[1]  Knowest thou what fortune is 'Tis beholding the sight of the true Beloved
In His street ,beggary to royalty preferring .

[2]   Easy it is to sever desire for life .But ,
Only with difficulty ,friendship for friends dear as one's soul ,can one sever .

[3]   Like the folded bud ,with a straitened heart ,to the rose - garden ,I will go
And ,there ,my garment of good fame ,will rend

[4]   Sometimes ,like the breeze ,hidden mystery with the rose will utter
Sometimes ,from the bulbuls ,the mystery of love - playing will hear .

[5]   First in this world from the hand ,the kissing of the lip of the true Beloved give not up
For ,at last in the next world thou mayst be distressed wearied with the gnawing in regret of thy own hand and lip .

[6]   O heart the society of friends ,opportunity reckon .For ,from this two - pathed stage the world
When from it away we pass ,this society again one cannot reach .

[7]   Thou mayst say From the memory of King Mansur passed Hafiz ;
O Lord to his Mansur's memory the thought of cherishing the darvish Hafiz bring .

[1]  Kennst du das Glück, des Freundes Angesicht zu seh'n, Bei ihm zu betteln lieber, als ein Fürst zu seyn?

[2]  Ein leichtes ist's, aus Seelen bannen die Begier, Die Seele fortzuscheuchen von dem Freund ist schwer.

[3]  Mit eignem Herzen geh' ich Knospen gleich einher, Und dort zerreiße ich des guten Namens Hemd,

[4]  Bald kos' ich heimlich mit den Rosen, wie der Ost, Bald hör' ich die Geheimnisse der Nachtigall.

[5]  Der Freunde Lippen küß', wenn du nur immer kannst, Sonst wirst du in die Lippen beissen voll von Gram.

[6]  Ergreife die Gelegenheit des Freundgesprächs, Wer weiß, begegnen wir uns wieder auf dem Weg.

[7]  Du sagst, Hafisens denkt nicht mehr der Schah Manßur, O stöß' ihm, Herr, für die Derwische Sorge ein.

[1]  His lip ,I kiss and down drink its wine
To the water of life I have taken my foot .

[2]   Neither His mystery can I utter to any
Nor any one can I see in comparison with Him .

[3]   The cup keepeth kissing his ruby lip and drinking blood
The red rose keepeth seeing his - ruddy face ,and maketh sweat .

[4]   O Saki the cup of wine ,give and recollection of Jamshid ,make not
Who knoweth when Jams - hid was or when Kay

[5]   O moon - minstrel on the harp ,thy hand extend
Its veins cords touch ,so that with them I may exult .

[6]   From retirement to the garden ,the rose brought its throne
O Zahid like the folded rose - bud ,the carpet of austerity ,make folded ,

[7]   Like his intoxicated eye ,let not the intoxicated be intoxicated
Saki to the memory of his ruby lip give wine .

[8]   Separation ,the soul seeketh not from that body ,
In whose veins and body ,the blood of the cup is .

[9]   Hafiz thy tongue indraw a while
The tongue language of the tongueless ,hear from the tongueless reed pipe

[10]   Like Majnan ,in pursuit of the sight of Laila ,
O heart it is necessary to move about every member of the tribe Hayy .

[11]   With the Sultan of the rose ,be happy and wine ,drink
Reckon it gain ,the freedom of the month Rahman from the month Dai .

[1]  Küssen will ich, trinken will ich Wein auf Wein, Besser ist's als ständ ich an des Lebens Quell.

[2]  Keinem kann ich das Geheimniß anvertrau'n, Keinen kann ich in der Nähe von ihm schau'n.

[3]  Seine Lippen küß' ich, Blut enttrauft dem Glas. Seine Wangen seh' ich, Rosen schämen sich.

[4]  Gieb das Glas voll Wein, gedenk' nicht an Dschemschid, Ach! wo ist jetzt Dschem und Keikawus!

[5]  Mondgesicht, mein Sänger schlag' die Laute, schlag', Daß wir uns erheben im Tumult der Lust!

[6]  Aus der Wüste zog die Rose auf die Flur, Thu' Verzicht wie Rosen auf die Einsamkeit.

[7]  Gieb das Gold nicht aus der Hand, Hihi, Hihi! Gieb o Schenke seines Mund's Rubinen Wein.

[8]  Nimmer läßt die Seele ihres Körpers Form, Wenn das Blut des Glases in den Adern fließt.

[10]  Eine Zeitlang halt' die Zunge, o Hafis! Hör', was spricht das zungenlose Rohr.

[1]  If to us a letter ,that perfumed hair the beloved had written ,
The leaf of our existence ,the sphere would not have folded up .

[2]   Although separation bringeth forth the fruit of union ,
Would to God that this seed ,the villager of the world God had not sown .

[3]   Forgiveness is the cash of that one to whom ,here ,
Is a Friend like a hurl and an abode like a paradise .

[4]   In love's inn ,one cannot make happiness
When the pillow is golden ,with a brick ,I am content .

[5]   For the garden of Iram ,and the power of Shudad ,sell not
A bottle of wine of love and a sweet lip of the murshid and the border of a field .

[6]   O wise heart grief for a mean world ,how long
Alas it is that with beauteousness ,it the heart became the lover of hideousness

[7]   The stain of the khirka is the ruin of the world
A way - farer ,one of heart ,one pure of nature where

[8]   From his hand ,Thy tress - tip why did Hafiz let go
Thus ,was fate .What would he have done ,if he had not let go

[1]  Hätte dieser schwarze Bart Mir ein Wort geschrieben, O das Blatt von meinem Seyn Wäre aufgeschrieben!

[2]  Bringet Trennung gleich zuletzt Früchte des Genusses, Besser wär's, man hätte jetzt Nicht verpflanzt den Samen. Deine Feder hört nie auf Zucker auszuströmen! Doch du zeigtest Liebe nicht, Schriebest keine Antwort. Hätte dich der Architekt Liebe nicht gebauet, Wär' mit Liebe Menschenthon Nicht geknetet worden?

[3]  Sage mir vom Paradies Nichts, du frommer Klausner, Denn mein Mädchen ist Huri, Und mein Haus ist Eden.

[4]  Nimmer ruht es sich bequem Auf der Liebe Soffa. Mangeln goldne Polster nur, Thun's auch Strohtapeten.

[5]  Gieb nicht für den Prunk Schebads, Für den Garten Erems, Eine Flasche voll von Wein, Eine Saat der Lippen. Was ist für ein Unterschied Zwischen unserm Wissen, Wer nicht sieht, was weiß er wohl, Was da schön und mild sey. Nicht allein in meinem Sinn Ist ein Götzentempel, Ueberall steht ein Alatr, Ueberall Idole.

[6]  Weises Herz, wie lang wirst du Leiden auf der Erde? Weh des Schönen, welches sich Hat verliebt in Wilde.

[7]  Von dem Kleid mit Wein befleckt, Rühret her das Unglück, Sage, wo ist wohl der Mann Deines Sinns und Herzens.

[8]  Warum ließ Hafis dein Haar Wohl aus seinen Händen, So ward es ihm einst bestimmt, Konnt' er anders handeln?

[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 .

[83]   Since ,in hope of thee ,our eye is the ocean through weeping why is it that
On the ocean - shore ,in recreation ,passing thou makest not

[84]   The tale of every violence that ,of thy gentle nature ,they made ,
Is the word of the interested and is therefore discredited Those deeds of violence thou doest not .