National Day of Hafez (photo)

October 12th is the day to mark one of the greatest Iranian poets, Hafez Shirazi, who lived in the 8th century A.H. or 14th century A.D. He was originally from Shiraz, in south-central Iran. He had memorized the Qur'an in his teens beside the works of other great poets Saadi, Attar and Nizami.