The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Poetry found its highest expression in Persia. The Persians had a natural gift for poetry and poetic inspiration, and their language yielded poetic form for the expression of their souls. When Firdausi wrote the history of Persia, he wrote it entirely in verse, showing thereby how the inspiration and language of the Persians blended with poetry. Sufis, especially from the time of Farid-ud-Din-Attar, have given God's message and have interpreted religion to the people of Persia in the form of poetry. Jelal-ud-Din Rumi's wonderful work, the Masnavi, and the poetry of his teacher Shams-i-Tabriz, all show that the spirit of poetry was incarnate in Persia at the time when Hafiz was born and when Sa'di wrote his Rose-Garden and his Garden of Fragrance, in which he taught ethics from beginning to end. In this period great poets were born, one after another, but after that they ceased.


 
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