Culture | Attar's Parable of the Moths, Part 4
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, we conclude The Parable of the Moths by Attar, taken from his masterpiece Conference of the Birds.
I'm joined by the brilliant Omid Arabian of YOUniversal Center, who walks us through the last 4 lines of the poem—exploring its language, imagery, and deeper meaning.
This lesson is perfect for those with some background in Persian who want to experience the richness of mystical poetry and engage with timeless questions of love, longing, and transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, Atar's Parable of the Moths who wanted to know their beloved, Part 4 with Omid Arabian. |
| 0:15.0 | Kanam Omidjan. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, Llan, I'm al-Han. |
| 0:20.0 | And welcome everyone to the thrilling conclusion of this story from Parable of the Moths. |
| 0:26.7 | We are now reading the very end of our story, and I think let's get right into it. |
| 0:30.9 | Great, great. So this is how it goes. |
| 0:34.6 | Nagued of Ishaan, Chodidur-a-dur, |
| 0:39.0 | Shamm, by-chood-her-chard-harmes-gared-harm. |
| 0:42.5 | When their pundit, Sage, saw it from afar, |
| 0:46.0 | the candle having rendered the moth the same radiant color as itself, |
| 0:51.0 | meaning the moth has become one with the candle, |
| 0:53.6 | Goughed, this pavane in car is to be. |
| 0:57.7 | The pundit sage exclaimed, this moth is the only one who knows what it's doing, is doing the right thing. |
| 1:08.1 | It's the only one who has the true knowledge, awareness of the candle. |
| 1:12.6 | On that, he should, him be chabot. is doing the right thing. It's the only one who has the true knowledge awareness of the candle. |
| 1:11.0 | Ankehs, |
| 1:12.6 | him be chabar, |
| 1:13.6 | from the mean of jumbla, |
| 1:15.9 | O do you do. |
| 1:19.3 | Among everyone, |
| 1:21.3 | the one who becomes unaware, |
| 1:22.7 | the one of whom no sign remains, |
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