Nasir-i-Khusro

Nasir-i-Khusro (1004-1061), also spelled Nasir-i-Khusraw, full name Abu Muiniddin Nasir-i-Khusro al-Qubadiyani al-Marwazi, was a Persian writer, poet, essayist, missionary, traveler and propagandist of Ismaili Muslim sect. His famous works are the Diwan, Safarnama, Raushan-i-nama, and Sa'adatnama.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Be ever fearful of trouble when all

seems fair and clear,
For the easy is soon made
grievous by the swift-
transforming sphere.
- Diwan

• Though the courts of earthly

rulers have shut their doors in my face,
Shall I grieve while I still have
access to the Court of the Lord of Grace ?
- Diwan

• Your words are the seed, your sound is the farmer,

the world is your field :
Let the farmer look to the sowing,
that the soil may abundance yield.
- Diwan

• Though God creates the mother, and the breast, and the milk, the children must draw for themselves their mother's milk.

- Safarnama

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