Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Hafez akaberekerwa muShiraz, Iran. Vabereki vake vaibva kuKazerun, Fars Province. Pasinei nokuchinja kukuru kwaakaita mararamiro netsika dzevaPezhiya uye mukurumbira wake uye simba raaiva naro, hapana zvakawanda zvinozivikanwa nezveupenyu hwake. Nhoroondo dzeupenyu hwake hwepakutanga dzinovimba nengano dzetsika. Tazkiras dzokutanga (zvinyorwa zvoupenyu) dzinotaura nezvaHafiz dzinowanzoonekwa sedzisina kuvimbika. Achiri muduku, akadzidza Korani nomusoro uye akapiwa zita rokuti Hafez, iro akazoshandisa sezita rake rokunyora. Mashoko okutanga eDivān yake, umo upenyu hwake hwepakuvamba hunokurukurwa, akanyorwa nomunhu asingazivikanwi womunguva yake ane zita ringadaro raiva Moḥammad Golandām. Zvinyorwa zviviri zvemazuva ano zvinoremekedzwa zvikuru zveHafez's Divān zvakaunganidzwa naMoḥammad Ghazvini naQāsem <unk>ani (495 ghazals) uye naParviz Natel-Khanlari (486 ghazals). Nyanzvi dzemazuva ano dzinowanzobvumirana kuti Hafez akaberekwa muna 1315 kana 1317. Maererano nenhoroondo yaJami, Hafez akafa muna 1390. Hafez akatsigirwa nevatsigiri vehurumende dzakasiyana-siyana: Shah Abu Ishaq, uyo akauya pachigaro apo Hafez akanga achiri kuyaruka; Timur pakupera kwehupenyu hwake; uye kunyange mutongi akaoma Shah Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad (Mubariz Muzaffar). Kunyange zvazvo basa rake rakabudirira zvikuru pasi pemakore makumi maviri nemanomwe ekutonga kwaJalal ud-Din Shah Shuja (Shah Shuja), zvinonzi Hāfez akambotadza kufarirwa naShah Shuja nekuseka vadetembi vakaderera (Shah Shuja akanyora nhetembo iye pachake uye anogona kunge akatora zvirevo pachake), achimanikidza Hāfez kutiza kubva kuShiraz kuenda kuIsfahan neYazd, asi hapana humbowo hwenhoroondo huripo. Anonzi akanga ari mudare raTimur, sezvo Hafez akanyora ghazal ine ndima inoti kana uyu muTurkey akagamuchira rukudzo rwake:  Mubvunzo: Shiraz iri munyika ipi?
Iran.