Now I get what you're saying. Thanks for clarifying your point - and as one of
Hafiz's followers I don't wish to dwell on this point any more than you do; his name
is too sacred to be associated with this modern and morbid situation. However, a
couplet from one of Hafiz's ghasels (in my on-the-spot and dorky translation) may be
relevant to the current situation, as the madness of revenge prepares to match the
horrors of terrorism:
Everyone born into the world has a role in destruction
But within the ruins you must say; Where is the sober?
or something to that effect.
peace
Ali
---- Original Message ----
From: Douglas Clark
Date: Thu 9/13/01 15:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: WTC
I dont really want to talk about but Hafiz represents a Persian
love of life in contrast to the fundamentalists reaction to US policy.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, ALI ALIZADEH wrote:
> At any rate, I still have no idea why you've dragged Hafiz into this horror. What
on
> earth does he have to do with fundementalism?
>
> Ali
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Douglas Clark
> Date: Thu 9/13/01 2:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: WTC
>
> I thought I had said Hafiz was an example of civilisation.
> But 'rational thinking' I said.
>
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