{"id":1872,"date":"2015-03-17T05:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2015-03-17T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T04:02:12","slug":"envy-of-the-ancient-idols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2015\/03\/17\/envy-of-the-ancient-idols\/","title":{"rendered":"Envy of the ancient idols&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<h6 align=\"center\"><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqSS7O7zKsM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translation:<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">O you whose beautiful face is the envy of the idols of Azar<br \/>\n(Abraham&#8217;s father and famous idol maker);<br \/>\nHowever I describe you, your beauty is still lovelier.<br \/>\nAll over the world have I traveled;<br \/>\nmany a maiden\u2019s love have I tasted;<br \/>\nMany a beauty have I seen; but you are something unique.<br \/>\nI have become you, and you me; I have become the body,<br \/>\nyou the soul; So that none hereafter may say<br \/>\nthat \u201cI am someone and you are someone else.\u201d<br \/>\nKhusro, a stranger, has come to your town as a wandering beggar<br \/>\nFor God&#8217;s sake, have pity on this beggar<br \/>\nand do not turn him away from your door.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M77GprU5twU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\n<div>Transliteration:<\/div>\n<div><i>Ay chehra-e zeba-e tu rashk-e butan-e azari;<br \/>\nHar chand wasfat mikunam dar husn-az-aan zebatari.<br \/>\nAafaq ra gar deedah am mehr-e butan warzeedah am;<br \/>\nBisyar khuban deedah am lekin tu cheez-e degari.<br \/>\nMan tu shudam, tu man shudi, man tan shudam, tu jan shudi;<br \/>\nTaakas nagoyad baad azeen man deegaram tu deegari.<br \/>\nKhusrau ghareeb ast-o gada uftadah dar shehr-e shuma;<br \/>\nBaashad ki az behr-e khuda, su-e ghareeban bangari.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/files\/2015\/03\/Mir_Sayyid_Ali_-_Portrait_of_a_Young_Indian_Scholar.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1843\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2015\/03\/15\/it-is-love-so-surrender\/mir_sayyid_ali_-_portrait_of_a_young_indian_scholar\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/files\/2015\/03\/Mir_Sayyid_Ali_-_Portrait_of_a_Young_Indian_Scholar.jpg?fit=3328%2C5250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3328,5250\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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href=\"http:\/\/www.azkalam.com\/category\/amir-khusro\/\">\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0631 \u062e\u0633\u0631\u0648<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Amir Khusro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azkalam.com\/category\/amir-khusro\/\">Amir Khusro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mib8z5s8k2s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Translation:\u00a0 O you whose beautiful face is the envy of the idols of Azar (Abraham&#8217;s father and famous idol maker); However I describe you, your beauty is still lovelier. All over the world have I traveled; many a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2015\/03\/17\/envy-of-the-ancient-idols\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65685,139164],"tags":[139165,65695],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-persian","category-qawwal-2","tag-amir-khusrow","tag-persian-sufi-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NI4C-uc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}