Apparition

Reading orientation

The plumber speaks to the wall image in the language of supplication, but also explains the very ordinary repair that helped produce it. His account moves between professional knowledge and the danger of being blamed by people who see the damp mark as sacred. Paying a guard to enter adds another transaction to this encounter. Source 2

The monologue lets incompatible explanations occupy the same surface. A leaking pipe, a poor household and a crowd’s demands become inseparable from the image’s authority. Read the speaker’s changes of register as part of the satire; they do not establish the author’s own profession or beliefs. Source 2

Publication and language

The main link is Baang’s Persian publication of 29 August 2023. Another Baang page dated 10 May 2023 and Radio Zamaneh’s 4 July 2012 appearance contain the same story opening. The Avaye Tabeid issue 30 appearance is further publication context, rather than a new work. Source 1 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5

A damp wall and an unpaid worker

The plumber objects to draining waste against Bibi’s wall, while Safdar prefers the cheaper work to a proper repair. Dampness, a religious image and money become entangled. Safdar pays only half the worker’s wages and spreads the claim that the plumber is hostile to the apparition. The accusation serves a practical interest as well as a public belief. Source 6

The image also gathers threats around the plumber’s birthmark. Others interpret it as punishment and speak of killing him as a religious act. He flees towards the palm grove and tries to cling to the enormous image, only to find that it offers no physical hold. The ending brings a crowd’s demand for sacrifice against the flat surface on which its certainty has been built. Source 6

Sources & credits

1. Apparition · publication

   Baang · also Radio Zamaneh and Avaye Tabeid. 29 August 2023 · earlier appearance 2012. Persian. By Ghazi Rabihavi.

2. Apparition · reading evidence

   A plumber appeals to an image on a damp wall after his repair work becomes entangled with a neighbourhood’s belief in a miracle. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.

3. Apparition · Radio Zamaneh

   Earlier Persian story appearance dated 4 July 2012, with Rabihavi named and the same central monologue.

4. Apparition · earlier Baang page

   Persian appearance dated 10 May 2023. The story is distinguished from dossier material inserted into the page.

5. Apparition · Avaye Tabeid 30

   The contents identify Rabihavi’s story. The cover says issue 30, Autumn 1401; the inner masthead contains inconsistent issue and seasonal text.

6. Apparition · extended reading evidence

   Earlier Baang appearance, 10 May 2023. Original source 307, complete fiction 77–91; dossier caption81 excluded. The later Baang 15780 record is retained separately as the existing principal source. Accounts of a miracle and the birthmark are character claims. The website sections are original English editorial orientations; literary passages are not reproduced.