[1]  To the Sultan's attendants ,who will convey this prayer
In thanks for sovereignty ,away from sight drive not the beggar

[2]   From the watcher imperious lust demon of nature ,- I take shelter in my God
Perchance that gleaming light God's bounty and grace may ,for God's sake ,give a little aid .

[3]   If Thy dark eye - lash arrow - like made for our blood ,
O Idol think of its deceit in blood - shedding and ,make no mistake lest Thou suffer regret for my blood

[4]   When by Thy splendour Thou enkindlest thy face ,Thou consumest a world
From this ,what profit hast Thou that Thou doest no kindness

[5]   All night all my life in this hope I am that the breeze of dawn the angel of death
With the message of lovers giving release by death from the world's tumult will cherish me the lover .

[6]   O true Beloved what is the tumult that to lovers thou displayedest
Thy face like the gleaming moon ,Thy stature like the heart - ravishing cypress

[7]   O murshid to the lover Hafiz morning - rising ,give thou ,for God's sake ,a draught of wine of love
May his prayer of the morning - time avail thee

[8]   Hafiz's sorrowful heart that through separation from Thee ,is full of blood ,
What would be its state if ,awhile ,it should attain union with the true Beloved

[1]  Wer überbringet das GesuchDen Freunden des Sultanes?Vom Bettler wende nicht den BlickFür deine Herrschaft dankbar.

[2]  Ich flücht' vom Nebenbuhler, derDes Teufels ist, ich flüchteZu meinem Gott, vielleicht daß ErDurchs Feuer ihn verzehret.

[3]  Wenn deine schwarzen Wimpern dirZum Blutvergießen winken,So denke, daß sie Schelme sind,Laß dich ja nicht verführen.

[4]  Du steckst die ganze Welt in Brand,Wenn deine Wangen leuchten,Sag' an, was hast du denn davonDaß du nicht milder herrschest? Geliebte was für Formen sindDem Liebenden erschienen!Welch ein Gesicht dem Monde gleichUnd Wuchs, gleich der Cypreße!

[5]  Ich hoffe ganze Nächte langDaß mit dem Hauch des MorgensMir eine Kunde kommen wirdVon meinen trauten Freunden.

[6]  Es blutet längst mein armes HerzDurch deine Zauberaugen.O meine Theure blicke herWie du mich hast ermordet!

[7]  Hafis! wenn jetzt im TrennungsstandDein Herz sich schon verblutet,Was harret sein, wenn einst GenußDasselbe soll beglücken.

[1]  Who am I that ,over that fragrant noble mind ,I should pass :
Thou doest me favours .O dust of Thy door the crown of my head ,be

[2]   O heart - ravish er slave - cherishing ,taught Thee who Say ,
For to Thy watchers ,this idea never will I impute .

[3]   O holy bird the perfect murshid thy blessing the guide of my path ,make
For ,to our goal ,long is the Path new to journeying ,am I .

[4]   morning breeze my service cause to reach the murshid
Saying : Me ,at the time of the prayer of morn ,forget not .

[5]   Happy that day ,when ,from this stage this world my chattels of existence I bind up
And ,from the head of Thy street ,news of me ,the companions ask saying Where went he

[6]   O Hafiz it is fit if ,in thy search for the jewel of union ,
With tears ,my eye I make an ocean and ,in it ,dive .

[7]   Lofty ,is the rank of verse and world - captivating .Speak
So that ,full of pearls ,thy mouth the ocean - king may make .

[1]  Ha! wer bin ich, daß dieses Gemüth sich meiner erinnert, Du bist zu gut, mich krönt dein Staub.

[2]  Sprich, o Mädchen, wer hat dich gelehret, dem Sklaven zu schmeicheln? Den Neidern sag' ich hievon Nichts.

[3]  Vogel aus Eden! o gieb mir deinen Muth zum Geleite, Der Weg ist lang, ich bin noch neu.

[4]  Morgenwind, o bringe doch meine Grüße zu ihr hin, Vergiß den Morgensegen nicht.

[5]  Selig der Tag, an dem ich einstens wandre von hinnen, Wo man um dich mich einstens fragt. Zeige mir doch den Weg zu deinem innren Gemache, Ich trink' und kümm're mich um Nichts.

[6]  Um die Perle der Wonne zu fischen, Hafis, ist's erlaubet, Daß du das Aug' zum Meere machst.

[7]  Siehe das Wort! es erobert die Welt, o dem Schahe von Ormus Sag': mit Perlen den Mund mir gefüllt.

[1]  O true Beloved by the door enter ; and our chamber luminous > make
The air of the assembly of souls perfumed make .

[2]   If a Faklh advise saying Love practise not ,
Him ,the cup of the wine of unity give say : Thy brain ,fresh make .

[3]   O true Beloved to the eye and the eye - brow of the illusory beloved ,heart and soul ,I have entrusted
Come ,come and with the glance of blessing viewing of the arch the eye - brow and of the spectacle - place the eye make .

[4]   Light scattereth not the star of the dark night of separation the illusory be - loved
To the palace - roof the existence of Hafiz come and the lamp of the moon the beauty of the true Beloved uplifted^ make .

[5]   To the treasurer of Jannat ,speak ,saying : The dust of this assembly ,
As a present to Firdaus take and it the aloe - fuel of the censer make .

[6]   From this one associated with me the wife and the khirka much in strait I am
With a glance Sufi - slaying ,me Kalandar make .

[7]   Since beneath Thy hand are the lovely ones the flowers of the sward ,
At the jessamine ,the glance and towards the cone - tree ,grace make .

[8]   O Saki Murshid excess of many a tale ,the spirit maketh
From the hand ,thy own work the explanation of truths to holy travellers give not ; wine the delight that surgeth in the traveller's heart into the cup put .

[9]   The splendour - rays of beauty of illusory love the veil of the eye of understanding ,became
Come the sun's pavilion the elemental body effulgent make .

[10]   Not our limit ,is desire for the cash of union with Thee
With that ruby lip like sugar ,me a kiss give .

[11]   The lip of the cup ,kiss subtleties of divine knowledge ,acquire then to the intoxicated holy travellers give
With this subtlety ,wisdom's train ,beperfumed make .

[12]   After the service of pleasure and of love ,of those moon of face ,
Of deeds that thou doest ,the verse of Hafiz exalted make .

[1]  Herein zur Thür! Erleuchte nächtliches Dunkel, Durchwürz' die Luft Des Kreises geistiger Männer.

[2]  Räth dir der Mönch Nicht Liebesspiele zu spielen, Reich' ihm das Glas, Befeucht' damit sein Gehirne. Mit deiner Huld, Mit deiner lieblichen Tugend Heb' wie die Kerz' Empor das Haupt in Gesellschaft.

[3]  Dem Geist das Herz Empfehl' ich Augen und Brauen, O komm', o komm', Und schaue die Aussicht, den Bogen.

[4]  Der Stern der Nacht Der Trennung sendet nicht Strahlen. Steig' auf das Dach, Zünd' an die Leuchte des Mondes.

[5]  Bring' einen Staub Von uns edenisches Lüftchen Ins Paradies Und würz' die Düfte desselben.

[6]  Die Kutte setzt Mich in nicht kleine Verwirrung. Mach' mich zum Mönch Mit einem schmeichelnden Blicke.

[7]  Es weichen dir An Reiz die Schönen der Fluren, Drum sprich mit Huld, Jasminen, Pinien an.

[8]  Der Schenke spricht Viel überflüssige Dinge, Dich kümmr' es nicht, Du füll' den Becher mit Wein an.

[9]  Der Schönheit Schein, Verhüllt das Licht des Verstandes, O komm'! erleucht' Damit die Fackel der Sonne.

[10]  Uns ziemt es nicht, Nach dem Genusse zu geizen, Du weise uns An zuckersüße Rubinen.

[11]  Du küß das Glas Und giebs den Trunkenen über, Mit diesem Wort Durchwürz' den Duft des Verstandes.

[12]  Nachdem du viel Mit Mondgesichtern geliebelt, Präg' deinem Sinn Hafisens Lieder mit Fleiß ein.

[1]  O heart that moment when ,intoxicated with wine rose of hue ,thou art
Without gold and treasure ,with a hundred pomps of Karun thou art .

[2]   In the stage where to fakirs the seat of wazlrship ,they give ,
I expect that above all in rank thou art .

[3]   In the path to the abode of Laila the true Beloved wherein are dangers ,
The first condition of its step is ,that Majnun the perfect lover thou be .

[4]   Thee ,love's centre I showed .Ho mistake make not
If not ,when thou lookest outside of the circle of lovers thou art .

[5]   Departed ,the karvan of thy fellow - travellers and ,in sleep ,thou art and the desert is in front
O heart I know not how thou goest from whom ,the path thou askest what thou doest how in this desert ,ignorant of the path ,alone thou art .

[6]   The kingly crown ,thou seekest the essence perfection of thy own nature ,display
If ,indeed ,of the essence the race of Jamshid and of Firidun thou be .

[7]   A cup ,drink and on the skies ,a draught ,cast
On .account of time's grief ,the liver of blood of grief how long ,how long art thou

[8]   Hafiz of poverty ,bewail not .For ,if this be thy poetry ,
Appeareth no one happy of heart ,that sorrowful thou shouldst be .

[1]  Mein Herz! wenn du vom rothen Wein Zu Grund gerichtet bist, So wisse, daß du ohne Gold Reich wie Karun einst bist.

[2]  Wenn man die Ehrenstellen einst Den Armen wird verleih'n, So hoffe ich, daß du alsdann, Weit mehr als alle bist.

[3]  Auf Leila's Pfad, der voll Gefahr Und voll Beschwerde ist, Ist vor dem Andern Allem noth, Daß ein Medschnun du bist.

[4]  Ich zeigte dir der Liebe Punkt, Gieb acht und irre nicht, Daß du, indessen du hinsiehst, Nicht aus dem Zirkel bist.

[5]  Die Karawane ist schon fort, Du schlägst der Trägheit Schlaf, Wen fragest, und was machst du denn, Ey sage, wie du bist.

[6]  Du geizest nach dem Fürstenthron, Zeig deine Eigenschaft, Und wenn du aus dem Stamm Dschemschids Und Feridunens bist.

[7]  Du trink den Becher aus, und wirf Die Hefen himmelan, Weil du genug vom Gram der Zeit Mit Blut beflecket bist.

[8]  Hafis beklag' die Armuth nicht, Sind diese Lieder dein, So wird kein Edler zugesteh'n, Daß du betrübet bist.

[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 .