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This book is on thoughts and world outlook of Khwaja Shams ed-Din Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi. We have no reliable information about the early life of this
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great poet. According to some creditable sources, including the introductory note of his fellow student Muhammad Gulandam, who edited Divan of Hafiz after the death of this poet, he has been educated quite hard and well and successfully terminated his studies in the field of Islamic Jurisprudence, or Fiqh. It is known also that he had begun his poetic life in these years, as a secondary field of study. Muhammad Gulandam has written that their Ostads / Professors, notably Qavam al-Din Abdullah, were very vigilant to hear the poems of the young Hafiz. Hafiz, after graduating from the theological college, by information given which is given us by his Odes /Ghazalyat; it seems that he has been for a very short span of time a scholar and faqih. Moreover, it is said that he had written an interpretation on the Holy Qur'an, though there has been no trace of this book at all.
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