Khayam has composed the most famous literary poems of the world

Dr Parvin Nahidi in the Conference on commemoration of Khayam:
Khayam has composed the most famous literary poems of the world

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By Minoo Mahzari, Amordad correspondent
TEHRAN (Amordadnews):   “Among the Persian language composers of odes (chakameh) Hakim Khayam has world fame and his quatrains (rubayyat) are among the most famous literary poems of the world.”
In a conference held for commemoration of Khayam, Dr Parvin Nahidi, professor of Farsi literature, referred, in addition to the above words, to the world fame of Khayam in literature and science and said:  “Khayam is so famous among world book readers that after Shakespeare’s books, his is the best selling book in English, and shows the fame of Khayam in the western world.  The poems of Khayam, from point of view of Europeans, has been like a mirror in which they see their own distress and helplessness reflected.”
In Nahidi’s belief, in Khayam’s quatrains the first point that attracts one’s attention is the depth of Khayam’s thoughts.  The reflection of his thoughts have been so deep and wide that its effects can be seen in the writings of great poets like Hafez, Saadi, . . . and contemporary writers like Sadegh Hedayat.
Seyd Hassan Amin, Chief Editor of Hafez magazine, was the next lecturer in this Conference, who said:  “The reason that Khayam expressed his thoughts in the form of poems is because he could not express his mental and thought provocations in a scientific and logical manner and therefore he wrote them in the form of poems.”
According to Amin, some think that there were two Khayams: one was the philosopher, astrologer and mathematician by the name of Omar Khayam, and the other a drunkard and non-ethical poet by the name of Ali Khayam, while we know that both are one.
In this respect Amin said:  “It is always the way of great philosophers to use quatrains and short poems for expressing their philosophic views, therefore, it is not surprising that this great philosopher and mathematician, would sometimes compose odes.”
This Conference was held in the ‘Rassaneh’ Culture Centre on occasion of Khayam Day.

Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour