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The Compendium of Festivals - Maymun Ibn Qasim Al-Tabarani

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So know the two Stations of the Gate (Bab) within them. The summary of that, the origin of it, and the intent behind it is the manifestation of cheerfulness, joy, and happiness, and what runs the course of that within the Persian Fahlawiyyat 1 , distinct from the Persian Domes.

And its beginning was on the first day of a new year, and that day was named Al-Nowruz. And likewise is done with Mihrajan.

And regarding Mihrajan, reports have arrived whose explanation would be lengthy and would depart from what you asked about; We shall present them to you hereafter.

And all of that was in the Singular Kunhuriyya Dome (Al-Qubba Al-Kunhuriyya Al-Mufrada). And this is a name used by many of the Persians and others among the rest of the people; they inserted it into some supplications and speech without knowledge or truth.

And the knowledge of that shall come to you, along with the Batin of Nowruz and Mihrajan, and the knowledge of what occurred within them, and I will reveal it to you in reality (haqiqa). And that is in this Second Book, if Allah the Almighty wills, and the Sermon (Khutba) of the Nowruziyyat and Mihrajan.

Footnotes

1Fahlawi: Skilled and brilliant/clever; capable of rapid adaptation to the variables of society.
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