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~ABU SA’ID & SARMAD~
A Sufi Daybook
Translation & creation via Paul Smith

Abu Sa’id (968-1049) was once an ideal grasp and a poet who lived in Nishapur and composed in simple terms ruba’is, over four hundred of them. He used to be a founding father of Sufi poetry and a big impact at the ruba’i and such a lot poets that undefined, particularly Sana’i, Nizami, ‘Attar, Rumi and Hafiz. Sarmad (d. 1659) used to be a well-known and notorious Persian dervish poet of Jewish and Armenian starting place. As a service provider he collected 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 was once identified for exposing and ridiculing the foremost religions and hypocrisy of his day, yet he additionally wrote appealing mystical poetry within the type of rubai’s. He was once beheaded in 1659 via Emperor Aurangzeb for his perceived heretical poetry. This Sufi Daybook includes 366 in their insightful, attractive & religious ruba’is, 188 every one. creation & Bibliography. 390 pages.

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Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over eighty 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, Mu’in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki Lalla Ded, Baba Farid, Bulleh Shah and others, and his personal poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and a dozen screenplays.