#shahriyar

Scheherazade, Georges Barbier, from a series of drawings based on the ballets of Vaslav Nijinsky (1913)

For 195 years, Assyrians have been living in the villages of Armenia (Arzni, Dvin, Kolyasar, Shahriyar, and Gyol Assor) having fled the Persian persecution during the Russo-Persian War. Etuti is trying to help at least 10 families with preparing their houses for the upcoming Winter season. A lot of these houses do not have windows or doors, their bathrooms and showers are very basic, they do not have proper clean water or gas system, no heaters, and damaged walls and floors.

بی وفا حالا که من افتاده ام از پا چرا

نوشداروئی و بعد از مرگ سهراب آمدی

سنگدل این زودتر می خواستی حالا چرا

عمر ما را مهلت امروز و فردای تو نیست

من که یک امروز مهمان توام فردا چرا

نازنینا ما به ناز تو جوانی داده ایم

دیگر اکنون با جوانان نازکن با ما چرا

وه که با این عمرهای کوته بی اعتبار

این همه غافل شدن از چون منی شیدا چرا

شور فرهادم به پرسش سر به زیر افکنده بود

ای لب شیرین جواب تلخ سربالا چرا

ای شب هجران که یک دم در تو چشم من نخفت

اینقدر با بخت خواب آلود من لالا چرا

آسمان چون جمع مشتاقان پریشان می کند

در شگفتم من نمی پاشد ز هم دنیا چرا

در خزان هجر گل ای بلبل طبع حزین

خامشی شرط وفاداری بود غوغا چرا

شهریارا بی حبیب خود نمی کردی سفر

این سفر راه قیامت میروی تنها چرا

شهریار - غزلیات

You came, you who I would die for, but why now?

you who is disloyal, why now that I’ve fallen to my feet (1)

you are the medicine that has arrived after Sohrab’s (2) death

you who is stone hearted, you could have wanted this sooner, why now?

my life isn’t long enough for your todays and tomorrows

why leave things till tomorrow when I’m your guest today

my darling, I gave my youth to your coquetry

now go be coquettish with the youth, why me?

alas for these short and uncertain lives

why ignore the me who has gone insane because of your love so much

I asked with my head low with the eagerness of Farhaad (3)

oh sweet (4) lips, why give a bitter, vague answer

oh night of separation, where my eyes didn’t sleep for a moment

why do you keep singing lullabies to my sleepy fate

the sky is in chaos like the gathering of lovers

I’m amazed that the world doesn’t fall apart

in the autumn where you are away from the flower, oh sorrowful nightingale

silence is the way of loyalty, why are you creating chaos

oh Shahriyar, you shouldn’t have gone on a journey without your beloved

this journey is to the afterlife, why go alone

Shahriyar - Ghazaliyat

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1) it means when hardships finally manage to break you and you can’t get up again

2) a historical figure from the shahname who got killed by his dad. His dad finds out that the person he injured is his son so he sends people to get medicine but the king, being wary of them, makes sure that the medicine arrives late so that his son dies.

3) Farhaad is another historic figure from the story of Shirin and Khosrow who loved Shirin so much, he carved a stone mountain (mount bisotun) by himself and even dug a tunnel through it for her and later he gets tricked into thinking that she has died and kills himself.