Yalda: the celebration of the sun’s victory and the defeat of darkness.
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This year, let’s celebrate it globally better than ever.
For thousands of years, on the same day in December and the Persian month of Azar, the shortest day of the year, the people of Iran prepare for a big and nationwide celebration: one without any god or servant inviting them, without any bullying ruler commanding it, without any rich person paying for it, and without the proprietor of any religion or belief promising heaven or companionship. The people of Iran, however, celebrate the victory of the sun, the only vitalizing and life-giving presence of their astute culture, testifying to the undoubted end of all darkness, cruelty, and evil.
This year, the rulers of darkness, along with all their inhumanity and anti-culture, have tried to change the name of Yalda on the first anniversary of the inscription of Yalda on the UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It is as if they do not know that this idea will only bring them nothing but more embarrassment. It makes us believe more than ever in the importance of our national celebrations, those which are based on kindness, wisdom, and charity.
Pasargad Heritage Foundation congratulates everyone on this occasion of Yalda. We hope that this year, we can all globally celebrate Yalda better than ever before, while sitting next to adorned evergreen trees.
Let’s say to the dark thinkers who don’t have the knowledge and capacity to see the light:
“Can you not see and must ask, where is this bright day?
Let the sun shine in your eyes, saying: “Here I am!”
Yalda 2023 (1402)
Pasargad Heritage Foundation
