"O God, you are the only confident of my days You are inside, outside, you are settled in my pores You the warp, the w…"

"Despite my age, I can almost say that I have never put pen to paper without worrying about censorship. The nightmare …"

"The Shāhnāmeh is the greatest epic in history. It is a treasure trove of ideas, wisdom, advice, help, guidance, and r…"

"the more sincere and intimate the relationship between a work and its reader, the better. So the countries that don’t…"

"Being iconoclastic is only acceptable and desirable if the public—or at least a specific segment of society—is open t…"

"Farid, time was when these frail thighs scoured over desert and hill; Now, feeble with age even the prayer-jug looks …"

"I fear not the passing of youth if the Beloved desert me not; Youth withers and loses bloom without the sustenance of…"

"Lord, give it not to me to Supplicate favours at another's door; Should such be Thy will, Take then life from this body."