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Sufi / Muslim
14th Century

 

About Hafiz

Timeline (1320 - 1389)

 

 

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Translation by
Daniel Ladinsky

Original Language
Persian
Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks?

Themes
  Sun
  Trembling
  Wine
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Drunk on the Wine of Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz, Thomas Rain Crowe
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, trans. Daniel Ladinsky
The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: With the Original Persian on the Facing Page, Gertrude Bell
Hafez: Teachings of the Philosopher of Love, Haleh Pourafzal
The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia, with Lectures by Inayat Khan, trans. Coleman Barks

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The sun once glimpsed God's true nature
And has never been the same.

Thus that radiant sphere
Constantly pours its energy
Upon this earth
As does He from behind
The veil.

With a wonderful God like that
Why isn't everyone a screaming drunk?

Hafiz's guess is this:

Any thought that you are better or less
Than another man

Quickly
Breaks the wine
Glass.

 

 

-- from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, trans. Daniel Ladinsky

 

 

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