• The Rubaiyyat of Baba Tahir Oryan of Hamadan - Translated, edited and introduced by Mehdi Nakosteen

Baba Tahir Mausoleum

Baba Tahir, living in the first half of the 11th centuray A.D. was one of the great gnostics of Ahl-e-Hagh's Sect [ Dervish of follower of the truth] to which the gnostics dynesty of the mountainous land of Iran such as Eyn-ol-Quzat Hamadani, also a gnostic, belonged. Songs and maxims of Baba Tahir was originally read in Pahlavi, lurish, kurdish and Hamadani's dialects taken their present form in the course of time. Here is the translation of one of Baba Tahir's Poems;

Beneath the tyranny of eyes and heart I cry,
For, all that the eyes see, the heart stores up,
I'll fashion me a pointed sword of steel,
put out mine eyes, and so set free my heart.