Habibollah Chaichian ( fa, حبیب‌الله چایچیان) (1923-30 November 2017) was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

prominent poet known for religious and ritual poem.

Pen name and selected work

His pen name (pseudonym) was Hesan ( fa, حسان) adopted from the name of a

Sahabah The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or m ...

in Islam. His favorite poetic form was

Do-baytī Do-bayti ( fa, دوبیتی) (literally "two-couplet"), also known as ''fahlaviyat'', is an ancient form of Persian poetry. It is used to describe a Persian quatrain (a stanza or poem of four lines), similar to Ruba'i but different in meter. A '' ...

but he had works in other Persian poetic forms including

Mathnawi Mathnawi ( ar, مثنوي ''mathnawī'') or masnavi ( fa, مثنوی) is a kind of poem written in rhyming couplets, or more specifically "a poem based on independent, internally rhyming lines". Most mathnawī poems follow a meter of eleven, or oc ...

. Chaichian had religious poem in Persian language with Arabic additives, in which several of them became significantly widespread in religious ceremonies in Iran and few other Persian-speaking countries. Two of his most well-known poems begin with the

Matla The Matla (Persian/Arabic/Urdu:) is the first ''sher'', or couplet, of a ''ghazal'', a collection of poems in Urdu or Persian poetry. It is possible, although extremely rare, for there to be more than one ''matla'' in a ''ghazal''; in this case the ...

: "Emshab Shahadatnameh Oshagh Emza Mi-shavad" (''tonight, martyr merit-letter of God-lovers are being signed'') for

Imam Hossein Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

and "Amadam ey Shaah Panaham Bedeh" (''Here I have arrived your majesty, grant me asylum'') for

Imam Reza Ali ibn Musa al-Rida ( ar, عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا, Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the e ...

Death and funeral

He died on Thursday 30 November 2017 at age 94 at Tehran’s Shohaday-e Tajrish Hospital. His funeral began from the same hospital on the same day, and he was then buried in Tehran’s major cemetery

Behesht Zahra Behesht-e Zahra ( fa, بهشت زهرا, lit. ''The Paradise of Zahra'', from Fatima az-Zahra) is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it is connected to the city by Tehran Metro Line 1. History In ...

. Family members and friends and also public figures such as son of Iran's leader and

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attended the funeral procession. Upon Chaichian's demise, several public figures and politicians in Iran sent condolence messages, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ،

Ali Larijani Ali Ardeshir Larijani ( fa, علی لاریجانی, ; born 3 June 1957) is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran ...

speaker of the Majlis (parliament),

Abbas Salehi Seyyed Abbas Salehi ( fa, سید عباس صالحی) is an Iranian scholar, journalist and former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance from 2017 to 2021. He was vice-minister from 2013 until 2017 which also served as acting Minister of Cultu ...

(Ministry of Culture) and

Mohammad Ali Najafi Mohammad-Ali Najafi ( fa, محمدعلی نجفی; born 13 January 1952) is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018. He held cabinet portfolios during ...

(Tehran's Mayor).

References

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