
Salam upon Salam
The Simorgh awaits the thirty birds
"Where have I come from? Why was I born?
Where am I going in the end? Won’t You show me my homeland?"
Who is "I"?
Where does "I" come from?
Why does "I" exist?
Why did "I" become me?
Where is this place?
Where should "I" go?
Through which passage must "I" ascend?
A pilgrim of the Earth carries the glad tidings of passage—without judgment—beyond stillness and stagnation.
A pilgrim of the Earth is one who learns the etiquette of seeking and journeying with passion.
A pilgrim of the Earth is a treasure hunter whose entire being has become an eye, yearning to drink every drop of the rain of flowing signs and revelations.
Indeed, such a refined and pure language of the self will not arise from mere imitation, like a moon merely reflecting light, but from a heartfelt drinking of a familiar melody from the celestial kingdom—a thirst for connection.
This path is the journey of releasing all egos and self-claims before the ever-flowing love within the ecstasy of existence.
It is the trust that transforms the pilgrim into a true seeker, where every event is a sign, every moment a verse, and every step a visitation.
Hooriyar: The Seeker of Light, the Ally of the Sun
Hooriyar is the yearning of light-drinkers for the aid of light—drawn from the treasury of stored radiance—who, along the path of the Earthly pilgrim, becomes a fount of abundance, a flowing spring, and a conduit for the luminous love.
In earthly interpretations, light is often defined in contrast to darkness. Yet, our meaning of Hooriyar—translated as Sun’s Ally or Ally of the Sun—goes beyond celestial illumination; it is an awakened sun, a conscious radiance.
Hooriyar is the ever-seeking, ever-whirling voyager who strives to enrich the stored energy of all the Avestan and demonic journeys upon this wandering vessel called Earth.
Hooriyar is the earthly Kun Fayakun—the divine "Be, and it is"—of those humans who discovered their personal revelations within the creativity of their souls and suspended them upon the ever-circling body of a structure beyond mere architecture or appearance.
The first spiritual essence in Hooriyar was the gathering of dust and fragments from every luminous place and sacred watering hole of humankind across time and space—a quest for the self and the reason for its journey to this wandering sphere.
The inaugural spark of this sanctuary was a tile from the footstep-stone of Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha. Thereafter, from every sacred and luminous site across the Earth, Hooriyar sought and collected dust laden with the light of history, the essence of all worshipping and meaning-seeking souls, and thus laid the foundation for the connecting link—the binding ring—of Hooriyar’s structure.
At the Research Institute of the Earth’s Pilgrim, located at the Hooriyar Pilgrim Building, we are committed to exploring fundamental questions in their purest and most refined form. In this path, we remain impartial, focusing solely on the narration of meaning and concepts discovered by humanity over time or in various locations across this azure planet. This impartiality allows us to examine the essence of topics without judgment, gathering the necessary meaning from our exploration of these subjects, much like this famous saying:
"The seed of meaning is gathered by the man of truth,
He does not look at the cup when the nectar is poured."
Relying on impartiality, the research method at the Earth’s Pilgrim Research Institute is "narrative-based inquiry." This means that from the outset, topics are chosen for their potential for meaningful narration. After conducting the research, the results will not only be published in articles and books but also transformed into a narrative that can be used to create audio and visual works. To facilitate this, a standard framework for conducting this narrative-based inquiry has been designed. The entire process of research, from identifying the topic to gathering creative data for it, is summarized in a way that not only preserves the research aspect but also enables it to be narrated.