# Songs of Hafiz

Author: Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century; Underwood, Edna Worthley, 1873-1961 [Translator]

Genre: Persian poetry -- Translations into English

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77453

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Songs+of+Hafiz+%E1%B8%A4%C4%81fi%E1%BA%93&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“This characterizes the poetic spirit of the Sufi, the mystic, that he never expresses his teachings in abstract words but wraps them up in an embroidered picture, and expresses everything allegorically, perhaps for the purpose, that the orthodox may be deceived as to the size of the chasm that yawns between deistic Mohammedanism and the pantheistic religion of the Sufi. Since all mysticism is the outgrowth of a superabundant imaginative life, it is natural that the oriental mystic should use beautiful symbols of the senses ... and under the figure of the handsome Tavern Keeper, God is almost always meant. Whether one has always to do with a mystic poem, or a realistic song of love and wi...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/songs-of-hafiz-77453/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/songs-of-hafiz-77453/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/songs-of-hafiz-77453/chapters/3/index.md)