Bābā Ṭāhir باباطاهر
wandering dervish · Hamadan, Persia · 11th century
A wandering dervish of Hamadan, known as “Ṭāhir the Naked”. He made four-line songs in his regional dialect rather than in literary Persian, and they were long passed on by word of mouth. Almost nothing is known of his life.
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11th century · Composed in his regional dialect rather than in literary Persian.
I cry out against both my eye and my heart, for whatever the eye sees, the heart remembers. I will forge a dagger with a point of steel and strike my eye, so that my heart goes free.
زدست دیده و دل هر دو فریاد
که هر چه دیده بیند دل کند یاد
بسازم خنجری نیشش ز فولاد
زنم بر دیده تا دل گردد آزادDo-baytī (a song of two couplets)
11th century · A qalandar is a wandering dervish who owns nothing. Given in his regional dialect.
I am the vagabond they call a qalandar: no house, no home, no anchorage have I. When day comes I wander round the world; when night comes I lay my head on a brick.
مو آن رندم که نامم بیقلندر
نه خان دیرم نه مان دیرم نه لنگر
چو روج آیو بگردم گرد گیتی
چو شو آیو به خشتی وانهم سرDo-baytī (a song of two couplets)
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