THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 1by Edward FitzGerald 11With me along some Strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of slave and Sultan scarce is known, And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne.
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Masnavi e Manavi : The Lion and the Beasts.
Book I.STORY V. In the book of Kalila and Damna a story is told of a lion who held all the beasts of the neighborhood in subjection, and was in the habit of making constant raids upon them, to take and kill such of them as he required for his daily food.
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM (Part 1 )
THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 1by Edward FitzGerald1AWAKE! For Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
Masnavi e Manavi : The Falcon and the Owls
Book II.STORY IV.The Falcon and the OwlsA certain falcon lost his way, and found himself in the waste places inhabited by owls. The owls suspected that he had come to seize their nests, and all surrounded him to make an end of him.
Rumi, Islam, and America
Dr.Ehsan AzariToward the end of Candid, Voltaire writes in 1758 about a dervish saint who lived in Turkey without citing his name. In the novel, Candid approaches and asks the dervish: “Master…we have come to ask a favour. Will you kindly tell us why such a strange animal as man was ever […]
Persian epic poet “Ferdowsi” int’l confab in Iran
(ISNA)-An International conference on the Persian epic poet Abu’l-Qasim is held in Iran, hosting national and foreign scholars.
Roudaki Samarqandi Iranian Poet
Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki[1] (Persian: ابوعبدالله جعفر ابن محمد رودکی, Tajik: Абӯабдуллоҳ Ҷаъфар Ибни Муҳаммад, entitledآدم الشعرا Ādam ul-Shoara or Adam of Poets), also written as Rudagi (858 – ca. 941), was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in […]
HAKIM NEZAMI GANJAVI
Life Nezami was born in Ganja, one of the major cities of the Atabekan-e-Azerbaijan, part of the Seljuk Empire, where he remained his whole life. Nizami was orphaned early and was raised by his maternal uncle Khwaja Umar who afforded him an excellent education. His mother, named Ra’isa, was of a Kurdish background and […]
Masnavi e Manavi :The Prophet and his Infidel Guest.
Book V.STORY I.AFTER the usual address to Husamu-‘d-Din follows a comment on the precept addressed to Abraham, “Take four birds and draw them towards thee, and cut them in pieces.
Popular Young Poet Sentenced To Prison
On Tuesday, 16 August, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Pirabbasi, sentenced Hila Sedighi, a young poet whose critical and political poems are admired by many, to 4 months in prison, to be postponed for five years.