New Beginnings

Let all of life be an unfettered howl

Nova Genesis

The development of language has been of paramount significance in the evolutionary history of humans. Taming sound must have been as incredible as vanquishing fire or inventing the wheel, whenever it happened.

Therefore, it is not without reason that we hold language so close to our hearts. Language connects us with spectres of the past and the dwellers of the future; it makes us question the ontological reality of time.

This application is a rewrite of a previous effort and aims to be more functional and aesthetically pleasing than its forebear.

A Tale of Resurrection

بس عجب روزی بود آن روز او
خون چکد از نالهٔ جان سوز او
باز چون عمرش رسد با یک نفس
بال و پر برهم زند از پیش و پس
آتشی بیرون جهد از بال او
بعد آن آتش بگردد حال او
زود در هیزم فتد آتش همی
پس بسوزد هیزمش خوش خوش همی
مرغ و هیزم هر دو چون اخگر شوند
بعد از اخگر نیز خاکستر شوند
چون نماند ذره‌ای اخگر پدید
ققنسی آید ز خاکستر پدید

عطار نیشاپوری――

Translation

An esoteric day that is indeed
When blood drips from the Pheonix’s lament
When it comes closer to its final breath
It starts to hurl its feathers back and forth
Then from its plumes a fire hurdles out
And verily it morphs into a blaze
That blaze then swiftly reaches firewood
And merrily that wood burns in the blaze
Both bird and timber turn to ashes soon
When not a single flame is left alight
A pheonix rises from its ashes right

―― Muhammad Rehan Qureshi