The holly shrine of Habakkuk:
After an hour driving towards southwest of the city of Hamedan you may visit the small town of Tuyserkan that is famous for nuts and the holly shrine of Habakkuk; the prophet who is very important for Jews.
It is said that Habakkuk was considered as one of the most famous prophets in the Middle East who was supported not only by the Jews but also by many dynasties and non-Jews people.
Habakkuk was one the greatest Jews in Jewish history who was one the captives in Babylonia that was saved by Cyrus the great.
Habakkuk is the only prophet to devote his entire work to the question of the justice of God’s government of the world. In the Bible as a whole, only Job delivers a more pointed challenge to divine rule. Habakkuk’s challenge is set up as a dialogue between the prophet and God, in which Habakkuk’s opening complaint about injustices in Judean society (1:2–4) is followed in 1:5–11 by God’s promise that the perpetrators will be punished by invading Chaldeans, i.e., Babylonians. Habakkuk’s second complaint about the violence of the Chaldeans themselves (1:12–2:1) is followed by a second divine response assuring the prophet of the reliability of God’s rule and calling for human faithfulness (2:2–4) (usccb.org).
Habakkuk is the eighth of the twelve prophets in the Book of the Twelve. The Book of the Twelve Prophets was originally on one parchment roll because of the brevity of the text, and together formed one Book of the 24 Books of Hebrew Scripture. These twelve prophets were sometimes named the Minor Prophets, not because they are of lesser importance, but because their writings are brief. The Twelve include Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi(biblescripture.net).
Some years ago some invaders attacked the shrine in order to savage the tomb but they found the corpse safe, healthy and secure so they ran away and this story was another miracle of this prophet.
