NOROUZ; DECLARATION OF IRANIANS' LIVELIHOOD, ETERNITY

Norouz; Declaration of Iranians' Livelihood, Eternity

By: Dr. Ali Shariati

A Short speech about The Persian New Year

To say something new about Norouz is a difficult task. Norouz is a national celebration and everyone knows what a national celebration us. Norouz is celebrated every year, and talked about each year again. Much has been said about it, and you have heard a lot in this regard. So is there no point in talking about it one again?

Of course there is! Do we not renew Norouz each year. So let us also hear about it repeatedly as well. It is boring and even nonsense to repeat a scientific or a literary text. Wisdom rejects repetition, but sensations welcome it. Nature too, likes repeti tion, and the societies need it.

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MAN AND ISLAM

EXTRACTION AND REFINEMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES

"Man and Islam"

by: Dr.Ali Shariati

. As a nation and a society possesses economic resources, rich in energy, but worthles when raw, it also possesses vast cultural and spiritual resources that have accumulated throughout history. An inept and incompetant nation will sit upon such rich treasures which are capable of making people comfortable, nevertheless its people will remain ignorant, stagnant and deprived. At the present time we know of large nations in Asia and Africa that own vast and rich cultural resources, but they are being stereotyped as backward, ignorant and spiritually and morally bankrupt. There is a correspondance

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ART AWAITING THE SAVIOUR

by: Dr.Ali Shariati

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen:

YOU MIGHT feel that art, whatever form it may take, is a complex subject which requires proper specialization to speak about it and that one who attempts to talk about it must necessarily be an artist himself. You and I both agree that I cannot consider myself to be one. But on the other hand, my words here on art are not of the kind which are common these days. They differ from other talks given on this subject or themes in which one has to deal with the particular area of his specialization.

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