use any word beginning with "SH". He is seen as a capricious Lord who determines man's fate as he wills and in whom the principles of good and of evil are combined. It is believed that he appeared in different form in various periods of history, the final incarnation being in Sheikh 'Adi ben Musafir (d. 1162).
Malak Ta'us rules the universe with the help of six other angels, and he guards the gates of Paradise. The seven angels are worshipped by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze peacock figures called Sanjaq, the largest of which weighs 320 kg. Six of them are taken yearly on a round of the main Yazidi centres.
Of the other angels, Sultan Ezi is second in rank to Malak Ta'us and many legends are told about him. He is sometimes identified with the second Umayad Caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiyah. Other important angels are Sherf-Edin (noble lord of religion) who is seen as the Mahdi (returning Messiah), and She-Shims (sun sheikh) who presents the prayers of the Yazidis to God's throne three times a day.
As hell was destroyed by Malak Ta'us, it does not exist anymore. There is no concept of the forgiveness of sins. A person's deeds receive due punishment or reward in his next reincarnation. Transmigration of souls is a process of gradual purification of the spirit through the successive rebirths until the final day of judgment.
Like all Shi'a groups, the Yazidis believe firmly in Taqiya, the dissimulation of their faith in the face of persecution for the sake of the survival of the community.

RITES AND CUSTOMS
Sheikh 'Adi, the Yazidi founder figure and saint, was a 12th century Sufi mystic whom the Yazidi believe was the final manifestation of Malak Ta'us. His tomb is their religious centre and focal point of their annual pilgrimage. Once a year, early in October, all Yazidis are encouraged to assemble at Sheikh 'Adi. The festivities are supervised by the Emir and the Baba Sheikh. The pilgrims bathe ritually in the river and form a procession in which the various clergy castes carry the Sanjaqs, play the flutes and drums, sing and dance. Hundreds of sesame oil lamps are lighted at the saint's grave and special offerings are brought. White bulls are sacrificed and common meals partaken of. A black serpent, symbol of Malak Ta'us, is carved on the doorway to the shrine and is kissed by the pilgrims. Booths are set up and there is much rejoicing with singing and dancing. The clergy engage in secret rituals to which the laity (murids) have no access.
Yazidis pray ritually three times a day facing the sun after first washing their hands and face. The prayers are in Kurdish and express thankfulness and pleas for blessing and help. The weekly holy day is Wednesday, in which they gather at dawn in a Ziyaret (local pilgrimage centre). The day of rest is Saturday. Twice a year they fast for three days: at the sun festival (ida roja, 1st December) and at the Khidr Elias festival (The Prophet Elijah day, 18th February).
The new year festival (ida sersale, first Wednesday in April) is a time of much rejoicing. Sheep, goats or hens are sacrificed, and houses decorated with flowers. Bonfires are lit at night. Yazidis celebrate other festivals, including two days at the end of the Muslim Ramadan and a Jesus feast (ida Isa) around Easter time.

Yazidis revere their dead, offering gifts, especially the first fruits, at their graves. Many Yazidi villages have a tomb of a holy man nearby which is used as a local pilgrimage centre. Pilgrims seek blessing, protection and healing at these tombs.
Yazidi taboos include not eating lettuce, as they believe that evil is found in it. Tradition has it that "the devil once hid in a lettuce patch". This belief, ridiculed by their neighbours, probably goes back to the Manichaeans who believed that Divine Light was contained in plants more than in any other substance. Yazidis must not wear clothes of a specific dark blue colour, or a shirt open down the front. Underwear must be white. Very religious Yazidis do not eat chicken or gazelle meat.
Birth to Yazidi parents is the only way into the community. From birth each Yazidi is automatically linked to his or her specific Sheikh or Pir. This relationship cannot be changed. Children are baptized in the first week after birth, whilst circumcision is optional. Between the 7th to the 11th month, boys are initiated into full membership of the community through a special ceremony in which the Sheikh cuts off three locks of the boy's hair which are hidden by the mother.
The Sheikhs perform at weddings and funerals with special prayers and liturgies.
The sacred scriptures of the Yazidis are two short books written in Arabic: Kitab al-Jilwah (book of revelation) supposed to have been written by Sheikh 'Adi himself, and Mishaf Rash (black writing) by Sheikh Hasan ibn-'Adi. An Arabic hymn in praise of Shaykh 'Adi is greatly respected as part of their liturgy.
SOCIETY
Yazidi society is divided into two classes, the laity and the clergy. Marriage is strictly restricted to one's own class, often to one's own clan and is preferably to a cousin.
The laity (murid) who constitute the majority of Yazidis were not supposed to learn to read or write (a privilege kept for an Imam claiming descent from the famous Sufi Hasan al-Basri). They are not initiated into the mysteries of their religion, their duty being to keep the religious rites and taboos and obey their spiritual leaders. Every Yazidi is linked as a disciple to a definite Sheikh or Pir, whose hand he kisses every day.
The clergy or priests (ruhan, kahana) enjoy great respect and must not cut their hair or beard. They are divided into six classes:
1. The Sheikhs who are descended from five families closely related to Sheikh 'Adi.
2. The Pirs, descended from some of Sheikh Adi's disciples.
The Sheikhs and Pirs are responsible for the spiritual welfare of the murid families under their care, and for teaching them the proper Yazidi rites and ceremonies. They also function at the religious festivals and at the rites of passage (birth, marriage, death, etc.).

3. The Fakirs or Karabash who wear black shirts next to their skins and black turbans round their felt caps. They are organized like a Sufi order and have their own ascetic rules.
4. The Kawwals, who sing and play music at the festivals. Their representatives carry the Sanjaqs around Yazidi villages, inviting them to the pilgrimage to Sheikh Adi and gathering their donations to the Emir and to the upkeep of the religious centre.
5. The Kocaks - the dancers who serve at the tomb of Sheikh 'Adi.
6. The Awhan or deacons who perform the menial service at the tomb.
Every Yazidi is designated a "Brother or Sister of the Other World" on reaching puberty. This is a spiritual relationship which persists until death and carries certain ceremonial responsibilities (similar to Godparents in Christianity).
Yazidi language, both in worship and in secular life, is the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. Yazidis are organized in tribes, with a chief (Agha) at the head of each. Every tribe is divided into clan groups. Marriage is monogamous and restricted to a person's caste and clan.
As heretics the Yazidis were considered fair prey to any rightly believing Sunni. Turkish rulers and Sunni Kurdish tribes repeatedly persecuted them and tried to forcibly convert them. More recently the Iraqi authorities forcibly deported 20,000 Yazidis from Jebel Sinjar in 1975. Since the Gulf War the Iraqi Government is claiming that the Yazidis are Arabs and their areas should be under its jurisdiction, whilst the Yazidis and Kurdish forces assert that they are Kurds and should be part of their safe haven. Iraqi government posts are only one mile away from the Yazidi sanctuary at Lalesh.
Many Yazidis were also forced to leave South-Eastern Turkey in the 70s and 80s as a result of general anti-Kurdish and specific Sunni-Islamic anti-Yazidi persecution. They have historically viewed their Syrian Orthodox and Nestorian Christian neighbours as friends and fellow sufferers at the hands of the dominant Sunni majority.

This was an extract from a internet about the Yezidis, now see my comprehensive Study on Yadisism, it is as Follows,

Some claim that the Word Malek Taous is derived from Zeus, or Theos, and Deos of Indo European origins, but all these comments are nothing but wishful thinking, and actually the Yezidism is very different from all these gossips.
The Muslim community knows very little about Yazidism, so this article is especially for them.
Now the world wide Yezidi community is looking towards the west for help and support and they are totally neglected by the Muslim brothers, the Yezidis who could escape from Iraq are now living in Europe and America, but their majority is still living in Mosul in Iraq.
If we Muslims did not help our Yezidi Brothers in Time then they will be totally alienated from us and they will be surely assimilated in Christianity, or they can join hands with our enemies.
In this back ground I myself had viewed the video in April 2007 on internet while I was in Dubai, I was shocked to view the death agony of that helpless girl, and so I came to know that there is an Ancient cult still today alive in the heart of Muslim Arabic country, this was another shock for me, I personally examined the blogs on Dua Khalil and Yezidis and found that all non Muslims are united for the Yezidis and very few Muslims have comments on those blogs, and Muslims had very little knowledge about Yezidis or they have wrong knowledge about the them.
As I being a researcher of truth and religions, I always tried to find out truth since when I was a small child and since I became aware of my environment in my early childhood, I was longing to find out truth and reasons in each and every matter I come across as a child, since my early childhood I had many questions in my mind regarding religion and all other matters, and I was quite successful to investigate and find out all correct answers and conclusions on matters for which I had questions and doubts. And the question of Yezidism was one of them.
When I got opportunity to study them again long after the unfortunate Dua Khalil's sacrifice, I turned myself again towards the internet to seek information about the Yezidis, which only internet can provide me very quickly, easily and it is very affordable too, it is also a Gift of God. Knowing the fact that the internet can provide me conflicting and misleading information, but I was confident to separate the truth from the falseness after examining vast knowledge on the internet.
In my study of the Yezidis I examined the wikipedia, and Yezidi humanitarian web, and a few research articles on Yezidism posted by some researchers and some blogs and articles and views and opinions of different net surfers, all information regarding Yezidism on the net was conflicting and confusing, even a Yezidi web had declared on its own web page that all the information on Yezidis on the internet is not correct and for correct information one has to log on to their web site only. There was a very detailed analysis on the customs and beliefs and the religious books and their sacred peoples and places, and the connection between different religions with the Yezidism, what I had to read from the internet, the summary of the information regarding the Yezidis on the net was as above what I copied from the internet.
The persons or organizations who were just honest to put the information on the net had written about each and every aspect of the Yezidism very honestly, they showed the Sufi connection with the Yezidism along with Mithraism and pagan beliefs and conflicts with the contemporary Muslim clergy and their persecution, on the internet, but the truth about the Yezidis is not this much, it is far more than this, And the peoples who were Christian or Jewish backgrounds or Atheists were tried hard to show that the Yezidism is a Pagan cult, it predates Islam and Christianity, and they said that probably it is derived from Ancient Kurdish pantheism or Babylonian and ancient Middle eastern religions and early Christianity and it has influence of Sufism and Islam in later centuries after the rise of Islam and popularity of Sufism and its Doctrines, these peoples were interested in detailing the persecution of the Sufis by the Muslim Rulers and clergy and also the persecution of the Yezidi community by the Muslim Rulers and kings. this act helped to increase the gulf of hatred between Yezidis and Muslims, the intension of some peoples seems to cultivate the seeds of hatred in the hearts of innocent Yezidi young generation towards Muslims, The Muslims are guilty I agree but it is not the True Islam who is against the Yazidis, the Muslims who misunderstood Yazidism in the past are guilty of their persecution, those persecutors were both shias and Sunnis, because they believed that the Yezidis are descendants of Yazid Bin Muawiya, the ignorant Muslims are not only guilty of persecution of the Yazidis alone but they are guilty of persecution of Various Sufis in the past including the famous mystic Sufi Al Hallaj Hussain Mansoor in Baghdad. 900 AD, and Sufi Sarmad in India, 1100 AD. and many more world wide, these Sufis are still revered in India and Pakistan and by the world wide Sunni Muslim Community. This Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj is the same one to whom the Yezidis revere very much, The Yezidis revere to the Abdul Qadar Jilani, and Hasan Al Basri, and to the Rabia Basri, and to the Al Ghazali, and Khizar/ Madar etc. and the Sunni Muslims of Pakistan and India also revere them all equally even today. The Yezidis are basically from an area in Iraq, its name is Sinjar, and I personally have seen Sufis in India from Sinjar. Called as Sinjaris, either this mean’s that when these Sinjari Sufis left Sinjar and Came to India for propagation of Islam, at that time there was no heresy in the Sinjar or nearby it, other wise they may have stayed there and corrected it, or it might not be considered as a heresy and its proponents spread throughout the world for spreading Islam.
Today the negligence and hatred about the Yezidis among Muslims has alienated them and they are even claiming the origin of their Yezidism from the India or the Murugan of south India, although the story of Murugan does not comply with the story of Tawse Malek.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill advised by their clergymen since the time of Shiaa Sunni bifurcation at about 750 AD, Although their common peoples are innocent, during this period the Mutazalis, Kharijite, and the Rifaiya etc emerged, and These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, The Sufism itself was also the brain child of these early Sunni Muslims, The Peoples who killed (Hussain Bin Ali (God Bless him)) the Grandson of Muhammad PBUH. were from the Sunni sect of early Muslims, although the First Sunni Muslims did not killed Hussain GBH, but they also could not stop the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him in Iraq, really they were helpless that time, they were all under fear and shock, they did not had courage to prevent the enemies of Hussain Bin Ali GBH from killing him and his 72 people's gang of Shia Muslim peoples, because of the continued battles at every 5 to six months interval since Prophet Muhammad PBUH came to Medina, up to the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH at Karbala in Iraq, after Hussain Bin Ali’s sacrifice the Sunni Muslims came under a heavy shock and practically they went in coma, and there was no war and battle for this brief period, and after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Mawiya established a lavish empire from Arabia to Iraq and Syria and there was no resistance to him from any corner, because every body was fearing from the Yazid and his army men, and the commanders of his army gave heavy rewards to all peoples who helped in killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, and after a period of silence and calm down they get assimilated among the Sunni Muslims as if nothing wrong has ever happened, and after the death of Yazid bin Mawiya and his army men and his commanders the common Sunni Muslim started waking up from the state of fear shock and when they wake up from coma they started to bring life on its normal track. they tried to implement Quranic law in the society, now there emerged lawyers who know the Quran and the Hadiths/instructions of Muhammad PBUH, this gave a rise in different schools of law in Islam, the Humbli, Maliki, Shafi schools of law emerged in this time period, and now they needed the help of Hadiths, for making laws as the Yazid’s empire exceeded the borders of the Arabia. More new peoples and more new countries came directly under the Empire, new problems arrived, and Islamic law needed, now the collection of hadiths was started and refining of Hadiths was carried out, and un trust worthy Hadiths were rejected by the authentic Hadiths collectors, and after compilation of a good amount of authentic Hadiths the Islamic Lawyers were in a good position to implement Shariya Law in the society with the patronage of the Caliphs, these Caliphs and rulers and governors were the descendants of the peoples who Killed Hussain Bin Ali GBH, as the Islamic awareness increased in the early Muslims and the ruling class, there emerged a guilt feeling of Killing of Hussain Bin Ali GBH among the ruling class in particular and in Sunni Muslims in general about the Guilt of doing this sort of heinous crime of killing the Grandson of the Final Prophet Muhammad PBUH, now they become aware about the worth of Muhammad PBUH, coupled with the guilt feeling and love and admiration of Muhammad PBUH, and knowledge of Islamic Shariya and plenty of wealth and a very large empire encompassing the whole Arabia and beyond, this proved in front of the Muslims the authenticity of Islam and the predictions of Quran and Muhammad PBUH, This made the common peoples to believe in the truth of Islam and there emerged a flood of devout persons in each and every house in the length and breadth of this huge Empire, these devout persons were the early Saint of Islam, these peoples were astonished and amazed and fully admired due to the witness of the truth of Islam and The Truth of Muhammad PBUH and his sayings, in front of their eyes, because they were the witness of the poverty and worthlessness of the Arabia and themselves, these early saints of Islam were truly devout persons, they had true knowledge of Islam, they were not ignorant about the Islamic law, simply they were astonished, and lost in the God, these were the traits of the early Islamic saints and Sufis and Fakirs,

now as I told you that a flood of such peoples arrived in the early five centuries of Islam, and after that the flood of devotion over flowed all the empire, the peoples became addicts of devotion, the knowledge levels of the addict devout persons declined and pure devotion took hold, because there was plenty of every thing, they had no troubles and fear of enemies because the borders of Islamic Empire were ever increasing, and the enemies were far-flung beyond the borders, pure devotion to God prevailed in the Arabia, and Once a person becomes devout and astonished by the glory of God, he lost senses, and if he is less educated, then he can imagine any fantasy, and this situation gave birth to the early Sufism, the devout and lost peoples in God were the first Sufis of Islam, these early Sufis were having some kind of awareness of Islamic law, they were not illiterate and ignorant devout persons, they were simply real devout and lost in the God persons. in this period of addiction of devotion and early Sufism there was very good communication between the Sufis of all over the enormous Empire, in these times the Sufis were holding their meetings with one another and exchanging ideas as different new ideas and doctrines of devotion were coming in from different non Arabic countries of the newly expanded Empire, the Pilgrimage of Makkah or the Hajj provided very good opportunity to all these devout persons and Sufis to meet one another and express ideas and exchange new formulas of devotion, the Sufis made Hierarchy in the Muslim Society such as The Sheikh or Mard e Kamil or Murshad and The Peer and his disciple is called Mureed, they Held meetings of Sama, and There was Qawwals for reciting Qawwalis, in Mehfil e Sama, and the Sufis even held ceremonies near the other Sufis as a Pilgrimage to their house, and Dinners and Dancing, The Shrines of Sufis are known as Mazars, and there are Original Peacock’s tail Feather’s long brushes, highly revered by the pilgrims, as if actually the Peacock is revered Bird of the Sufis, and even the piece of tail feather of Peacock is kept in the Holy Quran by some Indian Sunni Muslims, and a lamp is kept always lit in these Mazars, the Muslims also believe in distribution of work among the Archangels, such as the Michael is given the work of Rains and seasons, and the Israfeel is responsible for the End times preparation and the Azazeel is given the task of giving the death to all creatures, and the Gabriel is the messenger of God, and different ask are given to specific Angels, and Azraeel is Satan, etc. the Yazidis also have such ideas of seven angels administration of world, the Heptad, i.e. the prominent Seven, During the time of early Sufism the trade and technology exchange was also carried out through the same channels of communications in those time, 700 AD to 1400 AD, As the Islam is a pure monotheistic religion and it has very perfect and sufficient law, and now it also had a very gigantic empire and government, so there always existed law enforcement agents among Islamic cities, these agents ensure the law enforcement in all strata of the society, mean while the Rulers and Dynasties changed and the struggle for the power was going on in the elites but the general public was busy in learning and devotion, Up to here we discussed only about the Sunni Muslims part, and what about the Shia Muslim sect which was got completely separated from Sunni Muslims from the time of assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, after the assassination of Hussain Bin Ali GBh the Shia peoples along with the remaining family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBh became underground and secret and they conspired to acquire power from the Sunnis throughout the Islamic History. Their development in the religion was not of equal quality of Sunni sect, but they remained loyal to the family members of Hussain Bin Ali GBH, but their religious development was of very inferior quality than Sunnis, because they had concentrated solely on conspiracy and they could not devote considerable time for the development of Islamic sciences and law, This leads in them various drawbacks and they were very prone to heresy, and they invented different doctrines as the control of Islamic Knowledge and law was not strong on them and because they could not standardized Islamic Knowledge, such as the compilation of authentic Hadiths, even they could not prevent intermixing of authentic Hadiths and unauthentic Hadiths, many new doctrines emerged from shias, and the shias were not doing any best in the history of Islam , even they were worst than Sunnis, they even joined hands with the enemies of Islam in the past for attaining power and governments, In the mean time the Sunni Muslims were busy in the expansion of the empire, and slowly the high standard of the Sufis and devout persons started to fall down, but still the people were devout and the Sufism has a craze among devout persons, and new doctrines and ideas were accepted in the Sufism and the Sufis had a secret ideas, often written in the form of secret Books, i.e. Book of secret or Kitabe Raz or Ramouz and Isrars, and they assumed that these ideas were also the means of devotion to the almighty God, so there is no harm in it, Although this knowledge was even blasphemous for Allah SWT, but these Sufis were assuming it to be the means of devotion and nearness to Allah SWT, not only nearness but they assume it the means of attaining dissolution in Allah SWT, The Sufis were not allowing novices to know about this knowledge, this knowledge was written some times and some times it was passed orally to the most trusted disciple of rank, the written book about such forbidden knowledge was very common among the Sufis of India, all the prominent Sufis of medieval period were having such books, the books were kept very hidden and secret, and only made available to the tested and attained disciples, Sufi Shaikh Faridoddin, Sufi Bahoddin Multani and Sufi Nizamoddin of Delhi and Bahoddin Zachariah, and Ruknoddin Multani and many more numerous others, had read them,
these books had very blasphemous doctrines, Blasphemous according to Islam, and not according to Sufism, In these books generally very contrary things were mentioned about the God, his modus operandi, his shape and his personality and his powers and his shrewdness and his conspiracy and his power and weaknesses, even the events and reality which is opposite to the Quran and Hadiths, these things are not allowed to talk according to Islam, but these Sufis were assuming that as far as the Sufi is having all true knowledge of Islamic Law and Quran and Hadiths, and he is leading a life according to laid down law of Islam, this type of secret Knowledge will not harm him, because he has control over his sense, and because he has attained the rank of Shaikh or Marde Kamel by hard devotion, and human mind can imagine any thing good or blasphemous but its harm only comes if it is expressed openly to common public, so the Sufis were hiding these books from the general non Sufi persons, but every body know that if any body became a true devout and if he is lost in God then he looses control of his senses, he becomes just like insane and intoxicated person, They were hence called as Majzoobs, i.e. Dissolved one, The devotion and the guilt feeling in the early devout Muslims led them to think about repentance from the crime of killing Hussain Bin Ali GBH, the guilt feeling of Hussain Bin Ali’s GBH assassination created among the early killers of Hussain Bin Ali GBh a feeling of Repentance, now they were in search of any way of repentance, they were in search of any body who can relive them from the guilt feeling and from this sin by showing them any way, any story any parable and allegory which can give them any feeling of comfort was very dear to them, these Sufis became really Absorbed in God, they were real devout persons they were lost in God and they had lost senses, Among them was Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, Sufi Sarmad and Al Ghazali and Abdul Qadar al Jilani al Baghdadi and Hasan Al Basri and Rabiya Basri and Bahoddin Zachariah and Ruknoddin Multani many more innumerable others widely distributed throughout Islamic Territory, the other persons who had not lost in the God, or who has not so strong in Devotion towards God can easily misunderstand these absorbed Sufis as blasphemers due to their thoughts, the thoughts which came on their tongues because of their unconscious state of mind, these Sufis can reveal blasphemous ideas from that secret book, and in the History Mansoor al Hallaj was persecuted by the law enforcement authorities, and many more peoples were persecuted for the same reasons and charges of blasphemy, Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj was saying that I am Allah, i.e. Ana Al Haqq, according to that secret book and according to Sufi doctrine it may be right, but he was lost and absorbed in the devotion so he was telling this statement, the law enforcement agent either misunderstood him or he persecute him to prevent wide spread open blasphemy of God in the common public, to save the dignity of Allah in the society. these types of persecussions were very common, but the wise option was to neglect such Sufis, because they did not do that intentionally. but for the law enforcement agents it is very necessary to maintain law and order in the society. they wanted that the disease of blasphemy of God should not spread in the general public, because Fear of God is the Basis of Law and order.
Shaikh Adi Bin Musafir and his contemporary Sufis had sympathy with the Hussain Mansoor Al Hallaj, and many peoples were having sympathy with the Al Hallaj, his persecution and death made many Sufis uncomfortable and they secretly propogated his message and doctrine among Sufis and public, the secret book was kept under strict vigilance and most of the times the Sufi takes this book in their graves by advising their disciples to put this book under their head as a pillow in their graves, one such book was unearthed in Yemen in a mosque when peoples were digging for the expansions of the mosque, the western media thought this book to be the Original Quran because it has verses very opposite to the teaching of Quran, the people who agreed on the secret doctrine of the Al Hallaj Mansoor were keeping their beliefs very secret due to fear of persecutions, The Secret Sufi sect and their secret book remained in the hands of some highly trusted Sufis and it was in India there are written proofs about this secret book that this book was under the library of Sufi Bahoddin Zachariah and Baba Farid and others and many other closely related Sufis who were allowed to read this book after passing different tests and criteria, this book and its contents were copied and even stolen by various Sufis of that time and it reached throughout the Islamic territories, there are written proofs in Urdu, The idea of Allah SWT is the all excellent and ever potential was the basis of Sufism, and the Sufis could not imagine that Allah can be unjust to any body, he is ever just and he can do any thing and he is all knowing and he knows the past, future and the present equally well, he can not be unjust to any body and he cannot be defeated and fooled by any body, Now the problem of Satan was making them uneasy, they longed to solve this enigma, and the thoughts and imaginations of Sufis had its solution, although the solution was correct and justified according to secret Sufi book but they were blasphemous for the general Muslims, in the eyes of Islamic shariya these types of solutions were worthy of burn down immediately and any proponents of these ideas needed to be immediately put to brutal death and there was no compromise, that’s why these books were kept very secret and only very trusty and tested candidates were allowed to view these books, and the followers and the Sufis who were in agreement of these secret doctrines were advised to keep it strictly secret and confined to the elite Sufis only, no body was allowed to question the Sufi and his deeds if one finds them blasphemous he was advised to assume it’s opposite and that it is a Asrar or Raz or Ramooz i.e. the secrets of Allah SWT which cannot be revealed to commoners. and the general public understood this very obediently and they never questioned any Sufis, because the commoners were thinking that they cannot understand the Ramooz and Asrar of God, and only Sufis can understand them, The Idea of Satan's disobedient to the order of Allah was making the Sufis uneasy and they tried to find any means of reconciliation between Allah and Satan, there are some Hadiths which shows that the Satan knows the Passwords of Allah, i.e. the Isme Aazam, and he is confident that by using these divine passwords he will one day win the heart of Allah and will be forgiven for his sin of disobedience, and he can use them well before the day of judgment, i.e. Qayamah or Doomsday, this type of Hadiths are still in circulation and these types of rumors create hopes in the mind of the Sufis about the repentance of Satan or chances of his reconciliation with God, and they thought that, May be this might have had happened in the Spiritual realms( Aalam e Arwah) that the Satan may have used those passwords and he might have forgiven already, this doctrine is contrary to the Quran, but the imagination of Dissolved Sufi can tell him that the Quran was copied from Loohe Mahfooz ( A kind of Divine Cyber Clipboard ), and it may be from among a Ramooz wa Asrar of Allah SWT, the Sufis had questions in there minds, the Sufis were innocent believers of God, they were truly and purely Monotheists, they were not ready to accept that there can be any body who even can dare to disobey God, and survive, this is the defamation of God if any body disobey him from among his nearest ones, such as the Satan, and they might think that there can not be any body deprived of the Grace and mercy of God for longer time, The God’s mercy must encompass him, even if the guilty is unwilling to repentance, the God is all wise, he cannot let the guilty do stupidity, and because he has created every thing from his noor ( Light), This story of disobedience of Satan is in Quran only, it is not in Jewish or Christian Bile, the story is as follows, " when God finished making Adam and when Adam stood up after breathing his life breaths, and after completing demonstrations of Adam’s abilities to various Angels, the God Ordered to all the Angels to prostrate in front of Adam, Now all Angels prostrated but only Satan did not did this,.. Allah became angry upon Satan and stripped off all his ranks, And so on the story goes in Quran, according to the Quran. and the Hadith of prophet Muhammad PBUH regarding the repentance by using passwords and the Sufi’s imagination of repentance of Satan in spiritual realms has a comfort for the peoples who were Purely Monotheistic in their beliefs and who were devout men to the God, and this idea can give a sort of comfort and sooth to the persons who were still having some sort of guilt feeling in their hearts, the guilt can be replaced by the idea of repentance, the peoples who have guilt feeling in their hearts always tries to find some sort of sooth or comfort in any possible thing, or even in Fetishes, being among the Sunni Muslims, descendents of the Yazid and Marwan can feel this sort of guilt feeling more than any other person in Shia Muslim sect, the shia Muslims were thinking to be very lucky because they sided the Hussain bin Ali GBH, and many Sunni Muslims admired the shias because of this only, although all shia Muslims are not the descendants of the persons who actually supported Hussain bin Ali GBH, the shias are a combination of different ethnically diverse persons, in past many shias got assimilated in Sunni Muslims without knowingly, due to ignorance, on the other hand the Sunni Muslims also decayed and ignorance prevailed in them, slowly they forgot the Islamic sciences and hence started obeying the learned men and clergy, and the clergy and learned men lead them astray,
The early clergy of Muslims persecuted the yezidi leaders due to misunderstanding, they saw their religious innovations only but they couldn’t dig into the root cause, And persecuted them so heavily that all the Yezidis were excommunicated and confined them in the hills, all religious books were stripped off from them, they were not allowed to perform the Hajj and visiting Makkah. So their leaders recalled their memories and compiled a religious material from whatever was mixed in their imagination and memories, and for quenching the thirst of Hajj in their disciples they constructed a Makkah in the region were they were confined, Strikingly the landscape and the surrounding of their holy places of pilgrimages closely resembles the cities of Makka and Medina, even they kept the same names to the nearby hills and ponds and spring as are in Original Makka in KSA, their spring is Zamzam, their hill is Arafat etc. and probably Sheikh Adi bin Musafir moved from Baghdad to Lalish in love of Makkah, due to its resemblance with real Makkah in present day KSA.
The Sunni Muslim community is a body of descendants of early Muslims, New Converts, and Ethnically Diverse peoples from, the huge and expanding Muslim empire, and Hypocrites, and who are mostly illiterate and less educated or ignorant about Islam in particular and are misguided, and ill advised by their clergymen, These peoples are responsible for most of the problems in Islam, Although their common peoples are innocent but their clergymen are not intelligent and wise, they distorted the Islam and Quran and hadiths, they are headless clergymen, they have hearsay beliefs and once they erred they were caught in ego and prestige problem and in defending their problem of ego their early clergymen tried to find out far fetched references and slip of the tongue type proofs from the Quran and Hadiths, and even they rely on rejected body of Hadiths to support their rather Difficult to prove hearsay beliefs, Once their early peers erred in the early history of Islam, and due to ego they tried to patch up their mistakes by producing distorted proofs from Quran and Hadiths instead of accepting the mistake and correcting it in first place, their clergy retaliates with their silly ideas on the correctors, They themselves are less intelligent and so they do not becomes shy of their cognizance less ness, Now they do patch ups so the patch up process continued till today along with this less intelligence mind and mentality, and this patch up daring gives birth to new doctrines and ideas along sides, these clergy of Sunni Muslims are low intelligent people they cannot under stand the truth of monotheism and these were the Muslims who persecuted the Hussain Mansoor al Hallaj, and to the Yezidi peoples 72 times in History, the Yezidis are the devout followers of devout saints who revere monotheism, The Yezidis are really the descendants of devout saints who were true monotheist and dissolved saints and lost in the God secret Sufis, they are the followers of the secret Sufi cult, the contemporary Sunni Muslims misunderstood them, because the Sunni Muslims forgot the secret Sufi doctrine due to their own ignorance, and because the Sunni Muslims had allowed many innovations or Bida. in their religion and made a religion on Islamic debris, Actually the Islam is not a religion, but it is a Fact of the universe, it is proven fact that There is a God, who created this whole universes, and he only knows every thing and only he can Guide us, and only his guidance has true path, and he only can be all good and benevolent, and the Aim of human life is to Establish peace and justice in society and to keep it functioning and to restore it, if it is lost, Islam is the knowledge about the One God who created this Universe, and every thing and he gave an opportunity to man to lead a peaceful and just life in this world by establishing just society based on human rights and justice and God has given an opportunity for the man to restore peace and justice in the society, and to keep the things going on smoothly according to his Laws, and God had guided the human beings from very beginnings and he sent innumerable prophets and his final message arrived with his Final prophet Muhammad PBUH, but the Religion of Sunnis is totally different from this, and it cannot be called the Islam, it is it’s a parody of Islam, They forgot Islam, long in the distant past, in true Islam it is the aim of a human being to strive for restoring and maintaining peace and justice in the society, all the things, wealth and food and peace and time and happiness is only given for the task of maintaining a justice and peace in the society, it is just like you are a sales man and you are provided the car and food and clothes and accommodations and you are traveling for the cause of business tour, all the provisions given to you are not for enjoyments but all these are given to you so that you make business for your employer, this travel is not your holiday picnic ride, it is for the business of your boss, and we must not forget this in our whole travel, Now you think your self what the humans are doing with this provisions given by God to us, Every body is a Traveler in his life, The Arabic word for Traveler is Musafir, and in this regards every body is Musafir, so we have to perform our travel very successfully in order to give good business to our boss, we should not waste the provisions and traveling allowances given by our boss in our own enjoyments and amusements, if we are wasting it then we are not doing the duty properly. Then why we should not be fired from our boss. Be a good Musafir.
The Yazidis were devout followers of their Sufi teachers, but the Sunni Muslims misunderstood them and they heavily persecuted them 72 times since their inception, many times the Yazidis were excommunicated, their houses were burnt to ashes, their belongings were seized, and the community was made forcefully to disperse, their holy sites were damaged and their books were burnt down, so the Ezidi or Yazidis had no books with them when they settled down in remote mountains, then their Sheikhs and Sufis and Peers and Murids and F