ebook: The Treasury of the Mysteries

Layla & Majnun
by Nizami

Divan of Hafiz

The Poet, the Muse
and the Master

Hafiz of Shiraz 1
Novel/Biography

Hafiz of Shiraz 2
Novel/Biography

The First Mystery
A Novel
by Paul Smith

Kabir: Seven Hundred Sayings

The T reasury
of Mysteries
by Nizami

Hafiz the Oracle

Hafiz:
Tongue of Hidden

Divan of Sadi - His Mystical Love-Poetry

Hafiz's Friend Jahan Malek Khatun

Obeyd Zakani
The Dervish Joker

Hafiz: Boy who became World's Greatest Poet

"In his first work (The Treasury of Mysteries) ... Nizami creates an ethical-philosophical poem ... with enormous power of poetic invention. Nizami employs reflections, parables, allegories and every means of rhetorical ornamentation in order to master the stubborn material and to transform it into perfect poetry and a poetical whole." Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature.

Translator Paul Smith has kept to the correct rhyme-structure while retaining the meaning and beauty of the original in simple, understandable, poetic English. He has written a long Introduction on the Life of Nizami and chapters on each of his book.

Nizami: The Treasury of the Mysteries

Translated by Paul Smith

"The Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries), the most beautiful mystic poem in the Persian language, has both perfection of language and grandeur of thought. Every line of his Treasury of Mysteries is a living witness to his absolute certainty that piety, devotion, humility and self-forgetfulness are the corner stones of total annihilation, which in turn is necessary for unification with God and the foundation of the edifice of eternal life." G. H. Darab. Senior lecturer in Persian. University of London. Translator of Nizami.