Ilāhī-Nāma
Ilāhī-Nāma
12th century Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar
The Ilāhī-Nāma (Persian: الهی نامه, "Book of God" or "Book of the Divine") is a 12th century Persian poem by the Sufi apothecary-poet Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145–1221). It is made of roughly 6500 verses and features anecdotal stories varying greatly in length, with some only 3 verses long and others around 400 verses long. Attar endeavored to open the "door to the divine treasure" with this poem and he believed that the final work has praised Muhammad in a manner beyond any poet before or after himself.[1]