"For Sufis, love is the key to playing
out our lives in the right chord. "
Hafiz
Ralph Waldo Emerson himself remarked that
“Hafiz is a poet for poets.”
TO learn about Iranian Poetery please watch Iranian
poetry in FILM
Who is Hafiz?
Hafiz is one of the world’s most beloved poets, he
is affectionately known as the “Tongue of the Invisible” and
the great Poet-Seer Ralph Waldo Emerson himself remarked that “Hafiz
is a poet for poets.” The poems of Hafiz have a beautiful and musical
quality, which also embody a great spontaneity. In a myriad of poetic
ways, Hafiz expresses the spiritual experiences of a mystic, in love
with his Beloved. Yet he achieves this in a playful and enchanting way,
like other Sufi poets, Hafiz weaves themes of ambiguity into his poems.
Often he will use secular images such as wine, drunkenness and human
love, however these are just symbols for the divine experiences which
Hafiz is alluding to. Hafiz was born in the beautiful city of Shiraz
in Persia (now Iran ). As a young child he was called Shams –ud-din
Mohammed. Hafiz proved to have a prodigious talent for literature. At
an early age he successfully memorized the Qu’ran, and this is
why he took the pen name of “Hafiz” – Hafiz means one
who has memorized the entire Qu’ran by heart. As well as studying
the Qu’ran Hafiz was also introduced to the other great Sufi poets
such as Rumi, Farid –ud-din Attar and Saadi, these Sufi poets would
later have some influence on the poetry of Hafiz.
Hafiz A Sufi Poet- What Sufi is in short is " Sufism
is the ancient wisdom of the heart
to know more about Sufism
(video) lesson to Lee Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee as he is a (contemporary)
Sufi teacher and author of a number of books. Visit The Golden
Sufi Centerto learn more about his work.
Most of the poetery I chosed are from Translatin of Daniel
Ladinsky which I love the most.
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Daniel Ladinsky has published three volumes of translations
of the poetry of the great Persian Sufi Hafiz: The Gift, The Subject
Tonight Is Love, and I Heard God Laughing. He is an audacious talent
with a big heart, a keen sense of humor, and a creative way of looking
at things. For Sufis, love is the key to playing out our lives in the
right chord
Hafiz Books I Picked for you by Daniel Ladinsky
Daniel Ladinsky is an acclaimed translator of mystical
poetry. For six years, he made his home in a spiritual community in
western India, where he worked and lived with the intimate disciples
and family of Avatar Meher Baba. This is his fourth volume of Hafiz
poetry in translation.
