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Poetry
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About HafizTimeline (1320 - 1389) |
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English version by Original Language |
Spring and all its flowers
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Spring and all its flowers
now joyously break their vow of silence. It is time for celebration, not for lying low; You too - weed out those roots of sadness from your heart. The Sabaa wind arrives; and in deep resonance, the flower passionately rips open its garments, thrusting itself from itself. The Way of Truth, learn from the clarity of water, Learn freedom from the spreading grass. Pay close attention to the artistry of the Sabaa wind, that wafts in pollen from afar, And ripples the beautiful tresses of the fields of hyacinth flowers. From the privacy of the harem, the virgin bud slips out, revealing herself under the morning star, branding your heart and your faith with beauty. And frenzied bulbul flies madly out of the House of Sadness to unite with the flowers; its love-crazed cry like a thousand-trumpet blast. Hafez says, and the experienced old ones concur: All you really need is to tell those Stories of the Fair Ones and the Goblet of Wine.
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Commentary by Homayun Taba & Marguerite Theophil
Spring is a time when the Creator is Œseen' by us again through His wondrous, beauty-filled
creations of nature that dramatically emerge from the long sadness of winter, when they
had been hidden from us.
Hafez calls us to joyously use these sights and sounds to open our own hearts and in this way
to connect and (re)unite with the Beloved, and in doing so, to know again what is truly 'essential'
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