NOURNEWS - Saadi Shirazi, known as "Sheikh Ajal", a fateful poet whose life coincided with the Mongol invasion in Iran, but since it was his luck, the Atabakan government of Persia prevented the Mongols from invading his city of Shiraz.
Saadi; The poet of expediency
Abu Muhammad Musharraf al-Din Musallah ibn Abdullah ibn Musharraf, nicknamed Saadi, was a poet who had the greatest influence on the modern Persian language but has not been properly identified. A poet who even compared to his compatriot; Hafiz Shirazi has been abandoned by the people today. Saadi's writings are very similar to modern Persian after several centuries, and his works have been used for many years to teach Persian in schools and libraries, and many of the common proverbs in Persian have been adapted from his works. In his time, Sufism played a significant role in the social history of Iran, and Saadi scholars consider him to be influenced by the prevailing atmosphere of his time. A Sufi who is known for his expediency and may contravene his statements in his writings.
Life on the go
Saadi Center of Iran was set up in Shiraz to study, recognize and apprehend the characteristics of Saadi's personality, works, historical and social period. This center has designated May 1 as Saadi Day. Saadi's date of birth is not known, as his date of birth might be 15 years between 585 and 610. Unlike the well-known poet Hafiz, who spent most of his life in Shiraz, Saadi travels to Baghdad to study, as he prefers to travel to different cities. Saadi has spent some time in various cities in the Levant, such as Damascus and Baalbek, teaching and preaching, and has traveled to the Hejaz, the Levant, and Asia Minor. Signs of his travels to India, Turkestan, Ghazni, Azerbaijan, Palestine, China, Yemen and North Africa can also be seen in his poems, but it is not certain in this aspect because there is very little information about Saadi's life. There are even various accounts of Saadi's death, as well as his birth, and his death was recorded between the years 690 and 695 AH.
Golestan is born of Saadi's depression
Saadi scholars believe that Saadi suffered from severe depression after writing Bustan, and that his life was completely annulled, but those around him encouraged him to write a new book, and after his depression he wrote Golestan, Bustan and Golestan became his constant fame. In addition, Saadi has many poems, lyric poems, pieces, prepositions, quatrains, articles, and Arabic poems, all of which scholars have compiled in his general book. Saadi was fluent in Arabic and also wrote poems in Arabic, indicating his mastery of the language.
Saadi's poetry has never been on the United Nations
In the minds of every Iranian who has studied in the Iranian education system, this passage is engraved, a verse from the poem "Human beings are members of each other / who are in the creation of a gem" in the first chapter of " characteristics of kings" written in Saadi's book (Golestan) and rumour has it that it was installed at the United Nations, but this has never been proven. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who previously represented Iran at the United Nations, wrote about his first visit to the United Nations, looking for Saadi's poem, which he did not find. With years of follow-up, Iranian carpets with the same lines will be installed next to a Chinese carpet at the United Nations.
The image of Saadi's tomb and his famous poem are exchanged between us every day with 100,000 Rials banknotes but Saadi is not getting attention as he should be.
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