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"Khosro and Shirin" is a poetic and romantic work by the Iranian poet Nizami Ganjei. This verse narrates the love story of Khosrow Parviz, the great Sassanid king, and Shirin, the Armenian prince. Nizami begins the story with the definition and interpretation of love, the birth of Khosrow Parviz and his education. Then he describes Khosrow's luxury in a peasant's house. Khosrow, who went hunting with his companions, goes to a peasant's house at night and engages in merrymaking and gambling. In the morning, one of their horses goes to the farmer's field and eats the produce of the field, and Ghulam Khosrow also enters the field and eats and spoils the crops. These actions angered his father, Hormuz IV, and he ordered to forgive the slave to the owner of the house, kill the horse, break the harp, and hand over the house to the owner of the house. Hormuz forgives Khosrow with the intercession of elders. That same night, Khosrow dreams of his grandfather, Khosrow Anushirvan, who gives him the good news that instead of four unfortunate events, four good things will happen to him: instead of that, he will lose his slave and his beloved, Shirin Delbar, instead of a horse. Gone, Shabdiz, instead of that throne and house, the royal throne, and instead of that harp, Navasazi and famous barbadi. The unique poem "Khosro and Shirin" is a passionate and romantic story that unfolds before the reader's eyes like a play from the beginning to the end. Mansour Yaqouti believes that Khosrow and Shirin or Shirin and Farhad is one of the Kurdish stories of the Kermanshah region, and Nizami, who had a Kurdish mother, was familiar with this story and reconstructed it.