Erfanain Salim M., Afshar A
“Bani Adam” is a piece of poetry by Saadi, a famous Iranian poet in the 13th century, who won the title of one of the songs in the eighth album of the British band Coldplay, entitled Everyday Life, due to its human-friendly theme in 2019. This poem is declamated into Persian, English, and several other languages in this piece. The album includes two sections, Sunrise and Sunset, and the music is performed in the sunrise section.
A few months later, in a speech by Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s prime minister, in his speech to extend the three-week quarantine in the country and call on the Spaniards to adhere to restrictions on saving their lives and the lives of others, this piece from the book of Golestan Saadi is once again heard by the world. Sanchez, citing that” Human beings are members of a whole”, speaks of the power of society to deal with problems and calls for the unification of Spanish society against the coronavirus. He concludes from this poem that if the pain of others does not affect you, you do not deserve to call yourself human. “The whole of humanity today is a single body threatened by this disease” he added.
These two examples are not the only ones used to invite people to “be together.” Former United States President Barack Obama read the Saadi verse in a 2009 Nowruz message (the Iranian New Year), and in 1977 the poem as a selected Persian message of a total of 55 languages was sent to the Voyager spacecraft for distant spaces. These days, the global epidemic of COVID-19 and its bitter and sweet consequences in sharing with the people of the world have once again reminded Iranians of this proud poem, and the story of “writing this poem in Persian Nastaliq calligraphy on a wall at the United Nations”.
2020, Moondo, Rome, Italy
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