
If you come to visit me,
You will find me behind the realm of naught.
Behind naught there is a place
Where the veins of the air is full of dandelions
Who bring the happy tidings of flowers blossoming at the farthest bush.
Over the sands also you can see the delicate footsteps of the horseman who mounted the anemone hill of ascension at morning.
Beyond the realm of naught, the umbrella of desire has been spread
So that the breeze of thirst can run into the root of the leave,
The siren of the rain resounds.
One is lonely here,
And in this loneliness the shade of an elm tree stretches to eternity.
If you come to visit me,
Come gently and slowly lest the fragile china
of my solitude cracks.

This blog offers a glimpse into the life of an Iranian woman and her honest view on world affairs and issues which concerns her country, Iran. 





July 29, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Thanks for dropping-bye…
Regards Rahul.
August 5, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Salaam,
Jazakallah khair for adding me.
Wassalaam.
August 5, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Rahul, Welcome to my blog
Snowdrops, Alaykum salam va rahmatullah va barakatuh
You’re welcome. I dont know meaning of you’re welcome in arabic. Hope God bless you too honey. Take care..
August 7, 2007 at 1:52 am
Salaam Shahrzad jaan,
It is very nice meeting you (i.e. through your blog). I’m learning arabic at this time and I believe the phrase “ahlan wa salhan” is used for “you’re welcome”, among others of course.
Khoda haafez, negahdaar!
August 9, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Mutarjam, Salam dearest. Welcome to my blog. I am also learning Arabic, but yet i am not that much good. Thank you for meaning of welcome
Khoda Haafeze to ham bashe (May God keep you safe too )
August 11, 2007 at 2:50 am
Hi,
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a kind comment. Kindness is an endangered virtue these days. Apathy and cynicism are taking the place of enthusiasm and passion in most people’s minds. It’s good to know that writers like you are holding out against the tide. I have been strictly secular from 15, so I can only wish: may the Force be with you!
August 11, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Moving Images, Welcome to my blog
Thank you. I hope i deserve your words. For i am Muslim, I can wish: May Allah be with you..
Keep visiting my blog..
August 13, 2007 at 5:09 am
Dearest Shahrezade,
Salaam! Chetoreh? Khoobi?
I am very pleased to add you to my blogroll. Your sincere writings made me so glad and feel good about the goodness of blogging.
Keep it up, aziz. Hudafiz,
Shahnoz
August 13, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Jayron,
Alaykum Salam, Welcome to my blog honey. Man khubam, shoma chetori? (I am fine, how about you?) lol I am happy that you like my words. I keep it up, may you keep visiting and make me glad
Love ya Shahnoz-e Aziz
Be omide Didar (So long)
August 28, 2007 at 3:44 am
I liked your website very much. - ShaikNbake@gmail.com
September 1, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Hi shahrzaad,
I liked your blog. It is really amazing to discover your blog. I will have to take off for sometime to read your posts. I have added you to my blogroll.
Keep it up. All the best.
Anil
September 2, 2007 at 12:19 am
m anil,

Welcome to my blog. Thank you
You make me happy by reading my words..
You know? The address you linked to your name here, is a deleted blog. I searched your name in google to find your blog and i found.
Keep visiting my blog..
God with you..
September 2, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Hi Shahrzad,
I am extremely sorry to link to a deleted blog. I don’t know how it happened, coz i was logged in in my current blog. Hope don’t mind.
Thank you so much for taking trouble to search me.
All the best.
September 25, 2007 at 8:10 am
I will be back to visit often, this is a very refreshing place to be.
September 25, 2007 at 8:34 am
i spend almost one hour reading different stories intersting keep it up.
September 27, 2007 at 2:42 pm
How different is this Shahrzad from Shahrzad, Persian Queen, i think little
can i add you to my blogroll
September 27, 2007 at 4:03 pm
spadinaplace and saeed, I will be very happy to see you all here again..
aMmAr, Thank you Ammar. Of course you can add me to your blogroll..
September 30, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I stared to be addicted to your blog.
You are really charming Ya Shahrzad!
Keep it up….
BTW, your name reminded me with an old song for Samira Said, it is called “احكي يا شهراذاد ” meaning “O’ Shahrzad; Tell (Stories) ”
So, keep it up and ….. Ehkee Ya Shahrzaaaaad.
October 2, 2007 at 1:49 am
Youssef, Welcome to my blog.. Thank you for your kind words.. I know meaning of Ehkei ya Shahrzad, I know atabic little

I will search to find that song by Samira.. Seems beautiful one. Ye?!
October 5, 2007 at 5:40 pm
salaam shahi i like your blog so much
well done ……………… keep writing
October 7, 2007 at 6:50 am
Shahrzad,
I just love your perspective and your writing. The world needs to hear what you have to say. Thank you so much for sharing yourself like this. Wonderful job
December 15, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Wah! this is one excellent blog i ve ever seen.
December 26, 2007 at 2:42 am
Salam Shahrazad, nice blog
December 28, 2007 at 10:00 pm
nice blog… surfing thru it ..
January 2, 2008 at 7:21 am
Shahrzad,
I love your writing and the way you bring a woman’s thoughts and her culture out for the world to know and understand. It doesn’t really matter what country you are from, we live on the same earth, share the same dreams, feed on the same ideas; but it is our differences that make our respective discoveries more meaningful.
Keep on. You have wonderful eyes with the way you look at things.
January 10, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I like your blog !
January 24, 2008 at 6:24 am
I love your blog, of course
And the poem is magnificent.
Ya Haqq!
February 8, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Salam, I´ve just popped into your blog- masha Allah- it´s awesome! Greetings from Germany!
February 13, 2008 at 3:41 am
Salaam to everyone from Persia! I am an American lady, but I love Iran and Iranian people. I have several close friends from Iran who live here in the U.S.A.
I tried to go to Iran for vacation 3 times, but I could not get a visa to travel there. They don’t allow single women to travel there. Insha’allah someday I will go to Iran and visit all the famous cities there!!
Khoda-hafez!
February 16, 2008 at 2:43 am
I love your blog, and you, and have added you to my blogroll.
February 24, 2008 at 11:20 am
Assalamu alaikum
Ane from Indonesia, kaifa hal..
March 1, 2008 at 12:11 pm
this should be a little different…
for one, i havent read many of ur posts…naah, i just got hooked onto the comments on various pages. somehow (with no outward disrespect to ur writing skills!), i just found it real nice to read polite comments interspersed with various salutations, in the way muslims do. it reminded me of my best friend from my school days.
most of all i liked one line u said, on how u’ve read about many religions, and found them all quite similar…i share ur views! but then, i disagree when u say that islam is more complete. it’s not coz i prefer some other religion, naah, its coz i believe that there is only so much that a religion can do - what the person achieves depends on the way he (or she) interprets the teachings. and in that way, all religions are equal. it’s only the people that are different. what say?
apologies for not reading ur posts. maybe i will eventually
March 31, 2008 at 12:12 pm
SALAM.. evryBody….
I love your blog, and you also:d
i dont know wat shuld i rite here..cuz this is my 1ts entry in blogs so dont have anyidea..sorry for it..
Always there for me
To lean on when I’m weak
When no will listen
With you I can speak
You make me feel complete
Without you I feel sick
Between you and air
I would have to pick
You, my love forever
We shall be
There is no other
I would rather see
Sisters forever,
though there is no blood
I feel joined at the hip with you
and I finally feel complete
April 3, 2008 at 4:56 am
As salam ‘aleykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
April 13, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Hi,
You have a very nice blog….nice to read on. I have added you to my Blogroll. Hope we can be friends.
Take care.
Best Regards and wishes to you and your family
May 15, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Salam Shahrzaad!
nono here!
May 19, 2008 at 5:31 am
Assalamualaikum… nice blog.
June 6, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I’ve seen your comments here and there for months and just finally clicked your name lol. SO far things look really amazing and i look forward to reading your post and adding you to my blogroll
Salam.
June 7, 2008 at 8:32 pm
salams, great blog! hope you keep it comming!
July 8, 2008 at 10:17 pm
i Am impressed. if ur in iran and with such good english . Than i think this is an accomplishment for you . I like ur blog and its layout too. I have been to iran . And all i could found was persian. And am astonished to know someone writing in english and not just english but a very proper one. Keep it up .
July 10, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hi Shahrzad,
I enjoyed reading about your first year of blogging - congratulations on still writing such interesting posts. As I want to read and learn more about your country, I’ll add you to my blogroll. Cheers, Jenny.
July 17, 2008 at 6:29 am
Your blog is very very beautiful. Thank you for making my time well spent
May Allah Almighty bestow on you beauty and make all of his creation love you
Ameen
July 28, 2008 at 2:45 pm
“Beautiful SIGHT”
If you are my soul’s friend, What I say won’t be just an assertion. You may here me.
at midnight, Come out in the dark, and don’t be afraid. “Nearness ” and “kinship” are
assertions, but sound of a voice is not. The delight a friend feels when he hears
a friend’s voice brings all tha matters. There are those who hear within a voice
the essence being said, and there are those who can’t. When one grew up speaking
Arabic says in Arabic, “Arabic is my mother tongue,” you know it’s true. Or
someone writes in beautiful calligraphy, ” I can read and write.” The accomplished
script in that. A sufi might say, ” Last night you saw me caring my prayer rug
on my shoulder. I explained something then about clairvoyance. Let that guide you.” Your dreaming soul says, “Yes confirmation is like your lost camel!. You
Listen with interest when someone says he saw it, but you feel differently it it’s there.
in the front of you. To a man dying of thirst you hand a cup of spring water. Will he demand
a certificate saying, ” This liquid is of the aqueous variety’s. Does an infant ask his mother.
to validate the breast? When a true human being apperars in community thirsty for
the taste of soul, they immediately hear in the voice the meaning of I am near.
… The Great Poet Rumi
August 13, 2008 at 10:44 pm
thank you man
September 27, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Bravo!!! Wow! What a great blog?
The content is excellent and well thought out. Wish you all the best and keep up this master piece
October 3, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Salaam alaikum
I’m not one for blogs to be honest, but I have to say, this is the most interesting blog I’ve come across. I had the opportunity to visit Iran a few years ago and fell in love with the people and the place. Now I’ve learnt even more about Iran through your blog………
I’ll definitely keep visiting……..thanx for a good one :))