Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry by Leonard Lewisohn

Author:Leonard Lewisohn [Lewisohn, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848852242
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ḥāfiẓ and the Sufi

suḥbat-i ‘āfiyatat gar chih khwūs uftād ay dil

jānib-i ‘ishq ‘azīz ast, furū magdhārash.

Although consorting with what’s safe and sound

Seems, dear heart, to be a joy and a delight,

Love too has much grace and chic and charm,

And her side too must not be forsworn.15

Ḥāfiẓ treats the figure of the Sufi harshly. In order for this to be understood, the force of the expressions which he uses against him must be shown. His impatience was the result of his exacting and rigorous demands, for it offended him to the core that a Sufi should use craftiness and deception whilst pursuing the way to perfection. On the contrary, Ḥāfiẓ knew all too well how to expound to a sincere Sufi exactly what this exacting spiritual ideal of perfection entailed. Amongst the Sufis with whom he was acquainted, the very notion of perfection seemed to have become utterly devalued, and hence his lament:

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