[1]  In the spring season of the tulip the murshid the cup take ; and void of hypocrisy be
With the perfume of the red rose of 'Irak a moment concordant with the breeze the murshid be .

[2]   I say not to thee All the year practise wine - worshipping
Nay three spring months ,wine drink and nine months ,austere and Abid in the world's occupations be .

[3]   If the Pir ,the holy traveller ,charge thee with the wine of love
Drink ; and expecter of God's mercy ,be .

[4]   If thine be desire that ,like Jamshid the perfect murshid thou mayst attain to the mystery of the hidden ,
Come and ,the confidant of this cup ,world - displaying the perfect murshid be .

[5]   Though like the closed up rose - bud ,the world's work is a closed up knot ,
Like the spring - breeze ,thou ,the knot bud opener be .

[6]   From none ,seek fidelity and if ,my speech ,thou hear not ,
In foolishness ,seeker of the simurgh and of alchemy be .

[7]   Hafiz of devotion of strangers ,the disciple be not
But ,of pure profligates ,the friend be .

[1]  Ergreif' das Glas, wo Tulpen sindUnd lasse die Verstellung;Geselle dich dem Ostwind zu,Ob dem Geruch der Rose.

[2]  Ich sage dir ja nicht, daß duDas ganze Jahr durch trinkest,Ich sage: trink' drey MonateUnd bete die neun andern.

[3]  Wenn dich der viel erfahrne GreisDer Liebe trinken heißet,So trinke und erwarte dannDafür den Segen Gottes.

[4]  Verlangest du Geheimniße,Wie Dschem, einst zu errathen,So komm' geselle dich zum Glas,Worin du Welten schauest.

[5]  Wiewohl hier alles Knospen gleichZusammgeschnuret ist,So öffne du dennoch dein HerzDem Hauch des Frühlingswind's.

[6]  O suche keine Treue hier,Wenn meinem Wort du glaubest,Such' eher noch des Simorgs Nest,Such' eh' den Stein der Weisen.

[7]  Gesell' Hafis dich nicht zur SchaarDer jungen fremden Meister,Geselle dich vielmehr zur SchaarDer wohlbekannten Trinker.

[1]  If ,to Thy street ,the power of arriving be mine ,
By the fortune of union with Thee ,to foundation arriveth my work .

[2]   From me ,took rest ,those two beauteous hyacinth tresses
From me ,took tranquillity ,those two narcissi eyes tricked with kuhl .

[3]   When ,at Thy door ,without resource ,without gold or force ,I
Have ,in no way ,the path of egress or of ingress .

[4]   I go where I do what I am how Remedy ,I make what
For ,from grief of time's violence ,sorely vexed I am become .

[5]   Battered with ill - fortune ,life ,I obtain
At that moment when ,with the sword of grief for Thee ,slain I become .

[6]   Worse than my heart ,grief for Thee found no place ,
When ,in my straitened heart ,it made its place of alighting .

[7]   Since from the jewel of Thy love ,a great polish hath my heart ,
Verily ,from the rust of vicissitude ,polished it was .

[8]   O soul and heart the true Beloved in Thy presence ,what sin have committed ,
That ,accepted ,becometh not the devotion of me ,heart - bereft

[9]   Hafiz with love's pain ,be content and be silent
Love's mysteries ,reveal not before people of reason .

[1]  Wenn ich so glücklich binZu deinem Dorf zu kommen,So wird der HochgenußAuf sichern Gründen ruhen.

[2]  Von DoppelhyacinthWard mir Geduld geraubet,Und die Ergebung nahmDie doppelte Narzisse.

[3]  Der mittellose MannEntblößt des Gold's und Silbers,Vermag bei deiner ThürNicht aus und ein zu gehen.

[4]  Wohin? was soll ich thun?Und was soll ich beginnen?Der Gram der Zeit hat michIn Traurigkeit versenket.

[5]  Ich ausgezehrter MannErlange neues LebenIm Augenblicke, woMich deine Wimpern morden.

[6]  Dein Schmerz fand's nirgends soWie in dem Herzen wüste,Deßwegen hat er sichIns enge Herz genistet.

[7]  Da deiner Liebe SteinDes Herzens Formen glättet,So ist es spiegelreinVon allem Unglücksroste.

[8]  Was that ich denn vor dirO Herz! O meine Seele!Daß schlichte HuldigungVon dir nicht anerkannt wird.

[9]  Begnüge dich HafisMit Liebesgram und schweige,Entdeck' VerständigenNicht deine stille Liebe.

[1]  Although from the heart's fire ,like a foaming jar of wine ,in tumult I am ,
The seal of silence on my lip pressed ,the blood of grief I drink and silent I am .

[2]   To show desire for the lip of the true Beloved is to make an attempt upon one's own life
Behold thou me who ,in this matter ,with soul strenuously strive

[3]   Free from the heart's grief ,how may I become ,when ,momently ,
The Hindu of the tress of the idol the true Beloved me ,beringed as His slave maketh

[4]   God forbid not trusting to my own devotion ,am I
Only this is the extent that ,sometimes ,a goblet of the wine of love to God I drink and in it strive

[5]   Hope is mine that despite the enemy shaitan on the day of requital resurrection - day
Not ,on my back ,will the bounty of His pardon place the load of sin .

[6]   For two wheat - grains ,my Father ,Adam ,sold the garden of Rizvan paradise
If ,for a barley - grain ,I sell it not ,unworthy son I shall be .

[7]   Not from exceeding religiousness ,is my inducing of the khirka
Over the head of a hundred secret sins ,a veil the khirka I place .

[8]   I who desire not to drink save of the purest wine
What shall I do ,if the speech of the Pir of the Magians ,I hear not

[9]   If with this hand way the minstrel of the assembly the perfect murshid waylayeth ,love rendering lovers selfless and drawing them into his net
Even so at the time of sama' ,me ,from sense ,the lustrous verse of Hafiz taketh .

[1]  Ich gähre zwar von Herzensgluth, Wie eine Tonne Wein, Daß ich versiegele den Mund, Trink' Wein und schweige still.

[2]  Der Seele Vorsatz ist der Wunsch Nach meiner Freundin Mund, O sieh, wie meine Seele sich Zu diesem Zweck bemühet.

[3]  Wie soll ich mich befreyen denn Von Herzensleid und Gram, Wenn mich mit jedem Augenblick Das Haar in Fesseln legt.

[4]  Bewahre Gott! daß ich vertrau' Auf eigenes Verdienst, Ich weiß nur, daß ich leere aus Von Zeit zu Zeit ein Glas.

[5]  Ich hoffe, daß zum Trotz des Feinds Am Tage des Gerichts Der Herr aus Huld die Sündenlast Nicht auf mich legen wird.

[6]  Mein Vater hat das Paradies Zwey Körner werth geschätzt, Man schelte nicht daher, wenn ich Um eines es verspiel.

[7]  Ich trage nicht mein Ordenskleid Aus bloßem frommen Sinn, Ich trage es vielmehr darum, Weil Fehler es verbirgt.

[8]  Ich, der vom reinsten Rebensaft Nur trinkt, was soll ich thun? Was thun? wenn ich dem Wirthe nicht Zu folgen Willens bin.

[9]  Wenn unser Sänger solch ein Lied Zu seiner Weise wählt, Wenn er Hafisens Lieder singt, So komm ich ausser mir.

[1]  O thou that ,on the moon of thy radiant face the veil of musky hair castest ,
Kindness ,thou didst on the sun thy effulgent face ,so that from love's fire ,lovers should not consume a shade thou castest .

[2]   With us ,the water lustre of colour of thy cheek ,what will it do
Now ,on water ,the picture of thy own sorcery ,thou castest .

[3]   From the lovely ones of the world ,the ball of loveliness thou tookest .Be joyful
The world - viewing cup of Kay Khusrau ,seek for Afrasiyab ,down thou castest .

[4]   In a different way ,with the luminous candle of thy face ,love every one played
Out from the midst ,into trepidation ,the moth ,the lover thou castest .

[5]   In our desolate heart ,the treasure of thy own love ,thou placedest
On this ruined treasure ,mercy's shadow thou castest

[6]   Shelter from the water lustre of thy flashing sword ,by which lions ,
Thirsty with wounds thou madest and heroes into water of shame thou castest

[7]   The sleep of the wakeful ,thou boundest preventedest then from the picture of fancy ,
On the night - prowlers of the troop of sleep ,a suspicion ,thou castest .

[8]   For the sake of one glance ,thy veil thou up - castest in the place - of - splendour
And into the veil ,through shame ,Hur and Pari thou castest .

[9]   From the cup ,world - viewing ,wine drink for ,on Jamshid's throne ,
From the face of the desired Beloved ,the veil down thou castest .

[10]   From the desire for the intoxicated narcissus eye and for the ruby lip wine - worshipping ,
Into wine ,Hafiz sitting in khilvat ,thou easiest .

[11]   For the sake of capturing the heart ,on his neck ,the chain of thy tress ,
Like the mighty noose of Khusrau ,the master of necks ,thou castest .

[12]   The Ruler ,Dara of pomp ,O thou ,who ,the sun's crown ,
From the height of mightiness ,on the dust of the door - post ,thou castest

[13]   Nusratu - d - Din Shah Yahiya ,O thou who ,the enemy's land ,
Into water ,with the foam of thy flashing sword ,like fire ,thou castest

[1]  Um den Mond hast du den Schleier der Flaumen geworfen, Gnädig hast du sogar auf Sonnen den Schatten geworfen.

[2]  Ha! was wird mir noch thun die Farbe von deinem Gesichte, Da um selbes jetzt solch einen Schimmer geworfen.

[3]  Siegend trägst du den Ballen davon, deß magst du dich freuen. Nimm den Becher Chosrus, Efrasiab ist geworfen.

[4]  In den Augenglanz verliebte ein Jeder sich anders, Und den Schmetterling selbst hast du in Verwirrung geworfen.

[5]  Deiner Liebe Schatz verbargst du in unseren Herzen, Auf den Schatz hast du den Schatten voll Milde geworfen.

[6]  Schone, schone, o Schah! mit deinem funkelnden Schwerte, Löwen dürsten darnach, und Helden werden geworfen.

[7]  Wachenden hast du zuerst die Kraft zu schlafen benommen, Dann mit deinem Bilde in Schlaf Nachtwandler geworfen.

[8]  Einen Augenblick nur hast du gelüftet den Schleier, Sieh' da haben aus Schaam Peris sich in Schleier geworfen. Freilich bin ich berauscht, doch weis' mich nicht deßhalb zurücke, Denn zu löblichem Zweck hast du herein mich geworfen.

[9]  Trinke, o Schah! vom weltenerklärenden Becher Dschemschids, Weil du auf Salomons Thron den Schleier des Wunsches geworfen.

[10]  Durch die Betrügerei'n des Rubins der trunknen Narzisse Hast du Hafisen, der einsam lebt, zu den Trinkern geworfen.

[11]  Um sein Herz zu fangen hast du die Ketten der Locken Wie ein Band des Herrn um deinen Sklaven geworfen.

[12]  Er ist ein mächtiger Fürst, vor dem die Krone der Sonne Ehren halben sich hin zu seinen Füßen geworfen.

[13]  Naßreddinschah Jahja ist jener mächtige König, Der mit dem Schwerte den Feind in die Gluth, in das Wasser geworfen.

[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 .