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why do non-sikhs love Zafarnama so much ?


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39 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Further thoughts:

 

Zafarnama would also represent some sort of zenith of the use of Farsi, it also represents the peak and decline of the use of the language, so it would be interesting to people of Farsi heritage in that respect.

 

Another overlooked issue that has been touched on by some of the later posts above, is how Farsi (I think) represents Shia expression and culture as opposed to the majority Sunni. Shias and Sunnis (as most of us know) have had (and still have!) brutal conflicts with each other over religious doctrine. In that perspective Zafarnama is also symbolic of their culture being used to fearlessly confront and castigate a renown Sunni fundamentalist (Aurenga), so it would be inspiring for them in that sense. Some of them may well get a sense of Guru ji's independent spirit and stoicism in the face of extreme loss and be inspired by it. It would also be a model for leadership in trying times.   

 

Point is, it contains a lot and can be analysed from multiple perspectives that Farsi people would find relevant to their lives today. 

I reckon a lot of Iranians want to unleash the yoke of Islam.

Anything that inspires them especially in their own language will give them more impetus.

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20 hours ago, Kira said:

 

I'm speaking from a purely bias perspective here, my parents were both raised in Punjab and attended punjabi schools. They told me that although they could read CHandi Di Vaar (they studied it at school) other Dasam Bani was alot harder. 

 

 

That makes complete sense because Chandhi di vaar is in Panjabi whilst other banis are mostly in Braj-bhasha which appears to be an archaic form similar to Hindi. When you try and translate a Braj work like Suraj Prakash, you see just how different it is from Panjabi. 

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On 17/02/2017 at 9:37 AM, Jacfsing2 said:

Persians aren't Arabs, in fact Iranians hate Arabs, (that's surprising since they follow an Arab Supremacist religion), 

Iranian had a thriving literary scene , heaps of artists and scholars , highly musical people also but then they had the invasion of the ignorant fanatics who declared their way was the only way and thus the suppression of literary classics .

 

found this site perhaps a stepping off point for learning ancient persian 

 

https://www.fluentin3months.com/persian/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

Iranian had a thriving literary scene , heaps of artists and scholars , highly musical people also but then they had the invasion of the ignorant fanatics who declared their way was the only way and thus the suppression of literary classics .

 

found this site perhaps a stepping off point for learning ancient persian 

 

https://www.fluentin3months.com/persian/

I think they stopped being so great after they brought in a new form of government of Shia Sharia Law. Especially under Ayatollah Khomeini, as it could have been compared to Turkey and went a similar route, (if the west wasn't busy getting oil and all that).

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