Publish Date: 10 March 2004 - 17:25

TEHRAN, March 10 (Mehr News Agency) –- Contemporary poet Nasrollah Mardani was admitted to a hospital in Tehran with cancer but despite his illness, he asked his family to take him to visit the holy shrines of Imam Hussein (AS), and Hazrat Abolfazl (AS) in Iraq where he died at the age of 56.

His funeral procession will begin this morning at Vahdat Hall and Mardani will be buried in his birthplace Kazerun.

 

Mardani was born in 1947 in Kazerun, Fars Province. He used his brilliant talent in poetry, composing poems with the central themes of Islamic values, the Islamic Revolution, sacred defense, and the holy Imams.

 

“Fire of Ney,” “Uprising of Light,” “Rule of Love,” “Fourteen Everlasting Lights,” and “Crest of Speech” are among his published books. His book “Khun-Nameh” was selected Iran’s best book of 2003, and Mardani was also chosen as one of the eternal figures of the year 2003 in Iran.

 

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