Erfaniyat Dar Adab Farsi

Naser Khosro, the famous fifth-century ode-teller, is an Iranian Shiite poet who loves Ahl al-Bayt (PBUH) and believes in fighting against the foes of The Prophet (PBUH), ignorance, oppression and hypocrisy. This eminent poet recalls Sayyed e Hemyari, the second-century committed Shiite poet in the Arab literature. Since these two Iranian and Arab poets consider poetry not as an end but as a tool to express their beliefs and are known to compose poems of protest and criticism, their works can depict their ideas about the visage of Perfect Human. Naser Khosro’s poetry describes the characteristics of Perfect Human as reasoning, thinking, making aware, commitment, and tendency to science and religion. In the poetry of Sayyed e Hemyari, it is the visage of Imam Ali (PBUH) which reflects Perfect Human characteristics that include possessing grandeur and exclusive privileges, overtaking in faith, monotheism and religious practices, being confirmed by God, having Divine science, having religious knowledge and exemplary courage, and having a unique understanding of Quran.