Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
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PART II ḤĀFIẒ AND THE SCHOOL OF LOVE IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN POETRY ...
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ThePrinciplesoftheReligionof LoveinClassicalPersianPoetry HusaynIlahi-Ghomshei translatedbyLeonardLewisohn It’s a matter of cree ...
78 When they behold God, this visionary encounter of God [liqā-yi khudā] becomes their religion and creed; when they see Muḥamma ...
Naught else but love’s my labour: that’s my logo; So long as I’m alive, don’t offer me another motto. All face towards love to s ...
80 And to the faithful – grant them faith; But for the heart of ‘Aṭṭār, let One ounce of your pain remain.^12 Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn a ...
relish the spirit and convey the taste of this wine and also to give a small glimmer of the grandeur of the sublime station of l ...
82 Where’s one master exegete ofEroswhose lore suffices to crack the code of its complexities?^15 In anotherghazal, he delineate ...
Know it for certain that the lover’s not a Muslim For in the creed of love there’s neither infidelity Or faith – once you fall i ...
84 save grace and comeliness in our scriptural exegesis.^24 This same theophany of beauty also cast its ray upon Ḥāfiẓ’s verse, ...
al-Dīn ‘Abū’l-Ḥasan ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Khatmī Lāhūrī (fl. seventeenth century in India), the commentator, when explaining this poem, ...
86 Don’t allow the flirty side-glances of beauties To teach you injustice. We know that in the religion of love Each act returns ...
ThePrimordialDispositionofManandtheReligionofLove According to the Qur’ān, man was created with an ‘original disposition that Go ...
88 Besides the soul and understanding in the ass and cow, there’s a sense and soul in man that’s different. Again, besides this ...
In several places in the Qur’ān, allusion is made to the triad of these transcendent qualities that bring delight to the heart a ...
90 TheReligionofLoveandAntinomianTraditionsinIslam A thousand enigmas subtler, finer spun than A strand of hair lie here, and th ...
In another verse, Ḥāfiẓ again celebrates the legend of theqalandar, referring indi- rectly to Shaykh Ṣan‘ān, who found faith and ...
92 aswellasthe higher figurative senses pertaining to those transcendental symbolic meanings. If we approach the transcendental ...
My heart – disport Your head: loveplay’s Not jesting business. Nobody has yet struck Eros’s shuttlecock With Desire’s bat.^62 He ...
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