His name was Shahmrad Mushtaq Watan Dost and he was the son of a man and woman named Khudamrad and Fanos. He was born in 1907 in Kermanshah, East Kurdistan.
He says he suffered from complications at the age of four and lost his sight. He lost his parents as a child. He was tall, with large hands and fingers and very thick wrists, all indicating that he had worked hard and had done a lot of labor.
After losing his father and mother and his eyesight, he started working in the house of the late Haji Amanullah Motazedi, who was one of the famous personalities of Kermanshah at that time. Because of his loyalty and simplicity, he stayed there and was loved by the people. One of his jobs in the house was to pump than 2,000 blows every day to fill the water tank and the pool with water for daily use.
With the special circumstances in which he lived, Shahmrad was fully familiar with the characteristics of different classes of his society, from the rich to the poor and all things related to these classes such as their proverbs, makeup and home decoration. That is why his poems were a mirror of the scene of the time.
Although he did not have the ability to read and write, his analogies, metaphors, and titles for the described issues are certainly no worse than those of the literate.
In his early youth, he was encouraged by poets such as Shamsal Ulama and Shamsal al-Din al-Agha to participate in their poetry conferences and become acquainted with the masterpieces of Khayyam, Saadi and Hafiz, and to make his place in the hearts of the people of Kermanshah and others.
Shami left behind a poetic work called Chapka Gul, for which Hazhar Mukryani wrote an introduction. It is clear from the introduction that the book was published after Shami's death.[1]