Eid al-Fitr Greetings: The Gates of Heaven Opening

Greetings and Blessings,

Eid al-Fitr is a celebration of our liberation from bondages, our entangled existences being expanded, our faces shining from this blessed banquet, and frowns have faded. But this Eid al-Fitr is also a feast of rebirth and re-emergence for our inner selves; to die before death and to re-emerge in a rebirth. Because until everyone dies once in their past and is reborn with spiritual transformation, they will not understand the concept of existence and the philosophy of creation and will leave this world in loss and deprivation, without being aware of their loss.

Eid al-Fitr is a celebration of rebirth and the reopening of our eyes to life, this time free from any dependence or addiction, to once again behold the world and, with complete victory, display the result of a month of struggle against the habits that had taken hold of us, and to show that it is possible to win the battle against ugly manners. Only after this confrontation and practical struggle can we claim that “I am free”, free from the shackles of the demonic clutches of worldly attachments and bondages.

Eid al-Fitr is a celebration of achieving the gift of passage from the night of absolute darkness to the brightness of light and reaching the blessed dawn of guidance; a celebration of inner shedding, in which the hard shell of our false insights and wrong beliefs is broken, causing the garment of rotten thoughts and indistinct past charges that have led to gross mistakes in our lives to be thrown aside, so that each of us can address ourselves and existence in an ecstatic leap to say:

“I have been created free, and I am free from all dependence and slavery (whether traditional slavery, political slavery, or modern slavery), and I will never be enslaved.”

Eid al-Fitr is a celebration of the opening of the chests and reaching “Sharh al-Sadr” (expansion of the heart), which enables the human being to understand the divine manifestations with a deeper understanding than the past and by moving from the outward to the inward, and to internalize this understanding; that is, to attain the holiness of “Bismillah” and its sacredness in the divine manifestations and to refrain from oppressing or covering up the sanctity of existence.

It is Eid al-Fitr, and the feast of harvest. Just as the harvest season is a joyous time for the farmer, this day is also a day of joy and happiness for all those who have sown fruit-bearing seeds. Everyone is ready to reap, standing by their crop. The one with a fruitful field feels more joy and happiness, and the one who has not sown any seeds tries to shun a way of positioning oneself in the Day of Regret (Yawm al-Hasrat).

Eid al-Fitr is a celebration of competence for those who have successfully passed this course, so that they can once again face the turbulent and violent waves of the ocean of life with full hands and greater skill and maturity and combat its plagues.

Eid al-Fitr is the celebration of overcoming oneself and achieving victory through this battle. This day is certainly a great day, a blessed holiday, and a glorious celebration for those who have been actively involved in this battlefield.

Eid al-Fitr is the celebration of the opening of the gates of heaven (the secret vaults of the universe) to the seekers of truth, those who closed the earthly doors to themselves so that the heavenly doors would be opened to them.

Eid al-Fitr evokes the return to the innate nature (“Fitrat”) and is a glorious celebration of emergence, revelation and return to Fitrat for all those who come to realize it, a divine innate nature to which mankind’s mission is to return. Now, for those who have realized their “Laylat al-Qadr” (the Night of Decree), a festive celebration is held; those who have found the Water of Life (pure divine consciousness) in the darkest night of the world (where human beings reside) and have found eternal life, which is all about being filled with divine knowledge and awareness, and have directed their destiny in this way and have written a constructive change for themselves forever. Those who have observed the angels descending upon their hearts and have received the secret of existence from the keepers of the Divine Throne, and this secret is engraved on the tablet of their beings; those whose innermost being the Holy Spirit has penetrated, placing the secret of Divine Wisdom in their hearts, having expanded their chests; those who have realized that:

“The Ramadan in which Laylat al-Qadr (the pure opportunity for gratitude) occurs is greater than a thousand and thousands of months; and they have also realized that whenever there is one Laylat al-Qadr, there is Ramadan.”

 But now that another Ramadan has passed, it is time to ask ourselves a question to assess our place in such a divine banquet and see what we have gained from such a valuable opportunity and what heavenly nourishment we have ingested from the table of divine knowledge in the feast of Ramadan.

Let us see, by abstaining from food and entering the divine sanctuary of fasting, whether we have been able to find nonmaterial nourishment for our spiritual body to satisfy this dimension of our being, or have we left it hungry while our physical stomach is still full? Eid al-Fitr is a feast of honoring the outcome of this greater battle. Eid al-Fitr announces the artistry of the pious human to the angels and presents the value of such existence to the universe, of whom the world of creation is proud, and in whose honor a celebration is to be held.

On Eid al-Fitr, the feast of opening the gates of heaven, I congratulate all those who seek the path of truth and spiritualism. To those who still believe in the spiritual world and attribute all the troubles of humankind to the lack of spiritual knowledge. Whether it is due to the ignorance of those who betray humanity and commit oppression, or the ignorance and unawareness of those who allow the slave-owners, that are the power-seekers, tyrants, and…, to practise all kinds of slavery.  

The Founder of Erfan Keyhani Halgheh School: Mohammad Ali Taheri
Toronto, March 31, 2025 / 11 Farvardin, 1404