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Norooz is an ancient new year for Persian(Iranian) and Persian-speaking in over the world. :)
Norooz means new day, That begins the first day of spring. Iranians celebrate Norooz for 13 days; First 4 days of New Year is holiday for the entire country and the remaining 13 days for students , schools , universities and training centers will be closed all this 13 days. (^w^)
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Norooz is an ancient new year for Persian(Iranian) and Persian-speaking in over the world. 
Norooz means new day, That begins the first day of spring. Iranians celebrate Norooz for 13 days; First 4 days of New Year is holiday for the entire country and the remaining 13 days for students , schools , universities and training centers will be closed all this 13 days. (^w^)
Before starting the new year we'll have spring-cleaning of our houses that we called it Khouneh Tekouni (literally means 'shaking the house' or 'complete cleaning of the house') is commonly performed before Norooz.
Then we go shopping for new year , What things we buy 
? Well, usually we buy new clothes and fabrics and curtains, and … ! And then we go to buy nuts (pistachios, Almonds, Raisins,Hazel nuts,and other dried nuts) - sweetmeat - lots of fruits and ....... for the reception of our guests in this 13 days. (^o ^)
In this day we spread Haft Sin , Now you maybe ask what is the Haft Sin?
The haft Sin table includes seven specific items starting with the letter 'S' or Sīn (س) in the Persian alphabet ; the Haft Sīn items are:
1- Sabzeh - wheat, barley or lentil sprouts growing in a dish - symbolizing rebirth.
2-Samanu- a sweet pudding made from wheat germ - symbolizing affluence.
3-Senjed - the dried fruit of the oleaster tree - symbolizing love.
4-Sīr - garlic - symbolizing medicine
5-Sīb - apples - symbolizing beauty and health
6-Somaq - sumac berries - symbolizing the color of sunrise
7-Serkeh - vinegar - symbolizing age and patience.
Other items on the table may include:
Sonbol - Hyacinth (plant)
Sekkeh - Coins - representative of wealth
Aajeel - dried nuts, berries and raisins
A mirror (symbolizing cleanness and honesty)
Decorated eggs, sometimes one for each member of the family (fertility)
A bowl of water with goldfish (life within life, and the sign of Pisces which the sun is leaving). As an essential object of the Norooz table, this goldfish is also "very ancient and meaningful" and with Zoroastrian connection.
A holy book (e.g Quran,) and/or a poetry book (almost always either the Shahname or the Divan of Hafiz).
Then, all family members sit around the Haft Sin table until the New Year will be announced, and then family members hugged each other to congratulate ,now the biggest person of family gives some festive to the rest of family members. Festive is usually New bills in the Quran book . ^o^
In these 13 days we are going to a party or guests come to our house.
we keep up our own haft sin table until the thirteenth day, The thirteenth day (last day of Norooz) we have a festival that we called it Sizdah bedar (literally meaning "passing the thirteenth day", figuratively meaning "Passing the bad luck of the thirteenth day")
families put order aside and avoid the bad luck associated with the number thirteen by going outdoors and having picnics and parties .At the end of the celebrations on this day, the sabzeh grown for the Haft Sin (which has symbolically collected all sickness and bad luck) is thrown into running water to exorcise the demons from the household. It is also customary for young single women to tie the leaves of the sabzeh before discarding it, so expressing a wish to be married before the next year's Sizdah Bedar. 
(hehehehe……… This is just a traditional belief)
So after the thirteenth day of the holiday is over all, students should go back to school < ( _ _ )* >
(It was only a brief description of Norooz, Norooz traditions are a great topic that I just wrote a summary about it.)
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There are several reasons that we love ARASHI group <3 & I would say some of the reasons for you! ;)
We LOVE ARASHI Because:
1- There are 5 of the best boys in this group
2- The five boys that are handsome , nice & kind
3- The five boys that their voices affects the depth of the heart
4- Their eyes are full of hope and feel
5- Their songs gives people joy & energy
6- The songs that they sings are full of deep meanings
7-They a...
There are several reasons that we love ARASHI group 
& I would say some of the reasons for you! 
We LOVE ARASHI Because:
1- There are 5 of the best boys in this group
2- The five boys that are handsome , nice & kind
3- The five boys that their voices affects the depth of the heart
4- Their eyes are full of hope and feel
5- Their songs gives people joy & energy
6- The songs that they sings are full of deep meanings
7-They are always all together & respect to another
8- They are among the people & close of them
9- They respect to people and their fans
10- They always try to have a smile on their lips
11- They are greatest for their fans
12- Each of them have features that they are perfect together
13- They Loves their fans & fans loves them
14-
...
...
& FOR thousands of other reasons that I can't write now! 
But more important than all these reasons , We love ARASHI because they are ARASHI 
WE LOVE YOU ARASHI FOR EVER & YOU ARE IN OUR DREAM!
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Stubborn Wife
Part V
They walked on until the sun set, when they came to the next village.
They went to the headman’s house and asked if he could marry them. The headman agreed and promised to marry them in the morning. He gave theme supper and prepared a bedroll for the night. "I have only one guest room,” the head man said. “Lady, you may sleep this night on the bedroll of my guest room and your be...
Stubborn Husband
Stubborn Wife
Part V
They walked on until the sun set, when they came to the next village.
They went to the headman’s house and asked if he could marry them. The headman agreed and promised to marry them in the morning. He gave theme supper and prepared a bedroll for the night. "I have only one guest room,” the head man said. “Lady, you may sleep this night on the bedroll of my guest room and your beloved will sleep on the floor. Tomorrow, you will be married at dawn, and then you will go on your journey as man and wife.”
So, the wife lay down on the bedroll and the thief stretched out on the floor, and the headman went off to sleep in his own room. Before the thief went to sleep he place his satchel next to the door.
Very soon, the thief’s snores were so loud they reached the sky. The wife quietly got up and tiptoed to the headman’s kitchen. She took a handful of flour and mixed it with water and cooked it over a candle flame until it was paste. Then she poured the paste into the headman’s shoes and into the thief’s shoes.
Next, she went to get the satchel, but it was too heavy for her to carry, so she dragged it out of the house where she found the calf tied to a post. She put the sachet on the calf’s back and started home across the desert just as the sun peeped above the horizon.
At this time, the headman woke up, stretched him self and went to put on his shoes. The paste had hardened and he couldn’t get his feet inside. “I cannot marry my guests with out shoes, “ he said to him self, “I wonder what has happened.”
He went to his guests’ room in his bare feet and there he found the door open and the woman gone. Only the man remained, sound asleep on the floor. The headman shouted, “Say, uncle! Where is your bride?”
The thief woke up and sow that wife was gone and the satchel, too. He jumped up and ran to put on his shoes, bur the paste inside theme had hardened and he couldn’t get his feet inside. With out saying a word to the headman, the thief ran out of the house and down the road to the desert on his bare feet. He ran as fast as he could, but he had gone no more than a league when he had to stop. His feet were sore and bleeding and he couldn’t run a step farther.
Meanwhile, the woman arrived home with the calf and the satchel. As she entered the courtyard, she called, “Husband, I have returned and I will never leave you again. I have brought the calf and I have brought all the things the thief stole from us.”
There was no answer to her call. So, she tied the calf to a post and ran inside. There she found her husband sweeping the floor. She looked around in amazement. The breakfast was made, the first was lit, and the washing was hanging on the bushes to dry.
“O stubborn man,” she cried. “What has happened to you? Why are you not sitting on your bench staring at the sky?”
The husband said, “I lost my fortune, I lost my face, and I lost my wife because I was so stubborn.”
At once, the wife took the broom and began to sweep. “Go and sit on your bench,” she said. “It is for man to order and for woman to obey.”
At the moment, the calf, who had not been fed all day, began to bawl.
The husband said “I shall water the calf.”
The woman said, “No, I shall do it.”
The husband said “It is for man to order and for woman to obey. You shall not water the calf. That is man’s work.”
And so he water the calf that day and every day thereafter, and the husband and wife never quarreled again.
The End!
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Stubborn Wife
Part IV
When the woman saw the strange creature was her husband, with his face shave and his cheeks painted, she said, "Dust on your head. Who has done this to you? Who has shaved you?"
She ran into the house in a rage. She saw all the boxes thrown about, the shelves empty, the rugs gone, and she realized that a thief had come and taken everything. She ran out side again and said to her husband, &q...
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When the woman saw the strange creature was her husband, with his face shave and his cheeks painted, she said, "Dust on your head. Who has done this to you? Who has shaved you?"
She ran into the house in a rage. She saw all the boxes thrown about, the shelves empty, the rugs gone, and she realized that a thief had come and taken everything. She ran out side again and said to her husband, "What was the matter with you? Where you dead or sleeping that you didn’t protest?"
The man said, "I was neither dead or sleeping, but I knew you told all those people to come and force me to talk so I would have to water the calf."
The woman said, "Dust on your stubborn head! You lost what you had and what you never have. You lost your face, you lost your money, you lost your rugs … and all because of your stubbornness. And yet you are happy because you don’t have to water the calf."
The man smiled and said, "The wise men have said that the when a man orders, a woman must obey."
The wife said, "O stubborn man, you have lost your wife, too. I am going away and I shall take the calf, since you refuse to water it." So , the woman ran off down the street and the calf followed her.
When she came to the edge of town , she asked some children who were playing, "Did you see a man with a satchel coming out of my house?"
The children told her that a man with a satchel had passed them half an hour ago and that he had taken the road across the desert.
The woman took the calf’s halter in her hand and started out across the desert. Soon she saw a man with a satchel walking ahead of her. She knew he was the thief, so she hurried to catch up with him. She walked very fast and soon she came up to the thief and passed him.
The thief called, "Where are you going, sister?"
The woman said in a weak voice," O stranger, I am going to may home."
"why do you walk so fast?"
She said, "I must get to caravanserai before it is dark, as I am afraid to spend the night alone in the desert with no one to guard me but my calf. If I had someone to protect me, I should walk more slowly."
The thief saw that she was very pretty, so he said, "If you walk more slowly, we can walk together and I will protect you."
"I don’t mind," she said, smiling very sweetly at him.
So the wife and the thief walked on together and the woman began to give him tender glance. "O stranger" she said, "how lucky I was to meet a fine, strong man to protect me and care for me." And she smiled even more sweetly and gave him a thousand loving glance from her dark eyes.
The thief said to himself, "She is not bad looking." Then he asked, "lady sister, don’t you have a husband?"
She said "If I had a husband, would I be all alone in the desert with a calf?"
So, they walked on, and all the time wife kept sighing and sending loving glance at the thief. Before the afternoon was half over, he asked her to be his wife and agreed to go with him to the headman in the next town and get married.
Now, the wife did not love the thief at all and certainly did not want to marry a thief. In fact, the farther she got from home, the more she thought of her stubborn husband and her heart burned for him. But she had a plan.
She said to the thief, "And we ware married, how will you feed me and cloth me?"
The thief said, "In my satchel there is money enough and clothes enough."
The woman said, "Let me see in your satchel"
But the thief said, "Not now, You shall see when we are married."
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Stubborn Wife
Part III
Soon an old woman came hobbling down the street. She was a seller of paint and powder for ladies. As soon as she saw the man with his all shaven, she thought he was a women. She said, "My lady, why are you sitting here without your veil? And why have you cut your hair so short ?"
The man not answer, so the old woman reached in her knapsack and took out her pots of paint and powder a...
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Soon an old woman came hobbling down the street. She was a seller of paint and powder for ladies. As soon as she saw the man with his all shaven, she thought he was a women. She said, "My lady, why are you sitting here without your veil? And why have you cut your hair so short ?"
The man not answer, so the old woman reached in her knapsack and took out her pots of paint and powder and some false hair besides. "My lady," she said, coming closer, " you will shame your husband sitting here like this with your hair short and without your evil." The old woman put false hair on the man’s head. Then she put rouge on his cheeks and berry juice on his lips and powdered his face all over. When she had finished, she wanted to be paid.
The man said nothing. So the old woman reached in his pocket and took all his money and went away.
Now a clever thief came along. He saw what he thought was a woman sitting on the bench in front of the house and he saw the door wide open. He stopped and said in a sweet voice, "My lady, why have you left your door open? Do you not know that thieves are all around? And why are you sitting outside your house without your veil? Is your husband not at home to keep you safe inside?"
When the thief received no answer, he said to himself, "This woman is deaf and dumb. "So he said, "My lady, since your door open, do you mind if I step inside for a word with your husband?"
The still said nothing. He was thinking, "My wife has sent his person to make me open my mouth, just as she sent all the others. I know my wife. She is hiding behind the neighbor’s window and listening. As soon as I speak, she will run out and say. ’You spoke first. Hurry up and water the calf.’ But I am not going to give in just because of a few troubles."
Now the thief saw that whatever ha said, not a sound came from the woman sitting on the bench. So, the thief went into the house. When he saw that no one was home, he search the house and gathered up everything that had a light weight and a heavy price. He put the rugs, the pots and pans, and all the clothing he could find into his satchel and went away.
All this time, the calf in the stable was weak with thirst. The poor calf began to bang its head against the stable door in despair and soon knocked the door down. It ran through the house and out into the street, and began bawling for water. When the man saw the calf he said to him self, "That wicked wife of mine has even told the calf to come out and start bawling so that I will be forced to speak. But I haven’t answered any of the others and I won’t answer the calf, either."
Just at this moment, the wife looked out of the neighbor’s window and saw the calf running away down the street to the stream. She hurried out of neighbor’s house and caught the calf and took it home. As she came to her house, leading the calf, she suddenly saw her husband sitting on the stone bench wearing false hair, with rouge on his cheeks and berry juice on his lips and powder on his face. She did not recognize him and thought to her self, "That wicket husband of mine has married another wife and brought her here in my place because I refused to water the calf"
She went over to her husband and say, "O woman, who told you to come here and sit before y house?"
With a shout of joy, the man jumped up and say, "You spoke first! Hurry up and water the calf ." Then he took off his false hair and laughed and laughed.
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Stubborn Wife
Part II
The next morning the woman got up early, rolled up her mattress, swept the house, prepared breakfast, but say nothing. The man, too, got up, put on his clothes, eat breakfast, and say nothing.
The woman watched angrily as her husband prepared to go out as usual and sit on the bench and stare at the sky. Ten times and ten minutes she wanted to shout at him in anger. At last, she put on h...
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The next morning the woman got up early, rolled up her mattress, swept the house, prepared breakfast, but say nothing. The man, too, got up, put on his clothes, eat breakfast, and say nothing.
The woman watched angrily as her husband prepared to go out as usual and sit on the bench and stare at the sky. Ten times and ten minutes she wanted to shout at him in anger. At last, she put on her veil and went to the neighbor’s house. He wondered what she was up to, but he did not say a word. After she had gone, he went outside and sat on the stone bench in front of the house and began to look at the sky.
Soon a beggar came along. Seeing the man sitting there, approached and said, "In the name of Allah(God) , a piece of bread and a slice of onion , master, and may your shadow never grow shorter."
The man say nothing, so the beggar raised his voice and asked again for a piece of bread or a few pennies. Still the man gave no answer.
"This strange," the beggar said to himself. "This man is moving and breathing, but he doesn’t talk. Maybe he is deaf." So the beggar began to shout.
Still the man said not a word, for he was thinking, "My wife has sent this beggar to make me talk. As soon as I open my mouth, she will come out of the neighbor’s house and say, `You spoke first. Hurry up and water the calf.` I won’t be taken in by her trick. If earth flies up to heaven or if heaven falls down to earth, I will not move my tongue in my mouth."
By this time, the beggar saw that the man was not going to say anything, so he walked past the man and went into the house. He filled his beggar’s bowl with all the bread and cheese he could find and then went away.
The man saw all this, but said nothing, because he was afraid that if he spoke, he would have to water the calf every day.
Soon a traveling barber came walking down the street. When he saw the man sitting on the bench, he said, "Do you want me to give your bread a trim?"
The man say nothing. So, the barber thought to himself, "If he didn’t want me to fix up his hair and trim his beard, he would have spoken up. I guess he wants me to work on him."
The barber began to sharpen his razor against his whetstone and soon he had trimmed the man’s beard and cut his hair short. Then the barber held out his hand for payment.
The man say nothing. The barber asked for his money three times, but got no answer. This made him angry. " Pay me!" he shouted. "or I will shave off your beard so you’ll look like a woman, and I’ll fix your hair to look like a duck’s tail. "When the man still didn’t answer, the barber flew into a rage. He took out his razor and shaved off the man’s beard until the man’s face was smooth as the palm of his hand. And he fixed the man’s hair to look like a duck’s tail. Then the barber went away…
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Stubborn Wife
Part I
There was a time and there was not a time in the long ago when a man and wife lived together in a small house in Hamedan. The wife was industrious and hard-working and was busy from morning till night. The man was lazy and good-for-noting. They argued and quarreled all day long.
One day, the wife said, "It’s a disgrace the way you sit all day o...
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There was a time and there was not a time in the long ago when a man and wife lived together in a small house in Hamedan. The wife was industrious and hard-working and was busy from morning till night. The man was lazy and good-for-noting. They argued and quarreled all day long.
One day, the wife said, "It’s a disgrace the way you sit all day on the bench in front of the house staring at the sky and doing nothing at all. Are you afraid to move for fear that the wind will blow off your beard?"
The man said, "What is there for me to do? I inherited a flock of sheep from my father and I gave them to a shepherd. In return, he gives us cheese and milk and wool, and with this we eat and clothe our selves .You are strong and able to do cooking and cleaning and washing." Then the man folded his arms and stared at the sky.
The wife said, "what about the calf in the stable? Every day I give the calf its water. That is man’s work. I will not do it any more. You will have to break a rib, now and then, and water the calf yourself."
The man said, "If you can’t do a little job like watering the calf, then what are you good for?"
The wife answered, "I am good for woman’s work. I cook for you and sew for you. I wash for you and dry for you. But I will not water the calf."
The man said, "That is not right. I brought you to my house to do what I tell you, even if I tell you to throw yourself off the roof. It has been said by the poets that men are the masters of women. Whatever a man orders, a woman must do."
At these words, the wife grew angry and said, "Yes, the poets have written those words about a real men, brave men, not about donkey droppings like you."
And say they argued and quarreled about who would water the calf. At last, they reached an agreement. The wife said she would water the calf that day. But starting tomorrow , they agreed that whoever spoke the first world in the morning would have to water the calf forever after. If the wife should speak first, she agreed to water the calf without complaining. And if the man should speak first, she agreed to water it.
And they went to bed , each promising himself that, on the next day, he would refused to utter a word until the other had spoken.
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Rescue me!
I'm like a sunset..and the death is on my shoulder...rise me up...you can do it
I'm done...I wear a shadow...Make me be reborn,...you can do it
I became like a sun weltered in its blood through the sunset of the sea
Take me by your open eyes to the sunrise of the dream
My heart going to understand with every beat and every break-up that
although love is so good it can be cruel at the same time
So many paths I walked to und...
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I'm like a sunset..and the death is on my shoulder...rise me up...you can do it
I'm done...I wear a shadow...Make me be reborn,...you can do it
I became like a sun weltered in its blood through the sunset of the sea
Take me by your open eyes to the sunrise of the dream
My heart going to understand with every beat and every break-up that
although love is so good it can be cruel at the same time
So many paths I walked to understand that there is no way but you
Rescue me of the loves which sometimes there are and sometimes there aren't
You know burning very well...you know the silence better than that
I'm like a fire...do something...so that I won't stay under the ash..!
I like to be cloudy like those days which were rainy
and again become cloudy like your eyes in your silky soul
My heart going to understand with every beat and every break-up that
although love is so good it can be cruel at the same time
So many paths I walked to understand that there is no way but you
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Tell to ARASHI we love you!
We love you
more today
than yesterday
but less than tomorrow
You're the best band in the world
From north to the south, And from East to the West؛
Especially in Asia
And your fans always repeat this song:
"You are my soul! Soul!
Itsumo sugu soba ni aru
Yuzurenai yo daremo jama dekinai
Karadajuu ni kaze wo atsumete makiokose
A-ra-shi a-ra-shi for dream"
THE STORY OF A MOTH AND A CANDLE
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One night, as I lay awake, I heard a moth say to a candle, "I am thy lover; if I burn, it is proper. Why dost thou weep?"
The candle replied, "O, my friend! Love is not thy business. Thou fliest from before a flame; I stand erect until I am entirely consumed. If the fire of love has burned thy wings, regard me, who from head to foot must be destr...
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One night, as I lay awake, I heard a moth say to a candle, "I am thy lover; if I burn, it is proper. Why dost thou weep?"
The candle replied, "O, my friend! Love is not thy business. Thou fliest from before a flame; I stand erect until I am entirely consumed. If the fire of love has burned thy wings, regard me, who from head to foot must be destroyed."
Before the night had passed, someone put the candle out, exclaiming, "Such is the end of love!"
Grieve not over the grave of one who lost his life for his friend; be glad of heart, for he was the chosen of Him.
I thou art a lover, wash not thy head of the sickness of love; like Sa'di, wash thy hands of selfishness.
A devoted lover holds not back his hand from the object of his affections though arrows and stones may rain upon his head.
Be cautious; if thou goest down to the sea, give thyself up the storm.
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