“Al-Muwakkal” — the entrusted.
Mehdi Kashani still prays at Imam Zadeh Saleh. He still helps the janitor with his phone. But now, when he walks home, he glances at the traffic cameras differently.
“They are watching people like you,” the investigator said. “Not the government. Someone else. Someone using the old nomenclature. Someone who knows Al Kashi better than the seminarians.” Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021-
In the sealed archives of Qom, under the jurisdiction of the Special Clerical Oversight Committee, Report 176 bore a name that had not been uttered aloud in forty years: Rijal Al Kashi .
But Report 176 said otherwise.
The 2021 update to Al Kashi’s method was not about individuals. It was about networks of goodness that could be weaponized.
The original Rijal al-Kashi was a medieval biographical evaluation work, cataloging narrators of Hadith—who was trustworthy, who was a liar, who had deviated into heresy. But the 2021 addendum, numbered 176, was different. It contained no names of the dead. It contained operational notes. “Al-Muwakkal” — the entrusted
“Who is ‘they’?”