Nizami Ganjavi's memory is validated by time - former president of Ecuador
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It is such interesting that we are talking about the legacy of Nizami Ganjavi that lived almost a thousand years, former President of Ecuador, Member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center Rosalia Arteragа Serrano said, Trend reports.
"It's so important that the legacy is validated by time and it's really a lesson that we must know.
Madame President Vaira Vike-Freiberga was talking about the
passion of the books and the stories that Nizami wrote. But I think
that he goes beyond, he goes to a level not only of passion but
love, and love moves humanity. And it's so important the legacy of
love that he can transmit, that he was compared in a certain time
with Goethe; we all remember the passion of young Werther and of
course we think when we talk about the poems, the love and
passionate poems of Nizami about this kind of sentiments, of
feelings that go beyond passion.
But talking about the lessons that we can learn from the writings
of Nizami going through this pandemic situation that we are living
in now. I have to tell you that personally I was enthusiastic about
the possibility that the world will be going to learn a lot of
lessons at the beginning of the pandemic when all of us were
isolated in our homes without going not even sometimes to buy
things, trying to survive with what we had in our own homes. We
felt that nature was reviving, that the air was clean. That here in
Quito, I can see the blue skies that I didn't see in sometime
because of the contamination, because of the pollution and we hear
to talk about the birds coming back, snakes going through the
roads, and different kinds of animals. We said at that time: we are
learning a lesson, probably the same nature is giving us this
lesson.
But when we see what's happening now again going back to the bad
practices, to contaminate, doing things against the others,
starting fights, having a situation inside the countries, we really
feel that we didn´t learn anything. In Latin America, we are
feeling that waves of violence are growing. In Ecuador, we had
violence this last week in prisons that we had never imagine, the
amount of such cruel situations that we never experienced in the
past. And we say: oh my God!, we are not learning from the lessons
of the past.
Of course, I feel that now we have to put in common the thoughts
and the spirit of such a personality, and maybe it's one of the
goals of Nizami Ganjavi International Center to come alive with his
wisdom. I really think that poets are wise people, for sure. Not
even thinking of other goals as a philosophy or things like that.
Poets are wise people I am convinced of that. Of course, true poets
because you can find really bad ones. But he was a philosopher, he
was a thinker. Then trying to bring back his lessons, his thoughts
it would be excellent for the world putting it together with the
sustainable development goals, with the lessons from the pandemic
of coronavirus, with what's happening in the world, with the
possibility of talking and really hearing the others, because
people can talk but not hear the others. And that's the reality we
are experiencing in most of our countries.
If we can take the thoughts of Nizami and put them into nowadays,
it will be quite an experience. Put in contrast what is happening,
how we can bring the philosophy of love, for example, again in a
fashion, how we can't bring his thoughts, his philosophy, to try to
analyze the current situations. Maybe we can do not only feel
what's happening now, perhaps we can make it in a prospective way
to go forward. Because we need to go forward to a new world. I was
really thinking about it, with a lot of hope in this new world.
But thinkers like Nizami and actors like Greta Thunberg in Sweden
and Europe, or Nemonte Nenquimo, the young indigenous leader in the
jungle of Ecuador that was considered one of the 100 person most
influential persons in 2020 by Times magazine, can make the
difference. Yes, it is great to mention a little, small woman of
the Ecuadorian Amazon the winner of the Goldman award. We can place
Nemonte, Greta, and Nizami together, their thougts, acts and
influence and make it and built a better world," she said.
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