The concept of “Allah” in the poetry by Nizami

Abstract

The five poems of the great Nizami contain over a thousand semi-verses that speak of might, wisdom, knowledge, justice, meekness, eternity, comprehensibility of Allah and that He is pure and merciful, abides outside of place and time, sees everything, hears everything, knows everything. punishes and rewards. Each verse is a poetic thought borrowed from individual verses of the Quran. The relevance of the article is the fact that the author refers to the Persian "Khamsa", without repeating the opinion, commentary and translation of any scientist or researcher, sets out his translations in a unrhymed syllable (6+5 format), as close as possible to the original, explains each verse and quotes from the Quran in Azerbaijani. Another feature of this article is that it contains the terms of the Quran, the correct translation of each Persian word, Sufi terms and literal variants of Persian phraseological verbs, which ensure that the translation is close to the spirit of the original. Nizami is such a genius that his multifaceted rich work is associated with physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, natural sciences, history, ethnography, literature, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion and other sciences. Since this article is devoted to the concept of "Allah", it has three subheadings – "What Nizami wants from Allah", "Allah as eternal-uncreated-spaceless", "Allah as one-unique-powerful, unattainable". The Holy Quran is a widely used subject in Nizami's work. It cannot be covered in one article. This is the topic of one thesis. We hope that in 2021, in the year of Nizami, scholars, researchers and doctoral students will widely study the views of the poet regarding Allah.