Ḥanẓalah Badghisi or Ḥanẓalah of Badghis (Persian: حنظله بادغیسی; fl. about 850 A.D.) was one of the earliest Persianpoets.
Hanzalah was born in Badghis province of Afghanistan, and lived in the time of the Tahirids (820–872 AD), who gained independence of Great Khorasan from Abbasid Caliphate.
Persian biographer Muhammad Aufi praises the verses of Hanzalah by saying the graceful flow of his expression is like the "water of Paradise, and his verses have the freshness of cool wine (shamul) and the agreeableness of the northern wind (shamal)."
So well known were the poems of Hanzalah that they were worth gathering into a Persian divan, or collection, only a few fragments of which remain, however.
Here is a quatrain (the earliest ruba'i thus far quotable), which contains an odd conceit founded on an old superstition: the poet warns his sweetheart that it is futile for her to throw sipand or Syrian rue (Peganum harmala) seed on the fire to avert the influence of the evil eye.
یارم سپند گرچه بر آتش همی فکند از بهر چشم، تا نرسد مر ورا گزند او را سپند و آتش ناید همی به کار با روی همچو آتش و با خال چون سپند
yāram sipand garchih bar ātash hamī fikand az bahr-i chashm tā na-rasad mar wa-rā gazand ū rā sipand u ātash n-āyad hamī bi kār bā rūy hamchū ātash u bā khāl chūn sipand
Though rue into the fire my dear one threw,
Lest from the evil eye some harm accrue,
'Twould naught avail her – either rue or fire;
Her face the fire – her beauteous mole the rue!
Run the risk
More potent, however, was the charm in another stanza ascribed to Hanzalah, for it inspired a simple ass-herd to win a crown. Chancing one day to read four of Hanzalah's verses, this donkey-driver became fired with the ambition to make an attempt to gain the throne, and, rising triumphant over every obstacle, he finally grasped the sovereignty. The inspiring stanza which served the ass-herd king, Ahmad of Khujistan,[1][2] as a motto for his life's success was this :
مهتری گر به کام شیر در است شو خطر کن ز کام شیر بجوی یا بزرگی و عز و نعمت و جاه یا چو مردانت مرگ رویاروی
mihtarī gar ba kām-i sher dar ast shaw khaṭar kun zi kām-i sher bi-jūy yā buzurgī u ʽizz u niʽmat u jāh yā chu mardānat marg rūyārūy
Jackson, A. V. Williams. 1920. Early Persian Poetry: From the Beginnings Down to the Time of Firdausi. New York: Macmillan; pp. 17–19. (in the public domain).
January 22, 2023
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