Sad Ra Dar Entezarat

A Hundred Times in Waiting belongs to the ghazal's tradition of exaggerated counting — the beloved's cruelty endured not once but a hundred times, each instance a credential of devotion rather than a reason for departure. In the Persian lyric tradition, the ability to endure is itself a proof of love's authenticity: only genuine love persists through a hundred disappointments.

The recording's warmth softens what could be a record of suffering. Zahir's delivery makes the hundred instances of waiting feel less like punishment and more like the texture of a life organized around one central fact — the beloved's existence, around which everything else is arranged.