Hariq is one of the great classical poets of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salih, son of Mullah Nasrullah, was born in 1856 in Zewiya village of Soordashi area of Sulaimani. Zewiya is located at the foot of the eastern side of Piramagrun Mountain. Zewiya village is in the arms of the great old man, the old man of Kardgari, who will protect Zewiya and Sulaymaniyah forever.
Salih's father, Mullah Nasrullah, was originally from the Kurdish region that historically belonged to Iranian rule. He was born in Kashtar village. During his jurisprudence, Mullah Nasrullah moved to the areas around his ancestral hometown. When he reached the rank of mullah, Zewiya village became the center of his life.
Salih began his studies with his father, completed programs of Islam and Arabic language, studied the script of the jurisprudence with some of the mullahs of that time, spent part of the time in the mosque of Sheikh Mohammed Barzanji in Sulaymaniyah. He went to Qaradagh, where he studied for a while, then moved to Byara and stayed there for a few days, then returned to Sulaymaniyah.
In 1884, Salih went to Penjwen and studied with Mullah Abdulrahman of Penjwen. During his stay in that city, he became acquainted with Sheikh Burhan (Sheikh Yousef Shamsaddin) and stayed in his monastery. Salih lived in the monastery for a year. He got married secretly even though he was not supposed to get married, so the Sheikh expelled him from the monastery.
There have been many hardships in Salih's life. Once he dissed one of the sons of Sheikh Osman in Tewela with a poem, and they shaved his beard. The poet had to complain to the great Qazi Ali of the country and the court was going to accuse Sheikh Osman of taking revenge on Hariq. During the trial, a Kurdish boy married an Armenian girl from the village of Qabaghlandi. The girl's father was a member of the Russian authorities and the case reaches the court. Because of the magnitude of this problem, they forget about Hariq's request. Once a man asked Hariq where the incident had its roots. Hariq replied: “My beard was lost in the Armenian girl's head”.
Later, Hariq was appointed Imam of Sayyid Hassan Mosque, also known as the Mosque of the Poor, in Sablagh (Mahabad). He spent his entire life in Mahabad as a disciple and Sufi of Sheikh Burhan until he died there in 1909 and was buried in the cemetery of Mullah Jami. Now the poet's grave is gone, and the cemetery has become prosperous.[1]