"The most famous Iranian poet is Sa’adi. In India whenever we want to learn Farsi we start to read Gulistan Sa’adi", one of the participant in Sa’adi commemoration session in New Delhi said.
"Sa’adi was a full-scale poet. Specially in Indian subcontinent in which Farsi language has a widespread influence since one thousand years ago no Farsi text had the same influence and presence in Indian subcontinent as Sa’adi's works", another participant in the session noted.
"Sa’adi on hand knew Quran by heart and on the other hand was a wise poet and a reformer. Sa’adi was a philanthropist and it makes him immortal", the other participant in Sa’adi commemoration session in New Delhi India said.
Sa’di, along with Rumi and Hafez, is regarded as one of the three main pillars of romantic poem in Persian poetry.
Born in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 1208, Sa’di is often referred to as the Master of Prose and Poetry in the Persian literature and he has been globally praised for expressing his deep social and moral thoughts in a style which is famous for being ‘simple but impossible to imitate’.
Sa’di studied Islamic sciences, law, governance, history, Arabic literature and Islamic theology at the Nizamiyya University in Baghdad and set off for a three-decade journey to foreign lands after the Mongols invaded Iran in 1220s.
