514 Has Sa'dy of Shyrdz written Rikhtah verses ? [No. 6. 



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" jF7rs£ Period, Some historians agree in the opinion that when 

 the Shaykh Sa'dy Shyrazy in his travels to Gujrat resided at Samnat 

 —he alludes to his stay there in his Bostan — he became slightly 

 acquainted with the language of the country and composed one or 

 two Rekhtah verses, which will be quoted hereafter. Subsequently 

 the Amyr (Khosraw) has in the same manner composed many logo- 

 griphs in Rekhtah, but the style of that time is very different from 

 the style of the poets of our age, and there occur many idioms which 

 are no longer in use. But for the sake of those who take an interest 

 in these matters, three or four verses are inserted here. As the 

 biographies of these two great poets occur in well known historical 

 works, there is no need of recording them here. 



" ' Sa'dy : O men ! what a bad fashion is this in your town, alas no 

 one enquires if a stranger be killed. Sa'dy has given you a verse* and 

 has mixed sugar and honey. He has put pearls into the Rekhtah 

 idiom ; and this is a poem as well as a song." 



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* Tdxh is a technical term which is used in assemblies of poets (Mosha'arah) 

 and it means the verse which is given, and in the metre and rhyme of which all the 

 members of the Mosha'arah are expected to make verses for their next meeting. 



