[1]  Last night ,to me ,a mystery - knower ,keen of sense ,secretly spake ,
Saying Concealed from thee ,one cannot hold the mystery of the wine - seller .

[2]   He said To thyself ,action easy take .For ,from nature's way ,
On men hard - striving ,hard the world seizeth .

[3]   Then ,me ,he gave a cup ,from whose splendour on the heavens ,
To dancing came Zuhra and the lute - striker player kept saying Drink

[4]   With the bloody wounded heart ,bring forth display the laughing lip like the cup laughing with wine's sparkle
If ,thee ,a cleaving wound reach ,like the shrieking reed ,into clamour of grief come thou not .

[5]   So long as ,with this screen of mystery thou becomest not acquainted ,a hint thou hearest not
Not the place for Jibra ,il's message ,is the ear of the unprivileged .

[6]   O son counsel ,hear ,grief for the world's sake ,suffer not
To thee ,a tale ,I utter lustrous as a pearl if thou canst ,hear .

[7]   In love's fold ,of talking and of hearing one cannot boast
For ,there ,eye and ear ,must be all thy limbs .

[8]   On the carpet stage of subtlety - knowers ,is the condition ,no self - selling boasting
O man of wisdom either words known understood and weighed utter or silent be .

[9]   O Saki wine ,give .For Hanz's profligacies ,understood
Asaf ,the Lord of conjunction ,fault - forgiving ,defect - concealing .

[1]  Gestern sagte zu mir ein Vielverständiger heimlich:Nimmer birgst du vor mir heimliche Dinge des Wirths.

[2]  Weiteres sprach er zu mir: Erleichtere Alles dir selber,Denn es fällt ja diese Welt immer den Schweren zu schwer.

[3]  Einen Becher gab er mir dann, von dessen GefunkelVenus zu tanzen begann; trinke, so sagt' er dazu.

[4]  Blutet dein Herz, doch lächle die Lippe dir ähnlich dem Glase,Ist dein Inneres wund, tanze mit Lautengetön!

[5]  Du erfährst kein Geheimniß bis du nicht Freundschaft beginnest,Denn in Unheilige dringt himmlische Kunde nicht ein.

[6]  Trinke, höre den Rath, mein Sohn, daß die Welt dich nicht kümmre;Wohl ein köstliches Wort, wenn du's zu fassen vermagst.

[7]  In dem Gemach der Liebe geziemt es sich nimmer zu sprechen,Jedes der Glieder sey dorten nur Auge, nur Ohr.

[8]  In dem Kreise der Weisen, sich selbst zu loben geziemt nicht;Du sey kundig des Worts, oder erzeige dich stumm.

[9]  Schenke gieb mir den Wein, Hafisens Trunkenheit kennetEr, der den Koran besitzt, Er, der gelinde Wesir.

[1]  Last night ,to the door of the wine - house ,I went ,sleep stained
The khirka wet of skirt ,and the prayer - mat ,wine stained

[2]   The magian boy of the wine - seller ,cry - making ,came
He said Awake ,O wayfarer ,sleep stained .

[3]   Washing and washing ,do then ,to the tavern ,proudly move
So that ,by thee ,this ruined cloister become not' stained

[4]   In desire for those sweet of mouth beloved ones how long makest thou
The jewel of thy soul with the melted ruby the bloody tear stained

[5]   In purity ,pass the stage of old age and make not ,
The honour - robe of old age ,with the splendid dress of youth ,stained .

[6]   Pure and clean ,be and ,from nature's well ,come forth
Giveth not purity water ,earth stained .

[7]   I said O soul of the world not a defect is it ,the rose - book
If ,in the spring season ,it become with pure ruddy wine bestained .

[8]   In this deep sea of love those acquainted with love's path ,
Were drowned and were not with water stained .

[9]   He said : Hafiz to friends ,thy jest and subtlety boast not ;
Alas for this thy grace ,with varied forms of reproach bestained .

[1]  Ich gieng zur Schenke gestern, Vom Schlafe ganz befleckt, Befeuchtet war die Kutte, Der Teppich ganz befleckt.

[2]  Es kam ein Schenkenknäblein Und sagte mir mit Spott: Es ist schon Zeit: Erwache O du vom Schlaf befleckt!

[3]  Vor allem andern wasch' dich, Dann komm' zur Thür' herein, Es würde ja die Schenke Von dir sonst auch befleckt.

[4]  Wie lang wird noch aus Sehnsucht Nach einem süßen Mund Mit flüssigem Rubine Der reine Geist befleckt?

[5]  Geh', wo die Alten wohnen, Mit Reinigkeit vorbei, Das Kleid des Alters werde Von Jungen nicht befleckt.

[6]  Sey rein, steig' in die Höhe, Vom Brunnen der Natur, Denn nimmer schmeckt das Wasser Als rein, das Staub befleckt.

[7]  Ich sprach zu meinem Liebchen: Ist es nicht Schand' und Spott, Daß in den Lenz die Rose Sich so mit Wein befleckt?

[8]  Erfahrene der Liebe Sind zwar in diesem Meer Hinab zum Grund gefahren, Und wurden nicht befleckt.

[9]  Sie sprach: Hafis, die Räthsel Verkauf' den Freunden nicht! O Schade! dieser Milde Mit solchem Grimm befleckt.

[1]  From the street of the friend the perfect murshid came the fragrant breeze of the nau - ruz guidance in the Path to God
From this breeze ,if them desire aid ,the lamp of the heart ,thou mayest kindle .

[2]   If ,like the red rose ,a particle of red gold thou hast ,for God's sake ,expend it in pleasure
For caused Karun's errors ,the passion for gold - gathering .

[4]   To the garden ,go that ,from the bulbul ,love's mysteries thou mayst take to mind ;
To the assembly ,come ; so that from Hafiz ,ghazal - singing ,thou mayst learn .

[6]   Seeking the path of the true Beloved's desire is what 'Tis the abandoning of our own desire
The crown of sovereignty is that which from this abandoning ,thou stitchest .

[7]   Within the screen ,speech I utter ; forth from thyself ,like the rose - bud from the bud come
For ,not more than a space of five days ,is the order of the chief of a nau - ruz .

[8]   The lament of the turtle - dove by the marge of the stream ,I know not where - fore it is
Perchance ,like me ,a grief it hath night and day .

[9]   A wine like the pure soul ,I have yet its detraction ,the Sufi maketh
O God let not ill fortune be the sage's portion - ^ even one day

[10]   Separated became thy sweet friend the murshid candle now ,sit alone
For this the sky's decree is whether thou be content ; or whether thou consume .

[11]   Excluded from the means of joy ,in wonder of knowledge ,one cannot be
Saki come ; to the fool arriveth the largest victual - portion .

[12]   O heart go wine drink and profligacy and the abandoning of hypocrisy practise
For a Path better than this ,I wonder whether thou mayst learn .

[1]  Vom Gau des Freundes kömmt der Hauch des neuen Festes, Fach' an, wenn's dir gefällt, damit des Herzens Lampe.

[2]  Hast du wie Rosen Gold, bei Gott! verwend's auf Liebe. Das Gold hat in Ruin Karunen nicht gestürzet.

[4]  Geh' auf die Flur, und lern' von Nachtigallen Liebe, Komm' in den Freundenkreis, und lern' Hafisens Lieder.

[6]  Erreichet wird dein Wunsch, wenn du dich selbst verläugnest, Dir wird der Freiheitshut, wenn Allem du entsagest.

[7]  Ich spreche ja verhüllt, o komm' heraus wie Rosen. Es währet ja das Fest nur fünf der flücht'gen Tage.

[8]  Ich weiß nicht, was am Strom die Turteltaube girret, Vielleicht ist sie wie ich bei Tag und Nacht in Schmerzen.

[9]  Ich habe reinen Wein, auf den der Fromme schmählet, O Gott! den Weisen soll nichts Widriges begegnen!

[10]  Es floh' dein süßer Freund, nun bleib' allein, o Kerze! So ist das Loos, nun sey geduldig, oder brenne.

[11]  Bewundern und zugleich entbehren ist verboten, Komm' Schenk'! der Dumme wird um so viel mehr jetzt heucheln. Trink' Wein, berausche Dich, o Herz! laß Gleißnereien, Es wunderte mich sehr, wenn du was Bessers wüßtest.

[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 .