IN THE NAME OF THE DIVINE GOD OF LOVE HAPPY SPRING AND NEW YEAR

In the name of the God of peace, Who is grander than the Universe and what it contains. The God of the Universe, love, and languages (expressions), The God of mind, body, and spirit.

(Naini)

Happy Norooz and Spring, To my friends, and companions, and loved ones. Oh God, in honor of your shining light, Please send love and goodness in the Spring. A year full of grace and kindness, Grant us from Your mercy. Oh God of love, I humbly ask you, For a good year full of mercy and love. So peace, sincerity, and good fortune, Will cover the entire universe. For the sake of this Spring and Your pure love, For the sake of Your grace and merciful essence, Oh God, Oh King of both worlds, Please forgive and pardon us in both worlds.

(Rumi)

Let me offer you my humble translation: Spring comes, oh lovers, so Earth becomes a garden, The Heavenly whisper comes, so the bird of life soars again. (Rumi) Let me offer you my modest translation again: Happy New Year, oh lovers Oh lovers, Happy New Year If the New Year has a scent from our soul, Be blessed like life in the world. The new Spring and Norooz blesses our planet with a revival of beauty, bounty, and new life. As natures rebirth begins, I hope our hearts and souls also bloom the new buds of love, compassion, and hope, which could bring about a much more peaceful, loving, just, and caring year for all of earths inhabitants. Unfortunately, last year our world was plagued again with wars and violence. Many people, including innocent children, women, and men have been killed or injured. Countless others suffer from insufficient food, shelter, and medicine. I pray to the God of love that this New Year and Spring will be a healthy, happy, prosperous, harmonious, and peaceful one for every living creature on our beautiful planet. I hope that a magical divine ray of love, wisdom, and humanity will shine through the hearts of all people and their leaders. I wish this would miraculously warm their hearts and enlighten their souls to make a genuine effort for eternal peace on Earth. Saadi (circa 1188-1290), a great Persian poet, writer, and thinker from Shiraz whose most famous works are the Boostan (The Orchard) and the Golestan (The Rose Garden), wrote:

Let me offer you my humble translation:

The descendants of Adam (human beings) are from one another, In creation (they) are from the same essence. If fate brings pain to one organ, Other organs will not be at peace (ease). If you are not sorrowful from others' suffering, You are not worthy of being called a human being.

As the Supreme God of love revives nature with an abundance of beauty, color, and bounty in this coming equinox and spring which always coincides with the ancient Persian New Year, Norooz, I would like to offer my best wishes for a year embodied with health, love, peace, prosperity, happiness, justice, and harmony. In our wonderful journey of life on this Earth another year has passed, and I sincerely hope the new Spring Enshallah (God willing) marks a new era in the dimension of time and history of the world for a long lasting world peace, prosperity, and harmony. I earnestly and humbly pray to the loving God of love, the Divine Supreme Master Creator of the Universe who created everything because of love, that this coming new Spring and Norooz ushers in a new era in the history of our beautiful planet Earth in terms of ending the ongoing wars, hunger, disparity, poverty, and conflicts. I earnestly hope that we all make a true peaceful effort towards the mutual dialogue, understanding, and respect for every race, creed, religion, nationality, background, etc. Let us remember that in this short time that we have left on this beautiful planet before we continue to our higher journey, the only true capital that we can take with us are our good words, thoughts, deeds, and efforts. I sincerely wish everyone again as manifested in my above poem and translations, health, happiness, peace, prosperity, justice, serenity, and especially love in your hearts in this new spring and Norooz. I hope that every one of us in this New Year and Spring will allow love and compassion to burn all the ills and bad memories of the past so our hearts and souls can become fertile and the new flower buds of good intentions and wishes will bloom once again. Let us all join our hands, hearts and mind and work together to make this new Spring and year the best that we have ever had on this magnificent and beautiful spaceship Earth, full of love, peace, harmony, justice, and joy. Let us all humbly join together in efforts and prayer and ask the God and Creator of love and Universe to help us all to wish and work towards that noble intention and world peace. Let us remember that love is the only thing that can quicken the energy of our souls and love is the only healer of all the ills of humanity.

Be happy, oh our well desired love, The healer of all our ills. Oh, the medicine for our pride and arrogance, Oh (love), you are our Plato and Galen. Through love, the earthly body soared to the skies, Mountains began to dance and became agile. After all, as my beloved teacher Rumi has stated a long time ago, the Supreme Divine Creator has created the whole Universe because of lover and mercy:


Let me offer you my humble translation:

For love, God created the whole universe, Every particle benefited from Gods Sun. If it was not for the pure love, When would I (God) have given existence to the universe? I erected the grand universe, So you could comprehend the grandeur of love. The spinning of galaxies is from the wave of love, Were it not for love, the world would perish.

Let me offer you my modest translation again: Love is from eternity and will last till eternity, Seekers of love will be infinite. Tomorrow when the judgment day appears, Whatever heart that is not in love will be rejected.

Love is a description of the sovereign God, Being in love with anything else is an (earthly) illusion. I sincerely wish that we all follow Rumis grand teachings in this new Spring and,

Set a fire in your heart from love, Burn all ill thoughts & statements. God stayed & everything else left, Be happy, oh fierce love, the burner of all our ills.

Happy New Year and Spring, Majid M. Naini