What is Nowruz (Festival) and Who celebrate Nowruz?

Some people shoping flowers for Nowruz celebration

This ancient festival is a celebration of spring and the new year.

Nowruz, also known as the Persian New Year, has been celebrated for more than 3,000 years as the victory of spring over darkness. The festival is derived from the Sanskrit word "Tiwahar" which means a ceremony which is celebrated collectively on a fixed date as sadness or joy. Festivals represent the culture of any society, with each country celebrating the changing seasons and the changes that take place at the beginning and end of the month and year. These festivals, which help in maintaining social harmony, are becoming a unique identity of some regions. Festivals are basically considered as a symbol of cultural and religious unity and national identity of any country and nation. Living nations celebrate their festivals with enthusiasm because these festivals give them a unique and distinct status from other nations.

Almost every religious festival has all the virtues of a cultural festival. According to anthropology, religious and cultural festivals are one and the same thing. Rather, the religious festival is a much larger cultural festival that includes a large number of seekers seeking to achieve religious goals. Islam only wants to leave the good things and end the bad rituals. In the same way, keep the good things of the rest of the region, and eliminate the bad things. This has been called the command to do good and forbid evil. What is a well-known process? "The actions that your people gladly accept." This is the literal meaning of "known". We do not gladly accept the dowry, so this ritual will be called bad from any nation that has entered the Muslims. When Islam did this by allowing good customs and cultural festivals to remain in the areas it had spread and eliminating the bad ones, a common Islamic civilization was established.

 

Nowruz means the new day which is also the first day of the solar year and on March 21 AD, the countries of the region especially the Persian speaking people celebrate this day as a celebration. In fact, this day is an expression of joy and happiness for the people of the East on the arrival of spring. This celebration and festival, which has been going on for thousands of years, heralds the end of winter and the onset of spring.

As the arrival of spring in India and Pakistan, especially in the Punjab, Basant festival is celebrated with traditional fervor, people rejoice over it, and call it a celebration or festival. Just as Christians consider the day of the birth of Jesus (pbuh) to be the beginning of the year, Muslims consider the migration of the Prophet of Islam to be the beginning of the Islamic year and the Iranian solar system, ie the completion of the earth's orbit around the sun Yes, Iranians celebrate this beginning as a cultural day and this day is not limited to Iran but its effects are more evident wherever Persian is spoken such as Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and some of India and Pakistan. People celebrate it as a celebration or festival. This celebration dates back to long before the birth of Jesus. The symbols of Nowruz are fire, light and sun. These phenomena of nature were worshiped in this region, which includes Iran, Azerbaijan, and parts of present-day Iraq and Syria, as far back as 3,000 BC. Nowruz gained a special place during the reign of the famous Iranian king Zoroaster. In the time of Zoroastrianism, Nowruz was considered as the manifestation and symbol of the four natural elements, water, soil, fire and wind. This belief and government interest made Nowruz very colorful and dignified. Millions of people from western China to Turkey celebrate Nowruz, which is also the beginning of the solar year and the arrival of spring and the beginning of the calendar year in some areas except Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and northern Iraq.

 

Nowruz is also celebrated with religious and traditional fervor in some parts of Pakistan. The tradition of celebrating Nowruz in Central Asia began after the break-up of the Soviet Union, but now people are not only accustomed to it, but in Azerbaijan the rituals begin several weeks in advance.

Nowruz is an ancient Iranian holiday celebrated on the arrival of spring, a symbol of the new year, the arrival of summer, the end of winter, and the awakening of man from his slumber and his return to social life. ۔ Nowruz is a symbol of change and transformation and the beginning of spring. This season brings new life to the lifeless nature and even the inhabitants of ancient Iran clean their houses and wash the household items and put on new clothes and try to welcome this natural change. Of course, this change is a step towards goodness and betterment. All this goodness and kindness and benevolence and benevolence reached its peak when the culture of ancient Iran benefited from the blessed teachings of Islam and Islam gave realistic eyes a change of nature. Drew attention to the inner revolution and reform.

In ancient times people believed that the sun revolves around the earth and Nowruz is the place or time that comes during each year when the sun leaves the constellation Aquarius and enters the zodiac and therefore this place or stage is called the weather. The place of spring is also called moderation. In other words, Nowruz is a harbinger of spring after a severe winter. Today we celebrate the New Year when the earth completes one revolution around the sun. It is now possible for astronomers to determine the exact time of Nowruz. People greet each other and sing loudly at this time of celebration. Government offices are closed for five days and people for two weeks.