HATEF: LIFE & POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith HATEF (d. 1784). Born in Isfahan in the first half of the eighteenth century Hatef is mainly remembered for his beautiful and remarkable, much celebrated tarji-band in Persian and his beautiful ruba'is and ghazals. ..". a great Sufi, who wrote in both Arabic and Persian. He was especially celebrated as a writer of ghazals and was the author of a famous poem of recurring lines (tarji-band). He writes as a lover of God and uses the imagery of wine of the Divine Love which brings rapture and ecstasy to those who receive it." Margaret...