Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
154 andsorrowcantheheartbecleansedofallregardandconcernfortheself.That purificationcausesthewinewithintheheart’sCup-mirror–thewi ...
EachversethatḤāfiẓpensisamasterpiece ofgnosticloreandsapience. Let’spraisehisfetchingturnofphrase andhisstunningpowerofspeech.^9 ...
156 (^20) Ibid.,ghazal199:8. (^21) Ibid.,ghazal426:10. (^22) Ibid.,ghazal129:8. (^23) Ibid.,ghazal446:2. (^24) Ibid.,ghazal237:6 ...
(^66) Ibid.,ghazal468:5. (^67) Ibid.,ghazal269:4. (^68) Ibid.,ghazal479:2. (^69) Ibid.,ghazal348:6. (^70) Anallusiontoghazal264: ...
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TheReligionofLoveand thePuritansofIslam: SufiSourcesof √Æfiæ’sAnti-clericalism LeonardLewisohn Mise-en-scène There exists a stro ...
160 Preacher (wā‘iẓ), Sufi Shaykh (shaykh), Judge (qāḍī) and the Lawyer or Jurist (faqīh). But the most reviled and villainous p ...
proceeding without God’s grace and mercy on the spiritual path, and berated for following‘therudeworkingsofyourfancies’.Formalis ...
162 otherhand,asophomoricfool,thearchetypalidiotwhobelieveshimselfwise,whose characterisagaindepictedbyanotherofShakespeare’spur ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 163 persuasion, he is the polar opposite of the unconventional, inspired libertine or piousrake( ...
164 amiss’^35 finds an exact reprise in Ḥāfiẓ’s scorn for his ascetic’s penchant for fault- finding.Maythesanctimoniousasceticbe ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 165 If we compare the lengths that ‘Aṭṭār goes to in denunciation of fault- finding with the con ...
166 Causenodistressandgrieftoanother; Thengoanddoasyouwish–forin OurHolyLawnoothersinthanthisexists.^48 It should also be pointe ...
Andonambition’sscaleascend Hard-labouringforthehighestseat. ...Owhatachangetheysoonshallknow, Whentornawaybydeath,theygo Relucta ...
168 (niyāz) of the rake, the rogue, the sinner, the miscreant and the down-and-out homeless beggar over the Qur’ān-thumping puri ...
Sincenoneofyouraffairsbyprayersucceeds, OPuritan,Iprefermydrunkenmidnightcries, Mydesperatebeggaryandhaplesspenury.^67 Theasceti ...
170 Hence,Ḥāfiẓ’santinomianrefusaltoranktheascetic’svauntedausterityandactsof self-mortification (zuhd) above the sybarite rake’ ...
heaven’s synod ... Very well, tell him not to worry. Let the self-proclaimed saintgotohellandthedebaucheehedespisesgotoparadise. ...
172 wanderings,BishrḤāfīcameacrosstheimmortalprophetKhiḍr(sometimesidenti- fiedwiththeBiblicalEliasandAhasuerusbyMuslimauthors^8 ...
Furthermore,onthemetaphysicallevel,theasceticwhosuffersfromamourpropre, prepossessedofaninfantile,inflatedsenseofself-importance ...
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