Preface Khajeh Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, the shining star of the rich Persian literature, was born in Shiraz in around 720/1320. He presented his great Gnostic and poetic services to the Persian literature and Iranian culture during the 77 years of his prolific life.
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Rights activist sentenced to three years in jail
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced women’s rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi to three years in prison.
Mohammad Maleki and Fereshteh Shirazi Receive Prison Sentences
Mohammad Maleki and Fereshteh Shirazi have been sentenced to one year and 3 years in prison respectively.
Cleric slams Assembly of Experts’ inaction over Ayatollah Khamenei conduct
GVF — In two highly critical letters to the current Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, senior dissident cleric and vocal member of the Assembly, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Mohammad Dastgheib, has once more highlighted the Iranian authorities’ illegal conduct following the 2009 presidential as well as the ongoing interference of security and military bodies […]
Women’s Rights Activist in Prison Without Family Contact
An informed source close to 38-year-old women’s rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since her arrest on 3 September 2011 in the city of Amol, she has had very little contact with her family.
“ What kind of government do you defend?” The letter of Ayatollah Shirazi to Assembly of Experts
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Mohammad Dastghaib Shirazi, a member of the Assembly Experts, wrote two letters to Ayatollah Mahdavikani, (The Head of the Assembly of Experts) strongly condemning the government for breaking all the laws in the past two years.
Gulistan Saadi by Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa’di Shirazi (1258)
The Manners of KingsChapter 1Story 1I heard a King (Padshah) giving orders to kill a prisoner. The helpless fellow began to insult the king on that occasion of despair, with the tongue he had, and to use foul expressions according to the saying:
Women’s Rights Activist Fereshteh Shirazi Held Incommunicado
Fereshteh Shirazi, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, has been denied face-to-face prison visits and telephone contact with her family only a week after her arrest.
Senior cleric calls for seminaries to supervise parties
Iranian seminaries should supervise political parties, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi said .
Hafiz Shirazi
“Open my grave when I am dead, and thou shalt see a cloud of smoke rising out from it; then shalt thou know that the fire still burns in my dead heart — yea, it has set my very winding-sheet alight.”