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Mahmud of Ghazni + Malik Ayazby ~Eshto

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MAHMUD OF GHAZNI & MALIK AYAZ (1021 ce)

Mahmud of Ghazni founded the Ghaznavid Empire and ruled as Sultan. He fell in love with Malik Ayaz, a Turkish slave, and their relationship became widely regarded as the epitome of idealized love in Islamic legend and Sufi literature. As the story goes, Ayaz asked Mahmud who the most powerful man in the kingdom was. When the Sultan replied that it was himself, Ayaz corrected him, claiming that in fact Ayaz was the most powerful, since Mahmud was his slave. the “slave to a slave” became a favorite trope in Persian literature.

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~QSLove Apr 2, 2013 New member Hobbyist General Artist

Absolutely gorgeous artwork illustrating a beautiful story.

~lyoizisi Jan 23, 2013

unlogical and stereotyping. Both of them were Turkic on ethnicity but drawn like Indian (Dravidian) men.

~DawnWonder Aug 28, 2012

Hey, this is going around tumblr! It's really lovely, thank you for drawing it!

~jimsteele2008 Aug 28, 2012

Splendid painting of a great love story.

!EvilArtForm May 15, 2012 General Artist

nice!

~gamequeer Aug 8, 2011 Student

Very nice.

~kahnovich Jul 21, 2011

Whoa.ROMANTIK.. How i wish i have that kind of relationship. It reminds of me of HAMAM. People misinterpret the quran or bible regarding the homosexual people. The chaste love of men for youths has been regarded as something sacred in many Islamic socities, as reflected in the romantic love literature of Muslim Spain and in the Qur'an where Paradise contains beautiful male virgins. God only punish those have multiple sexes without a proper marriage. Most ppl nowadays have go against the law of god especially SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE commandment. Believe me, there are a lot of things in the quran or bible restraining us from doing something that we might think it is right. Homosexual are widely accept in the dharmic religion.So, if you are a muslim gay/lesbian,convert or move to europe. Like, THE BATTLE BETWEEN RACES.
HOMOPHOBIC=RACIST= ISLAMOPHOBIA (SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN AND Verify by GOD).
Ilovereza..p

~ghaznawi Jun 12, 2011 Filmographer

Stupid ass he was not gay u stupid and he didn't fall in love with his slave do some research first then write. His slave marry to sultan daughter. Thats how he become the slave to a slave. Stupid. The correct quote is " sultan mahmood that had thousand of slave he became slave of a slave. And the story is kind of this when he find out that his daughter was in love with his slave. Sultan send his slave to bring the sun and the moon report which was impossible. So on his way his slave meet a man with miracle which made the slave so rich. Afther couple of he went back to ghazni. His face was changed and no one could recocnize that he was a slave. So he give some expensive jeweler as a gift to sultan. So sultan give his daughter hand to his slave also sultan didn't know that he was his slave and the story goes on till the sultan finds out that he was his slave.

*Daaakota Aug 31, 2010

I have this calendar, and am LOVING August. This is a great picture. I love it.

~RorysCurls Aug 17, 2010 Student Traditional Artist

Wow never heard of this before, it's beautiful

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