Quote by Saadi Shirazi: “Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul.”

Every person on earth shares the same fundamental nature and origin. This is not a sentimental idea — it is a claim about responsibility: if we are all one, then the suffering of anyone is a concern for everyone.

Saadi completed his Gulistan in 1258, the same year the Mongols sacked Baghdad and ended the Abbasid Caliphate — one of the most catastrophic events in medieval Islamic history. His poetry of human solidarity carries particular weight against this backdrop of civilisational destruction.

Persian poet and prose writer born around 1210 in Shiraz, one of the most widely read Persian authors in history. His works Gulistan (Rose Garden) and Bustan (Orchard) blend moral wisdom, Sufi spirituality, and sharp observation of human behaviour.