خانه ام آتش گرفتست

خانه ام آتش گرفتست آتشی جان سوز
هر طرف می سوزد این آتش پرده ها و فرش ها را تارشان با پود
من به هر سو می دوم گریان در لهیب آتش پر دود
وز میان خنده هایم تلخ وَ خروش گریه ام ناشاد
ز درون خسته ی سوزان می کنم فریاد ای فریـــــــــــــــــاد
خانه ام آتش گرفتست آتشی بی رحم
همچنان می سوزد این آتش نقش هایی را که من بستم به خون دل
بر سر و چشم در و دیوار در شب رسوای بی ساحل
وای بر من سوزد و سوزد غنچه هایی را که پروردم به دشواری
در دهان گود گلدان ها روزهای سخت بیماری
از فراز بامهاشان شاد دشمنانم موذیانه
خنده های فتحشان بر لب بر منِ آتش به جان ناظر در پناه این مشبّک شب
من به هر سو می دوم گریان از این بی داد می کنم فریاد ای فریاد ای فریـــــــــــــــــاد
وای بر من همچنان می سوزد این آتش آنچه دارم یادگار و دفتر و دیوان
وانچه دارد منظر و ایوان من به دستان پر از تاول این طرف را می کنم خاموش
وز لهیب آن روم از هوش زان دگر سو شعله برخیزد
به گِردش دود تا سحر گاهان که می داند که بود من شود نابود
خفته اند این مهربان همسایگانم شاد در بستر صبح از من مانده بر جا مشت خاکستر
وای آیا هیچ سر بر می کنند از خواب مهربان همسایگانم از پی امداد سوزدم این آتش بیداد گر بنیاد می کنم فریاد ای فریاد ای فریـــــــــــــــاد

I want my Iran free!

Freedom is the main and fundamental difference between human kind and animals. I believe that human is not free to choose and make decision in some circumstances but shouldn’t it be his choice how to live? Doesn’t that make him live like animals if he does whatever he is told to do (by any who)? Hasn’t God created all human beings equal with free will in their natures, not in two categories, master and slave? Hasn’t God told him to just listen to God's words, look deep into his heart, and decide using his own mind? Haven’t you seen people tried to take others freedom ended up nowhere and recorded infamy in the book of world history? I do not know about you, but my answer to these questions is definitely a “YES”.
Today, I am lost as a drop in the ocean of people who want to choose their path, people who want to be respected. The history remembers these people as the founder of human rights charter. There are proofs that there has been a long history of pure and holy religions in this land. Now these people are sick and tired of having their freedom and spirit taken away by a small group of foolishly pious idiots in the holly name of God and religion. It’s a pity that those who have the best culture and history ruled by some who are void of culture. Now these people put their lives in jeopardy to say “No, you don’t deserve us and our land”.
I want to talk to you Iranians: let me express my deep sympathy for all those have been hurt or lost a loved one. It is really sad to see a young man or woman is shot to death or beaten just because s/he is in street saying nothing but shouting that give my freedom back. There has been an excitement and praise about Green movement of brave Iranians. I worship your courage and perseverance.
I am really sorry for those who insulted the most intelligent and educated people; for those who came out of nowhere telling over sixty million people that they cannot be free. I have a word with those people too: you may do whatever you want but you will not last long!

Death to dictator

I just wanted to say that there was a Coup in recent election in Iran and Ahmadinejad is not the president elect.

Change

“Change” is defined as:
1. To cause to be different
2. To go from one phase to another
3. To put on a different clothing
I could probably list other meanings for this word because there are so many cases that we use the word “change”. In addition, the usage of this word varies by the situation and from one person to another. Sometimes people consider a certain behavior or situation as “changed” while others may disagree. However, I believe we all agree that we should observe or sense difference(s) comparing two states to realize a change.
Change is inevitable in nature and specifically in human’s life. In fact, without change we are not alive. I want to differentiate various changes in human’s life based on my perspective of life. First, there are changes because of the human’s nature. Certain rules are imposed to human’s life because he is a live species: he is born someday, ages by time and eventually dies. I think these are important changes, yet so natural that we should just try to adapt ourselves. The more interesting change is the one that we decide to make it happen based on reasoning (hopefully). This category of changes is the day to day struggle of human’s life. That is exactly why you see some people always avoid change because first they are not wise and courageous enough to go through decision making process and also not strong enough to face the consequences of the change. On the other hand, you see many people who fails because they do not think before they act. In summary, a change must have the followings: 1) a reason, 2) a plan, 3) execution process, and finally 4) adaptation plan. I would say missing one of the four elements leaves you a bad memory.
After the above introduction, I want to discuss “change” from political point of view in our country Iran. We have a long history of changes: good and bad. Some of them were outstanding like nationalizing oil while some others were disasters like choosing a person as president with absolutely zero knowledge of running a small community, let alone a vast country like Iran. As far as my age and knowledge allows, we have been told that this is going to “change”! But I think what they are referring to is the third meaning of the word “change”. Honest to God, have you seen an event or behavior which leaves you the impression of real change? Of course, I have noticed many but unfortunately in the wrong direction. We are going through many changes leading our great nation to a swamp. This means when we get there, the more we try to get out, the less we succeed. I am hearing many slogans these days about major changes in the foundations. Are you kidding me? Are we that stupid to believe these statements? This is the way that a dictatorship presented as democracy works: they tight and loose the string around people necks. My beloved father always told me that “The donkey has not been changed, they just replaced the saddle”!
However, I believe some minor changes in the right direction could lead to major ones. So we cannot miss any opportunity to turn this ship around. Unfortunately, even those who sense the reason for change, do not have a plan or if they do, they do not stick to it. Not having a good execution team is another weakness. The worst part, I think, is how they want people to adjust to the change. A decision is made over night, executed tomorrow morning and people are expected to adopt and accept the change by the afternoon. I think this is the way they want to rule not only the country but also the world. What a nice management we have!

It's Showtime

I watched a movie named “Showtime” last night with great act of Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy. I could not help it; I had to write something up about unfortunate real world facts presented implicitly in this movie. Different people may have various perceptions of this movie though.
Mitch has been a well-known and respectable detective looking after crimes on the street and solving cases, basically, trying to do his best. During a case he threats a camera man by shooting his camera to make him stay out of his way. You can guess the reaction of the TV channel, a lawsuit. The only way to drop the suit is participating of Mitch in a cop reality show to boost up the near bankruptcy TV station business. He agreed to do so against his will. Interestingly, the lady in charge of the show tries to change many aspects of his work and private life to be more “appealing” for the show viewers!
Doesn’t this scenario sound familiar to you? Don’t you think it’s been “show time” for a long time? Isn’t disguising part of their lives and views? You know who I am talking about, politicians. They are just not honor (This is especially obvious in my beloved country). Well, I would not really call them politicians though; they are just bunch of phonies that found the way to rule the country despotically. They have been deceiving people for more than 30 years and abusing people and our country to pursue their filthy goals. Facts have been hidden; fiction, disguising, and lies become the main ingredients of their recipe of anesthetic substance. They want to show everyone and everything the way they want to, not the way it is!
If you want to serve your country (which is exactly opposite of their target), you are accused of infidelity in their imposed believes, basically a custom astray version of holly Islam which helps them govern people. You are a monster which should be destroyed. Yes, this is their known (but secret!) weapon. Now, you have two choices, either you become a part of their gang and live happily ever after, or you insist on your faith and suffer the consequences. There is a third option: you can get along somehow not to destroy yourself, you must disguise too. Let’s put it in this way, in the great land of ours you must lie or die!

Wave

I assume you have heard of wave before. Wave, right! The thing that goes up and down to carry something around. This phenomenon is the root cause of everything that happens in this world. Waves live in different kinds like light and sound. They also have different characteristics such as visibility, length, frequency and so on.

Waves impact every one of us every day. Maybe you do not care if seismic waves can reshape the planet Earth surface or cause earthquakes in deep ocean, but I bet you, you do care that waves can make you happy, sad, excited, and sometimes desperate. Believe me; they can change your climate instantly. Am I dreaming?! Not really. Waves are the most important means of communication in this world, and maybe I should have said the only one (Sorry, I cannot confirm this for other worlds, but I suppose there would be some other sort of waves). You’ve probably heard someone laughing or crying, or seen a fantastic scenery which amazed you. You can see where I am going with this, right? My point is our life without waves is like a black screen. The unfortunate is you would not even know this is a black screen, just a complete non-sense life.

I think we are now clear about the role of this THING in our life. I said waves are the cause for everything in this world, but I must admit that they are not responsible. We are! We create those creatures to make our life better or more miserable. A man who screams the war order to kill thousands or a man who announces a campaign for saving lives in African villages they both use waves to accomplish something.

I am not sure if you have ever noticed a special kind of wave which is totally different from other types in nature, but with the same characteristics and much stronger power and impact. I call this type “People Wave”. Looking briefly at the world history, we realize the fact that whenever human life has changed, positively or negatively, it was the impact of a people wave; people who decided to improve or destroy their lives. Now, wherever there is a need for change, people should start the wave to make the change happen.

Two essentials of the people wave, like all other types of wave, are having more than one particle (we are really particles in this world by the way!) involving in the wave movement and steadiness of the movement. Consider a water drop who wants to create a tsunami. It is going to vapor and the big ocean full of drops does not even care a bit. They just sit motionless and emotionless and say ”what a pity! He was a nice dude. Oh, who was that by the way?!” Nice try. You just killed yourself for nothing, who cares? Who cares if you wanted to show them they are drops but have the power to be a tsunami if they work together.

I’ve seen lots of people trying to change the world. Some of them had the power to reach their goals to some extent. For those who failed, or has not started yet, I want to give a suggestion: do not fly too high because the body that packed your parachute might have not flown before. Start slowly and try to develop your idea to reach the point that you have powerful support. I respect the fact that they want to change things that human has been suffering, but they should know that one hand cannot clap!

I deeply believe in the word of holy Qur’an that says nothing changes unless the people want to.