For Mehdi Zeinoddin, who was a devotee of the forty‑day vigil of martyrdom.

He was born on the 18th of Mehr and martyred on the 27th of Aban — the span between the two is exactly one *cheleh*, a forty‑day vigil… Mehdi Zeinoddin spent his entire life devoted to a vigil of longing that has now become our own desire…