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Monument of Alisher Navoi

Alisher Navoi monument, TashkentThe monument of Alisher Novoi is located in the centre of a big same-name park behind the Palace of the Friendship of Peoples.

After scaling the wide steps you will get to an observation site in the centre of which there is a rotunda and a monument to Alisher Navoi - the great Uzbek poet of IV century.

The rotunda dome is decorated in oriental style. The lines of the verses at the pedestal say: “Just see the people of the world the enmity is the worst thing in the world, leave in peace and know that nothing can be better”. Even Alisher Navoi who lived 500 years ago knew that peace is the most worthful thing in a man’s life, and a woman which is not only a maid and a housekeeper is the most worthful thing for a family. The woman is a friend of soul for a man. He said: “The house with a wife who is a householder and a friend is a wonderful place, but the house without a woman, a housekeeper and a friend is the place without a light”.

Alisher Navoi left about 30 works in prose and verses. The opus magnum of Alisher Navoi is named Khamsa and includes following masterpieces: “The Whirl of Righteous Men”, “Farkhad & Shirin”, “Leili & Mejnun”, “The 7 planets” (“The 7 pilgrims”), “The wall of Iskander”.

The literature before Alisher Navoi had been writing in Farsi. Even in modern era Farsi is used to be the most euphonious language for conveying of literature ideas. But Alisher Navoi made people understand that Uzbek language is not less beautiful and lyrical. He led Uzbek literature language to the highest level and became an originator of Uzbek literature. His beautiful works had been translated to many languages.

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