Saadi - also known as Saadi Shirazi (meaning, Saadi was from Shiraz) - was born in 1210 as Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi (Wiki: Saadi Shirazi).
According to his Wikipedia page, his "best known works are Bostan (The Orchard) completed in 1257 and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) in 1258. Bostan is entirely in verse (epic metre) and consists of stories aptly illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims (justice, liberality, modesty, contentment) as well as of reflections on the behaviour of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly in prose and contains stories and personal anecdotes." Saadi also went on a 30 year journey due to the Mongol Invasion of the Muslim World, traveling as far as Jerusalem (Wiki: Saadi Shirazi).
Here is his mausoleum:
And here is his grave:
Some more of the inside of the Mausoleum:
An external part of the mausoleum located underground (we had to take stairs down), had a beautiful inside pool filled with fish:
Rest in peace, Saadi.
And now, to finish this post, here is Saadi's most famous aphorism, "Bani Adam (the Children of Adam):"
که در آفرینش ز یک گوهرند
دگر عضوها را نماند قرار
Humans are peers of a united race,
Thus in creation, share the same base.
If one is affected with pain,
Others share the faith of same.
When you are indifferent to this pain,
You shall not earn the Humans' name.
Source: Wikipedia: Saadi.
I will miss the masoleum and tomb of one of Iran's most treasured poets.
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