A YEAR WITH HAFIZ Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Persia's greatest exponent of the ghazal Hafiz (1320-1392) became a Perfect Master (Qutub), was twice exiled from his beloved Shiraz for his criticism of rulers and false Sufi masters and hypocritical clergy. His Divan shows he composed in nearly all forms. As with his ghazals, his masnavis, qasidas, qita's, ruba'is and other poems are sometimes mystical and sometimes dealing with the complications of human love. His Divan is one of the greatest and most loved Oracles of all time. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these immortal 366 poems, one for each day of every year 377 pages. Goethe: 'In his poetry Hafiz inscribed undeniable truth indelibly He has no peer ' Gertrude Bell: 'It is as if his mental Eye, endowed with wonderful acuteness of vision, had penetrated into those provinces of thought which we of a later age were destined to inhabit.' Meher
