Saadi Shirazi - A Story

Saadi returned to his native city of Shiraz, after his education and long and diverse travels, and started to share his knowledge on daily basis. He exchanges his ideas through people’s gathering, belonging to all segments of society. He preaches to farmers, merchants, preachers, ascetics, students, teachers, and even to thieves and robbers. This exchange of ideas was based on moral values and encouraging people for good deeds, respect, peace and justice through his poems, texts, stories, and quotes from Islam.

Saadi belonged to the group of few world renowned scholars, having command over both poem and poetry form. He composed beautiful lyrics, qasidas and ghazals in Persian language using some Arabic words in, too. His most celebrated works in Persian language are (amongst few works the literary masterpieces of world) Bostan (The Orchard) and Gulistan (the Rose Garden). These two literary jewels are popularly known as “Bostaane Saadi” and “Golestane Saadi”.

Here is one of his story shared with people. Scholars those days used story Telling to drive home their messages.

Yours truely wrote the story in Telugu.

There are a few more stories of Sadi in this blog. You can reach them through thel abels on the right side panel.

Happy reading!