[1]  Even as in the rose - season the time of manifestations of glories of mysteries of repentance of wine love I became ashamed ,
So of un - upright conduct abandoning wine - drinking let none be ashamed .

[2]   My counsel the circulation of the cup is all the snare of the Path and ,of the argument ,
On account of the lovely one ,or of the Saki ,in no way am I ashamed .

[3]   It may be that ,through His compassionate nature ,the true Beloved asketh not my sin
For ,of question I am vexed and of answer ,ashamed .

[4]   Of the blood ,that ,last night ,went flowing from the pavilion of the eye ,
In the sight of the night - prowlers of sleep that come upon the path of the eye we were ashamed .

[5]   Lawful it is ,if the intoxicated narcissus cast down its head
For ,of that Beloved's eye full of wrath ,it became ashamed .

[6]   Than the resplendent sun ,more beauteous of face ,thou art .Thanks to God
That ,in the sun's face ,of thee O murshid I am not ashamed .

[7]   The veil of the Zulmat darkness the gleaming water of life of Khizr established for the reason that it became ,
Of the pure nature of Hafiz and of this his poetry lustrous like water ,ashamed .

[8]   Beneath the lip ,poison - laughter ,why expresseth the cup ,
If ,of Thy ruby lip ,the ruddy wine became not ashamed

[9]   Its face in the veil of the shell ,it the pure pearl concealed on that account ,
That ,of the pearls of my lustrous verse ,the pearl of pure water became ashamed .

[1]  Ich habe nie vor deiner ThürNoch meine Wangen abgewendet,Durch Gottes Gnade hab' ich michDerselben nicht zu schämen.

[2]  Ich fieng an in der RosenzeitDer Reu' des Trinkens mich zu schämen,Und doch soll Niemand deß, was erNicht recht gethan sich schämen.

[3]  Es ist die EingezogenheitAuf meinem Wege nur ein Fallstrick,Denn ich will mich der Schönen nichtUnd nicht der Schenken schämen.

[4]  Die Freundinn wird ob ihrer HuldMit Fragen mich vielleicht verschonen,Mich kränkt die Frage und ich mußDer Antwort mich nur schämen.

[5]  Des Blutes halb, das gestern nachtsGeflossen ist von meinen Augen,War vor den Nachtgesichtern ichIm Falle mich zu schämen.

[6]  it allem Recht hängt die NarzißDen Kopf auf eine Seite nieder,Sie muß sich vor des Liebchens Aug'Sobald es zürnet, schämen.

[7]  Es überscheint der Sonnenglanz,Der Glanz von deinem Angesicht,Gott sey gelobt! ich habe michVor dir doch nicht zu schämen. Warum, lacht wohl das Glas voll WeinSo giftig zwischen deinen Lippen?Es muß vor dem Rubin des MundsDer Wein gewiß sich schämen. Die Perle hat ihr AngesichtVersteckt im Schleier einer Muschel;Denn vor den Perlen des GesangsMuß sie sich billig schämen. D

[1]  Although old ,shattered of heart ,powerless ,I have become ,
Whenever I recollected Thy face ,made ,young I became .

[2]   Thanks to God that whatever ,from God ,I sought ,
To the limit of my spirit ,prosperous I became .

[3]   O young rose - bush the fruit of fortune enjoy for ,
Beneath Thy shade ,the bulbul of the world's garden I became .

[4]   At first in eternity without beginning of the word and the cry of the world no news was mine
In the school of grief for thee O murshid a subtlety - knower like this I became .

[5]   To the tavern the stage of divine knowledge me ,fate consigneth so that ,thence ,profit and advantage I may reap
As much as like this a sage I go and like that a zahid I became .

[6]   To my heart ,the door of reality became opened that day
When ,of the dwellers of Thy court ,the Pir of the Magians ,I became .

[7]   In eternal fortune's highway to fortune's throne ,
With the cup of wine ,to the desire of the heart of friends I went .

[8]   From that time when the calamity wound of Thy eye reached me ,
From the terrible calamity of the end of Time the last age of this world safe I became .

[9]   Not old in years and months ,am I the faithless friend ,it was ,
Who ,swiftly ,like swift life ,passeth by me from grief of that ,old ,I became .

[10]   Last night ,me ,glad tidings ,he the Pir of the Magians ,the perfect murshid gave ,saying Hafiz
Come back ; for the pardon of thy sins ,surety I became .

[1]  Zum Greise ward ich nichtDurch Monde und durch Jahre,Die Falsche gieng vorbei,Da bin ich alt geworden.

[2]  Ich bin zwar alt und krankUnd kräftelos geworden,Allein ich dachte dein,Und bin dann jung geworden.

[3]  Es sey gelobt der Herr!Und was ich bat den Herren,Ist mir nach meinem WunschDurch mein Bemüh'n geworden.

[4]  O junger Dornenstrauch!Genieße deines Glückes,In deinem Schatten binIch zum Bülbül geworden.

[5]  Ich wußte lange NichtsVom Ton und Laut der Welten,Durch deinen Gram bin ichBekannt damit geworden.

[7]  Das ew'ge Loos hat michZum Schenkendienst bestimmet,Was ich auch anders that,Ich bin nun so geworden.

[8]  Ich bin am Weg des GlücksAuf einem SchicksalsthroneMit einem Glas voll WeinZu Wunsch dem Freund geworden.

[10]  Mit jener Stunde, daDein böses Aug' mir zukam,Bin ich nicht mehr besorgtUm's Künftige geworden.

[1]  Ruby wine love for the true Beloved drink ; and the face of those moon of forehead Arifs of God behold
Contrary to the religious order of those Abids ,and Zahids ,outward worship .pers the beauty of these the Arifs of God behold .

[2]   Beneath the gilded garment ,nooses of prayer they the Arifs and the recognisers of God have
Notwithstanding their poverty the long - handedness loftiness of spirit of these short of sleeve the Arifs poor of resource behold .

[3]   For the harvest of both worlds ,their head ,they lower not
The brain and pride of beggars ,corn - gleaners ,behold .

[4]   The frown from the eye - brow full of frown ,the Friend looseneth not
The need of people of heart ,and the grace of the dainty beloved ones ,behold

[5]   From none ,the tale of the covenant of love ,I hear :
The non - fidelity of the society of friends and of fellow - sitters behold .

[6]   The means of release from imperious lust is to become captive to love
The fore - seeing mind of the fore - seers behold .

[7]   Love's polish ,the dust of Hafiz's heart taketh .
The purity of the pure mirror of those pure of faith behold .

[1]  Sieh röthlichen Wein, Sieh Mondengesichter, Sieh jenen zum Trotz Die Schönheit von diesen.

[2]  Sie tragen ein Band, Versteckt in der Kutte, Die Aermel sind kurz, Doch lang sind die Hände.

[3]  Sie beugen den Kopf Um Himmel und Erd' nicht, Ey siehe den Stolz Der kleinlichten Bettler. Es öffnet der Freund Die trotzigen Brau'n nicht O sieh wie darum Ihn Liebende bitten.

[5]  Noch hörte ich Nichts Vom Bunde der Liebe, O schaue die Treu' Der Freunde und Trauten.

[6]  Durch Liebe geknüpft Erhalt ich die Freiheit, So sorget der Sinn Vorsichtiger Liebe.

[7]  Es reinigt den Staub Hafisen die Liebe, O schaue, wie rein Der Spiegel des Sinns ist.

[1]  If ,in the street of that moon the true Beloved the sword of calamity rain ,
Beneath it the neck ,we have placed .The order is of God .

[2]   The regulation of piety ,we also know
But ,with our road - lost fortune ,remedy is what

[3]   The shaikh and the admonisher ,we seldom recognise
Either give the cup of wine or make the tale short .

[4]   I profligate and lover then repentance
seek pardon from God from God ,I seek pardon

[5]   Upon us ,not a reflection the glory of manifestations from the sun of Thy face fell :
O mirror of face Alas Thy hard heart ,alas

[6]   Bitter ,is patience fleeting is life
This being doomed to live how long shall I experience

[7]   Hafiz why complaineth thou ,if union thou desirest
In season and out of season ,it is necessary forthee to drink the blood of grief

[1]  Und regnet es Schwerter im Gau des Monds, So halte ich immer den Nacken hin.

[2]  Wir wissen nicht minder, was Sitte ist, Doch was ist mit bösem Gestirn zu thun!

[3]  Die Alten und Pred'ger versteh'n wir nicht, Den Becher und kurze Geschichten wohl.

[4]  Verliebt und betrunken nun Reue thun, Der Himmel bewahre, bewahre mich!

[5]  Von deinem Gesichte her schien kein Glanz, Ach Spiegelgesicht du bist zart und hell!

[6]  Das Dulden ist bitter, das Leben kurz, O fänd ich ein Mittel, zu ihr zu geh'n!

[7]  Was weinst du, Hafis, wenn du Liebe suchst? Muß es dir gefallen zu trinken Blut.

[1]  God ,I praise for the justice of the great Sultan
Ahmad bin Shaikh Uvais bin Hasan Ilkhani .

[2]   Khan bin Khan ,Shahinshah of Shahin - shah - descent
That one ,whom ,if thou call the soul of the world 'tis well .

[3]   Confidence in thy fortune bringeth he who hath seen and he who hath not seen
Excellent O thou that art worthy of such grace of God .

[4]   If ,without thee ,the moon ascend ,it in two halves they dash
The fortune of Ahmad Muhammad and the miracle of a Holy one God

[5]   Heart from king and beggar ,the splendour of thy fortune ravisheth
Far be the evil - eye ,for both soul thou art ,and also the beloved thou art .

[6]   Turk - like ,the forelock arrange .For ,in thy fortune ,is
The liberality of a Khakan and the energy of a Chingiz Khan .

[7]   Though apparently far ,we are ,to thy recollection the goblet ,we drink
For ,in the spiritual journey ,distance of stage is none .

[8]   Not a rose - bud of ease blossomed from my Persian clay
Excellent the Tigris of Baghdad and the fragrant wine .

[9]   The lover's head that was not the dust of the Beloved's door ,
From the labour of head - revolvingness ,when is freedom his

[10]   O morning breeze the dust of the Beloved's path ,bring
That ,luminous with it ,the eye of his heart ,Hafiz may make .

[11]   Time consider plunder to that degree that thou canst
O soul the out - come of life is only this moment if thou knowesfr .

[12]   The desire - giving of the sphere hath life in barter ,
Strive that ,from fortune ,the justice of ease thou mayst take .

[13]   The counsel of lovers ,hear and out from the door of joy come
For all this is not worth the occupation of a transitory world .

[14]   Before the zahid ,boast not of profligacy .For one cannot utter
To the physician ,not the confidant ,the state of a hidden pain .

[15]   Gardener when hence I pass ,be it unlawful to thee ,
If ,in my place ,a cypress other than the beloved thou plant

[16]   The jar - shatterer knoweth not this value that to the sufi ,
Is a household chattel like a pomegranate ruby .

[17]   Thou goest and ,the people's blood ,thy eye - lashes shed
O soul fiercely impetuously thou goest fear is ,behind ,thou wilt remaim .

[18]   O sweet mouth with the prayer of the night - risers ,strive not
In the shelter of the one ineffable name of God is the seal having the quality of a Sulaiman .

[19]   Aside from the glance of Thy eye ,my heart ,I kept .But ,
Thy eyebrow ,bow - possessor ,taketh the heart by its forehead .

[20]   O brothers compassion .Went my precious Yusuf ,
For grief for whom ,wonderful in wretchedness I beheld thestate of the old man Y'akub of Kin'an .

[21]   The wine's delight will slay the penitent zahid
O sage do not a deed ,that bringeth penitence .

[22]   One day ,by my door ,enter ,so that ,with joy ,the hand I may clap ;
Saying : Verily ,joined to me is luminosity as a guest .

[23]   With kindness ,tranquillise Hafiz's heart ,
O Thou ,whose beauteous tress - coil is the assembly - place perfection of dispersion

[24]   O idol ,stony of heart if of me careless thou be ,
My own state ,I will utter before Asaf the second .

[25]   O true Beloved Thy well - wisher ,I am ,and this I know that Thou knowest
For ,both the un - seen ,Thou seest ; and also the un - written by fate Thou readest .

[26]   In the adoration of Adam ,the angel made resolve of thy ground - kiss ,
For ,in Thy beauty ,something he found more than the way ,. human .

[27]   Thy tress's curl is now ,in God's name ,the collectedness of hearts
Be safety thine ,from that breeze that exciteth dispersion

[28]   From fortune ,I have the hope that his girdle I may loose
O sky for God's sake ,for me loose the knot frown from the forehead .

[29]   O true Beloved dishevel Thy tress and ,to sport and to dancing ,bring the Sufi people of the world
That ,from every patch of his ragged garment ,thousands of idols of hypocrisy Thou mayst scatter .

[30]   The lamp - kindler of our eye is the breeze of the tress of lovely ones
Lord to this gathering smoo .th state of the tress be not grief for the breeze of dispersion

[31]   Of the mystery of the lover and of the Beloved ,what gaineth the reproacher
The non - seeing eye especially seeth not a secret mystery .

[32]   To be vexed with fellow way - farers ,is not the action of a work - knower
The difficulty of the stage ,endure in memory of a time of ease .

[33]   Alas that pleasure of night - sitting up that passed swiftly like the morning breeze
O heart the value of union ,thou knowest ,only when behind in separation thou remainest .

[34]   The solving of the work of desirous ones is in that heart - binding eye - brow
For God's sake ,a moment with towards us unloose the knot frown from thy forehead .

[35]   Hafiz thee ,the fancy of the yoke of His tress fascinates
See ,so that the ring of impossible fortune ,thou shake not .

[36]   People spake ,saying In beauty a second Yusuf thou art
When ,well ,I looked ,verily better than that I had heard thou art .

[37]   Sweeter than that which ,with sweet smile ,they say thou art ,
Khusrau of the lovely ones for ,the Shirin of the age ,thou art .

[38]   To the folded rose - bud ,thy mouth ,one cannot compare
Never is the rose - bud with this narrow - mouthness .

[39]   If ,on account of thy stature and gait ,the moving cypress remained behind in its place ,
Move thou .For thou hast surpassed the moving cypress in movingness .

[40]   A hundred times Thou saidest : From this mouth ,thy desire I give
Like the noble ten - tongued lily ,why art Thou all a tongue

[41]   Thou saidest Thy desire ,I will give thy life ,I wilt take
I fear my desire ,Thou givest not and my life Thou wilt take .

[42]   Through the shield of my life ,Thy sick ,languishing eye causeth to pass the poplar arrow
The eye sick ,who hath seen with so strong a bow

[43]   O true Beloved like the worthless tear from the eye of man ,him Thou easiest ,
Him ,whom a moment ,away from Thy sight ,Thou drivest .

[44]   Away from before Thyself ,Thy own grief - stricken Hafiz ,drive not
For ,through love for Thy face ,he gave sacrificed heart ,faith ,and youth .

[45]   In the path of love to Thee ,like the pen ,a foot out of his head Hafiz made ,
It ,one moment ,like a letter out of kindness ,why readest Thou not

[46]   Breeze of the morning of happiness for that trace that thou knowest ,
To a certain one's street ,pass at that time that thou knowest .

[47]   The footman of the chamber of mystery ,thou art and on the head of the Path ,is my eye
By manliness ,hot by order ,urge in that way ,that thou knowest .

[48]   Say : From my hand passed my feeble soul .For God's sake ,
From Thy ruby lip soul - refreshing ,give that that Thou knowest .

[49]   O true Beloved these few words I wrote ,in such a way that the stranger hath not known
Them by way of kindness ,do Thou also read in such a way that Thou knowest .

[50]   On Thy girdle ,gold - woven ,hope how may I not establish
O idol in that waist ,is a subtlety that Thou knowest .

[51]   With us ,the image of Thy slaying sword is the tale of the thirsty one and of water whereto he desireth to reach
Thy own captive ,Thou seizest .Slay in such a way that Thou knowest .

[52]   Hafiz in this matter ,one are Turki and Tazi Arabian
Love's tale ,relate in every tongue language that thou knowest .

[53]   Two friends holy travellers good of understanding ,and of old wine a quantity ,two mans ,'
A little leisure ,and a book ,and a sward - corner .

[54]   For this ,and the next ,world I give not this state
Though ,of carpers momently ,fall upon me

[55]   Every one who ,for the world's treasure ,gave the treasure of contentment ,
Sold ,the precious Yusuf of Egypt for a very paltry sum .

[56]   Come ; for not less becometh the amplitude of this workshop the world
By the austerity of one like thee or ,by the profligacy of one like me .

[57]   On the day of events of death with cheering wine ,'tis necessary to tell one's grief
For ,on none ,is reliance at a time like this .

[58]   Happy of heart ,in a corner sit and behold
That none keepeth in mind so strange a calamity .

[59]   In the hand of the mean the watcher I keep seeing my idol the beloved
Thus ,the vengeful sky recognised the right of service of one like me .

[60]   In the mirror of the Picture - establisher God the hidden form ,behold
If ,for thee out of the country of contentment ,desire maketh a native land .

[61]   O heart strive thou for patience .For God delivereth not
A seal - ring so precious as patience to the hand of an evil one .

[62]   From the fierce wind of vicissitude ,one cannot see ,
That ,in this sward ,hath been even a red rose ,or a wild white rose .

[63]   From this simum blast of lust that ,by the garden - borders ,passed ,
Wonder that from the heart of love's lust the colour of a rose remaineth ,or the perfume of a jessamine .

[64]   I have heard that ,for dogs ,thou appointest a collar
On Hafiz's neck ,why placest thou not a rope

[65]   Hafiz in this calamity ,ruined became time's temper
Where is the thought of a physician or the judgment of a Barhaman

[66]   Drink the cup of the wine of unity of a man
So that ,by it grief's root ,up from the heart ,thou mayst pluck .

[67]   Expanded ,keep the heart ,like the cup of wine
Head closed how long like a large jar

[68]   When ,from the jar of selflessness ,a ritl thou drinkest ,
Less of thyself voluntarily thou boastest of self .

[69]   Like the humble and worthless stone at thy foot be ,not like the water of the cloud glorying in sublimity
All colour of deceit ,thou mixest and wet of skirt lust - stained thou art .