life of Hafiz
Khwaja Shamsu-d-Din Muhammad-i-Hatiz was born in the beginning of the fourteenth century at Shiraz.
He was of good family, of excellent education, and skilled in jurisprudence.
Immersed in poetic indolence, public life and honours had no charm for him. In youth, he engaged in friendship and indulged in conviviality ; but, afterwards, he devoted himself wholly to religion, observing austerity and embracing poverty.
Proud of his genius, he never accepted invitations to Courts.
Those who saw him little regarded him as a latitudinarian [not insisting on strict conformity to a particular doctrine or standard ; tolerant ; specifically tolerant of variations in religious opinion or doctrine]; those who saw him much, as an enthusiast. He was an enemy to conventionalism ; and acted on those broad and universal principles which, in every age and country, are the same.
He was a sufi and cared naught for the outward observances of the Kuran; he regarded the Masjid as he regarded the Church; and believed in the Eternal, whom the world reveres, as the Only Absolute Existence.
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