The Concept of Holy Time in Gnostic Beliefs of Hafez and its Manifestation in his Ghazis

In the ghazis of Hafez, the moments of time are neither alike nor continuous.He experiences two types of time; holy and non-holy. One is the instable andtransient passage of days i.e. regular time, and the other is a sequence ofvisionary and inspirational understanding of eternity in special momentswherein he moves away from his fanciful world to attain them.Entering into his symbolic time, Hafez's should gets interwoven with theunknown truths of the existence and faces inspirational and visionarymoments. In his divan, this symbolical concept of time is referred to withterms such as; dream, yesterday, last night, dawn, the early morning, eternitywithout beginning, aurora, break of day, etc. It's in these moments when he,in proportion to the situation, states one of his experiences wherein he hasbeen illuminated to visions and manifestations. This article studies thesymbolic concept of time in Hafez's ghazis based on library research,wherein all data are classified and analyzed before being presented in adescriptive manner and analyzing the content.