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’, ‘gratificati...