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What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

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Hafez
Lyricist
Poet
Writer
Shiraz city
Khāja Shamsu Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī
Ḥāfiz
Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi
Ḥāfeẓ
Moḥammed Shams od-Dīn Ḥafeẓ
Ḥāfiẓ
of Shiraz Šams-al-Din Moḥammad
Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī
Shams-ud-Din Mohammed
Moḥammed Šams al-Dīn Ḥafeẓ
Hafiz
Khafiz
Hafis
Haafiz
Häfiz
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