از من بگریزید
Az Man Begurized
“Flee from Me”
Love expressed as warning — the speaker presenting himself as incapable of the love offered. Frequently cited as one of his most emotionally precise recordings.
About This Recording
Flee From Me inverts the convention. In the standard romantic lyric, the speaker seeks the beloved, pursues the unreachable, laments the distance. Here the speaker issues a warning: stay away from me, I will only harm you.
Zahir executes this with a precision that makes the formal convention feel like personal testimony. Among collectors and critics of his work, this recording is frequently cited as one of his most emotionally complex — a song where what is withheld says as much as what is given.
Poetic Source & Adaptation
The self-negating address — warning the beloved to flee — appears in Persian Sufi poetry as a gesture of spiritual unworthiness. Zahir removes the mystical register and renders it as personal psychology: the speaker is a man aware of his own limitations, honest enough to warn the beloved in advance.