Bustan

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The word Bustan ( Persian بوستان, DMG būstān , ' scent garden', tooبستان, DMG bostān , sometimes also referred to as Bostan or Bastan ) designates a garden, especially a kitchen garden.

The word has found its way into other oriental languages ​​with this meaning, such as Arabic and Turkish . In addition to the bustan , the golestan ("rose garden", i.e. an ornamental garden) and the riyad , the walled, enclosed "garden of music and festivals", often formed by four small streams from a central fountain in four rectangles , are also known in the Orient divided.

With Bustan in the 13th century, the great Persian poet Saadi (the garden with his grave is located in Shiraz at the end of Boulevard Bustan ) overwritten one of his most important works (the first German transmission of Friedrich Rückert ). It is also an important work of Sufism . It starts with the lines:

“ I wandered far away from the earth for a long time,
I negotiated with people of all kinds.
In every corner I found a lesson,
from every sheaf I pluck an ear of wheat.
But I did not find noble people on any clod
than in Shiraz, whom God wanted to protect!
So my heart loves the men of this city
that Rum's and Syria have forgotten.
And yet, oh shame, came
home to the companions from so many gardens with an empty hand.
So I thought to myself: Anyone who returns from Egypt
brings sugar with them, which they adore to their friend.
I lack such a 'sweet temper', they
too are sugar, not body
food, but spiritual, preserved in paper by wise men.
You are a grove, inaccessible to the autumn storm,
in the vast space no one can be compared to it.
You are a pleasure palace, playground for my loved ones, In
short, this book is entitled “Bustan”! "

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