The Holiness of the Pen in a Bipolar World: From the Divine Duty to the Weapon of Emancipation

In the Name of God 

We treasure the pen, since:

God’s presence manifests through the beautifully pen-crafted letters on the tablet of existence, mapping the lines of divine grandeur scripted with holy words clothed in the flesh and coming to being among us; Divine manifestations that describe the blaze of the beloved’s expression with all the beauty, bringing light into the universe and giving life to it, so that all particles would revive dancing and chanting the call for Unification. 

The divine pen wrote the letter “N” (Nūn), to be a majesty in the kingdom of heavenly letters, and with it, “light” (Nūr) would be written to illuminate the other letters of the universe in its radiance. 

In this bipolar world, however, the heavenly pen turned into an earthly pen and acquired a dual face. On the one hand, the pen became a weapon in the hands of free souls and free thinkers to oppose oppression and cruelty and to stand for spiritual glory and righteousness. On the other hand, it became a weapon in the hands of the oppressors and tyrants of the time to write oppressive rulings and use their pen in the path of viciousness. 

Happy Pen Day to those who, with the pen, “reveal the emancipation of pain in the eyes of the world”, to those who….

We commemorate this day and occasion to respect the holiness of the pen lest it is placed in our hands in an unjust way to write anything but the true and the truth. Other than that, every day is Pen Day, as every day, the just and unjust are being written and recorded by the pens in our human hands, the pens that are visible and those divine pens that are invisible. And in the end, these are the pens that shall cross out the wrong and the wrongdoers. 

Mohammad Ali Taheri /Founder of the School of Erfan Keyhani Halgheh and Taheri Peace Organization/ Toronto July 4, 2024