The Divine Refreshing Wine (A comparative study of Ibn Farid's Divine Khamryyah and Hafid of Shiraz)

Ibn Farid and Hafid have many common issues. The concept, however, of wine in the literature of these two mystics is an under seal secret interpreted differently by the two mystics. Ibn Farid’s Khamryyah is an independent eulogy on this regard, and Hafid’s Divan (a collection of poems) is replete with wine and drunkenness. The similarity of cultural and social circumstances of Hafid and Ibn Farid, Sufism thriving at that time, and the use of symbolic language made their poetic languages to come together in particular concerning wine as the symbol of divine love. In what follows, the author has dealt with the fact that Hafid’s Khamryyah has been touched by Ibn Farid’s. Some differences, however, can easily be seen in the poems of the two dealt with comparatively somehow.