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Essay / this - 748
Transliteration: Atash an nist ke az sholeye ou khandad shame' / Atash anast ke dar kharmane parvaneh zadandG. B.: That is not the flame of the true fire of Love / Which makes the shadows of the torches dance in circles, / But where the radiance attracts the desire of the butterfly / And sends it strong to the scorched wings and drooping./ The heart of him whose secluded dwellings will break, / Remembering a black mole and a red cheek, / And his life flows back, undermined at its secret sources. HWC: It is not the fire that makes the flame of the candle laugh: / The fire is that, in which the moth harvests that they have thrown.AAK: What makes the candle laugh is not a flame. / The fire that burned the butterfly is my goal. In this verse, the poet refers to one of the oldest and most beautiful allegories in Persian literature which is the story of the candle and the butterfly. In this love story, the butterfly, as the candle's lover, floats around the candle until its wings burn in its flames and it dies. The candle itself is the symbol of the beloved who emits love or, better said, the fire of love, and at the same time, shows a certain pride leading to her death. Here, fire can be seen in two senses: fire in its common sense as a rapid and persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flames, and in its mystical sense which refers to the fire of Love, the fire that burns. in the heart of the lover and makes tumult, the fire of understanding the secrets of the invisible world and of the Beloved, that is to say God. Here, the butterfly's harvest is used as a metaphor for the butterfly's entire body, existence, and entity as a true lover. Of course, Hafiz himself, as a true mystic and lover, burns in a fire such as the one mentioned in the middle of paper......ey which is the valley of wonder (Heyrat (Perplexity)), the seeker is amazed at the works of God and his beauty. The last valley, The Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness (Faqr and Fana (Altruism and Forgetfulness in God)), the furthest state that the mystic can reach, is the state of annihilation of the self in God ; this is the valley where Hafez himself arrived. In this verse, Hafiz affirms that fire is not the flame that makes a candle burn and ignite but that which burns the heart of the butterfly and finally its body, the entity of the lover. In fact, it is in this fire, or this burning love, that the butterfly or the true lover who has reached the last stage of the journey where his whole life and existence is summed up in him and united with his Beloved dies and scarifies himself for his love without a doubt. complaint and dissatisfaction.