Parsis - A recognised minority

[u_ahmed]

Re: Parsis - A recognised minority

@muqawwee123

Yes.. Persian language was not affected by the rise of Islam. Even Irani scholars contributed more to Arabic language than Arabs themselves. Rumi in his mathnavi said that:

Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter;
Love itself speaks in a hundred other tongues.

Hafiz, in one of his Persian ghazals, says:

Though boasting of one’s culture in the presence of the beloved is disrespect,
My tongue is tied, yet my mind is full of Arabic expressions.

What do you mean not affected?
As far as I understand, one of the reasons Firdowsi wrote the Shahnameh was because of the affect of Arabs and Arabic