Why does the song of Iranians sound like moaning?
A noble person from Tashkent traveled to Afghanistan and Khorasan and from there he came to Tehran and to Iraq [Iranian]He went and returned. In 1307, when I was going to Khorasan, I saw him going to Khorasan. I met him in between. he was saying: Why has the Iranian voice and its song changed? I asked how? said: There is nothing similar to the Persian songs of the speakers of Mavr al-Nahr and Afghanistan. In Khorasan, it was not so bad, but in Iraq, I saw people moaning instead of speaking, and making sounds like the tone of soldiers..
Because I myself was familiar with the way of speaking of the villagers and common people of Khorasan and Afghanistan, I remembered and understood what he was saying.. The tone of our voice is also because the expenses of our letters have been wasted, it is not similar to Persian or even to Arabic. It seems that after the Mongol invasion and the spread of Sufism and the expansion of the massacres of Timur, Shah Ismail, Mahmoud, Nader, and Agha Mohammad Khan, this helpless tone and thin and broken sounds and chewed, oppressed and cunning letters have gradually come into being.
+ Bahar, Mohammad Taqi, style analysis, vol. 1, 1373, Amirkabir Publications, p. 198
Hello, I had a question. Do you mean that Shah Ismail Safavi and Nader Shah Afshar massacred Iranians?