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Chayyoms Rendi Diedam by Chayom.

So in the first episode, I talked to Alan Eyre, former first ever Persian language spokesperson of the United States Department of State about the poem which he picked out of his little black

book of Persian poetry that he'd been accumulating for years. So if you haven't listened to that

lesson yet, go ahead and listen to the introductory lesson for this poem. For this episode,

we're going to listen to the full poem again, read by my Holifanos, my aunt who has a beautiful voice for reciting poetry.

And then we're going to go over the entire poem, line by line, word by word, phrase by phrase, to make sure we have all the vocabulary and phrases down in a way that we not only understand the poem, but that we can use the vocabulary we learn

in current Persian conversation. So first, let's listen to the entire poem as read by my Khalif Arnaz. Rendi di Dam, nishast the barheng of Zamin. No, kufro, no Islam and no do not do niq, not

not aque, not'iq, no,

not'i. No, haq,

not a reality,

no, not shariot, no, yackin. And there do jahan, kharab and wad, Zheri of it. Okay, great. So, now let's listen to that first line again. Rendi di die dam neshast Barheng So we begin the poem with a simple phrase,

Rendi didam.

So Rend, as we mentioned in the introductory episode, is a really complicated word.

If you haven't already read the full six-page article I posted in the introductory lesson of this poem, it's included on this lesson as well.

Please take a couple minutes to read it. It's really interesting and takes you through a journey

of how the word has been used throughout time and how its usage has evolved throughout the

centuries. We have it translated as sage for this poem, but really it means someone who is no good, a scoundrel, a rogue.

How did it come to be translated as sage? You have to read that article to see the full extent of it.

So when you add E to the end of the word like we have here, rend, rendi, it means a as an a rogue or a particular rogue, like a particular

person. So for example, the word for boy is pesar. Pesari means a boy or a particular boy.

So pesari di Dam would mean, I see this boy, I see a boy, instead of, for example,

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