Synopsis "Poems of Huma (Meher Baba) & His devotee inspired by them - Paul Smith"
POEMS OF HUMA (MEHER BABA) & His devotee inspired by them... Paul Smith Merwan S. Irani (1894-1969), known world-wide as Meher Baba, took Huma (Phoenix) as his takhallus or pen-name when he composed enlightened ghazals and other poems in a mixture of Persian, Urdu, Hindi & Gujarati from his twenties on. He knew the ghazals of Hafiz by heart. Merwan went on to reveal himself as a Perfect Master (Qutub) and later also declared himself as the Rasool or Messiah (Avatar). The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these important beautiful, inspiring, mystical poems. The Life of Meher Baba, The Ghazal and other forms he used, Selected Bibliography. The correct form and meaning is sought in all these enlightened poems. Now, after 40 years his devotee, translator and poet from the mid-sixties, Paul Smith, carries on the tradition and completes the task of ghazals inspired by couplets given by Huma with love and dedication and the experience of writing hundreds of his own (the first in English) and translating for over 40 years those of Huma, Hafiz, Sadi, Nesimi, 'Attar, Nizami, Kabir, Ghalib, 'Iraqi, Jigar and many others. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" Pages 380. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'."It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. " Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran."Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of works into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. "Smith has probably put together the greatest collection of literary facts and history concerning Hafiz." Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author).Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Khushal Khan Khattak, Ghalib, Iqbal and many others, and his own poetry, fiction, children's books, plays, biographies and 12 screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa
