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There is no definitive version of his collected works ( or Dīvān ); editions vary from 573 to 994 poems.

In Iran, and Afghanistan, his collected works have come to be used as an aid to popular divination.

Only since the 1940s has a sustained scholarly attempt-by Mas ' ud Farzad, Qasim Ghani and others in Iran-been made to authenticate his work, and remove errors introduced by later copyists and censors.

However, the reliability of such work has been questioned, and in the words of Hāfez scholar Iraj Bashiri .... " there remains little hope from there ( i. e.: Iran ) for an authenticated diwan ".