Both coming from almost the same period of time with only a hundred years difference they were very similar in their perception of love and freedom. Every reader would feel skeptical about their approach to love through their poems, considering their religious beliefs but Rumi and Hafez approach love in such a way between the personal and divine. Their way of expressing and describing love never exceeds the limits of what’s considered proper so all their poems are filled with comparisons and metaphors. Rumi seems to be more open minded in expressing love, maybe because his love life with Shams, Hafez on the other side was more a religious person than a poet so his lines towards love came with more delicacy.
