Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Attar of Nishapur

Born: 1142
Died: 1221 (aged 79)
Bio: Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār, was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.
Known for:
- The Conference of the Birds (1177)
- Tazkirat al-Awliya
- The Ilahi-nama
- Fifty Poems of Attar