Wisdom of Ferdowsi

Abu’l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (called Ferdowsi and Firdawsi) was born in 940 in the Khorasan region of Iran. He was the author of Shahnameh (Book of Kings), one of the world’s longest epic poems. Ferdowsi is one of the most greatest poets of Persian literature in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries. He has a unique place in reviving the Persian and cultural traditions in a vast region in Asia where he is mostly famous as the father of this beautiful language. For more details of the Ferdowsi’s life and works in the Encyclopaedia Iranica, click here. In this section, some distiches from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh will be presented in the area of wisdom, morality and ethics in life (the section will be updated regularly).