Abu l-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (c.940-1020) was a Persian poet and the author of the immortal epic of Shahnameh (“book of kings”) which is the world’s longest epic poem that created by a single poet, and the national epic of Iran . Having drafted the Shahnameh under patronage of the Samanid and the Ghaznavid courts of Iran.
Ferdowsi is celebrated as the most influential figure in Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature that widely regarded as the greatest poet in the Persian language . He was called “The Lord of the Word” and “The Savior of Persian Language...
Here are a number of his most famous poems
Persian language
Be shabgir chun bar-damid āftāb
Sar-e jang-juyān bar-āmad ze khāb
Chu shirān be koshti dar-āvikhtand
Ze tanhā khoy-o khun hami rikhtand
Meaning:
When the sun rose at the break of day
As the fighters rose from their sleep
Like two lions they started to wrestle
Sweat and blood dripped from both their bodies.’
Persian language
Chonin goft Rostam be Esfandiyār
Ke kerdār mānad ze mā yādegār
Ke guyad borow dast-e Rostam beband?
Nabandad marā dast charkh-e boland
Meaning:
And so Rostam said to Esfandiyār:
“Who says go and take me captive?
For my good deeds shall be remembered,
And not even the heavens can imprison me!”’
Persian language
Chu Zahhāk shod bar jahān shahriyār
Bar u sāliyān anjoman shod hezār
Nahān gasht kerdār-e farzānegān
Parāgande shod kām-e divānegān
Meaning
When Zahhāk became the ruler of the world,
His reign lasted for a thousand years.
The knowledge of the wise ones was lost,
And the lunatics’ wishes were spread everywhere.’
