Exploring the significance of unity and selflessness in embracing the path of love in Sufi mysticism, highlighting themes of sincerity, humility, and divine love through the selected poems of Hafez.
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Drink The Wine Of Unity
Drink the 'wine of unity' to wash away life's grief and expand your heart.
Cut off hypocrisy and piety and connect your heart to divine love to gain true inner depth.
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Rise And Make An Effort
Make an effort and don't lie around like a bum; act like a hover and move toward the beloved.
Deny yourself food and sleep when needed to stay awake on the path of love and truth.
insights INSIGHT
Love Lights Outshine Doubt
If God's love shines on you, your heart will outshine a dozen suns.
Purity of vision toward God removes doubt and preserves everything even when the world overturns.
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Selected poems of Hafez taken from the text 'Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved' - translated by Thomas Rain Crowe.
Persian lyric poet Hafiz (born Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī) grew up in Shiraz. Very little is known about his life, but it is thought that he may have memorized the Qur’an after hearing his father recite passages. He is one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets, and his influence can be felt to this day. As the author of numerous ghazals expressing love, spirituality, and protest, he and his work continue to be important to Iranians, and many of his poems are used as proverbs or sayings.
Music - 'Discovering love at the source of longing' from the album 'The Great Intimacy' by Sujatha Maheshwari
Image/Art - 'Light upon Light' by Jennifer Baird
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