Drunken Transport Quotes

“Since the reflection of the Beloved's beauteous countenance is everywhere cast down and reflected in the "goblets of phenomena" throughout the Tavern of the Universe, the lover is always intoxicated and bereft of self in a drunken transport. Loving that absolute intellectual Beauty, he attains the spiritual station of "true idolatry" (but- parastī-yi haqīqī), which is the inner meaning of Hafiz's verse:

   The Friend's reflection cast upon the goblet's surface
   —Her countenance there—in contemplation I've witnessed.
   Of such timeless drunken pleasure, you are, alas, oblivious.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz