“Your world shall fall too.”

Least depressing Persian Poem about mongols

Part 2 : THE ACTUAL POEM by poet SAIF FARGHANI a peot who migrated from khorassan to Asia minor due to the mongol attacks. He saw the carnage they brought and Wrote : Just as death has passed over others’ world, it shall pass over your world as well. Just as the glory of their time faded, the radiance of your age shall fade as well. This owl of sorrow, which ruins every throne, shall one day sit upon your seat of power too. The autumn wind of misfortune—sudden and cold— shall sweep through your gardens and orchards as well. The choking waters of death, for commoner and king alike, shall reach your lips and throats as well. O you whose swords are spears stretched long for tyranny— the sharpness of your spearheads shall dull and pass as well. Since the justice of the righteous did not endure in this world, the injustice of you oppressors shall not endure either. In the kingdom where the lions’ roar rose and then was gone, the barking of your dogs shall also fade away. He who had a horse—his dust has long settled; and the dust from the hooves of your donkeys shall settle too. The wind that has extinguished many candles in time shall blow upon your lampstands as well. Through this caravanserai, many caravans have come and gone; inevitably, your caravan will pass on too. O you who boast of your fortunate destiny— the influence of your stars shall also wane. This turn of fortune that has come to you ignoble ones— the turn that came to the ignoble from you shall also pass. More than two days was it in the hands of others; after two days, it shall slip from your hands as well. Against the Arrows of your cruelty we raise our shields of patience — until the hardness of your arrows of evil are bent and broken, too. In the garden of fortune, others bloomed for a while; this flower blooming in your garden shall fade as well. Wealth and rank are like stagnant water in this house of the world; and this unmoving water of yours shall also pass away. You who have entrusted your flock to a shepherd wolf— this wolfish shepherd of yours shall pass away too. The elephant of annihilation, before whose command the king of existence is checkmated, shall step upon your footmen as well. O friends! Safi prays with goodwill— a day shall come when his name passes your lips as well.

Inspired because farya faraji released a music on the ilkhanate : https://youtu.be/adOAuOZtURQ?si=X6PkUCqVOhgTNnTD Part 1 : Under the Mongols, a non-Muslim dynasty ruled Iran for the first time in six centuries. The new rulers were generally indifferent to religious matters, and both Christians and Jews advanced in the Il-Khanid service as the Mongols ignored or destroyed the existing Islamic social system. The Mongols, they were not Muslims when they entered Iran, and the Mongol rulers did not convert to Islam until almost a century after Changizs first invasion. Their nomadic aristocracy despised Islamic culture and the traditions of settled Iranian life, and after the initial destruction and massacres, most Mongol officials and rulers took only a predatory interest in their subjects. Their rule destroyed agriculture and trade, the bases of the Iranian economy, and many regions of Iran have never recovered from Mongol devastation and rapacity. Cities reverted to villages, villages reverted to desert, and as revenue declined, the Mongols multiplied taxes to squeeze every drop of wealth from their conquered territory. They destroyed and razed the cities of nishapur with it never regained its glory and the poet “attar nishapuri”killed during the sack. The city of ray and herat and isfahan and margha were also sacked and razed to the ground Its estimated that more than half of Irans entire population perished during the invasion and due to its aftermath. Which didnt recover properly till the late safavid-early qajar era. So 500 to 600 years later. ______________________________________________

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