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Hafiz
Jul 19, 2008 15:32:11 GMT
Post by cleglaw on Jul 19, 2008 15:32:11 GMT
Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, "You owe Me."
Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.
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Hafiz
Jul 20, 2008 10:20:48 GMT
Post by cleglaw on Jul 20, 2008 10:20:48 GMT
I Have Learned So much from God That I can no longer Call Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself With me
That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
Love has Befriended Hafiz so completely It has turned to ash And freed Me
Of every concept and image My mind has ever known.
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Hafiz
Jul 21, 2008 2:31:12 GMT
Post by LaFille on Jul 21, 2008 2:31:12 GMT
It looks good... What/who is Hafiz that is referred to, the form, the author?
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Hafiz
Jul 21, 2008 4:45:30 GMT
Post by cleglaw on Jul 21, 2008 4:45:30 GMT
Hafiz was a Sufi mystic in medieval Persia (now Iran). He wrote fantastic poetry with mystical and spiritual themes.
One story told about Hafiz centers around a poem which he said that if so instructed by your spiritual teacher, you should dye your prayer mat in wine. This was a sacrilege to orthodox Muslims. A prominent man asked Hafiz what he could possibly mean by it.
Hafiz directed this gentleman to see a certain fakir. When this gentleman asked the fakir about how a good Muslim could ever dye his prayer mat in wine, the fakir sent him to visit a certain house of prostitution. Of course, a good Muslim should never visit a brothel, but determined to see the matter through, the gentleman went to the brothel.
After entering the brothel, he was shown into a room with a young girl. This was to be the girl's initiation into a life of prostitution. Feeling very uncomfortable, the gentleman began talking to her and discovered that she was his long lost daughter who had been kidnapped by bandits at a young age. He was able to remove her from the brothel and take her home.
This prominent gentleman then returned to Hafiz to thank him, whereupon Hafiz completed the poem for him. Hafiz should be regarded as a spiritually advanced soul who expressed himself beautifully in poetry.
I have read, though I don't know with certainty, that the Taliban burned all books they could find of Hafiz (as well as those of Rumi and other mystics) when they came to power in Afghanistan.
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Hafiz
Jul 25, 2008 3:01:22 GMT
Post by LaFille on Jul 25, 2008 3:01:22 GMT
Ah... I tried to run a search before asking but "hafiz" was bringing a lot of (diverse) results and none that seemed to link to pieces like yours. It's a shame if important works like his were destructed...
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Hafiz
Jul 28, 2008 21:13:44 GMT
Post by Alrik on Jul 28, 2008 21:13:44 GMT
In Iran, I heard, Sufis are victims of oppression, too.
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