Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
174 ThebeautyoftheFriendhasnoveil Normaskhercharmcanconceal; Justletthepathway’sdustfirstsettle Andthenyou’llcatchaglimpseofher. ...
conceitedself-satisfaction[khwūd-rā’ī],puttingonairs,ostentatiousdisplaysof ascetic piety [zuhd-furūshī], vaunting one’s learnin ...
176 inwhichtherigidityofmoralvirtueissecretlytransformedintotherigidityofevil, whenheremarkedthat: ’Tistoomuchprov’d,thatwithdev ...
consequentlycametobeviewedasafargraversinthanconsumptionofintoxicat- ingbeverages–whichispreciselytheethicalmessageinculcatedbys ...
178 *** Don’tkissanythingexceptthesweetheart’slip Andthecupofwine,Ḥāfiẓ;friends,it’sagravemistake TokissthehandheldouttoyoubyaPu ...
Theascetichadtoomuchpridesohecouldneversoundly TraversethePath.Buttherakebywayofhumbleentreaty AndbeggaryatlastwentdowntotheHous ...
180 YaḥyāibnMu‘ādhRāzī(d.258/871)declared:‘Thecontritionofsinnersisfarbet- terthanthepompouspretensionsanddisplayofpietyputonby ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 181 and the Najm al-Dīn Rāzī’s (d. 654/1256)Mirṣādal-‘ibād, the latter being the most important ...
182 identified both by Rāzī and Maybudī^142 as the prototypical ‘holy sinner’. Adam’s spiritualdegreeisnonethelessexalted,insofa ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 183 who shall forgive sins but God?’^149 Divine mercy is so all-encompassing that it ‘embraces a ...
184 the sake of the honor of the religious law and obedience to the Bearer of the Law,keepthesecretsconcealedanddonottellthemtoa ...
Thebeggaronyourbackstreetdoesnothaveneed OfanyofHeaven’seightfoldMansions;thecaptive InyourchainsisfreeofboththisworldandtheNext ...
186 nosincanresistbeingconsumedbytheexistenceofgnosis:infact,themore firewood [i.e. sin] there is, the higher, hotter and bright ...
Guidedbyhishigherconsciousnessthatbestowsuponhimaperceptionoftheunity ofoppositesthroughLove,thesinner–sagethusunderstandslikeḤā ...
188 Notes (^1) SeeJavādī,Tārīkh-iṭanzdaradabiyāt-ifārsī,pp.93–124.IwouldliketothankTerryGrahamandJason Elliotfortheirmanyhelpful ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 189 your sleeping without cognizance of God, on a full stomach satiated on food which is of doub ...
190 Reminiscences,pp.137–47;PerryandLehr(trans.),TheSandsofOxus:BoyhoodReminiscencesofSadriddin Aini,pp.145–7;151–61;249ff.Atypi ...
take into account any of these quite demonstrable poetic and pedagogic influences of the Kāzarūnī Shaykh on Ḥāfiẓ. For further d ...
192 fromhisegocentric“self”andbringhimneartothebeloved,whereasthe“works”oftheasceticonly estrangehim,creatingdistancebetweenhima ...
ḤāfiẓandthePersianSufiTradition 193 (^82) Dīvān-iḤāfiẓ,ed.Khānlarī,ghazal426:3. (^83) ‘Aṭṭār,Tadhkirat,ed.Isti‘lami,p.379. (^84) ...
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