Hāfez and the Creation of the World in Eternity

Subject Areas : Mytho

نصرت االله فروهر ¹ ( استادیار زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ـ واحد تهران جنوب )

Received: 2015-05-24 Accepted : 2015-05-24 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: Hāfez, Intuition, annihilation, Manifestation, Eternal Hexeities,

Abstract :

  The present article is an analysis of a sonnet (ghazal) composed by Hāfez-e Shīrāzī (1325/26–1389/90), Persian poet and Sufi. The sonnet is as follows:  "Thanks be to God that the doors of the wine-tavern open, is, in such a way that, my face of supplication upon its door is …The mystery that to the people I uttered not, and shall not utter: To the Friend, I shall utter; for confidant of the mystery He is … O people of the assembly (Murshids)! The consuming of the heart of poor Hāfez, Ask ye the candle that, in burning and melting is." (Translation by Henry Wilberforce Clarke 1840-1905) The poet speaks about the creation of the world in eternity and believes that man is a manifestation of the Divine.