Safa’i Isfahani

Safa Isfahani, Muhammad Husayn Safa Isfahani (1852-1904) was born in Firiydan, Isfahan. He departed for Tehran in his early youth and joined Sufis and mystics at the age of 20. He made the acquaintance of Mirza Muhammad Riza Munshar al-Mulk, the governor of Khurasan, bearing the title of Mu’tamin al-Mulk and accompanied him to Mashhad where he stayed at Mu’tamin al-Mulk’s home and only associated with a few people including Adib Niyshaburi. He led a secluded life for many years. He did not marry and lost his memory late in life. He composed his four stanza ghazals in his ecstatic state. He fell sick in 1896 and his ailing health lasted for a long time when he lived the life a recluse and was driven made in his ecstatic state frequenting public places. he was home bound in the last two or three years of his life and died of cholera in 1904. His surviving poetry is published in his Divan by Ahmad Suhiyli Khwansari in 1998. 

Farhang-i Sha’iran-i Zaban-i Parsi az Aghaz ta Imruz (1, 354-355).