RAHMAN BABA: chosen POEMS

Translation & creation through Paul Smith

Rahman Baba (1652 to 1711) is taken into account the best Sufi Pashtun poet to compose poems, typically ghazals, within the Pashtu language. Born in Mohmand quarter of Afghanistan close to Peshawar he used to be known as ‘The Nightingale of Peshawar’. This used to be a time of fight and worry and in the middle of the turmoil he was once an outstanding scholar with a usual present for poetry. He finally wondered the worth of such targets and withdrew from the realm, dedicating himself to prayer and devotion. In solitary worship he started to write back and his poetry unfold. non secular figures used it to encourage the religious, political leaders to encourage the independence stream. His Divan is 343 poems… ghazals and some qasidas and mukhammas. advent is on his lifestyles & occasions & Poetry and the varieties during which he wrote and on Sufism & Poetry. the proper rhyme-structure is stored in addition to the that means of those appealing, enlightened poems. 141 pages within the paperback.

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It isn't really a joke... the English model of all of the ghazals of Hafiz is a brilliant feat and of paramount significance. i'm astonished. If he involves Iran i'll kiss the fingertips that wrote this sort of masterpiece encouraged by means of the author of all.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
“Superb translations. ninety nine% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith.” Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz’s Divan off by way of heart.
“I used to be very inspired with the wonderful thing about those books.” Dr. R.K. Barz. school of Asian stories, Australian nationwide University.
“Smith has most likely prepare the best selection of literary evidence and historical past relating Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books writer of poems encouraged by means of Hafiz).

Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over eighty books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages… together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre and so forth, in addition to poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and screenplays.