I grew up in a small town in Iran. At the age of 16 after passing of my father, a physician, my mother took my older sister and me and moved to Tehran, the capital city.  Before we moved to Tehran the only kind of music I had heard and could enjoy were the Iranian and Turkish musics that are similar.  On those years, mid 1950’s Tehran youth had dance parties and used to listen and dance to Rock & Roll and other western music.  Soon my sister was invited to lots of those dance parties. Our mother allowed my sister to go to those dance parties with the condition that she took me along- good!!  My sister didn’t like the condition at all and very reluctantly would take me along with each time some points of disapproval directed towards me! I didn’t care, I was only glad to go.  At the beginning the unfamiliar music were only noises to my ears but before long I did enjoy the music. Dancing with the pretty and well-dressed Tehranian girls was of course the main factor.  My sister and I also attended a bi-weekly Baha’i youth gathering that was consisted of three parts.  The 1st part was devotional that’s preyers and reading from the Baha’i writings. The 2nd part was administrative;  Reading communiques plus questions and suggestions from the youth and the 3rd part, socializing; Talking to each other, having some refreshments and playing some brain teasers*.  At one of those gatherings a letter was read from the Baha’i World Centre to the Baha’i youth around the globe, encouraging them to make themselves familiar with and enjoy classical music.  At the time I was at the first year of Engineering school. The only knowledge of the classical music I had was what I had studied at Polytechnic of Tehran on “The Theory of Vibration”,  regarding the frequency rates of the musical notes.  I knew then that if I kept listening to the classical music I could enjoy it.  Someone gave me the wave length of a radio station in Tehran that played classical music.  I think it was an American radio station for the Americans then living in Tehran.  I started to listen to that station after my homework as a student by a small radio when I went to bed.  My mother would turn it off after I fell asleep.  I kept the practice without enjoying it.  Later I understood that the station was playing complete symphonies one after the other without any introduction or commercials.  Before falling completely asleep I used to wake up a couple of times hearing the music as a noise only and fell asleep again. I realized gradually that each piece of music had four parts. (four movements of symphonies).  One night during one of those brief awakes, I was hearing by far the most beautiful music I had ever heard.  I had the feeling of flying in a joyous atmosphere.  I was thinking that if the composer of that music wrote only that one, he was the greatest musician ever!  From that night on I suddenly enjoyed all kinds of classical music. Gradually I learned to enjoy variety of music, pop, jazz, country and more, but then for a long time I rarely listened to the classical music, maybe because I could not find that magical symphony.  Nearly two decades later after with my family I had immigrated to Canada, my wife and I would tune our radio to a classical music station in Detroit before sleep and set the time on our radio to 60 minutes and enjoyed the music before sleep.  One night I heard that magical music again.  That was “IT” without slightest doubt!  A tear was flowing from my eyes while with broken words I was telling my wife “It’s it”.  By that time we both were familiar enough with the classical music to guess who the composer was.  We listened to the entire music.  I had the same joy though I was crying.  A tear has welled in my eyes while I am writing now.  At the end the radio announcer said: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart symphony number 25 in G minor.  Years ago I wrote this story to the CBC classical radio station.  They read my entire letter and played the entire four movements of Mozart’s symphony number 25.

If you do not listen to classical music, start listening to those wonderful symphonies, concertos, sonatas, suits operas… Enjoying the arts is one of the graces of the All Bountiful God, and classical music is the king of the arts.

* I remember some of the brain teasers we did and I added some more.  Would you like to answer them? Answers are not given, you have to find the answers if want to!

1. We know in the arctic zone as we move closer to the pole, days are from a few days to weeks long at the  end of spring and the beginning of summer. Where is the sun in the sky during those long days.
2. Why are spring and summer longer than fall and winter on the northern hemisphere?
3. Why in a house the upper floors are warmer than lower floors but on earth the areas of higher altitudes are colder?  Hint: The temperature/ pressure of air that we feel on our skin or measured by instruments are directly related to the velocity and the number of the air molecules that strike our skin or the instrument.  Therefore, air temperature and pressure are in reality the same phenomena that are measured with different instruments for its two different effects.  Obviously it isn’s because high elevations are further away from the hot centre of earth.  Arctic surface is closer to the centre of earth than tropical surface because of the earth shape. 
4. You are on two gates, one is to a life of success and felicity and the other to loss and misery.  There are two persons there.  One can only tell the truth and the other only lie. You can ask only one question from one of them and you do not know them.  Form a question to find the gate to success and felicity.
5. Use a geography globe to show why days are longer  in spring and summer than autumn and winter on the northern hemisphere and reverse on the southern hemisphere.  Why days and nights are always equal at the equator?
6. Two horses were ready for race at the start line.  The condition was such that the winner was the horse that reached to the end line behind the other horse, therefore the jockeys would’n move their horses.  Someone did something that the jockeys run the horses fastest they could to the goal line.  What did the smart one did?
7. Do some of the nine planets (forget the recent disrespect to Pluto) have phases like moon?  Why?
8. Why do fans cool us down?  Is there any benefit of a ceiling fan running while nobody is there?
9. Which of these two is the main cause and the more important reason that summer is warmer than winter?  Summer days are longer or summer sun is higher in sky.
10. Why at the sun rise and particularly at sun set the horizon sky is reddish?
11. Have you seen a lunar eclipse?  Which phase of moon was it, why?  have you seen a solar eclipse? did you see the moon, why?
12. Where we loose the most amount of heat from our body?
13. In the summer we feel cooler at the same temperature inside home when we use dehumidifier.   Do we feel warmer in the winter at home with the same temperature when we use humidifier?
14. How do you distinguish a boiled egg from an uncooked one?  (Hint, moment of inertia.) 
15. If we throw two cubic dice (1 to 6 dots), chance of all combinations are equal except for doubles, Why?
16. There are 365.25 days in one year. How many times earth spins around its axis in one year?  (It’s not 365.25)  
17. After super no matter how well we clean and brush our teeth, we older people have bad breath in the morning.  As we get older we also gradually loose our gum levels on our teeth.  Is there any relation between  these two phenomena?  Does antibacterial mouthwash before bed time help?
18. Why adding CO2 to the atmosphere causes warming of the earth?  Hint, the difference between the frequencies of the radiations coming from the sun and the radiations emitted by earth to the outer space.  
19. This one is not a puzzle, it is my astonishment at the creation.  We all know the achievements as the results of NASA’ s researches such as communication satellites, GPS, etc.  I wasn’t sure if deep space astronomy would have any usefulness until a friend offered me a small book of introductory to the astronomy.  I was captivated by its contents and started studying a couple of detail astronomy and one astrophysics books.  That was a spiritual journey for me.  The enormous vastness of cosmos, more and more mysteries as astronomers observe, search and discover.  What a beautiful universe!  At the same time at micro-state more and more unknowns show up as scientists suggest new theories about the nature of sub-atomic particles that also reveals the beauty of nature.  What a spiritual journey to meditate from a little corner of the infinite creations of God, that “Unknowable Supreme Being”.  Another benefit from astronomy researches that potentially would save the life of a city residents to the entire life on earth is the astroid watching.  We should applaud and be grateful to scientists and in particular to Americans who spend their resources in this branch of astronomy.
20. If you be right on the equator, where would be the sun at the sunrise, noon and sun-set on these three days;  The first day of spring, the first day of summer and the first day of winter?
21. Spring and summer are about 2% of a year longer than autumn and winter, also unlike moon the apparent size of the sun changes very little.  From those can you say that earth orbit around the sun is an elongated or a more round ellipse?  Based on the above, can you draw an approximate elliptical shape of the earth orbit?  Winter in the northern hemisphere is less than two days shorter than autumn, based on that can you mark an approximate position of the winter solstice, and the spring equinox?  Hint, ellipse area and the second Kepler law.
22. You have a lottery box containing 49 balls of 7 different colours with 7 balls of each colour.  If 7 balls are removed one by one from the box by chance, what are the most probable and the least probable cases of the removed balls colour combination?  Any help to pick lottery number?
23. When we burn carbons of the coal mines and oil wells of the earth into CO2 besides increasing the earth temperature what it does to the amount of the oxygen in the air we need for breathing?
24. You have a red crayon, how can you write blue with it?
25. If you be right on the equator, how can you measure the angle of the earth axis inclination with the surface of its orbit that causes the seasons?  Hint, #20 and a sun clock.
26. How can be,  6 + 7 = 1 ?
27. Why moons, planets, sun and stars are all spherical but solar system and all galaxies are spiral disks.
28. It is reported that Omar Khayam noticed that the earth surface is curved by surveying two hight’s back and forth by his telescope as far as he could.  Find how?
29. Prove that circle covers the maximum area of all geometrical and non-geometrical shapes with an equal circumference. “Hint, use a loop made of a thread & begin with triangles, then use of mathematics.”
30. The apparent length of day time on equinox is more than 12 hours! Why?
31. We know and even feel vacuum, darkness and coldness plus some other phenomena, do they exist?