Karachi: The Ambassador at Large for Global Peace & Human Rights Imam Allama Muhammad Ahsan Siddiqui, Chairman Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony (ICPH) today issued the message on Nowruz.
Congratulations on the arrival of the New Year and the refreshing spring, which is a sign of the eternal power of God and the revival of nature, to all the loved ones who celebrate Nowruz around the world. The festivities of Nowruz reflect the renewal of the Earth that occurs with the coming of spring.
Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony (ICPH), Masters Peace Pakistan Albaraka Welfare Trust International , URI Karachi and I Congratulations to all, Balti, Gilgit Baltistan, Chitral, Hazara, Iranian, Central Asian, Zoroastrian friends, the Baha’i and Prsi community for celebrating Nowruz this year’s. celebrating around the world. Today, not only in many countries in Asia and the Pakistan, but also all around the world, millions of families are celebrating Nowruz, continuing a tradition that dates back thousands of years. Activities that celebrate the arrival of Nowruz share many similarities with other spring festivals such as Easter, celebrated by Christians, and the Egyptian holiday called Sham Al-Naseem, which dates back to the time of the Pharaohs. During spring the hours of daylight grow and the hours of darkness diminish until at spring daylight begins to exceed darkness, so will the light of wisdom and righteousness increase until it prevails over the darkness of ignorance and malice.
Nowruz is celebrated by people from diverse ethnic communities and religious backgrounds for thousands of years. For a large part of humanity, the first day of spring also marks the beginning of a new year. Since it signifies a new beginning, Nowruz is also a festival that is filled with hope, as expressed in the gentle and elegant words of the Persian poet Hafez: “Springtime is here again/With the charm of roses. Look at their fresh cheeks/And the bitter plant of sadness/Will be uprooted from your heart”.
Nawroz festival and believes that the cultural activity generates harmony and brotherhood in society. Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony (ICPH), Master Peace Pakistan’s gladly joins this promise and these festivities. Nowruz celebrations take different forms depending on the region of the world you are lucky enough to attend them in, making them a perfect demonstration of the diversity and inventiveness of human cultures. In this respect, they remind us that our common heritage, whose preservation and dissemination is Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony mission, does not only concern monuments, objects and landscapes, but also practices, beliefs, knowledge and traditions, an intangible heritage which is just as precious and sometimes more fragile, since it relies solely on memory and transmission.
On behalf of Interfaith Commission for Peace & Harmony (ICPH), Masters Peace Pakistan, Albaraka Trust International, URI Karachi family, I wish everyone celebrating joy, peace, health, harmony and prosperity, and a happy year full of goodness and safety. May this Persian new year bring happiness, prosperity and further strengthen faith and our covenant. Ameen
Love you all!! Bless you all!
Happy Nowruz to everyone!
