Talk:Saadi Shirazi

message: In all the footnotes(7,8,9) the verse is: 
بنى آدم اعضاى يكديگرند
and not 
بنى آدم اعضای يک پیکرند[7][8][9]
which is what's written in the article. This is a humongous mistake (if not forgery) and must be changed immediately. Does not anyone even check the references given in the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spinozair (talk • contribs) 07:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is said to be hanging in the United Nations, but not in the entrance hall. See this article for a photo of the carpet: Payvand News 24 August O5. Kanjuzi (talk) 13:11, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  بنى آدم اعضاى يكديگرند  

message: This edit changed
:"was one of the major Persian poets and literary men of the medieval period."
into 
:"was one of the major Persian Sunni Muslim poets and literary men of the medieval period.
The source, which is on management and not on Persian poetry, does not say that Shirazi was a 'major Sunni poet'; it only says he was a Sunni. The term "Sunni" is here clearly added for point of view reasons. I've removed it. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The recent addition to the article stating that Saadi is "also estimated to be inclined to Shia" is not based on academic sources, and (in my view) the sources quoted do not give any convincing evidence. I think this addition should be removed. Kanjuzi (talk) 04:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunni 

message: An anonymous editor has changed the Bani Adam poem from bani ādam a'zāye yek peykar and (The sons of Adam are members of one body) to the alternative version bani ādam a'zāye yekdigar and (The sons of Adam are members of one another). Both versions are found in printed books. Which is correct and which should we keep in the article? The carpet which hangs in the United Nations, the 100,000-rial banknote issued by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ganjoor Persian literature website, the Persian Wikipedia article on this poem, and the well-known edition of Mohammad Ali Foroughi all have the version yek digar, which seems to be the most accepted one in Iran. The Persian Wikipedia article quotes a scholar, Habib Yaghmai, who notes that all the early manuscripts, dating to AH 717 (AD 1317/8) and 724 (AD 1324) and later, have yekdigar. The [website of the Central Bank] quotes a scholar Professor Kavus Hasanli of the University of Shiraz as saying that although yek peykar is more regular and nearer to Saadi's language, he believes that, since yekdigar is the only form found in the early manuscripts, yekdigar is the original.
On the other hand, a contributor to the notes on the Ganjoor website claims that the verse is based on a hadith: "People are like one body: if a member complains, the rest of the body falls into a fever", supporting the reading yek peykar. 
At any rate if yekdigar is quoted here, the English translation should match it. Kanjuzi (talk) 20:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  yekdigar or yek peykar? 

message: In the "Legacy and poetic style" section, the third paragraph begins "Chief among these works...", but there are no "works" mentioned previously.
JohnBuuseue (talk) 19:07, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing text? 

message: Did Coldplay write their song-title "Bani Adam" in Persian or Arabic script? It looks like Arabic to me, because of the two dots under the y, which are not used in Persian. Kanjuzi (talk) 05:07, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coldplay – Persian or Arabic? 

message: Perhaps the best-known quotation from Saadi in the West are the lines said to have been pronounced by Mehmet II after the fall of Byzantium, 
The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars/the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab. 
I do not know the source, perhaps somebody else does?
The lines are quoted by Philip Mansel in the preface to his book about Istanbul and also by Vikram Chandra in his book Sacred Games. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mehmet II 

message: Hi, this picture:  is an art work of an sculpture by Abolhassan Sadighi and is highly famous. This sculpture now exists in Shiraz.
See this picture  is more about Golestan and less about Saadi. Introducing picture should be a picture about only one concept, and should not contain any adjacent or similar concepts as much as we can. I really think that this change should be applied and only picture of Saadi should be placed there. Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 12:16, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, the picture you added is blurry and less aesthetically pleasing than that of the long standing image. Moreover, it will unfortunately probably get deleted soon due to no FOP in Iran. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:32, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @HistoryofIran I took that picture by my mobile phone, and the sculpture is open for taking picture. Aside from blurry problem, do you really think that "it get deleted soon due to no FOP"? The sculpture exists in a square in Shiraz. Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 12:37, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes unfortunately. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:39, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introducing image