[1]  Last night the first day of Eternity without beginning from the masjid the place where the soul is separate from the body towards the wine tavern the stage of truth and love our Pir Muhammad came
O friends of the Path after this lapse of time ,and this departure what is our plan

[2]   How may we ,disciples ,turn to the Ka'ba the Masjid when
Our Pir Muhammad hath his face towards the house of the Vintner the stage of Truth and Love

[3]   In the Fire - worshipper's Tavern the stage of Truth and Love we also shall be lodging
For ,in the Covenant of eternity without beginning ,even so was our destiny .

[4]   In the bond of His the Beloved's tress ,how happy is the Heart If Wisdom know ,
In pursuit of our tress - chain ,the wise will become distraught .

[5]   By its grace ,Thy beautiful face explained to us a verse of the Kuran
For that reason ,in our explanation ,is naught save grace and beauty .

[6]   A single night ,against Thy stony heart ,ever effecteth aught
Our sigh ,fire - raining supplicating God and the burning of our heart in the night - time

[7]   Beyond the sphere passeth the arrow of our sigh .Hafiz silence .
Show compassion to thy soul avoid the arrow of ours .

[8]   At the door of the wine - house ,dweller I shall be like Hafiz ,
Since a tavern - haunter became that friend of the Path ,the Pir of ours .

[1]  Unser Scheich wallte gesternAus dem Bethaus in die Schenke.O ihr frommen Männer saget,Was ist uns forthin zu rathen?

[2]  Wie doch können wir die JüngerDas Gesicht zur Kaaba wenden,Wenn der alte Vater ScheichSelber in die Schenke gehet!

[3]  Ey so lasset mit dem WirtheUns gemeine Sache machen!Denn so wars von EwigkeitenIn das Schicksalsbuch geschrieben. Sieh ein Windhauch in die LockenHat die Welt für mich verfinstert!Dieses also ist der NutzenDen mir deine Locken bringen. Ruhe hatte sich mein HerzIn dem Netze aufgefangen,Sieh da rollten auf die Locken,Und entflohen war die Beute.

[4]  Wüßte der Verstand, wie seligHerzen in den Locken ruhen,O! es würden die Verständ'genUnsrer Bande wegen närrisch.

[5]  Einen Vers vom SchönheitskoranHat mir dein Gesicht enthüllet.Deßhalb athmen meine VerseHohe Schönheit, reine Anmuth.

[6]  Können meine FeuerseufzerUnd die Gluthen meines Busens,So die ganze Nacht durch brennenNicht dein steinern Herz bewegen!

[7]  Sieh Hafisens Seufzer-PfeileSind zum Himmel aufgeflogen,Haben Mitleid mit demselben,Fürchte dich vor meinen Pfeilen.

[1]  O beloved salt rights with thy lip ,hath my wounded heart
The salt right ,preserve for I depart ,and thee to God entrust .

[2]   O true Beloved that pure jewel Thou art that ,in the holy world ,
The mention of Thee for good is the outcome of the angel's praise .

[3]   O beloved if as to my sincerity doubt be thine ,trial make
Like the touch - stone ,none recogniseth the proof of pure gold .

[4]   O true Beloved Thou spakest saying Intoxicated ,I become and will give thee two kisses
Beyond limit ,passed the covenant but neither two kisses nor one kiss have we seen .

[5]   Thy small laughing pistachio mouth open ,sugar - scattering speech make
In doubt of Thy having a mouth ,cast not the people .

[6]   The sphere ,I will dash together and destroy unless to my desire it come
Not that one am I ,to endure contempt from the sky's sphere .

[7]   Since ,access to Hafiz thou allowest him not ,
O watcher Shaitan from him ,one or two paces farther go and his society ,abandon

[1]  Mein wundes Herz hat Recht auf SalzVon deinen Lippen,Bewahr' das Recht, ich gehe fort,Sey Gott befohlen.

[2]  Du bist ein reines Wesen mirAus höhern Welten,Mit deinem Namen fängt das LobDer Engel an im Himmel.

[3]  O prüfe meine Redlichkeit,Wenn du d'ran zweifelst,Das reine Gold wird nur bewährtAuf der Kapelle.

[4]  Du sprachst: ich will Betrunk'ner dirZwey Küsse geben,Die Zeit ist da; doch giebst du mir,Nicht zwey, noch einen.

[5]  Schließ' deines Mundes Kästchen auf,Und streue Zucker,Laß nicht das Volk im Zweifel obDu einen habest.

[6]  Des Himmels Rad zerschlag' ich, wenn'sNicht gut sich drehet,Ich bin von denen nicht, die sichDrüber härmen.

[7]  Wenn du nicht willst, daß zu HafisDas Liebchen komme!O Nebenbuhler so entferneDich ein Paar Schritte.

[1]  Beyond limit this that from my hand ,went religion and knowledge ,
Come ,say what joy from love for Thee ,I established

[2]   Although grief for Thee gave to the wind the harvest of my life ,
Falling in the dust of Thy precious foot ,I displayed fidelity for the covenant that I had made I broke not .

[3]   Contemptible like the atom though I am ,Love's wealth ,behold
How ,in desire of Thy face ,joined to love I am .

[4]   Bring wine for 'tis a life - time ,since ,through desire of safety ,I
Sate ,in the corner of safety for the sake of ease .

[5]   O counsel - utterer if of the crowd of men of sense ,thou be ,
To the dust ,cast not thy speech of counsel for counsel is useless intoxicated I am .

[6]   Before the Friend God my head forth from shame how may I bring ,
When ,from my hand ,a worthy service issueth not

[7]   Hafiz consumed ; and that Beloved ,heart - cherishing ,spake not ,
Saying When his heart ,I wounded ,a plaister ,I sent .

[1]  Außer daß so Glaub' als WissenMeiner Hand entfloh,Komm, und sag' ob ich durch LiebeAnderes gewann!

[2]  Zwar flog meines Lebens ScheuerAuf in Wind für dich,Doch beim Staub von deinen Füßen!Ich brach nicht den Bund.

[3]  Zwar bin ich ein Sonnenstäubchen,Unansehnlich klein,Fliege durch das Glück der Liebe,Wangensonnen zu.

[4]  Bringe Wein! jetzt sind die Tage,Lang' ist's, daß ich nichtIn des Seelenheiles Winkel,Voll von Liebe saß.

[5]  Du, der guten Rath ertheilest,Wenn du weise bist,Wirf das Wort nicht auf die Erde,Sieh! ich bin berauscht.

[6]  Kann aus Schaam den Kopf ich heben,Vor dem lieben Freund,Angenehmes hab' bisher ichIhm noch nicht gethan.

[7]  Flammen zehrten an Hafisen,Doch sie sagte nicht:Ihm will ich ein Pflaster schicken,Dem ich weh' gethan.

[1]  In the morning ,to the breeze ,I uttered the tale of my longing
The address of reply came saying : A relier be on the favours of Lordship .

[2]   O darvish the key of the treasure of purpose is the prayer of the morning ,and the sigh of the evening
By this path and way ,go ; so that ,with the Heart - possessor God thou mayst join .

[3]   Not that tongue is the reed's that love's great mystery it may unfold ,
Beyond the limit of narration ,is the explanation of longing .

[4]   Ho O Yusuf of Egypt the beloved whom sovereignty of Egypt kept engaged
Ask the father Yfckub where went at last filial love

[5]   In the nature of the beautiful ,old world ,compassion is none
From its love ,what seekest thou In it ,what desire attachest thou

[6]   A Huma like thee ,lofty of rank ,and greed for the rotten bone how long
Alas that shadow of fortune ,that ,on the mean ,thou castest .

[7]   In this market of the world if a profit there be .'tis with the happy darvish :
O God me ,happy make with darvlshness ,and with happiness .

[8]   To the verse of Hafiz of Shlraz ,dance and whirl
Those dark of eye of Kashmir ,and the saucy ones of Samarkand .

[1]  Des Morgens sprach ich von Begier zum Morgenwind, Er sprach: vertraue fest auf deines Herren Huld!

[2]  Das Morgen- und das Nachtgebet enthüllt den Schatz, Geh' so nur fort, daß du zuletzt zum Liebchen kommst.

[3]  Damit er Nichts von Liebe sprech', ist stumm der Kiel, Weil die Beschreibung der Begier unmöglich ist.

[4]  Aegyptischer Joseph, dich beschützet jetzt das Reich, Den Vater frag', wie sehr er liebet seinen Sohn. Die Kranken heilest du mit Wimpernschmerz, Mit deinem Moschuchaar beruhigst du das Herz.

[5]  Die Welt mit zwei Gesichtern kennet keine Huld, Was traust und bauest du auf ihren hohen Werth?

[6]  Wie lang sucht noch ein Aar wie du nach dem Gebein! O weh! des Schattens, der auf Unverdiente fällt.

[7]  Wo zu gewinnen ist, gewinnt es der Derwisch, Verleih' mir Herr Derwischenbrauch, Zufriedenheit.

[8]  Gieb nicht dein Herz den Schönen ohne Treu, Hafis! Sie machen's dir wie mit Charesm, Samarkand.

[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 .

[70]   To wine ,bind the heart ,so that ,like a man ,
The neck of hypocrisy and of piety thou mayst shatter .

[71]   Arise ,and ,like Hafiz ,an effort in the service of the Pir of tarikat make so that ,perchance ,
Thyself ,at the true Beloved's foot ,thou mayest cast .

[72]   Tis morning ; and ,droppeth hail from the cloud of the winter - month Bahman
The requisites of the morning cup ,prepare and give a cup of one ' man .'