Sa’di corner set up in Pakistan University

Pakistan’s University of Peshawar has launched Sa’di of Shiraz Corner in honor of the great Persian poet.

The literary and cultural space was recently inaugurated at the university’s Research Center in the presence of Iranian officials in Pakistan.

Born around 1210 AD in the Iranian city of Shiraz, Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, also known as Sa’di of Shiraz, is one of the greatest and most revered Persian poets.

He is famous for his moral and social teachings in his works as well as his outstanding poetic and rhythmic prose style.

His two major works are Bustan (The Orchard) and Gulistan (The Rose Garden.) Bustan is in verse and Gulistan contains poems and stories.

The poet's proficiency in Persian literature confers on him the title ‘Master of Prose and Poetry’.

Here is one of his famous poems:

“All human beings are members of one frame,

Since all, at first, from the same essence came.

When time afflicts a limb with pain

The other limbs at rest cannot remain.

If thou feel not for other’s misery         

A human being is no name for thee.”

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