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Abu Hamid bin Abu Bakr Ibrahim Farid al-Din Attar was born in 1145A.D. or 1146 in Nishapur province of Iranian Khorasan and died circa 1221. There is disagreement over the exact dates of his birth and death, but several sources confirm that he lived almost a hundred years. Different stories are told about the death of Attar. One common story is as follows. He was captured by a Mongol. One day someone came along and offered a thousand pieces of silver for him. Attar told the Mongol not to sell him for that price since the price was not right. The Mongol accepted Attar's words and did not sell him. Later, someone else came along and offered a sack of straw for him. Attar counseled the Mongol to sell him because that was how much he was worth. The Mongol soldier became very angry and cut off Attar's head. So he died to teach a lesson. Attar, much better-Known by his pen names Farid al-Din and Attar ('the pharmacist'), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer.Farid al-Din Attar was a Persian poet and Sufi mystic. Living during a turbulent era of political uncertainty, he turned inwards, exploring the realm of God and the paths to Him through mystical poetry. Little about Attar is known with certainty. His name (literally, 'Perfume of Roses') indicates that, like his father, he was a druggist and followed the calling of a medical man. Supposedly reliable Persian sources vary during the year of his death by a span of 43 years. One reason for this uncertainty is that, unlike other Islamic poets, he did not write flattering panegyrics about his own life and greatness. This is to his personal credit, but unfortunately for the historian. We are certain only of the fact that he was born in Nishapur in northeastern Persia; he passed 13 years of his youth in Mashad, and spent much of his life collecting the poetry of other Sufi mystics. He was the son of a prosperous chemist, and got an excellent education in Arabic, theosophy and medicine. He helped his father in the store and on his father's death, took over its ownership. The people he helped in the pharmacy used to confide their troubles in Attar and this affected him deeply. Eventually, he abandoned his pharmacy and travelled widely to Kufa, Mecca, Damascus, Turkistan, and India, meeting Sufi sheikhs and returned promoting Sufi (Islamic mysticism) ideas IN his home city of Nishapur. Attar speaks of his own poetry in various contexts, including the epilogues of his long narrative poems. He confirms the guess likely to be made by every reader that he possessed an inexhaustible fund of thematic and verbal inspiration. He writes that when he composed his poems, more ideas came into his mind than he could possibly use. He also states that the effort of poetical composition threw him into a state of trance in which he could not sleep.Like his contemporary Khaqani, Attar was not only convinced that his poetry had far surpassed all previous poetry, but that it will be to be intrinsically unsurpassable at any time in the future, seeing himself as the 'seal of the poets' and his poetry as the 'seal of speech'. The Mantiq al-Tayr (The Conference of Birds) written in the twelfth century by Farid al-Din Attar, a metaphorical tale of birds seeking a king (God) has inspired readers across time and around the world. This epic poem tells of a conference attended by all types of birds, who pose a series of questions to their leader, the hoopoe. The stories he tells in reply are allegories for the spiritual quest and its pitfalls. Mantiq al-Tayr or The Conference of Birds is known as his most famous epic poem, which is consecrated to the tale of the spiritual quest of 30 birds to find their supreme sovereign, the simurgh.

How long is Biography of Hazrat Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal?

Biography of Hazrat Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal by Mohammed Abdul HAFEEZ is 53 pages long, and a total of 13,409 words.

This makes it 18% the length of the average book. It also has 16% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 13 minutes to read Biography of Hazrat Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal aloud.

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