Even the sun, which lights the whole world, cannot shine into a heart that has shut its own window
Hafiz locates the obstacle to illumination not in God's withholding but in the heart's own closed shutters.
In this ghazal from his Diwan, Hafiz makes a deceptively simple observation: sunlight, which by nature reaches everywhere and excludes no one, still cannot enter a room whose window the occupant has shut. The image places moral and spiritual responsibility squarely on the individual - divine grace and illumination are presented as constant and freely available, so any darkness experienced is a function of self-imposed closure, not divine absence. This inverts a common devotional complaint, why has God abandoned me, by suggesting the more honest question is what the heart itself has shut against. The line exemplifies Hafiz's characteristic technique of drawing a large theological claim from a small, everyday physical image rather than abstract argument.
Even the sun, which lights the whole world, cannot shine into a heart that has shut its own window.
Diwan