Farhad begins his task hoping that Khosrow will allow him to marry Shirin. Khosrow cannot abide Farhad, so he sends him as an exile to Behistun mountain with the impossible task of carving stairs out of the cliff rocks. Meanwhile, a sculptor named Farhad falls in love with Shirin and becomes Khosrow's love-rival.
Mariam, out of jealousy, keeps Khosrow away from Shirin. Khosrow succeeds in defeating his enemy and reclaims his throne. Khosrow is also forced to promise not to marry any one else as long as Mariam is alive. The Caesar agrees to assist him against Bahrām Chobin on condition that he marry his daughter Mariam. Thus, Khosrow leaves Shirin in Armenia and goes to Constantinople. Shirin, however, does not agree to marry Khosrow unless Khosrow first claims his country back from Bahrām Chobin. In Armenia, Khosrow finally meets Shirin and is welcomed by her. The two lovers keep going to opposite places until Khosrow is overthrown by a general named Bahrām Chobin and flees to Armenia. When Shirin reaches Armenia, Khosrow – because of his father's death - has to return to Mada'in. Khosrow arrives in Armenia and is welcomed by Shamira the queen of Armenia - yet he finds out that Shirin is in Mada'in. On the way, he finds Shirin unclothed bathing and washing her flowing hair Shirin also sees him but since Khosrow was traveling in peasant clothes, they do not recognize one another. Shirin falls in love with Khosrow and escapes from Armenia to Khosrow's capital Mada'in but meanwhile, Khosrow also flees from his father's anger and sets out for Armenia in search of Shirin. Shapur finds Shirin and shows the image of Khosrow to Shirin. Shapur travels to Armenia to look for Shirin. Hearing Shapur's descriptions of Shirin's flawless features, the young prince falls in love with Shirin, the Armenian princess. Shapur, Khosrow's close friend and a painter, tells Khosrow of the Armenian queen Mahin Banu and her niece Shirin. That very night, Khosrow sees his grandfather Anushirvan in a dream and Anushirvan gives him glad tidings of a wife named Shirin, a steed named Shabdiz, a musician named Barbad, and a great kingdom, that is Iran. Hormizd IV, who is now pleased with his son, forgives him. Khosrow asks forgiveness and repents his offence. This is followed by an account of Khosrow's feast in a farmer's house for which Khosrow is severely chastised by his father. Nizami's version begins with an account of Khosrow's birth and his education. Variants of the story were also told under the titles "Shirin and Farhad" ( Persian: شیرین و فرهاد).
The essential narrative is a love story of Persian origin which was already well known from the great epico-historical poem the Shahnameh and other Persian writers and popular tales, and other works have the same title. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love of the Sasanian king Khosrow II for the Armenian princess Shirin, who becomes queen of Persia. Khosrow and Shirin ( Persian: خسرو و شیرین) is the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. Khusraw Discovers Shirin Bathing, From Pictorial Cycle of Eight Poetic Subjects, mid 18th century.
The Sasanian King Khusraw and Courtiers in a Garden, Page from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Ferdowsi, late 15th-early 16th century. This is a famous moment in Persian literature. Khosrow Parviz's first sight of Shirin, bathing in a pool, in a manuscript of Nezami's poem.
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