Happy New Year 2025

In the name of ALLAH, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

New Year Greetings

A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit and the period of about 365¼ days required for Our Habitat Earth to make one complete trip around the Sun. The year is nothing but a cycle of time which is counted by Earth's rotation around the Sun and we humans have charted January as the beginning of year, soon after the end of December being the twelfths and last month of the year. This is all about a natural phenomenon that takes place under the guidance of Supreme Being, than why, we the humans, rejoice and celebrate New Year.

Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate from Bengal India is reported to have said that "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man" and famous George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Laureate from Ireland UK has said that " Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death and hope than despair". ALLAH, The GOD, has created the whole universe that we see around us who have also been created by the same Creator. The beginning of a New Year is a sign that ALLAH, The GOD still has plans for us and we must therefore rejoice and ponder upon our last year's deeds and make New Year’s resolutions to appease our Lord as HE may have wanted us to be. Let new year fire catch us again to enlighten our lives from the Heavenly Truth as revealed by ALLAH through His Prophets.

Every new year reminds us of our existence which has special meanings and our lives must be spent in a way to justify our existence and that must be fortified with "New Year Resolution"; which shall not just be some promises but the "New Year Resolution" must be like "Objective and Goals" with particular end results. Nothing can be more resolute than to seek solace in the worldly affairs in such a manner that justifies blessings for the life hereafter.

The Western World is celebrating New Year in a resounding way and this has become a trend in almost all countries, especially the new generation has adopted these trends. There is a tradition also to set new goals and objectives each year called New Year's resolution. During the last century many cultural practices common in the Western World are being followed in the Eastern World as well, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their behaviour at the beginning of a calendar year. We humans unknowingly let certain daily routines stick with our habits, which may not be desirable as per moral or religious standards, and making New Year resolutions to get rid of those may be a great idea. It is therefore, not a bad idea to celebrate New Year and make "New Year Resolution". HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL the Dear Readers.

“Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve. Another night like the rest. It’s just another New Year’s Eve. Let’s make it the best!” – Barry Manilow

“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws but for potential.” —Ellen Goodman

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.” —Eckhart Tolle

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” —Paulo Coehlo

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard

“And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

“On New Year’s Eve, the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.” ―Akilnathan Logeswaran

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” —Göran Persson

This New year we must recall that "every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end", after all life is a cycle and yesterday of just the last day of last year. Seasons change; years come and go but we as individuals must grow and our family must grow stronger. We must remember that the future is always bright and best may yet to come. Let’s make this year as good as we wish it to be by shear hard work and staying together. “How can our love go wrong if we start the New Year right?” as said by Bing Crosby.

The New Year is filled with opportunity; our hopes are that you are successful in all you do in the months to come and remember Henry David Thoreau saying “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” The great Socrates had advised; “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” “Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous New Year by believing.” “The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!” ―Mehmet Murat ildan.

Famous Pakistan's Poet Amjad Islam Amjad

"New Year's Prayer"

The dream from which you open your eyes,

May that dream become immortal.

What color of clothes that you wear?

The season may turn into that color.

The flower that gives smiles to you,

May that never wither.

The word you put your finger on

May that word be enlightened.

May we have good sound health, happiness and joys, prosperity, peace and togetherness and a great New Year from day one till last. Ameen

With what stillness at last

you appear in the valley

your first sunlight reaching down

to touch the tips of a few

high leaves that do not stir

as though they had not noticed

and did not know you at all

then the voice of a dove calls

from far away in itself

to the hush of the morning

so this is the sound of you

here and now whether or not

anyone hears it this is

where we have come with our age

our knowledge such as it is

and our hopes such as they are

invisible before us

untouched and still possible

Copyright Credit: W. S. Merwin, “To the New Year” from Present Company (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Copyright © 2005 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC. 

Source: Present Company (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)

The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle

Along the window-ledge.

            A solitary pearl

Shed from the necklace spilled at last week’s party

Lies in the suety, snow-luminous plainness

Of morning, on the window-ledge beside them.   

And all the furniture that circled stately

And hospitable when these rooms were brimmed

With perfumes, furs, and black-and-silver

Crisscross of seasonal conversation, lapses

Into its previous largeness.

            I remember   

Anne’s rose-sweet gravity, and the stiff grave

Where cold so little can contain;

I mark the queer delightful skull and crossbones

Starlings and sparrows left, taking the crust,

And the long loop of winter wind

Smoothing its arc from dark Arcturus down

To the bricked corner of the drifted courtyard,

And the still window-ledge.

            Gentle and just pleasure

It is, being human, to have won from space

This unchill, habitable interior

Which mirrors quietly the light

Of the snow, and the new year.

Copyright Credit: "New Year’s Poem" by Margaret Avison. Reprinted from Always Now: The Collected Poems (in three volumes) by Margaret Avison, by permission of the Porcupine’s Quill. © The Estate of Margaret Avison, 2003.

Source: Always Now: The Collected Poems (The Porcupine's Quill, 2003)

I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl

and let it fall. The urgent fireworks fling themselves

against the night, flowers of desire, love’s fervency.

Out of the space around me, standing here, I shape

your absent body against mine. You touch me as the giving air.

Most far, most near, your arms are darkness, holding me,

so I lean back, lip-read the heavens talking on in light,

syllabic stars. I see, at last, they pray at us. Your breath

is midnight’s, living, on my skin, across the miles between us,

fields and motorways and towns, the million lit-up little homes.

This love we have, grief in reverse, full rhyme, wrong place,

wrong time, sweet work for hands, the heart’s vocation, flares

to guide the new year in, the days and nights far out upon the sky’s

dark sea. Your mouth is snow now on my lips, cool, intimate, first kiss,

a vow. Time falls and falls through endless space, to when we are.



(Taken from https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/new-year-poems-auld-lang-syne)