● Birthplace: Sabzevar
● Died: 11 June 2016 in Tehran
Biography
Hossein Momtahani, as nikname: Hamid, was born in Sabzevar, and later became known as Hamid Sabzevari. His father, Abdul Wahhab, was a simple craftsman who had a poetry background. Before school, he had learned the Qur’an at home and with his mother. Hamid’s parents were his first teachers. He learned poetry from his father, and since his mother was a literate lady, he had taught her all the letters in pre-school life. Before going to school, Hamid taught her mother to read the Qur’an, and when he went to school, he read Farsi very well and was well ahead of other children and could read many books. At the age of seven, he attended the school of Sheikh Hassan Davarzani. He also did extracurricular studies and studied with Mirza Habib Jawini, Jama’at al-Muqaddam, and for a time with another cleric named Mohammad Ali Mohammadi. He later went to the school of Sheikh Hassan Davarzani. He spent the first few decades of his life in his hometown, but was disrupted by his education problems. Hamid Sabzevari began to write poetry at the age of 14 and wrote his poems in an office called “Crying Letter” which was mostly social poetry, and this was mostly due to the currents of 1941. At that age, curiosity reached out to different parties and political groups to get to know their views and opinions. In Sabzevar, he sold and sold a book called Khosravi’s poetry by Hamid. Hamid wanted to do this in Tehran, but failed at that time. His great-grandfather, Mullah Mohammad Sadegh Mutahani, was a poet whose purity was a crime, and his work went on a journey to Mashhad and was attacked by bandits. During those years, he went to poetry associations in Sabzevar and became acquainted with some of the older poets and retired teachers of literature in Sabzevar. Mr. Shahrokhi, Mr. Moravji, the Assembly of the Sunnis, Fazel and others were friends of Hamid’s youth in Sabzevar. Dr. Ali Shariati has also been a great contemporary writer and thinker associated with Hamid Sabzevari, and most importantly, the beginning of Sabzevari’s acquaintance with the supreme leader dates back to the years that Ayatollah Khamenei was a young and militant student at that time. As a result of political chase with Pahlavi regime agents, he had been hiding in Sabzevar for some time with his revolutionary friends, and the first meetings of Hamid and the supreme leader took place in those years in the city of Sabzevar.
Master Hamid Sabzevari, because of his freedom and cruelty, did not tolerate the political corruption and bad social conditions of the Taliban era and inevitably forced himself into political struggles from a young age. In those years, he sought to find the best way to liberate the various groups and parties that fought against the Shah’s regime, but was eventually absorbed into the sacred path of the Imam and Islamic Revolution a few years before the victory of the revolution. Because of his revolutionary activities, he endured heavy penalties in several stages. He got married in 7, and a year after his marriage, a coup d’état on August 7 created harassment for Hamid and he was wanted. Sabzevari had been away for some time and was hiding in Esfarin for a while. He then introduced himself to the Sabzevar police force and remained uncertain and suspended for four years until finally acquitted. For example, he was fired from his education after the coup d’état of 28 August 1953 and a year after his marriage and formation of a cohabiting life, but was later hired by the Bank of Sabzevar. He worked for a while in a mining company around Sabzevar and Shahroud and spent some time renting a bath in Sabzevar. He then relocated his life to Tehran and thus became the center of revolutionary and political activities of the time.
During the reign of Reza Khan, with the arrival of Allied forces in Iran, economic and livelihood problems were rampant. The Russian invasion of the north and the British invasion of the south caused famine. Cities were in dire straits. The sorrows of this situation boiled his blood and forced him to shout his discomfort in his poems:
Bread is expensive and sad, sugar is scarce and cheap
Meat is expensive, but hearts are grilled
Not a happy heart in Iran people are relentless flood of blood
At that time, the market in Sabzevar parties was hot. Tudeh Party, Justice, Democracy, Iran and more. Teachers easily promoted the Tudeh Party in high school and encouraged the children to join it. Like many of his own age, he became fascinated by their slogans. When he went to Tudeh meetings, he even wrote poems for the workers and the deprived:
In a country where no one knows the price of labor, what a poor worker to do with the god of labor
From the morning until the evening it takes suffering and no end, except profane and ugly
The lord of labor gives wages to the laborer, the laborer of his labor
I want the right of the able worker to take the unjust throat of the labor ruler
Bread and straw, not the basic straw law, look at how well the job has reached
Except for the revolution! Pain does not cure you, worker, at the cost of labor
But when he found out that the motto of justice and support for the deprived was only in their language, he let go of them. And he also expressed his belief in the language of poetry:
Those who wish for the degeneration of the homeland, the companions appear to do the job
They pile up on the bones of the rock, for their own sake, perhaps from this blue deal
A needy and pro-worker supporter of their work, to discuss the taste of the masses
Bigfoots become spectators, cater to Satan’s trickery
Works
– The anthem of pain
– The dawn song
– Another song
– Travel in love
– Bang Jerrs
With the beginning of Imam Khomeini’s movement in 1963, Hossein’s poetry gained new momentum. To get rid of SAVAK, he signed his poetry with the name of Hamid Sabzevari. The exiled Imam said his first poem to Murad:
I still have a passion for flying, full of wings / wishes for freedom to keep us secret
Attests to the facade of the mystery within the aria / perhaps fire hidden in the gray heart
Winter adds to the spring / wild passion of the nightingale
Tyranny always makes way for justice to be published / wherever it goes
Khomeini’s Imam. At that time, announcements and tapes of Imam’s speeches were circulating among the people. The guys who were copying the tapes asked him to write a few poems to record on the empty side of the tapes. He also wrote a poem: Khomeini gave them an Imam. Now this poem was moving alongside Imam’s speeches. On the return of the Imam, a group of children also practiced the same hymn within the Hosseiniyeh Guidance. When the Imam arrived at the airport. Everyone was locked in their breasts:
Khomeini O Imam Khomeini O Imam
A desperate way to target
O past to the goal
Because human salvation is your motto
Death in the right way is your Honor
People who had previously heard this song on Imam’s speech tapes were slowly murmuring this poem. Master Sabzevari had prepared another poem for that day. As Imam enters into Paradise of Zahra, the chant resonates: Rise Arise, which was said to the martyrs of the revolution, filled many eyes with tears:
Arise, arise, arise, arise
Arise, you martyrs of God’s way
O God, for the restoration of the right to life
Drop a drop of your pure blood
You go forever in the home of the tulips
Arise, arise, arise, arise
Rise up, the leader has now come to you
Soak up the sunken kiss on your dirt floor
Until he avenges you on the devil
Our leader came back to help the homeland
Rise … Rise …
Some of the master’s poems have been accompanied by praise and praise of Imam Khomeini so that Imam Khomeini heard the song: A Mujahid of Martyr Motahari, which was sung in the rite of martyr Ayatollah Motahhari, said: Our revolution today is such Songs and music are needed. The sacred defense was another arena for expressing Master Sabzevari’s devotion to the Imam and the revolution. Always inspired by his poems, he could not calm himself down and went to the front. He himself tells the story of his first appearance on the battlefield: Khorramshahr was under enemy control. I wanted to see the children’s talents up close. They said: It is impossible to go there. But they agreed to take me to Khorramshahr and I went to Abadan. I was with the Basijis and got to know their courageous temperament … Influenced by the poetic moods of the front-line children, there at the front: I sang this victory. The song that was released on Khorramshahr was broadcast on television and soon became popular.
From the strength of our nation and our army and sepah
Immortalized by Forough Sahar, our Pegah
A morning blown by the shores
Branches of living buds
This victory, blessed be this victory
It was one of the days of 1983 when he went to see Ayatollah Khamenei. The era that he was no longer known for: Hamid Sabzevari. The discussion was drawn to his poems. Ayatollah Khamenei asked: Why don’t you print your work? The Master Sabzevari jokingly said: ‘Haj Agha, I am waiting for your introduction to my book! Ayatollah Ali Khamenei replied: “I have not done it for anyone, but I will do it for you.” Hamid also collected his poems in two books and delivered them to Mr. Khamenei. Books that later chose the names: Painter and Painter for those two books. Ayatollah Khamenei read the poems and wrote a two-page introduction to it: Our dear poet, Mr. Hamid Sabzevari, is one of the pioneers and pioneers of this path. The magnificent language in Hamid’s poetry, with its revolutionary and school theme, has produced a favorable and valuable mix, and his collection of poetry has opened up in the contemporary Persian court, a charming and worthy chapter.
After the fall of the Imam and the election of the Supreme Leader to the leadership of the system, Sabzevari wrote a long and famous poem: Instead of Imam:
Thank you, Imam
With you, Imam
Khalaf al-Sadiq is that great
Your resolve, your resolve beyond the Imam …
So that the Imam’s path is not lost
Your Selected Right to Imam
Anyone who has seen is open minded
Don’t put you next to the Imam
He must praise you with grace and perfection
Sings you instead of an imam
Although Master Sabzevari has lived a politically active and adventurous life, she has always appeared in family life with a loving, compassionate and sympathetic husband and a quiet life. Hamid’s poems are divided into two parts. It is part of the product of the period of oppression that the poet has bravely attacked and condemned in the midst of his government, with courage, courage and firm faith. The strength of the poem and the skill of the poet indicates. The second part of his works is after the victory of the revolution, at which time the poet is trying to convey the message of the revolution as well as to defend the original Islamic values and beliefs.
The seven sets of Hamid Sabzevari have been published as follows:
1- Pain Song: Hamid Sabzevari’s first poetry book, which covers the years 36 to 57, a twenty-one year period that is full of political events and the poet’s suffering. Hamid’s free and classic poems in this office convey his awakened conscience and social awareness in difficult times. The office has about 65 sonnets, 36 hymns, 5 Masnavi, 34 new poems, 19 quatrains, 16 songs, three poems, two pieces and a string composition. Anthem of Pain, with an introduction by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, as well as an introduction by Master Shahrokhi and Chandrami was published in 1988 by Kayhan Publications.
2- The Anthem of Sepideh is the second book of contemporary poetry by Hamid Sabzevari, published as the first book with the introduction of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution and Master Sadegh Aynandvand. In this new and classical style, there are 94 sonnets, 31 rhymes, 16 Masnavi, two pieces, 138 quatrains, three strings, three muscles, two strings, nine quatrains and 12 new poems. This office was published by Kayhan Publications in 1989
3- Sepideh Caravan contains 26 pieces of poetry by Hamid Sabzevari, the third of which is a work of poetry entitled “A Song of Duty” and a brief introduction by the publisher. The convent of Sepideh was published in 1994 by Art Publications of the Poetry and Literature Department of Art
4- Friend remembers, Masnavi is relatively looming in the activist rants of the martyr engineer Seyed Mohammad Taqi Razavi and a mass of holy defense martyrs. Master Sabzevari, in this work, is in the same way as the position of his nostalgia, and a review of the events of the Holy Revolution and defence introduced to the martyr Razavi, and the distinguished characteristics of him and the sardaran of the other martyr. The ˈ of ˈ fellowship has published the congress of the Sardaran of the Martyr Corps and the publishing committee in 1997.
5- Excerpts from Contemporary Literature; One of the most remarkable works done by the Nastan Book after the Revolution is the publication of excerpts from contemporary poets. The thirty-fifth work in this collection is an excerpt from Hamid Sabzevari’s poetry, which includes 34 Sabzevari poems from years to date.
6- The Enveloped Enemy – the original title of The Damaged Mosque Once Again – is a short 56-bit Masnavi poem in which Sabzevar expresses the cultural practices of the enemies of the Revolution and Islam after the adoption of Resolution 598. This poem, first published in the Kayhan newspaper, was published in an independent booklet with additional references, due to its importance to the order and emphasis of the supreme leader, published by the Islamic Propaganda Organization in 1989.
7- Another song; this book contains 142 pieces of master classics of Sabzevari’s latest classics from 1987 till now. In May 2002, with the auspices of the Voice and Broadcasting Organization and the Pen Society in Riyadh, the opening ceremony of the poet’s poetry banquet was held in the Kowsar Hall of the Voice and Broadcasting Organization, which is another celebration. This book was published by Soroush Publications in 2002 with a preface to Sabzevari and a note by the headquarters of the Creation of Rabbani Religion.
Awards
1992 – The first class of art and culture
2003 – The enduring face of the third period
2014 – The Jihadist’s mark of honor in the field of art and culture
