TEHRAN -- A sculpture of Iran’s 13th century poet Sa’adi Shirazi has been unveiled in Tehran in the presence of Iran’s Culture Minister, Muhammad Mehdi Esmaili and chairman of the City Council of Tehran Mehdi Chamran.
Poems by Sa’adi, known in Iran as the master of speech, have survived the test of time as many generations, both in Iran and around the world, have enjoyed reading his poems.
The first day of the Iranian calendar month of Ordibehesht falling on April 21 has been named the National Day of Sa’adi to commemorate him.
Saadi’s books are Bustan (The Orchard) completed in 1257 and Gulistan (The Flower Garden) in 1258.
“One of the distinguished features of Persian poetry is the production of epistemic and spiritual capital, which is crystallized in the peaks of Persian poetry and the wise and enlightening poems of prominent poets such as Ferdowsi, Nizami, Rumi, Sa’adi and Hafez,” Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said last month.