Ayn-al-Qużāt Hamadānī, also spelled Ain-al Quzat Hamedani or ʿAyn-al Qudat Hamadhani (1098–1131) , full name: Abu’l-maʿālī ʿabdallāh Bin Abībakr Mohammad Mayānejī , was a Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

  jurisconsult, mystic

Mysticism

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, philosopher, poet

Poet

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 and mathematician

Mathematician

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 who was executed at the age of 33.

Origin of the title

Ayn-al-Qużat in Arabic

Arabic language

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 means "the pearl of the judges". As Ayn means the eye or something very valid and Qozat is the plural of Qadi

Qadi

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 which means Judge.

Life

He was born in Hamedan and his ancestors were of Hamedan judge

Judge

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s and had converted from Shia to Shafi`i.

Work

The most important Persian work of ʿAyn-al-qożāt, commonly known as Tamhīdāt (Preludes), is entitled Zobdat al-ḥaqāʾeq fī kašf al-ḵalāʾeq by the author himself and divided into ten tamhīds illustrating Sufi life and thought.
Ayn al-Qożāt Hamadānī quoted a few verses apparently in his own Iranian

Iranian languages

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 dialect ( where it is called fahlavī; bayt-e pahlavī in a manuscript variant)

Poetry

A famous quatrain is said to be his:


ما مرگ وشهادت از خدا خواسته ايم

وآن هم به سه چيزکم بهاخواسته ايم

گردوست چنين کندکه ماخواسته ايم

مـا آتـش و نفـت و بـوريا خــواسـته ايم

which is translated as:

I want death and Martyrdom from God

I want it in three low-priced things

If The friend does what I want

I want fire and oil and Straw

See also

• Persian literature
  Persian literature
  Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
  
  
• List of Persian poets and authors