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A much-cited poem therein is "The Guest House" found in, for example, Mark Williams and Danny Penman (2011), Mindfulness, pp. 165–167. The poem is also at The Guest House by Rumi. The Illuminated Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Michael Green contributor, New York: Broadway Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7679-0002-7.
Bani Adam (Persian: بنیآدم), meaning "Sons of Adam" or "Human Beings", is a 13th-century Persian poem by Iranian poet Saadi Shirazi from his Gulistan. The poem calls humans limbs of one body, all created equal, and when one limb is hurt, the whole body shall be in unease. It therefore concludes that one not touched by the pain of ...
Divan Hafez is a book containing all the remaining poems of Hafez. Most of these poems are in Persian and the most crucial part of this Divan is ghazals. There are poems in other poetic formats such as piece, ode, Masnavi and quatrain in this Divan. There is no evidence that most of Hafez's poems were destroyed.
Saadi Shīrāzī, [a] [1] better known by his pen name Saadi (/ ˈ s ɑː d i /; [2] Persian: سعدی, romanized: Saʿdī ⓘ, IPA: [sæʔˈdiː]), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer [3] [4] of the medieval period.
Fereydoun Farrokhzad (brother) Pooran Farrokhzad (sister) Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; [ 2 ] 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. [ 3 ] She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, [ 4 ] feminist author. [ 5 ][ 6 ] Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the ...
Layla and Majnun (Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized: laylâ-o-majnun) [1] is an old story of Arab origin, [2][3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). [4]
Rabia Balkhi (Arabic: رابعة بنت كعب, Persian: رابعه بلخی) also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari), [ a ] was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known female poet to write in Persian. A non- mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed into that of a mystic poet by authors ...
Written in 1258 CE, it is one of two major works of the Persian poet Sa'di, considered one of the greatest medieval Persian poets. It is also one of his most popular books, and has proved deeply influential in the West as well as the East. [2] The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories, just as a rose-garden is a collection of flowers ...