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Hafiz And Questions

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Speak of happiness and wine And seek not the riddle of the universe, For no one has, nor will Unveil this mystery through wisdom                                                            (Hafiz) Hafiz, also known as the   Lisan-ul-Ghaib , is considered the greatest poet of the Persian language. Once upon a time, Kashmir also produced great poets and scholars of Farsi , and it was our privileged language, but gradually the Persian colour of our culture has faded. The result is that our new generation is not familiar with the giants that constituted a presence on our literary horizon. In the old times, even illiterate people could quote from the Persian classics. Sa'adi was a part of the syllabus...