Khwaja Samsu d-Din Muḥammad Hafez-e Shirazi (1325/26–1389/90), the Persian poet, is known by his pen name Hāfez. His tomb in Shiraz, a masterpiece of Iranian architecture, is visited often. The tomb, its gardens, the library containing 10,000 volumes dedicated to Hafez scholarship are a focus of tourism in Shiraz.

Hafez, the famous 14th century Persian poet, used the most gorgeous language to expose duplicity, irreverence, and corruption in preachers, scholars of religious laws, memorizers and reciters of the Qur'an.

Eight columns, each ten meters tall, support a copper dome in the shape of a dervish's hat. The underside of the dome is an arabesque and colorful mosaic

The marble slab placed over the grave, engraved with excerpts from Hafez's poetry.

In the complex also exist a library containing 10,000 volumes dedicated to Hafez scholarship, a tea house on the grounds who provides refreshments in a traditional setting, and a good souvenir and bookshop

„The great religions are the ships, Poets are the lifeboats.” (Hafez)

Iranians highly value their poets who kept their culture and language alive even during numerous invasions. Persian poetry is as ancient as Avesta (the holy book of Zoroastrians) where first form of poetry is documented.

Hafiz belonged to the great sect from which so many of the most famous among Persian writers have sprung. Like Sa'di and Jami and Jelaleddin Rumi and a score of others, he was a Sufi. The history of Sufiism has yet to be written, the sources from which it arose are uncertain, and that it should have found a home in Mahommadanism, the least mystical of all religions, is still unexplained

Miniature by Shakiba, Persian artist

 "Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me." (Hafez)

Sound: Mohammad Reza Shadjarian - Hafez,

Sarv e chamaan e man chera

Text: Internet

Pictures: Sanda Foişoreanu Nicoleta Leu

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