In the Name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Our dear brothers in foreign countries,  

My best wishes to you, hoping all your feasts would be a blessed and uniting occasion. I cannot but tell you that we are about to enter a new period of a new year, so there should be hope.

I know what you feel in your hearts toward your country of charity, passion and hope, especially what it means to you in spite of all the difficulties, as well as the attachment of the humanitarian feeling to the ancestors land and all that they have cultivated in their souls on it of faith consolidated by the noble values and the virtues that represent to them one of the fruits of spiritual commitment to the virtue and the beauty of the Unitarian manners, toward which there is an inevitable strong desire by any graceful and disdainful heart.

I know how much you appreciate that the links between you and your brothers in the Jabal are strong, vital and intimate, not only nourished by the ties of kinship and domestic familial convergence, but especially, the ties of the Unitarian soul and the significance it carries of a feeling that rises and gets stronger by the heat of feeling the significances of courage, bravery, nobility and goodness and all what this true quality provokes in the heart; the quality that unites us under its shadow, which is the quality of “Bani Maarouf” and the continuance of these ties to our coming generations.

Yes, we should be hopeful and aspire with hope and determination being loyal to the best future, no matter if the efforts were hindered at times and the attempts were confused with circumstances and ramified opinions.

We should be hopeful to inspire our common attempt for the higher interest to all of us, not as individuals, but as a civilized humanitarian group that carries in its mind and heart the principles of justice, knowledge and goodness that constitute the essence of Unitarianism, based on the education of our children at home toward the necessity of striving for stability and peace facing the ambiance of trouble, agitations and conflicts.

I hope that the coming days of the new year carry the hope, so that we keep it by our work, intention and permanent insistence on the fruitful communication, as well as the strong aspiration to a future that carries the capacities to accomplish the achievements that make us pass from the wishes towards the facts and from the theoretical speech to the sources that quench the thirst of the ones dreaming of a better life.

I address my salutations to you. I cooperate with every good attempt in the fortification of communication that we all aim to achieve, hoping that your actions are crowned with luck and blessings, and that the light of hope would be renewed in your hearts so that it would be a permanent feast that brings all the goodness to you and your sons.

God his Almighty helps who addresses to Him and saves who relies on Him. He who relies on Him will be guided and saved by Him, and protected by His Mercy.

May God keep you under His Protection and Guardianship.  

Beirut, on December 29, 2012