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Khajeh Shamsuddin Mohammad Shirazi, sun of Bahauddin, is the most renowned of Iranian Gnostic poets who lived in the fourteenth century AD. During the Atabakan Reign in Fars Hafiz' father, Bahauddin left Isfahan for Shiraz and set up a trade, gathering a wealth in the process, but his life was short and his business was left unattended . His only heirs, who were his wife and young son, were soon to lose their fortune and at a tender age , the boy was obliged to earn his living throuth hard labour All the same, at every chance, he would run to the school near their house to quench his thirst for knowledge and to try and learn as much as he could Soon and in his early youth, he was able to recite the Holy Koran by heart, and for this reason he chose later the name of Hafiz for himself . This title is usually bestowed on those who can recite the entire Koran by heart without any mistake