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Poem Praising Vision
This poem was executed in the seventeenth century by calligrapher/scribe Ma`sud al-Tabib, who resided in Balkh (now Mazar-i Sharif), Afghanistan. The poem, which praises vision as the strongest of the human senses, is similar to the verses that typically appear in the contemporary letters sent to Radio Azadi.