Poetry | Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, Part 3
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In this third part of the discussion of Nizami Ganjavi's sokhanee chand dar eshgh, we cover the next two lines in detail, beginning to contemplate the importance of love to all human beings.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai in Conversation, Nizami's A Few Words on Love, an excerpt from the Romance of Hosro and Shiding, Part 3. |
| 0:16.2 | Salom Bahamagmiy, hello and welcome to part three of our discussion on this excerpt from the romance of Hosro and Shidin by Nizami. |
| 0:28.3 | So like I said in the last episode, the story of these two lovers is quite convoluted and twisted. |
| 0:34.8 | I hope you've had a chance to check it out. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm excited to learn more in the future |
| 0:39.0 | about how this excerpt fits into the context of the full story, but for now, we're just looking at |
| 0:44.4 | this one piece and analyzing it as its own selection, which is quite meaningful in its own way. |
| 0:51.2 | So before we get started, let's listen to my choleif Arnaz recite the first four lines of the poem. |
| 0:57.8 | You should be able to understand the first two as we covered them in last week's lesson. |
| 1:02.4 | Mara, as a yeshq be naid shawarie. Mabada, taziam, just-a-k-kari. Phelak, just-a-hshq, mehrabi notarad. Jahan biehawk of-a-hikah-a-hshaw-a-bby notarred. |
| 1:30.9 | Gullam of Aish and Ghandisha is. |
| 1:34.4 | Hame, |
| 1:34.8 | Sahib, Dilan, |
| 1:36.7 | right |
| 1:37.5 | Peechee |
| 1:38.7 | is. |
| 1:42.7 | Jahan ishq and D digger zarg-sazzi. |
| 1:49.6 | All right, wonderful. So now the first line will be going over. |
| 1:58.9 | Galaam of ishq-shu-k-she-in-as. |
| 2:05.9 | Hame sahib-dilan-ra-ppish-in-est. |
| 2:13.5 | Okay, so first, glom of eshosh-shah. |
| 2:20.1 | The word glorum means slave. |
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