Rostam and Shaghad ( fa, رستم و شغاد) is a heroic-tragic story with 212 verses in

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,00 ...

.The end of Roatam Dastan and his horse

Rakhsh Rakhsh (in , meaning "luminous") is a wondrous stallion -the brave and faithful steed of the preeminent hero Rostam in the Persian national epic, ''Shahnameh'' by the poet Ferdowsi. The color of Rakhsh is described as "rose leaves that have bee ...

is in this story.

Plot

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was a beautiful maid and musician. From him was born a beautiful boy whom his father named

Shaghad Shaghad or Shoghad () was the half-brother of Rostam, the mighty Iranian hero of the Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Fe ...

. Astrologers predicted his ominous fortune and told Zāl that when he reached a man, Sam's seed would be destroyed by his hand. Zāl sought refuge in God from the game of fate, and when Shaghad became the narrator, he sent him to the Shah of

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. The Shah of Kabul gave his daughter to Shaghad and hoped that

Rostam use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = Kabulistan , death_cause = With the conspiracy of his half-brother Shaghad, he fell into a wel ...

would no longer pay tribute to her out of respect for this bond. But Rostam's people took the usual tribute from him during the ransom. Shaghad called the act shameless and conspired with the Shah of Kabul to overthrow his brother. The Shah of Kabul plotted and spoke coldly at the Shaghad celebration. Shaghad went to Zabulistan to complain and complained about the Shah of Kabul. Rostam sneered at the brother of Kabul, but the Shah of Kabul apologized and went to greet Rostam, invited him to a party, and dragged him to a hunting ground where he had dug several wells the size of Rostam and

, according to Shaghad. They were piled with spears and razors and covered their heads with rubble and dirt. Rostam and Rakhsh fell into a well and died from razor and spear wounds. Rostam, who had realized this conspiracy and the role of Shaghad before he died, after rebuking him, asked him to draw his bow and put it with two arrows so that if a lion came to him, it would not reach his life. Shaghad did so, but because he was afraid of Rostam, he hid behind an old sycamore tree on the well. Rostam stitched the Shaghad and the tree together with an arrow and thanked God for forcing him to take revenge on his ill-wishers before he died.

In other works

* "The Eighth Labour" in ''In the small autumn yard in prison'' by

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless ( fa, مهدی اخوان ثالث) (March 1, 1929 in Mashhad, Iran – August 26, 1990 in Tehran, Iran), pen name Mim. Omid ( fa, م. امید, meaning ''M. Hope'') was a prominent Iranian poet. He is ...

References

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