Iran celebrated in the winter solstice. In a world that he has created, hoffist shares his views on humanity, tells us about his philosophical musings, moral precepts, the nature of love, life and destiny, and encourages to make the most of the moment, not in a dry didactic way, but through his fertile imagination, polish diction, best choice of words and melodious expressions the. People take great pride in their 14th century poet and celebrate a national day in his loving memory. The 20th of mehr on the iranian calendar, which usually falls on october 12th, is celebrated annually as hofe day. Many scholars, writers and hawfes lovers from around the world come to iran on this day to mark the occasion at hafiss tomb in shiraz. Shamseldin mohammed gain his subfiz literally meaning a person who knows something important by heart because he could recite the. Holy quran completely by heart in 14 different ways. Hafez wrote some 500 gazals or sunnets over a period of 50 years, average around 10 sunnits year. His poems have been the subject of so much analysis, commentary and interpretation. One of the iranian admirers of hafez is behruz, an iranian theater director and pioneer of traditional persian puppet theater. Ive said many times that huffes is the custodian of irans dna, you know that the characteristic of dna is that it can store information for long time, and i believe that from hufiss dewan we can understand many of our cultural and historical issues. His diwan is not merely a collection of romantic poems. Hofe is leave during the reign of amir mubarazdin, a man who pretended to be religious, but was a hypocrite indeed. He was cruel to others if they didnt observe islamic rules, but when it came to himself, he was. Book is widely used in bibliomancy or what is called fall in iran. It is ancient tradition when the reader asks hoffiz for advice when facing a difficulty or an important juncture in life and treats the book like an oracle. After all, the nickname for hoffice is lisanul, which means the tongue of the unseen. Lets see what huffis sees. یوسف گمگشته باز آید به کنعان غم مخور کلبه احزان شود روزی گلستان غم مخور. This house of sorrows will become a garden. شما باید you tell me why you want to take part in the commemoration of . Poets, why are you so passionate about hafez but not aboutlavi who is also a great poet . Why dont we commemorate bdel but we commemorate hafez . To know more, we met with doctor subhani, a proliphic writer and a professor of persian language and literature. حافظ مطلب داشته, حرف داشته، زده hafiz was a man of learning, he expressed many things in his poems, a Great Variety of subject matters. You may have noticed young people love half, so do old people, when a common person reads halfez, they can enjoy it, when a scholar reads half, they also enjoy it, everyone thinks that they can appreciate halfez. And this is the main feature of hafass poems. In the presence of professor sopani, we consulted hafits by opening his divan. Now lets open hals divan. He might offer us poem having to do with the current situation. I suggest you open the book, but before it please otter what we say before opening the book. Oh haws of shiraz, look upon us in favor. مفتی پیالله نوش در پادشاه خطابخش. Consist of generally selfcontained lines bound together by a single meter, a single rhyme and sometimes radif, that is a word or a phrase repeated at the end of each line. The first line usually sets the mood of each poem, but this is hardly followed through in all the lines. This is dr. Ahmad tamim dari, a full professor of persian language and literature at allome university. He told us an essential difference between eastern and western poetry. In england and america, john d johanhan writes that western poetry is written in the form of letter, which means that all its parts are connected step by step, but in eastern poetry, especially in this sonnet, the poet deals with various themes, a typical eastern poem has a circular form, he says that oriental poetry has a central core from where various themes emanate. It is true that eastern poems are psychologically and intellectually related each other, but they appear to be unrelated on the surface. You might even change the arrangement of lines in eastern poetry, sometimes, but you cannot do this in western poems. Is one of the differences between eastern and western poetry. Thought or sentiment in other lines is determined by several factors such as the general mood or motivation involved in composing the ghazal or even a consideration of the musical mode or melody intended for each line, as the gazals of hafez seem to have been written to be sung as well as read. آرt به. Possesses the ability to comfort, enliven and enrich those in need. A qazal or sunnet by definition has love as its main subject matter, in his gazal. Sings with great passion of the ecstasy of love, the unmatched beauty of the beloved, the pains of separation, the rare pleasure of union, and the disdain of the beloved. Poems at face value. معلومه که بین آب انگورو شراب ته متفاوت فرقمی. So it is clear that half has differentiates. Between grape wine and divine pure wine, and these two are different from each other. If we assume that the meaning of wine in hals poems is a drink that causes all kinds of diseases. It is really very bad taste, theres nothing poetic about it. It must be a bad taste for a great poet like halphes to discuss only alcoholic drinks, which is a harmful thing, so Something Else must be behind it. It must be metaphoric. It would be a mistake, however to think that love is the major theme of hafass poems. Hofez includes in his gazas a theme that is not lyrical at all and a far cry from love poetry. About the major theme of hoffes poems. Now he has uh chosen the literary uh genre of lyric poetry or gazal which is famously used to express the concept of love. Do you think this is the case that . غزل فقط برای عشق گفته شده نه. With love, but it is not like that. Of course, one of the themes the kazali is love, this poetic form, when used by haphis also contains themes related to wisdom, philosophy, koranic verses and hadis. The reason why hafass poems have been popular in the world throughout history, is that you can find in his poems, in addition to love, themes related to life, human experience, and social criticism, so on. As a man of learning with reformist ambitions, hafiz was a critic of the ills of his society. He was determined to expose the hypocrisy of all those who had set themselves up as guardians, judges and examples of moral correctness. In his poems he attacks the false figures of religious authority. من اگر نگاهی بگزینم چه شود؟ since the series. Preacher has chosen to love the prince and the police chief, what if i have chosen to love a pretty face . Half as satire often takes a humorous turn through the use of irony and ridicule. Faqih mad of فتوا داد که می حرام ولی به مال اوقاف است. The seminary scalar was drunk yesterday and made a ruling that wine is forbidden, but not so bad as dipping into the funds of religious. The mali uh experience is an experience that is opening mark opening up new era in west africa. During the attack we noticed our soldiers were no match, they were weaker, the is fighters were stronger than us, whoever dared to face them were killed on the spot. How many times has france killed us and looted from us . Our gold, our uranium, everything that belongs to niger, france has got its hands on it. We do not accept this anymore. Has brought us nothing good. There are lines that show how familiar hafies is with islamic teachings. After all, he is a muslim, brought up in a muslim environment, educated in traditional religious schools and immersed in islamic. Culture, what distinguishes hafez from other poets . Says it is love for humanity that might help you out, otherwise you would be loser, and if you like hafez know the quran by hard in 14 different ways. You ask me why we should read herfers . My answer is look at d. They have represented through wrongfully a cruel image of islam as amir mud in did, so time has not changed that much in this regard. In it he tried to offer what he called the real image of the persian poet, a muslim in the real sense of the world, a man with the heart of gold. همه زیرو بم مردم ایران. He can learn from how to love humanity, how to avoid hypocrisy and how to adore the world. Think the hoffis im talking about is unnown to many. Some might think he was a materialist. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some might say that his divan is in fact the quran inverse that is everything he said. بیا که نوبت بغداد و وقتیز است این نیز گفتم هر آن کسی که در این حلقه نیست زنده به عشق برون مرده به فتواای من تماس کنید زاویه نگاه من یک زاویه نگاه دراماتیکه. I have a dramatic point of view to the whole story. Let me explain why i decided to work on hafez through the medium of opera. It is very regrettable that hafers cannot be translated because his language is musical and therefore much is lost in translation. So i adopted a musical language that is opera to preserve his musical language. A muslim poet living in the 14th century. Could his poems be interesting enough for the rest of the world . Yuhan wolf gang von gottes says yes, the most renowned poet of german literature was deeply interested in hofezs poems. Gote first took interest in hofes when composing romantic poems, but later on it was the mystical aspects of hofezs poems that attracted him. The influence of hofez on gotte was so deep that he named the collection of his poems the west eastern divan. Gote famously said hafez has up here, as for hafes and the question that if you really need to read hafiz, i should say that huffers can help you change your world we for the better, his poems are so deep that gute says, i wish i was the student of a student, when hafas says rise, oh carbira, rise and bring to leaps that are thirsting, the bowl they praise, for it seem that love was easy thing, but my feet have fallen on difficult ways. The meaning of these lines could be understood 50 centuries from now, everyone can understand that it is difficult to remain in love because you need to remain honest, kind and selfsacrificing. When you understand this point, it means hoffes is a still alive and is still relevant to this time as well. In the United States to ralph waldow emerson, hoffids was one of the seven literary wonders of the world. As emerson said of hoffids. He fears nothing, he sees too far, he sees throughout, such is the only man i wish to see or be. And emerson gave hoffis that famous compliment, hoffis is poet for poets. What is the standing or the statuss of hoffis in English Speaking countries . Can you name certain uh literary scholars that have been inspired or perhaps impacted . در انگلیستان شاعران بسیاری. In england, many poets paid attention to halfers poetry, as many poets did later in the United States. For example, in america, one of the greatest poets that you must have heard of is ralph wildor emerson, in the 18th century, who was the National Poet at that time, he used many of hafass themes to compose his own poems, or Benjamin Franklin is another famous person influenced by halfis in persian poetry in england and america, which have translated into. For see, nearly 500 poets and writers have been mentioned as those influenced by persian poetry, especially by hafass poetry. Hafas was also admired by such diverse notables as niche and arthur khanon doyle. Garcia lorka praised the poet. German composer johannes broms was so touched by hoffices poems that he used several of them in his compositions. And even Queen Victoria reportedly consulted hawfis in times of need. The list of his famous admirers goes on and on. In hundreds of ways, hawphes addresses what impeeds us from living a more fulfilled life, giving us hope even in the worst of times. The 14th century poets work is not just beautiful, it is useful too. Hafis passed away in late 1388 or early 1389 at the. Of 69, his memory lives on as his poems still mesmorize the world. Thats all for today, thank you for watching from the whole team, hope. I hope you enjoyed this edition and found it inspiring, please do tune in same time next week and each week after, dont forget to leave your comments and topic requests, bye for now, it means jacket, this jacket ready, lambotopic here on press tv and i want you to join me for cats and dogs, the heavy show that makes light work of serious politics. Thats press tv. Cats and dogs lambodopic. Dont miss it. In 2015, the city of kundus afghanistan witnessed devastating tragedy that shook the international. 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