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1 Pre | capital, in the name of Abu Said, the last of the direct
2 Pre | death of Mahmud Shah, Abu Said appointed Sheikh Hussein
3 Pre | an army supplied by Abu Said, and induced Shiraz to submit
4 Pre | after these events, Abu Said died, and the power of the
5 Pre | considerably curtailed. On Abu Said's death, Abu Ishac, one
6 Pre | valour in the service of Abu Said, made himself master of
7 Pre | servant. "The world," he said, "is like unto the shadow
8 Pre | In one and the same," he said, "you write of wine, of
9 Pre | From Oweis himself Hafiz is said to have received kindness,
10 Pre | to Shah Yahya that he is said to have remarked, "It seems
11 Pre | full of foreboding which is said to have been written after
12 Pre | A very ancient cypress, said to be of Hafiz's own planting,
13 Pre | great men of his day, he is said to have died poor.~During
14 Pre | And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover
15 Pre | It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.']~
16 Pre | as mine eyes can see," he said, "I behold nothing but thy
17 Pre | Prophet.~It has been well said that all religious teachers
18 Pre | good as any other: "Sir," said he to Boswell, "we know
19 Pre | over predestination, he said to them: "Why do you not
20 Pre | glory of God, and when it is said that those in Hell are wretched,
21 Pre | thrown into the Tigris. It is said that a Sufi once asked God
22 Pre | Gabriel opened his lips and said, 'Oh Master, draw aside
23 Pre | are, they can hardly be said to form an adequate guide
24 Pre | the Divan of Hafiz can be said to embody these doctrines,
25 Pre | sympathies which are, when all is said and done, a poet's true
26 Pre | And for his wife: "Then said my heart, I will rest me
27 Pre | certain extent it may be said that the Sufiism of Hafiz
28 Pre | not the meaning of him who said, I am God." Sometimes we
29 I(*) | a reproach which he is said to have met with the reply,
30 II | and died." She laughed and said~"That I am born to fade
31 II(*) | into which the King is said to have cast his magic cup.
32 II(*) | enormous turquoise. It is said that he was the first to
33 III(*) | right road. After which he said :Behave not insolently towards
34 III(*) | it with his seal. Then he said to the lapwing: Fly with
35 III(*) | greater than hers, and she said: Lo, here is a king whose
36 IV | upon thy lips was dry,~I said: "Lips where the salt of
37 V(*) | summoned Hafiz before him and said: "Of all my empire, Bokhara
38 IX(*) | of the first few lines is said to be: As the wine glows
39 XI(*) | Garden of Irem, as has been said in the Note to Poem II.,
40 XI(*) | Paradise; indeed, it is said to be the central spring
41 XVIII(*)| himself immortal. It is said that he guided Alexander
42 XIX(*) | trace remains, and it is said that the country surrounding
43 XXI | enemy heaped scorn on me and said~"Forth from the tavern gate!"
44 XXIII | loveliness did shine.~Then said my heart: Here will I take
45 XXIII(*)| This poem is said to have been written by
46 XXV(*) | charlatans. Many dreams also, he said, were capable of interpretation,
47 XXV(*) | their existence: "God," he said," has no bukhl (avarice);
48 XXV(*) | expedition. "Oh our lord!" said one of his officers, "our
49 XXVI(*) | Arnold know. Kaikobad is said to have reigned one hundred
50 XXX(*) | planks. In that box,"he said, pointing to a chest opposite
51 XXXI | tune thy lay!~Thyself hast said: "The Present steals away~
52 XXXIV(*)| following terms: "When thy Lord said unto the angels, I am going
53 XXXIV(*)| substitute on earth; they said, Wilt thou place there one
54 XXXIV(*)| them to the angels, and said, Declare unto me the names
55 XXXIV(*)| art knowing and wise. God said, Oh Adam, tell them their
56 XXXIV(*)| told them their names, God said, Did I not tell you that
57 XXXIV(*)| ye conceal? And when we said unto the angels, Worship
58 XXXIV(*)| adorned this story. It is said that the three archangels,
59 XXXVIII | praise shall Hafiz' name be said,~Not without tears, in those
60 XL(*) | the mother of shame." Then said Zohra: "Every night, by
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