Persian Poem: Ferdowsi - Salvation - with English subtitles - رستگاری - شعر فارسي - ابوالقاسم فردوسی

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ترا دانش و دین رهاند درست

در رستگاری ببایدت جست

وگر دل نخواهی که باشد نژند

نخواهی که دایم بوی مستمند

به گفتار پیغمبرت راه جوی

دل از تیرگیها بدین آب شوی
دلت گر به راه خطا مایلست

ترا دشمن اندر جهان خود دلست

نباشد جز از بی‌پدر دشمنش

که یزدان به آتش بسوزد تنش

نگر تا نداری به بازی جهان

نه برگردی از نیک پی همرهان

همه نیکی ات باید آغاز کرد

چو با نیکنامان بوی همنورد

از این در سخن چند رانم همی

همانا کرانش ندانم همی

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Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی‎; c. 935–1019), or just Ferdowsi (فردوسی ) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Khorasa. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature and one of the greatest in the history of literature. He began work on the Shahnameh around 977, intending it as a continuation of the work of his fellow poet Daqiqi, who had been assassinated by his slave. Like Daqiqi, Ferdowsi employed the prose Shahnameh of ʿAbd-al-Razzāq as a source. He received generous patronage from the Samanid prince Mansur and completed the first version of the Shahnameh in 994. When the Turkic Ghaznavids overthrew the Samanids in the late 990s, Ferdowsi continued to work on the poem, rewriting sections to praise the Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud. Mahmud's attitude to Ferdowsi and how well he rewarded the poet are matters which have long been subject to dispute and have formed the basis of legends about the poet and his patron. The Turkic Mahmud may have been less interested in tales from Iranian history than the Samanids. The later sections of the Shahnameh have passages which reveal Ferdowsi's fluctuating moods: in some he complains about old age, poverty, illness and the death of his son; in others, he appears happier. Ferdowsi finally completed his epic on 8 March 1010. Virtually nothing is known with any certainty about the last decade of his life.