Afghanistan, June 10 -- Haidari Wujodi, a mystic poet and a well-known scholar in Afghanistan died of COVID_19 at the age of 81, sources confirmed.
Haidari Wujodi was born in 1939, in a small village in Panjshir Province in northern Afghanistan, one of five children of a cleric. In those days the Islam practiced in Afghanistan was deeply tied into Sufi traditions of poetry. His father kept about 200 books at home, many of poetry and handwritten. It was there that the young Haidari learned to read.
According to the New York Times, Mr. Wujodi has only a sixth-grade formal education. When he was completing his fifth-grade exams, he had a dream one night that he says sent him "tumbling between sanity and insanity." Mr. Wujodi says he is unabl...