Norooz Mobarak

IN THE NAME OF THE DIVINE GOD OF LOVE

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.

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, and harmony. In our wonderful journey of life on this Earth another year has passed, and the new Spring marks Enshallah (God willing) a new era in the dimension of time and history of the world. I sincerely and humbly pray to the loving God of love, the Divine Supreme Master Creator of the Universe who created everything out 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, and conflicts, and making 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, good thoughts, and good deeds. I sincerely wish everyone as manifested in my above poem and translations, again health, happiness, peace, prosperity, 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 together and make this year the best year that we have ever had on this magnificent and beautiful spaceship Earth, full of love, peace and harmony. Let us all humbly join together in prayer and ask the God and Creator of love to help us all to wish and work towards that noble intention and goal. 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.

After all, as my beloved teacher Rumi has stated a long time ago:

For love, God created the whole universe,

Every particle benefited from God’s Sun.

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.

Majid M. Naini

www.naini.net

(all translations by Professor Majid M. Naini)