Saadi Shirazi
Persian poet
Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, better known by his pen-name Saadi, also known as Saadi of Shiraz, was one of the major Persian poets and literary men of the medieval period. Wikipedia
Died: 1292, Shiraz, Iran
Nationality: Iranian
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Hafez
Persian poet
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hafez, was a Persian poet who “lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy.” Wikipedia
Born: 1315, Shiraz, Iran
Died: 1390, Shiraz, Iran
Major works: Divan-e-Hafez
Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Omar Khayyam
Persian mathematician
Omar Khayyám was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential thinkers of the Middle Ages. He also wrote treatises on physics and music theory.Wikipedia
Born: May 18, 1048, Nishapur, Iran
Died: December 4, 1131, Nishapur, Iran
Nationality: Iranian
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness – And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Rumi
Poet
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Wikipedia
Born: October 7, 1207, Vakhsh, Tajikistan
Died: December 24, 1273, Konya, Turkey
Full name: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Title: Mevlânâ, Mawlānā, Mevlevî, Mawlawī
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian writer
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.Wikipedia
Born: December 11, 1911, Cairo, Egypt
Died: August 30, 2006, Agouza, Giza, Egypt
Nationality: Egyptian
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.