The Conference of the Birds: the Valley of Detachment
Posted in English4 mn readFarid-ad-Din Muhammad Attar, one of the pillars of Persian poetry, wrote some masterpieces which exerted conventional poetry beyond the limits of worldly desires and carnal affections. Farid was the only one among the Sufi poets’ cohort who dedicated all his work to Sufism. One of the masterpieces is the “conference of the birds”, originally written […]