Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
94 who have ‘passed beyond existence’ into a realm where the limitations of the illusory Selfhood, with its ‘me’ and ‘thee’, are ...
There is no room in me forculpamea, for penance, penitence or penalty! All sacraments of penance such as this I scorn. Who’d eve ...
96 love, subjected him to several trials – demanding that he renounce Islam, burn the Qur’ān, drink wine and work for her as a s ...
mind’ and bereft of self-consciousness (bīhūshī). Such bacchanalian terminology is not personally subjective vagaries that expre ...
98 love for God. All questions posed in Love’s catechism can be answered with one single riposte: ‘Service’. This ‘bitterness’ w ...
Don’t give us wine which legal schools have banned but wine through which Faith’s principles are crowned.^87 Similarly, Ibn Fāri ...
100 has already occurred! That is why Ḥāfiẓ rebukes the ascetic for the emptiness of his promise of a future paradise: When Para ...
their verse in the here and now. These are not legends, but living facts of the heart that appear constantly in their verse; the ...
102 But whom should he assuage If you are without pain?^105 To whom may I relate such a subtlety? She killed me – my stony-heart ...
Fourthly, this religion’s essential message is one of friendship, affection, peace and living with mutual toleration of others. ...
104 (^15) Rūmī,Kulliyāt-i Shams, ed. Furūzānfar, V, p. 58,ghazal2207, v. 23405.Dar khulāṣa-yi ‘ishq ākhar shīva-yiIslāmkū?Darkus ...
ḤāfiẓandtheSchoolofLoveinClassicalPersianPoetry 105 (^46) Mathnawī, ed. Nicholson, IV: 409–14. (^47) Shabistarī,Gulshan-irāz, ed ...
106 (^75) See ‘Attar,TheConferenceoftheBirds, translation by Davis and Darbandi, ‘The Story of Shaykh Sam‘an’, pp. 57–75. (^76) ...
TheEroticSpirit:Love,Manand Satanin √Æfiæ’sPoetry Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Yikīst turkī-u tāzī dar īn mu‘āmala Ḥāfiẓ Ḥadith-i ‘is ...
108 The Islamic and Persian Background LovehasbeentreatedbyvariousauthorsandpoetsintheIslamicworld,whogive definitions,describel ...
Itisunclearwhichmysticfirstusedtheterm‘ishqsystematicallytorefertothe passionateloverelationshipbetweenmanandGod.^7 Beforethetwe ...
110 Anotherimportantaspectofloveistherelationshipbetweentheloverandthe beloved.Toexplainthisrelationship,mysticsusuallyrelyonthe ...
poetsbeforehim,ḤāfiẓequateslovewithGod,whoisalsotheAbsoluteBeloved longingferventlytorevealHisbeauty.InHisabsolutesolitude,Godwa ...
112 Basedonthistradition,theworldbecameviewedasanepiphanyandrevelation oflove.Lovefunctionsasaprimummobile,settingeverythinginmo ...
“Yes,wetestify”’(7:172).MysticsinterprettheiraffirmativeanswertoGodbysay- ingthattheyweresocaptivatedbythebeautyofGodthattheyinv ...
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