Iranian Biggest Joke1
Einstein, according to the Iranians, was no Jew; he was actually a Shi’ite Muslim, a follower of the eighth-century Shi’ite Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq.
Iranian cleric Ayatolla Mahadavi Kani made the claim in a video that has been circulating in Iran. Kani, who says he is head of a group called Assembly of Experts in the Islamic Republic of Iran, cited documents that claims that Einstein converted to Shi’ite Islam, and that he got the idea for his Theory of Relativity from Islam. The ascension of Mohammed to heaven was “a process which was faster than the speed of light,” and it was from this story that Einstein developed his theory, the cleric said in the video.
According to the ayatollah, “Einstein said, ‘when I heard about the narratives of the prophet Mohammed and that of the Ahle-Beit [prophet’s household] I realized they had understood these things long before us.’”
Iranian clerics have made this claim in the past as well. In 2012, the late Ayatollah Hossein Borujerdi said that he had had a relationship with Einstein, who wrote to him that “Shi’ite Islam was the most scientific and just religion in the world.”
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