Wednesday, February 9, 2011

If It Is Not Too Dark by Hafiz


Hafiz was a religious person who came from Pakistan, his poem “If It Is Not Too Dark” shows us his love for god and live. He tells us that we should not be afraid to go out and explore things rather than just sitting and doing nothing. But we also should not go out if it is too dark because from the religious view darkness represents the evil.  We should be friendly not only to the people we know but also to” a safe- looking stranger “and say something kind.  This kind of interpretation we can find in religious books and people from Hafiz’s place learn his poems by heart because they believe in it. Hafiz wants us also to be friendly to the once we love and treat them as good as the first day we met them.  There are also lines where he says:  “ Let's stop reading about God -We will never understand Him” which is a bit contradictory to his believes but yet true because one can believe in god and still not understand him.  Hafiz has a unique way of writing, which is interesting and keeps a person’s interest to lead his poems.  I think that this poem reminds us of what is important in live and that we should always be welcoming to explore new things in live and to meet new people and make them into friends.  I like the last line s “That your heart can no longer live without real love!” which sound very beautiful and I think that we as humans are very sociable, we need to be under people, to love and being loved.

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