In the Alley of the Friend by Meskoob Shahrokh; Ghanoonparvar M. R.;

Author:Meskoob, Shahrokh; Ghanoonparvar, M. R.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2019-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

i. “With woad, the world drew a crescent on the eyebrow of the feast / The crescent of the feast should be seen on the eyebrow of the beloved.” [From ghazal 238.]

ii. “Spring and the rose became joyful and repentance-breaking / With the happiness of the rose’s face, uproot sorrow from your heart.” [From ghazal 388.]

iii. Moreover, his understanding of nature is meaningful and is a representative of a certain period and the perception of a group of our poets regarding nature. The approaches of the Bard of Shiraz and Manuchehri regarding nature are so different that comparing them can reveal some signs of two different worldviews in Persian poetry.

iv. “It is springtime, and the world, like a thorn bush / Rise, oh thorn bush, and bring the rose with no thorns.” Cited from the Divan of Manuchehri, edited by Mohammad Dabir-Siyaqi [(Tehran: Zavvar, 1984); From qasideh 29.]

v. In Hafez’s thinking, as well, the wisdom of the “firmamental architect” is an unknowable puzzle [from ghazal 299]; but love liberates man from the trap of any puzzle.

vi. Oh world, how unkind and ill-tempered you are,

You are like the chaotic bazaar of tradesmen.

By every means that I tested you,

You are all deception, you are all injurious.

You ruin our affairs every day,

You are not afraid that you will be ruined one day.

This is all the work of madmen.

Are you mad intentionally or unknowingly?

(From the Divan of Manuchehri)

[These couplets seem to be chosen randomly from a qasideh in praise of Ali ebn Omran.]

vii. Ibid., 122.

viii. Farrokhi’s beloved is “dearer than life, and more beautiful than the beauties of Turkestan, drinks wine and offers wine, and gives kisses and takes kisses.”

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