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8 min read 12 Days of Hafiz

The 12 Days of Hafiz (dedicated site) 🔖

A dedicated site for Premium Subscribers that pulls together all the Hafiz materials ✍🏻🎧📙

The 12 Days of Hafiz (dedicated site) 🔖
Dome interior of the Sheikh Lotf-Allah mosque, Isfahan, Iran | Photo by Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol)

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More than 600 years ago, the Shiraz-born Persian poet Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ, (‘Hafiz’) was sharing poetry that will seem remarkably familiar to anyone acquainted with the Innate Health/3 Principles/Inside-Out understanding.

Although penned originally in Farsi and mostly likely delivered in song, there exist ‘renderings’ of these poems, across several books written by the 20th Century American poet Daniel Ladinsky.

Interpreted with humour and the aim of being “faithful to the living spirit of Hafiz” there is much to learn from these metaphors of the interplay between the divine and our humanity.

Interpreted with humour and the aim of being “faithful to the living spirit of Hafiz” there is much to learn from these metaphors of the interplay between the divine and our humanity.

All of my sources. Please buy the books!
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I obtained permission to reproduce the poems from the author, Daniel Ladinsky, and he holds the copyright for all of them. You can find his books on his website: https://www.danielladinsky.com/books and they're published by Penguin, so widely available for purchase.

In The 12 Days of Hafiz each Christmas I explore some favourites, to get a deeper appreciation for, and have a felt experience of what Hafiz calls ‘The Friend.’

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This page is my Gift to all the Hafiz-lovers out there. It brings together all the poems I've shared with the Daily Reminders mailing list over the years, along with my 3 Principles-related reflections for each one, and—new for 2025—retrospective audio recordings of all of them, and an Audiobook of all the poems.

Each card below will take you to the original entry, where you'll find:

Enjoy – I hope these poems will keep you ‘happy and warm’ when the days and nights are cold.

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Giles

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