Professor Majid Naini’s extraordinary article about achieving world peace and harmony for the occasion of Rumi’s 807th birthday.
PRLog - Oct. 26, 2014 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Professor Majid Naini پروفسور مجید نایینی, world-famous Rumi expert, was honored for his extraordinary article in English about achieving world peace and harmony for the occasion of Rumi’s 807th birthday. On a similar occasion Dr. Naini was invited to speak at the United Nations at the end of the General Assembly about world peace. This article was dedicated to all the students of Rumi, lovers of peace, and people of love and light, encouraging all to please pray and work for spreading love, peace, and humanity throughout the world and for a fair and lasting world peace in our turbulent and unkind world.
http://rumi.co/2014/09/30/dr-majid-naini-writes-a-new-article-in-honor-of-rumis-807th-birthday
Professor Majid Naini is truly a rare treasure in this world. He is a mesmerizing speaker, acclaimed author and poet, prominent scientist and inventor, peace advocate, and one of the world’s foremost Rumi scholars and translators. Dr. Naini earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, where he graduated first in his class. Professor Naini was awarded a highly prestigious Teaching Fellowship and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from University of Pennsylvania, the renowned ivy-league university and birthplace of the first electronic general-purpose computer in the world. Dr. Naini has been a Professor, Department Chair, and Dean at major universities throughout the world, such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Hawaii, American University in Cairo, Sultan Qaboos University, Colorado, Florida, etc. He has held the rank of a Full Professor at four major universities throughout the world. Throughout his career, Professor Naini has consistently received one of the highest teaching evaluations from his students. He has also been the recipient of multi-million dollar research grants and funding from numerous prestigious high technology companies such as IBM, Motorola, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Logical Devices, Florida High Technology and Industry Council, etc. Dr. Naini has been an active researcher, the designer of several state-of-the-art Computer and IT projects, and the author of many innovative books and papers about science, technology, mysticism, mind-body-spirit relations and balance, world peace, Rumi, etc. Dr. Naini has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in Computer Engineering and Information Technology, but his passion from childhood has been love, peace, and humanity. He also is an accomplished poet and writer, and has been featured in numerous American and international media such as CNN, PBS, NBC, San Francisco Chronicle, etc. and so many other newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programs in America and around the world.
This article is a small sample of Dr. Naini’s work and offers a very unique insight into Rumi's teachings of love, wisdom, humanity, and culture of love. Below is one of Dr. Naini's translations:
From love, bitter becomes sweet,
From love, thorns become flowers,
From love, vinegar becomes wine,
From love, fire becomes light,
From love, devil becomes angel,
From love, sorrow becomes joy,
From love, sickness becomes health,
From love, fury becomes mercy,
From love, dead becomes alive
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Dr. Majid Naini, foremost Rumi scholar, writes a new article on world peace in honor of Rumi's birthday
October 26, 2014 at 03:20 AM EDT
