Persian Poem: Hafez Shirazi - O Oblivion -with English subtitles- ای بیخبر - شعر فارسي - حافظ شیرازی

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ای بی‌خبر بکوش که صاحب خبر شوی

تا راهرو نباشی کی راهبر شوی

در مکتب حقایق پیش ادیب عشق

هان ای پسر بکوش که روزی پدر شوی

دست از مس وجود چو مردان ره بشوی

تا کیمیای عشق بیابی و زر شوی

خواب و خورت ز مرتبه خویش دور کرد

آن گه رسی به خویش که بی خواب و خور شوی

گر نور عشق حق به دل و جانت اوفتد

بالله کز آفتاب فلک خوبتر شوی

یک دم غریق بحر خدا شو گمان مبر

کز آب هفت بحر به یک موی تر شوی

از پای تا سرت همه نور خدا شود

در راه ذوالجلال چو بی پا و سر شوی

وجه خدا اگر شودت منظر نظر

زین پس شکی نماند که صاحب نظر شوی

بنیاد هستی تو چو زیر و زبر شود

در دل مدار هیچ که زیر و زبر شوی

گر در سرت هوای وصال است حافظا

باید که خاک درگه اهل هنر شوی

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Narrated by: Shaheed Khatibi

Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c. 1320-1389) is one of the most beloved poets of the Persians, and is considered by many – from different cultures – to be one of the seven literary wonders of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Hafiz: "He fears nothing. He sees too far, he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to see or be." And Emerson gave Hafiz that grand and famous compliment, "Hafiz is a poet for poets."
Hafez is best known for his poems that 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.