Vol. 10, Sufi Poetry 7. Shams-ud-Din Mohammed Hafiz
The same ideal which one finds in all religions, and which was one of the principal teachings of Jesus Christ, namely that God is love, was also the chief ideal of Hafiz, and he has expressed it constantly in his Divan. If there is anything divine in man it is love. If God is to be found anywhere it is in man's heart which is love. And if the love element is awakened in the heart then God is, so to speak, made alive and is born in man's self.
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