Do you know Hafiz?

Question

I'm an iranian and I want to know your idea about Hafiz's poem.
Thanx!

Answer 1

Hey I'm from Iran too, I moved to New Zealand when I was 12.
My dad listens to a lot of classical Persian music like Shahram Nazeri’s, I liked it too but I didn’t know a lot of the meaning; I found out that must of the songs come from hafiz. So I looked ham up and I loved his words; so much that it changed the way I think, changed my perception of the humanity. I know must of his work by heart now and I use them to better myself every day. I hope to become a dervish one day. I hope you get something out of this.

Have fun


I have said many a time, and I’ll say it once again
Though I move upon this path, another my path maintain.
Behind the veil parrot-like, I am trained and entertain
I repeat what the Master has taught me and had me retain.
If I am a thorn or rose, adorn the grass, it is vain
To think I can grow without the nurturing hand and rain.

Answer 2

i don't know much but this will help you....good luck Fatima..

Hafiz is, in fact, generally recognized as the greatest lyric poet of Persia (Iran) and one of the world's great poetic geniuses. ...

His wife died young, and he also lost his little son. In a poem believed to have been written by him on the death of his wife, he wrote:

How sweet it was on many a summer's day
On the green margin of the stream to lie
With her and the wild rose, and nothing say;
Little knew 1 That she was running like the stream away.
And for his son he wrote a moving epitaph in which he said:
Little sleeper, the spring is here:
Tulip and rose are come again,
Only you in the earth remain,
Sleeping dear.

Answer 3

Hafiz, whose given name was Shams-ud-din Muhammad, is the most beloved poet of Iran. Born in Shiraz, he lived at about the same time as Chaucer in England and about one hundred years after Rumi. He spent nearly all his life in Shiraz, where he became a famous Sufi master. When he died he was thought to have written an estimated 5,000 poems, of which 500 to 700 have survived. His Divan (collected poems) is a classic in the literature of Sufism. The work of Hafiz became known to the West largely through the efforts of Goethe, whose enthusiasm rubbed off on Ralph Waldo Emerson, who translated Hafiz in the nineteenth century. Hafiz's poems were also admired by such diverse writers as Nietzsche, Pushkin, Turgenev, Carlyle, and Garcia Lorka; even Sherlock Holmes quotes Hafiz in one of the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1923, Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Indian teacher often credited with bringing Sufism to the West, proclaimed that “the words of Hafiz have won every heart that listens.”

His most memorable poems include:

A New World
Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine.
Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy,
If life remains, I shall go back to the tavern
It Is Time to Wake Up!
Spring and all its flowers
Sun Rays
The Essence of Grace
The Glow of Your Presence
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Hafiz was born in Shiraz, the city of "roses and nightingales", around 1324 A.D. Little reliable information is available about his life. Evidence gleaned from his work and some of the more plausible legends indicate that Hafiz's father, Baha-Oddin, was a native of Isfahan who migrated to Shiraz to escape the Mongol invaders. His mother was probably from Kazerun, a city to the south of Shiraz. While still a boy, Hafiz lost his father. Eventually, poverty drove him to work as an apprentice to a baker. Being a precocious child, however, he was allowed to audit lessons at a school (maktab) near the bakery. As years wore on, Hafiz proved himself an outstanding scholar and calligrapher. The pen-name Hafiz (the memorizer) refers to the fact that he had memorized the Qur'an in its entirety. Even though much is not known about his schooling, it is clear that the man who wrote the odes possessed vast knowledge not only in theology, philosophy, literature, and history, but also in the varieties of the human heart.

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