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Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Found nothing more joyful than the voice of love In this turning Merry-Go-Round that You rewind - Hafez (One of the most famous Persian poets) Translated by Shahriar Shahriari, 1999

Uniquely colored line artwork of Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer, Abdel Halim Hafez. He is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian musicians of all time.

A line artwork of Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer, Abdel Halim Hafez. He is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian musicians of all time.

Uniquely colored line artwork of Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer, Abdel Halim Hafez. He is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian musicians of all time.

Uniquely colored line artwork of Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer, Abdel Halim Hafez. He is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian musicians of all time.

Uniquely colored line artwork of Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer, Abdel Halim Hafez. He is considered to be one of the greatest Egyptian musicians of all time.

Rumi: Today, you are my Spring and my Nowruz.

Hafez: The breeze of the Spring is blowing from the alley of my beloved

Rumi: Send the news to the garden that the spring is arriving.

Saadi: Congratulations to you! This New Year, and every year.

“I long to see your face in a rose garden.” - Rumi (A 13th-century Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic) In one of Rumi’s most beautiful spiritual and love poems, he claims, “I long to see your face in a rose garden.” This piece recreates the spiritual aesthetic of the poem by combining Persian Nastaliq calligraphy with Persian geometric patterns used in architectural mosaics. www.silkminds.com

“Day and night, I wander restless with the thought of you.” - Rumi (A 13th-century Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic) The spiritual aesthetic of the poem was created by combining Persian Nastaliq calligraphy with Persian geometric patterns. www.silkminds.com

“My friend, for the morrow let us not worry This moment we have now, let us not hurry.” - Khayyam (an 11th-century Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages.) The spiritual aesthetic of the poem was created by combining Persian Nastaliqu calligraphy on a background that is based on a hand-marbled paper done by Master Behzad Ghorbani in a traditional Persian style called Abro-Baad which means Cloud & Wind. Based on the translation of Shahriar Shahriari. www.silkminds.com

Shab-e Yalda or Shab-e Chelleh is an Iranian festival celebrated on the "longest and darkest night of the year", Yalda is a winter solstice celebration. that is, in the night of the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice. Calendrically, this corresponds to the night of December 20/21 (±1) in the Gregorian calendar, and to the night between the last day of the ninth month (Azar) and the first day of the tenth month (Dey) of the Iranian civil calendar. The longest and darkest night of the year is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, drink and read poetry (especially Hafez) until well after midnight. Fruits and nuts are eaten and pomegranates and watermelons are particularly significant. The red color in these fruits sym...

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“And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.” ― Hafiz

The text is part of a Persian poem by the famous Persian poet Hafez.

“Love is simply creation's greatest joy.” ― Hafiz

A salutation, like the pleasant perfume of friendship To that man of the eye of light.

“And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me." Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.” ― Hafiz