Ashig Alesker – You must have
(Ethical code of behaviour and attitude for ashiks)
(translated by Eugene Felgenhauer)
Aşıq olub diyar-diyar gəzənin
Əzəl başdan pürkəmalı gərəkdi
Oturub durmaqda ədəbin bilə
Mə'rifət elmində dolu gərəkti
(…)
Danışdığı sözün qiymətin bilə
Kəlməsindən ləl'i-gövhər tokülə
(…)
Doğru qəlbi, doğru yolu gərəkdi
To be a bard and wander far from home
You knowledge and thinking head must have.
How you are to behave, you too must know,
Politeness, erudition you must have.
(…)
He should know the weight of his words.
He should be brilliant in speech,
(…)
True heart and word of honour you must have.
(Ethical code of behaviour and attitude for ashiks)
(translated by Eugene Felgenhauer)
Aşıq olub diyar-diyar gəzənin
Əzəl başdan pürkəmalı gərəkdi
Oturub durmaqda ədəbin bilə
Mə'rifət elmində dolu gərəkti
(…)
Danışdığı sözün qiymətin bilə
Kəlməsindən ləl'i-gövhər tokülə
(…)
Doğru qəlbi, doğru yolu gərəkdi
To be a bard and wander far from home
You knowledge and thinking head must have.
How you are to behave, you too must know,
Politeness, erudition you must have.
(…)
He should know the weight of his words.
He should be brilliant in speech,
(…)
True heart and word of honour you must have.
Hezār Afsān (Persian, lit. A Thousand Tales) got a very poetic name and introduction. Many times life, work and general adulting have limited the time I have to spend on the NuPlaza, and I noticed that I missed out on some brilliant storytelling. That is a shame because so many people here are so talented and creative and their hard work deserves to be appreciated, read and praised. Sometimes I stumble onto those stories myself (the creation of character archives in the CoLP was a tremendous help in that mission), other times people poke me and ask if I’d read something… Additionally, the tribute thread is also a wonderful source for this…
Hezār Afsān is a thread that can be used in a myriad of ways: a repository of links to various RP stories and plots that the brilliant creators of NuPlaza wrote and planted throughout the site itself. They worked so hard on those posts, they simply deserve to be appreciated. Anyone can link to anyone’s work (including your own). See a good story you think more people should read? Link it here! You think this is one of the best things you wrote at the present time and you want people to read it? Link it here! Want to use this thread as a personal archive for your characters, but you kind of don’t feel the need or simply don’t wish to open one? Put the list here. Why not, be creative! After all, it is a thread about a thousand tales…
Let us all enjoy exquisitely told tales, even if we didn’t have the time to read the post when it was published. Feel free to comment on anything and everything, just be nice and follow the NuPlaza guidelines. I’ll leave you with a somewhat free translation of āyat an-nūr Q24:35 taken from the Khorasan Archives series by Ausma Zehanat Khan that served as an inspiration for the purpose of this thread.
“Like a niche that holds a lamp, the lamp within glass, the glass as if it were a pearlescent star lit from the oil of a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light!”