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    The document provides an overview and reviews of the book "The Gift" by Hafiz, a collection of poems by the 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky. It discusses how Hafiz's poetry expressed his passionate love and union with the divine. It describes Ladinsky's translation as capturing the ecstasy and passion of Hafiz's poems in contemporary yet playful language. Reviewers praise the poems for being inspirational, profound yet approachable, and providing insights into faith, love and God in a fun and enlightening way.

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    The document provides an overview and reviews of the book "The Gift" by Hafiz, a collection of poems by the 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky. It discusses how Hafiz's poetry expressed his passionate love and union with the divine. It describes Ladinsky's translation as capturing the ecstasy and passion of Hafiz's poems in contemporary yet playful language. Reviewers praise the poems for being inspirational, profound yet approachable, and providing insights into faith, love and God in a fun and enlightening way.

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    The Gift by Hafiz Beautiful Gift Compress 2

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    The document provides an overview and reviews of the book "The Gift" by Hafiz, a collection of poems by the 14th century Sufi poet Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky. It discusses how Hafiz's poetry expressed his passionate love and union with the divine. It describes Ladinsky's translation as capturing the ecstasy and passion of Hafiz's poems in contemporary yet playful language. Reviewers praise the poems for being inspirational, profound yet approachable, and providing insights into faith, love and God in a fun and enlightening way.

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    The Gift by Hafiz

    Beautiful Gift

    Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love


    poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union
    with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the
    impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafizs ecstasy. Never forced or
    awkward, Ladinskys Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your ches t,
    naming God in a hundred metaphors. I once asked a bird,

    How is it that you fly in this gravity

    Of darkness?

    She responded,

    Love lifts

    Me. Like Fitzgeralds version of Khayyams Rubaiyat, the language of


    The Gift strikes a contemporary chord, resonating in the readers mind and
    then in the heart. Ladinskys language is plain, fresh, playful--dancing with
    an expert cadence that invites and sur prises. If it is true, as Hafiz says,
    that a poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, reading Ladinskys
    Hafiz is like gulping down the sun. --Brian Bruya

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    This book is changing my life. Not only is Hafizs writing innovatively poetic,
    but some is laugh-out-loud funny and most is shockingly relevant. And,
    always, inspirational for anyone seeking even a slightly better
    understanding of faith, love and God. (Literally every poem addresses one
    of these three topics.)

    A reader gets a sense of Hafiz as a completely down-to-earth, fun guy you


    would want to hang out with, and, by reading this book, you feel like you
    are. A self-described simple man, Hafiz had achieved enlightenment and
    then humbly took on the duty of sharing his understanding with the world.
    The poems are self-referential, witty and edifying, and every time I read a
    few I feel better, no matter what my mood. I also feel a tiny bit closer to
    comprehending God, and how to be a better human being.
    The book starts with a brief and informative discussion of its translation,
    which is very modern, and a little about Hafiz himself. The book is
    thereafter purely a collection of Hafizs poems, most of which are very
    short. Only a few are longer than one page, and thats with wide line
    spacing.

    The poems are eminently approachable and yet excessively profound. And
    very sensitive to all faiths and genders. He speaks only of God without
    advocating any organized religions. In fact, he a lmost advises against
    them. In one poem he writes:

    The great religions are like ocean liners


    and the poets are the lifeboats
    and all the passengers are throwing themselves
    off the sides.

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