Persian-speaking Armenian mystic and poet who embraced Sufi renunciation, composed hundreds of mystical quatrains (rubaaiyat), and translated the Torah into Persian; martyred for unorthodox beliefs under Aurangzeb’s reign.
aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair
jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere
Persian-speaking Armenian mystic and poet who embraced Sufi renunciation, composed hundreds of mystical quatrains (rubaaiyat), and translated the Torah into Persian; martyred for unorthodox beliefs under Aurangzeb’s reign.
