[1]  O Sufi outwardly pure ,inwardly impure come ; for bright is the mirror of the cup the heart of the perfect murshid
That thou mayest see the brightness of the wine of ruby hue or experience the intoxication of the wine of the love of God

[2]   Of profligates intoxicated with excess of love for God as the mystery unutterable and hidden within the veil
For ,this state wherein they utter mysteries is not the zahid's ,lofty of degree .

[3]   The Anka God's pure existence is the prey of none .Up - pluck thy snare
For ,here ever ,in the hand of the snare ,is only wind vain thought

[4]   At time's banquet ,enjoy one or two cups moments of union with the true Beloved and go to eternity
Here verily desire not perpetual union for 'tis vain

[5]   O heart youth's vigour hath departed and ,from life ,thou hast not plucked a single rose of true love ,or of divine grace
Elderly of head ,show skill in permanence of name and fame in supplication and lamentation to God

[6]   Whilst thou art in the world strive in the pleasure of zikr va filer of the present .As ,when no water remained ,
Adam let go the garden of the house of safety Paradise

[7]   On our part ,at thy threshold ,many are thy rights of service .
O Sir again ,in pity ,look upon thy slave who ,at least ,hath not quitted thy threshold

[8]   The disciple of the cup of Jamshld is Hafiz .O breeze ,go
And give salutation from the slave to the Shaikh of Jam .

[1]  Komm o Weiser und schau hinein in den Spiegel des Bechers,Schaue die Lust des purpurnen Weines!

[2]  Frag' um verborgenen Sinn die Eingeweihten des Bechers,Weil auch hievon die Frömmsten Nichts ahnen.

[3]  Keiner hat erjagt den Simurg, o zieh die Garne zusammenDenn es schwillt nur vom Winde das Netz auf.Auf! Genieße die Zeit, und gedenke: dem Vater der MenschenBlieb in Elisiums Fluren der Trunk nicht.

[4]  Leere der Becher ein Paar, beym Feste des Lebens und fort dann!Geiz' nicht hienieden nach stätem Genuße.

[5]  Hin ist die Jugend! o Herz, und keine Blume gepflücket,Nach Namen und Tugend streb nun im Alter:

[8]  Ostwind höre! Hafis ist ein treuer Jünger des BechersGeh und grüß mir den Herrn vom Weinhaus.

[1]  O happy Shiraz ,and its peerless site
O Lord it from decline ,preserve .

[2]   For our Ruknabad ,a hundred praises ,
Whose limpid water life to Khizr gave .

[3]   Between Ja'farabad and Musalla ,
Ambergris - mixing ,cometh its cool north wind .

[4]   To Shiraz ,come ; and the bounty of the holy spirit Jibra .il '
For it ,from the man endowed with perfection Hafiz ask .

[5]   Here in Shiraz who mentioneth Egyptian candy
For the sweet ones the lovely ones ,the beloved ones ,the utterers of sweet words ,of Shiraz have not given imputed to it shame .

[6]   O breeze of that lovely ,wholly intoxicated wanton ,
News ,what hast thou Her state is what

[7]   If that sweet one spill my blood ,
O heart it ,like mother's milk ,lawful hold .

[8]   For God's sake ,from this dream ,awake me not ,
For ,in its image ,a sweet pleasure I have .

[9]   Hafiz when of separation ,thou art affrighted ,why
Offeredest not thou thanks for the time of union with the beloved

[1]  Heil dir Schiras und deiner unvergleichlichen Gegend!Gott bewahr' dich vor dem Verfalle!

[2]  Hundertmal seyen gesegnet durch Ihn des Roknabads Fluthen,Weil sie Chisers Kristalle verspenden.

[3]  Zwischen Dschaferabad und dem weit berühmten MosellaWehet der Nordwind Ambragerüche.

[4]  Komm' nach Schiras und suche die Gaben des heiligen Geistes

[5]  Wer hat jüngst vom Kandelzucker Aegyptens gesprochenOhne daß Süßlippichte zürnten?

[6]  Ostwind bringst du mir von trunkenen Luliern Kunde?Welche Kunde von ihrem Befinden?

[7]  O mein Herz! wenn dein Blut das süße Mädchen vergießet,Soll es wie Muttermilch dir gedeihen.

[8]  Gott! erwecke mich nicht aus diesem Traum, denn es leistetMir das Bild des Liebchens Gesellschaft.

[9]  Wenn du Hafis die Leiden der Trennung befürchtest, o sag' mir,Dankst du nicht für die Zeit des Genußes?

[1]  O cool breeze of the north the breeze of good news ,thou art ,
That ,us ,at union's time ,reacheth .

[2]   Love's tale ,no break is it's
Here ,speech's tongue is broken .

[3]   Salma is where In Zu Salam ,is who
Our neighbours are where Their state is how

[4]   After safety from calamity invisible became the dwelling of Salma
Of its former state ,the ruins ask .

[5]   In thy beauty of perfection ,thou acquiredest hope
Far from thee ,God keep the eye - wound of calamity

[6]   O messenger of the bird - place God protect thee
Welcome welcome Come come

[7]   Void remaineth the space of the banquet - hall
Of the companions ,and of the brimful ritl .

[8]   Now ,hath the night of absence cast its shade
Let us see ,what pastime the night - prowlers the dreams of fancy play .

[9]   At none ,looketh our saucy one
Alas this pride ,haughtiness ,and disdain

[10]   O Hafiz love and patience ,how long
Sweet ,is the wail of lovers .Bewail

[1]  Gott behüte dich Bothe der Freude,Sey willkommen, willkommen, o komm!

[2]  Ostwind bringe mir fröhliche Kunde,Denn es kommt die Zeit des Genußes,

[3]  Ohne Ende sind Liebesgeschichten,Hier verstummet die Sprache der Worte.

[4]  Was macht Selma, und Alle von Salem?Was die Nachbarn, und wie ist ihr Wohlseyn?

[5]  Nach dem Bau verfiel das Gebäude,Fragt um seine Gestalt die Ruinen.

[7]  Deine Schönheit entflammt mich mit SehnsuchtGott behüt' vom genaueren Aug' dich,

[8]  Ausgeleeret sind die Plätze des Festes,Angefüllet hingegen die Becher.

[9]  Nacht der Trennung du streckest die Schatten,Nachtgesichter was spielet ihr dorten?

[10]  Keinem wendet das Liebchen den Blick zuO des Stolzes! der Größe! des Hochmuths!

[1]  On the day of judgment ,thee the sky happily aided
Let us see thanks ,how thou mayst offer ; in thanks ,what thou mayst bring .

[2]   That one who fell and whose hand ,God seized ,
Say So that thy hand ,God may seize on thee ,be it that the grief of the fallen thou mayst suffer .

[3]   In love's street ,kingly rank they purchase not
Here make confession of service and claim of attendance .

[4]   Saki with the reward for tidings of joy enter by my door ,
So that ,one moment ,forth from my heart ,grief thou mayst take .

[5]   In the highway of rank and of lordship is many a danger ,
That is best that by this acclivity ,light of burden ,thou pass .

[6]   Together are the Sultan and the thought of the army ,and the passion for treasure ,and the pomp of the crown
Together are the darvish ,and tranquillity of heart ,and the corner of kalandardom .

[7]   One sufi - istic word ,I will utter permission is there
O light of the eye peace is better than war and dominion .

[8]   To the limit of thought and spirit is the success of desire
From the king ,the liberal gift from the grace of God ,aid .

[9]   Hafiz from thy face ,the dust of poverty and ot contentment wash not
For ,better is this dust than the work of alchemy .

[1]  Es stand der Himmel dir wohl bey Am Tag des Streites, Wie preisest du ihn wohl dafür, Wie zeigest du dich dankbar?

[2]  Der Mann, der fällt, und welchen Gott Dann bei der Hand ergreifet, Dem sage, dir gebühret es, Gefallene zu trösten.

[3]  Man kauft nicht in dem Liebesgau Die Glorie des Schahes, Bekenne dich zum Herrendienst, Zum frommen Sklavendienste.

[4]  O Schenke komm' zur Thür' herein Mit deinen Liebeswimpern, Dann geht der Gram der ganzen Welt Hinaus von meinem Herzen.

[5]  Es liegen auf der Größe Pfad Gar mancherlei Gefahren, Weit besser ist es, daß du leicht Dich auf den Weg begebest.

[6]  Der König denkt auf Stadt und Heer, Auf Kronen und auf Schätze, Derwische denken nur auf Ruh', Auf einen stillen Winkel.

[7]  Ich sage dir ein frommes Wort, Schenkst du mir nur Erlaubniß, Mein Augenlicht weit besser ist's Im Frieden seyn, als kriegen.

[8]  Es steht bei deinem Muth und Sinn Die Wünsche zu erreichen. Du brauchest nur des Schahes Gunst, Und dann die Hülfe Gottes.

[9]  Wasch' die Genügsamkeit Hafis Nicht ab von deinen Wangen, Denn dieser Staub ist besser als Der wahre Stein der Weisen.

[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 .