Devil’s Mute Language in a Verse of Hafez

By carefully reading the well-known Hafiz’s verse that says: Man malak budam o ferdowse barin jayam bud/Adam avard dar in deyre xarababadam, this question arises for most readers/listeners regarding: who is the verse’s ‘I’ narrator who called himself the angel of heaven and Adam as the reason for his falling in the world? Glossarists and scholars have brought up seven different views about this, among which verse interpretation with the language of the Adam (mankind type) or human soul is more famous and more acceptable. But, with the precision in the semantic structure of the first hemistich in which the speaker called himself the ‘angel’, and the syntactic logic of the verse that the first hemistich’s narrator is first person singular and the subject of the second hemistich is third person singular which lead to the degradation of the ‘I/narrator’s verse’, another possibility is that the verse probably is from the Devil’s language observing the adventure of his prostration to Adam (pbuh) and expulsion from paradise and falling into the lower world. With this proposed interpretation, Hafiz’s verse also will be an evidence of the issue of praising Devil in Persian literature and the examples of this angle’s plaintive mute language about his stand-in and the first dignity and excommunication and past separation of himself.