One thousand one hundred eighteen years after the Prophet Muhammad’s hijrah (migration), a fire fell upon the Chehel Sotoun Palace.
Shah Soltan Hossein, the last Safavid ruler, was a strong believer in fate and thought of every happening as the will and wish of God.
During his reign, the Chehel Sotoun catches fire.
The news of the fire reaches the Shah, yet he orders not to put out the fire, as the will of God was for it to burn.
After the fire dies out and the mansion is repaired, he orders the poet laureate, Najib Kashani, to compose a poem, which Mohammad Saleh Isfahani, the calligrapher, writes a part of it: “Sacred be the high halls of the king’s seat.”
It is then inscribed over the entrance of the palace’s iwan . In this inscription, the repair of the mansion is dated at 1118 AH.
Name Malekoshoara Najib Kashani
Full name Nuroddin Mohammad Sharif Kashani
Nom de plume Najib, Jiba, Molla Nur
Title Malekoshoara (Poet Laurate)
Era Safavid
Name Mohammad Saleh Isfahani
Father’s Name Abu Torab Isfahani
Profession Calligrapher
Era Safavid
Grave Isfahan Lonban Mosque
Name Shah Sultan Hosein
Capital Isfahan
Grave Masoumeh’s mausoleum in Qom
