Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
114 ‘Ahd-i alast-i man hama bā ‘ishq -i shāh būd v-az shāhrāh-i ‘umr bi-dīn ‘aḥd bugzaram.^32 Mycovenantof‘AmInot’was[apact]with ...
contrastedtothelongvowelāinthenexthemistich,formingaperfectasymmetry, withthevowelībeingentirelyavoidedinthesecondhemistich. Ḥāf ...
116 WhenYourcountenancewasrevealed,itsawthatangelshadnolove, Itshonouroffended,itbecameallfire,andstruckAdam’ssoul. Inadditionto ...
Bar dar-i maykhāna-yi ‘ishq ay malak tasbīḥ-gūy k-andar ānjā ṭīnat-i ādam mukhammar mīkunand.^43 Oangel,givepraiseatthedooroflov ...
118 thatis,oneunabletounderstandsubtlepointsoflove.Iblīs’strictmonotheism,his boastingofbeingtheonlytrueworshipperofGod,ledḤāfiẓ ...
Toconclude,aswehaveseentheredefinitelydoesexistafulltheoryofmystical lovewhichcanbereconstructedfromtheabove-mentionedcoupletsfr ...
120 (^15) Najmal-DīnDāyacitesKharaqānī(d.450/1034)inhisMirṣādal-‘ibād,ed.Riyāhī,p.49;Englishtransla- tionbyAlgar,The Path of God ...
(^47) Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ,ed.Khānlarī,p.312,ghazal148:4. (^48) AlsocompareZangī,Munāẓara-yi chashm u dil,p.110;Iblīsisrepeatedlycritic ...
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TheRadianceofEpiphany: TheVisionofBeautyandLove in √Æfiæ’sPoemofPre-Eternity Leili Anvar ‘Thepoetisoccupiedwithfrontiersofconsci ...
124 istheresultoftheimpossibilityofexpressingsuchexperiencesprosaically,aphe- nomenonthathadalreadybeen,longbeforeḤāfiẓ,chronicl ...
beauty’,astheProphet’ssaying(ḥadīth)attests.^12 Thefunctionofthemysticalghazal isthustoreflect,inanaestheticallyharmoniousmanner ...
126 andemotionsinanutshell.Pre-Eternity–azal–isonesuchtechnicaltermthat bringstomindawholerangeofreligiousandmysticaltraditions, ...
soIcreatedtheworld’,isaveryfamousḥadīth^24 thathasinspiredmanymystics’ver- tiginousmeditationsonthenatureofmanand,indeed,ontheme ...
128 Lastnightithappenedjustbeforethebreak Ofdawn:theweightuponmyspiritwas Thenliftedoff,andinthatdrearymurk Ofnight,theygavemeth ...
and(inv.7)tothelight-heartedness(dil-ikhurram)thatcomprisesthesadprivileges andgracelessfolliesoftheoblivious.Thispolaritybetwee ...
130 tosufferforthesakeofthatprimordialcovenantthepainofalienationandexilein thislowerrealm,acquiescingtothesorrowsandwoesthatwil ...
possessives.^46 ‘You’isneverthesubjectofanyverb.Butsomeaspectsofthis‘you’ becomeactiveinaratherintensiveway:to‘you’belongs‘arayo ...
132 Republic,withitstheoryofintermediaryluminositiesandreflectionsintervening betweenthesoulandvisionoftheGood.Thesoul’seyes,whi ...
‘Thestranger’(nāmaḥram)inpopularparlanceisonewhoisnotallowedtoseea woman‘unveiled’,^55 who,ifhedoesgazeuponher,deservestobepunis ...
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