Translation, advent & Notes by way of Paul Smith

Sarmad (d. 1659) or Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed, whose identify ‘Sarmad’ derives from the Persian observe for everlasting or eternal, used to be a well-known and notorious Persian dervish poet of Jewish and Armenian beginning. As a service provider he accrued his wares and travelled to India to promote them. In India he renounced Judaism and followed Islam: he later renounced it in favour of Hinduism which he eventually renounced for Sufism. He used to be identified for exposing and ridiculing the key religions and hypocrisy of his day, yet he additionally wrote appealing mystical poetry within the type of 321 rubai’s (all right here translated). He wandered the streets and the courts of the emperor as a unadorned dervish. He used to be beheaded in 1659 by way of Emperor Aurangzeb for his perceived heretical poetry. His grave is found close to the Jama Masjid in Delhi. advent at the lifetime of Sarmad, a historical past of the ruba’i and examples by means of its maximum exponents. Bibliography. the proper rhyme-structure has been saved in addition to the wonder and which means of those immortal four-line poems.

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It isn't a joke... the English model of all of the ghazals of Hafiz is a smart feat and of paramount importance..” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
“Superb translations. ninety nine% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith.” Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz’s Divan off by means of heart.
“I used to be very inspired with the great thing about those books.” Dr. R.K. Barz. school of Asian reviews, Australian nationwide University.
“Smith has most likely prepare the best selection of literary evidence and heritage referring to Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author).

Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages… together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Lalla Ded, Baba Farid, Rahman Baba, Yunus Emre, Ghalib, Iqbal, Nazir and so on, in addition to poetry, fiction, performs, children’s books biographies and a dozen screenplays.
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