[1]  O breeze with softness speak to the beautiful fawn the murshid
Saying Thou hast given to us desire for the mountain and the desert the hardship and pain of separation

[2]   The sugar - seller the murshid ,seller of the sugar of Divine knowledge whose life be long why
Maketh he no inquiry of the welfare of the parrot Hafiz ,the disciple sugar of divine knowledge devouring

[3]   O rose murshid ,beautiful as the rose perhaps the pride of beauty hath not given thee permission .
That thou makest no inquiry as to the state full of grief ,void of hypocrisy of the distraught nightingale Hafiz

[4]   By beauty of disposition ,people of vision one can captivate
Not by snare and net ,take they the wise bird .

[5]   I know not why the colour of constancy ,they have not
Those straight of stature ,dark of eye ,moon of face the prophets in the garden of the shar'

[6]   O murshid when thou sittest with the beloved Muhammad and drinkest wine the acquisition of divine bounty
Bring to mind the beloved ones ,wind - measuring astoniedand bewildered

[7]   Of defect in thy beauty ,one cannot speak save to this degree
That the way of love and of constancy belongeth not to the lovely face .

[8]   On the sky ,what if ,of Hafiz's utterances
Zuhra's singing should bring to dancing the Masiha Christ

[1]  Sage Morgenwind mit SchmeichelnJener lieblichen Gaselle,Auf die Berge, in die WüstenHat die Liebe mich getrieben.

[2]  Warum frägt der Zuckerhändler(Herr erhalte ihm das Leben)Warum frägt er nicht ums WohlseynSeines Zucker Papageyes?

[3]  Wisse Rose dir geziemt esNicht so stolz zu seyn, auf SchönheitDaß aus Stolz du nach der irrenNachtigall nicht einmal fragest.

[4]  Nur mit guter Art und WeiseWirst du den Geliebten fangen,Denn es gehen kluge VögelNicht ins Netz und in die Schlinge.

[5]  Wer belehrt mich, warum dieseDunkeln Augen, hohe FormenDiese vollen MondsgesichterMir so gar nicht hold seyn wollen!

[6]  Wenn du bey dem Liebchen sitzestWein an seiner Seite trinkest,O erinnre dich der Freunde,Die umher gleich Winden irren.

[7]  Deiner Schönheit fänd' ich wahrlichGar nichts anders auszusetzen,Als daß insgemein die SchönenNichts von Treu' und Liebe wissen. Für den Umgang mit den Freunden,Für die Gunst des Glückes dankbar,Sey auch eingedenk der Fremden,Die durch Heid' und Wüsten streifen.

[8]  Was ists Wunder wenn im Himmel,Durch Hafisens Lied gewecket,Zu dem Lautenspiele Suhre'sDer Messias Reigen tanzet?

[1]  From the true Beloved ,is my pain and my remedy ,also :
A sacrifice for Him ,became my heart ,and my life ,also .

[2]   Those that say That elegance is better than beauty To them ,say
This beauty hath our Beloved and that elegance also .

[3]   Be memory of that one ,who ,with desire for our blood ,
Shattered the covenant ,and the oath ,also .

[4]   Friends within the veil ,we utter speech
It will be uttered with tales ,also .

[5]   When ,to an end ,have come the nights of union ,
Passeth away the time of separation also .

[6]   Only one splendour of His face is the glory of both worlds ,'
To thee ,I uttered this matter evident and hidden ,also .

[7]   Not ,on the world's work ,is reliance
Nor ,on the revolving sphere whereto is attributed the world's work also .

[8]   10 .Not the judge ,doth the lover fear ,wine ,bring
Nor the punishment of the Sultan ,also .

[9]   Knoweth that Hafiz is a lover of God the muhtasib
And the Asaf of Sulaiman's court ,also .

[1]  Mein Schmerz kommt von der Freundinn, Und auch die Arznei dazu. Mein Herz ist aufgeopfert, Und meine Seele auch dazu.

[2]  Die Leute sagen: dieses Ist besser als die Schönheit noch, Doch sie besitzet Schönheit, Und dieses Andre auch dazu.

[3]  Erinnert Euch der Freundinn, Die blos aus Durst nach meinem Blut Den Bund zuerst gebrochen, Und die Verträge auch dazu.

[4]  Ihr Freunde, ich erzähle Verhüllt im Schleier Euch das Wort, Doch sagt es immer wieder Und macht Erzählungen dazu. Die trunkene Narzisse, Die Locken helfen auch dazu.

[5]  Die Nächte des Genusses Mit ihrem Himmel sind vorbei, Doch tröstet Euch, die Nächte Der Trennung schwinden auch dazu. Das Bild von ihrem Maale, O weh! vergoß so oft mein Blut, Zuerst vor allen Leuten, Und später heimlich auch dazu.

[6]  Der beiden Welten Schimmer Ist nur ein Abglanz ihres Lichts, Dies sage ich vor Allen, Und sag' dies heimlich auch dazu.

[8]  Es fürchten sich Verliebte, Nur keinem Richter bringe Wein, Und wenn du willst, so bringe Des Sultans Wein-Verboth dazu.

[9]  Es weiß des Weines Wächter, Er weiß, Hafis sey tief verliebt, Und nicht allein der Weinvogt, Es weiß es der Wesir dazu.

[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 .'

[73]   The blood red wine of the cup ,drink for lawful is its blood
In the work of the cup ,engaged be ; for 'tis a work fit to be done .

[74]   If ,at dawn ,thee ,wine - sickness give headache ,
Verily ,best ,that the forehead of the vintner ,thou shatter .

[75]   Saki at hand to give the cup be for ,in ambush for us ,is grief
Minstrel so that grief may not reach us keep this very path of song that thou singest .

[76]   Give wine for ,the secret to my ear ,the harp hath brought and said
Happily pass life and ,hear this bowed Pir the harp

[77]   Hafiz by the independence of profligates ,I conjure thee drink wine ,
So that ,thou mayst hear the song of the Singer ,God the Independent One .

[78]   Into the sea of self and self - praise ,I am fallen .Bring
Wine ,so that freedom from self and self - praise me ,it may give .

[79]   Hafiz in the rivulet of the eye ,the plant of thy stature
Drank blood ,and established fruit .It thou wishest to up - pluck .

[80]   O thou who ,in our slaughter ,mercy exercisest not
Profit and capital ,thou consumest manliness ,thou showest not .

[81]   Deadly poison ,the sorrowful ones of calamity lovers ,sorrowful through sepa - ration from thee drink
The design of slaying this tribe of lovers is dangerous .Take care that it ,thou doest not .

[82]   Since ,with a corner of thy eye ,our grief it is possible to take ,
The part of justice it is not ,that our remedy for freedom from grief thou makest not .