Archive - Apr 2009

On Freedom of Conscience and Social Integration - A Baha'i Perspective

In response to those that have repeatedly asked for Baha'i perspectives on the recent material posted, we must begin with the foundation of the recent exchanges >>>

My absence

Mehrabad airport is crowded. Everybody seems in a rush to leave Iran. The air is dry. It’s the end of September, but the heat belongs to July. I push my valise on the floor, over the remaining pile of yesterday’s newspapers. A few pages are dragged with my suitcase. I stop pushing. I’m too tired. As the sweat runs over my forehead, I remember the exact moment when the three Pasdars raided the house last night. I wipe the sweat and wish I could wipe the tears off my mother’s face as she stood there at the center of the living room with all the eyes set on her. My mother, the woman who knows how to hide behind a serene smile, even when there’s a thunderstorm blowing her mind away>>>

Just take a wild guess

Bita: "I thought I would never be able to take a sauna again after what happened. On our way up here, I thought I would burst into tears, but I’m only feeling numb."

Ebi: "Well, you know, it's been more than a year now. You can’t just go on being depressed and miserable for the rest of your life. What happened, happened. We should start a new life all over again. I like to see us as happy as before."

Bita: "Yeah, before Shirin's death."

Ebi: "No! I mean like when we got married, long before she was born." >>>

Rose in spring

O rose, come and dance
On my heart as its soil
Has been dry
For too long.
O moon, come and smile
As there are a thousand
Willing flirtatious ones at
The door, these shining stars >>>

گوید به من

از درد روزگار, ناچار, میکند شادی
چونکه الا عشق, ماند کدام بازی؟

ولی در آغوش هر زن میگیرد بهانه
چونکه نیست در وجودش عشق جاودانه

عشق جاودانه چیست؟ همان عشق خدای
که در عمق خود باید کرد پیدای >>>

Picture of the Day - Chinese Theatre

I took this picture when I was in Beijing. >>>

The counterfeit UHJ has changed the teachings of the Faith.

The counterfeit UHJ now infesting Haifa has changed the teachings of the Faith, discounting some of the teachings into oblivion, and exaggerating other teachings into a philosophy of hatred against those who believe differently than they do.>>>

pictory:Mozzafar-e-Din Shah With British Royals (1902)

Mozzafar-e-Din Shah On Board The Royal British Yacht, Portsmouth, 20 August 1902. >>>

pictory:Brigadier General Moussa Hakimi (Nazm-ol-Saltaneh)

Qajar Army officer who later became one of the Military Commanders of Nationalist Forces, Saviours of  the Constitutional Movement & Democracy in 1909.Brigadier General Moussa Hakimi (Nazm-ol-Saltaneh) in Full Regalia Uniform. >>>

On speech, individual rights and freedoms - A Baha'i Perspective

In response to those that have repeatedly asked for Baha'i perspectives on the recent material posted, we must begin with the foundation of the recent exchanges, namely speech and individual freedom and rights. >>>

شهاب

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