Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation.

Yusufi Gombashde-Bazayad by Hafez.

Introduction with Dr. Sahba Shoyani. Thank you for Salaam Saffujan. thank you for joining me for another poem together.

Palam Leila, John.

My absolute pleasure.

Thank you for having me.

Yes, wonderful.

And today we are going to be studying a poem by Hoffez, which is actually Qazal number 255.

And so this is the entire poem.

It's only 10 lines.

So we're going to study the whole thing.

So before we begin, I want to ask you kind of the background of this poem and why we chose it.

Let's start there.

Okay. We chose this poem because,

well, it is one of Hoffa's most renowned poems, and the message behind it is just absolutely beautiful, and the imagery that he uses is all imagery rooted, or much is image rerouted in the traditions of the Old Testament

and then adopted in the or on. So it's a very sort of unifying and beautiful poem with lots of

unifying and beautiful imagery in it. So that's why I thought it would be appropriate.

And I think the message that it really bears is something that I think everyone can benefit

from and really enjoy.

So it's a good one to memorize, even if you have a few lines of it memorized, something

to have as a mantra almost that you can recite to yourself sometimes. Interesting. So then

I have, I'm not familiar with this poem, so I've only just glanced over it. I'll be learning

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