Moulana Shah Maghsoud Moulana Shah Maghsoud, one of the great
Sufis of the 20th century, was born in Teheran, Iran, on
February 4th, 1916. His father, Hazrat Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad,
was also one of the great Sufis and scholars of his generation.
His mother was Khorshid a descendant of one of the distinguished
old Persian families. His family represented the culmination of
centuries of cultivation and intellectual attainment. Poetry
from a young age Moulana Shah Maghsoud wrote his first book when
he was fourteen, a volume of poetry that was published by the
Iranian Department of Education. He gave his own copy to his
daughter, Seyyedeh Dr. Nahid Angha. In later time, he also
dedicated his entire book of poetry, Divan-e-Ghazal to her. This
first book of poetry was only the first of many works of poetry
that he had composed, even while he simultaneously pursued his
scientific and philosophical investigations. The sun’s radiance
in her face is in the heart of every particle, and I am like a
wave glimpsing into e