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In his Diwan inter• spersed among Persian poems are found many ornamental Arabic hernistiches and verses which, as the great Indian scholar Shibli has in his famous book Shf'rul A'jarn aptly remarked, are like precious stones set in a ring.
in this sense; he was also conversant with the different readings of the sacred Book to which he alludes in the following verse :- (View the image of this page)" Love may attend to your complaint if, like Hafiz.
In the course of his introduction the editor says, inter alia :- (View the image of this page)Professor Browne has translated L:e above passage as follows :- " However, diligent study of the Qur' an, constant attendance to the King's business, the anncration of the Kashsha.
2 (View the image of this page)From this it is evident that Hafiz, besides studying the Qur'an, wrote annotations on the well-known commezrary of al-Zamakhshari, which served at that time as text-book in the Arabic Madrasahs and is still prescribed in India and Muslim countries.
To his annotations on the Kashshaf he alludes in the following verse :- (View the image of this page) ''Noone of the Hafizes in the world has combined as Ihave the face• tious sayings of the philosophers with the scripture of the Qur'an.
4 I give here below the Arabic verses and poems of l:Iafi~ as gathered from his Persian Diwan.
The poet Anwari has also inserted this verse in his following couplet :- (View the image of this page) 6.