TEHRAN (IBNA) -- On the occasion of the commemoration day of legendary bard Hafez in Iran held ‎October 12, Chinese Ambassador to Iran announced that ‘Divan (collected Poems) of ‎Hafez’ has been published in Chinese.‎
Chang Hua Chinese Ambassador to Iran gave the news in a tweet on Wednesday, adding that Iranian and Chinese nations love poetry.
Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hafez (the memorizer); the (safe) keeper’; 1325–1390) was a Persian lyric poet, whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as a pinnacle of Persian literature.
His works are often found in the homes of people in the Persian-speaking world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as everyday proverbs and sayings. His life and poems have become the subjects of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-14th century Persian writing more than any other Persian author.
Hafez is best known for his ‘Divan of Hafez’, a collection of his surviving poems probably compiled after his death. His works can be described as “antinomian” and with the medieval use of the term “theosophical”; the term “theosophy” in the 13th and 14th centuries was used to indicate mystical work by “authors only inspired by the holy books” (as distinguished from theology).
Hafez primarily wrote in the literary genre of lyric poetry or ghazals, that is the ideal style for expressing the ecstasy of divine inspiration in the mystical form of love poems. He was a Sufi.