Shirin Farhad ( A Love Tale )
Shirin Farhad is a famous and tragetic love tale. Shirin and Farhad both are legendary lovers. The tale has been retold by
Shirin Farhad:-
Farhad was a sculptor and passionate young man. He falls in love with a beautiful princess named Shirin. The princess saw him once, and love which lived in his bosom also began to breathe in hers. But she dared not a mean laborer aspire to win the hand of a princess?. It was a exiting and shocking news for every one that a stonecutter loved a lady of royal blood. That's why this tale spread like fire in jungle all around. When Shahanshah (king of kings), Khosrow Parviz heard this, he became worried. The King had no child other then Shirin, and Shirin was also pining away with love. By the advice of his ministers and advisers, he proposed to his daughter that her lover, being of common birth, must accomplish a task such as no man may be able to do, and then, and only then, might he be recommended to his favour. The task which was that Shirin should ask her lover to dig a canal in the rocky land among the hills. The canal must be six lances in width and three lances deep and forty miles long.
The Princess conveyed her father's decision to Farhad, who forthwith shouldered his spade and started off to the hills to commence the gigantic task. He worked hard and broke the stones for years. He would start his work early in the morning when it was yet dark and never ceased from his labor till, owing to such darkness in which no man could see one yard on each side. Shirin secretly visited him and watched the hard working Farhad sleeping with his spade under his head, his body stretched on the bed of stones. She noticed, with all the pride of a lover, that he cut her figure in the rocks at each six yards and she would sigh and return without his knowing.
Farhad worked for years and cut his canal. He was half- way through, and would probably have completed it. The Shah once again became worried because his artifice had failed. Farhad was few step away from his target and as the shah promised if he completed the gigantic task, his daughter would go to him in marriage.
The Shah consulted his courtiers and sought their advice. The Viziers suggested that an old woman should be set to Farhad to tell him that Shirin was dead; then, perhaps, Farhad would become disheartened and leave off the work.
It was an ignoble trick, but it promised success and the Shah agreed to try it. So an old woman went to Farhad and wept and cried till words choked her; the stone-cutter asked her the cause of her bereavement.
"You are not aware of this that shirin had died," she said.
"What!" cried the bewildered man, "Shirin dead?"
It was an unbearable news for Farhad. He took his sharp taysha(spade) and pushed it into his chest and died under the carved streamed into his canal was his own blood. When Shirin heard this she fled in great sorrow to the mountains where lay her wronged lover; it is said that she also inflicted a wound in her own chest at the precise spot where Farhad had struck himself, and with the same sharp edge of the spade which was stained with her lover's gore. No water ever flows into the canal, but two lovers are entombed in one and the same grave. Their tomb is located in Jhaoo tehsil, Awaran District in Balochistan.
It must be noted that shirin was Khosrow Parviz daughter not wife. Some people say she was his wife. It is completely wrong concept. Hope you loved it.
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