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Shah Nomi, a tale of Zol, with Dr. Saffa Shaiani, part four. Salam, Sahabodian, how are you doing? Salam, Sahabujjan, how are you doing?

Welcome, Leila, John. I'm well. How are you?

Good. And hello to all the listeners, Saddam Behamegi.

We've now come to part four of our tale of Zol of the Shah Nomeh.

And hopefully by now you know the drill.

You know exactly how we're going to do this.

And actually, since we are on part four, since we're past the halfway point at this point,

I think it's a good time to stop and summarize what's happened so far.

Sure.

Yes.

Yes.

So should we go from the beginning?

From the beginning.

So the story begins with Sama Naran Ariman, the king of Zabolistan, who is a vassal king in the kingdom of Manuchay, Shah and Shah, like we talked about before. Iran has the Shahan Shah, which is the king of kings. And this is a larger Iran than what we're talking about

in modern day Iran, obviously. It expands from, let's say, parts of, from Pakistan and India to

all the way to the west to Turkey. So this is the Manuchir is the Shah and Shah and Shah of this region.

And Samin Ariman is a vassal king of Manuchet and he lives in what is

south east of Iran today in the kingdom of Zawolistan.

He rules over Zawolistan and Sama has wanted a son his whole life and he prays and

he prays and praise and praise to God and finally God bestows with a son. But the son is born in perfect health and beauty, except that all the hair on his body is white. Hence why they name him Zol, which means albino in a way are white hair. And when Psalm sees this, he is mortified for a variety of reasons, but mostly because he's like,

what are people going to say?

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