the shadow of the quranic tree of yaqţin over hāfiẓs’ shakhe nabat

the holy quran is one of the main fountainheads of hāfiẓ idiolect and thought. hāfiẓs’ sweet poetry is, indeed, intertwined with the good tree of quran. the assumption in the present study is that 183rd sonnet of hafiẓ, beginning with ‘last night at dawn…’ implicitly yet purposefully echoes the story of jonah in the holy quran. when words such as ‘grief’, ‘deliverance’, ‘darkness’, ‘gratification’, ‘patience’, ‘candy’, etc. are juxtaposed with such mystical ideas as ‘the mirror of beauty attributes’, ‘swoon at the  radiance of his light’, ‘deliverance from the tragic bonds of time’, etc. they indicate that firstly, in composing this sonnet, hāfiẓ is inspired by the story of jonah, and secondly, readers will come to a deep understanding of the sonnet if they refer to the noble quranic verses. using a descriptive-analytical method, the present study suggests that there is an implicit yet purposeful association between the 183rd sonnet and the quranic story of jonah (a). moreover, the study reveals that the lines of this sonnet are organically interrelated, and they portray a specific theme in the form of a poem.