[1]  If thou be the compassionate friend ,true of covenant ,be :
The companion of the closet in grief and of the hot bath and of the rose - garden in ease be .

[2]   To the power of wine ,the curl of thy dishevelled tress give not so that its perfume may not agitate lovers
Speak not saying Say ,lovers' hearts agitated be .

[3]   If thine be desire to be in exaltation fellow - sitter with Khizr ,
Hidden from Sikandar's eye ,like the water of life ,be .

[4]   Not the work of every bird is the power of love - playing
Come and of the bulbul ,ghazal singing Hafiz the new rose beloved be .

[5]   The path of service ,and the usage of attendance - making
For God's sake ,let go to us and Sultan be .

[6]   On the prey the lovers of God of the sacred fold ,again draw not forth the sword .Take care
Of what thou hast done with our heart ,penitent ,be

[7]   O true Beloved the candle of the assembly Thou art one of tongue ,one of heart ,be
The fancy of the moth's effort in sparing not its own life behold and laughing consuming like the candle be .

[8]   In glance - playing ,is the perfection of heart - ravishingness and beauty of beloved ones
Of the crowd of the rare ones of the age ,in the art of viewing and comprehending others be .

[9]   Hafiz silence and of the Beloved's violence ,bewail not
Who spake to thee saying At the lovely face of the Beloved astonied be

[1]  Hast du einen trauten FreundTreu in Worten sey.So im Bad als RosenbeetSein Begleiter sey.

[2]  Gieb des durchgewühlten Haar'sKrause nicht dem Wind',Daß nicht der Verliebten SinnGanz zerrüttet sey!

[3]  Wünschest du allein zu seynUnd mit Chiser gut.Du für Alexandern dannLebenswasser sey!

[4]  Nicht ein jeder Vogel singtSüßen Liebeston,Komm' und für die NachtigallEine Rose sey!

[5]  Uebertrage mir die PflichtTreu zu seyn als Knecht,Uebertrag' sie mir bey Gott!Und du Kaiser sey!

[6]  Zieh' nicht noch einmal das SchwertIn dem Heiligthum;Und für das was du gethanGanz zerknirschet sey!

[7]  Eine Zunge und ein HerzHaben unsre Kerzen.Sieh' des Schmetterlings Bemüh'n,Ob es nicht zum Lachen sey.

[8]  Aller Reiz und Schönheit liegtIn dem Minnespiel'.Du daher in diesem SpielUnerreichbar sey!

[9]  Schweig' Hafis und klage nichtUeber Freundes Schuld,Wer befahl, daß ihr GesichtAnzustaunen sey!

[1]  The door threshold of the magians' house was swept and water - sprinkled
At the door the Pir sat ,and to old and to young ,salutation gave .

[2]   In his service ,the cup - lifters topers all loin - girt
But ,with the cap - crown ,the canopy above the cloud was fixed .

[3]   The splendour of the cup and the goblet holy travellers ,possessed of excellence concealed the light of the moon the qualities of the young magians ,Sakis of the tavern
The path of the young magians to the sun the splendour of the glory of unity the cheeks of the holy travellers ,possessed of excellence ,joined with the qualities of God waylaid .

[4]   In that chamber of privacy ,notwithstanding all her graces ,the bride of fortune
Placed indigo and ,on the tress of dark ,fragrant musk ,musk shed .

[5]   The angel of mercy the perfect murshid took the cup of delight ma'rifat
And from the dregs ,on the face of Hur and of Pari seekers of God rose - water ,dashed .

[6]   From the grace and the strife in state of restlessness of the Sakis the seekers possessed of excellence sweet of work ,
Sugar broke asunder ; its petals the lily shed its cords the harp snapped .

[7]   To the bride of fortune salutation ,I made and ,with laughing face ,she spake
Saying O sufferer of wine - sickness ,poor ,wine stricken

[8]   Who doeth this that thou ,with weak judgment and reason ,hast done
From the treasure wine - house ,thou hast gone and thy tent on the waste hast pitched .

[9]   Thee ,union with wakeful fortune ,I fear that they fate and destiny will not give ;
For thou art asleep in the embrace of fortune ,sleep stricken/'

[10]   Hafiz to the wine - house ,come that to thee ,I may present
Of those whose prayers are answered a hundred ranks arrayed

[11]   The sky is the led - horse leader of king Nasratu - d - Din
Come ; his hand in his stirrup ,behold the angel hath fixed .

[12]   For the sake of gaining honour ,wisdom ,that is inspired of the Hidden ,
From the vault of the ninth heaven ,a hundred kisses on his majesty cast .

[1]  Die Schenke war gekehrt und rein gewaschen, Er setzte sich mit Alt und Jung dort nieder.

[2]  Die Trinker standen all zum Dienst bereitet, Doch ohne Haube flog er hoch in Himmel.

[3]  Der Mond wird von des Bechers Glanz verdunkelt, Die Sonnenstraße war des Knaben Wange.

[4]  In diesem Winkel hat die Braut des Glückes Die Brauen und das Haar sich schwarz geschmücket.

[5]  Ein Engel übergoß Huris, Perien Mit Wollustnecktar statt mit Rosenwasser.

[6]  Die Buhlerinn der süßen Schenken haben Zerstört den Kreis, verstreuet die Jasminen.

[7]  Ich grüßte ihn und lächelnd gab er Antwort: Du ohne Geld und Gut, der dich berauschest,

[8]  Wer hat so was wie du gethan? Aus Schwäche, Vom Hause fern das Zelt zu Grund zu richten.

[9]  Ich fürcht', es wird das wache Glück dich fliehen, Weil du das schlafbefleckte hast umarmet.

[10]  In's Weinhaus komm' Hafis, ich will dir zeigen Zehntausend Reihen von erhörten Wünschen.

[11]  Der Himmel führt des Schahs Paradepferde, Die Engel legen Hand an seinen Bügel.

[12]  Sieh die Vernunft, die das Verborgne kennet, Sie wirft dir Küsse zu vom Himmelsdache.

[1]  O thou that lawful ,the separation of lovers holdest ;
And apart from thy bosom ,lovers holdest

[2]   With a little water ,the thirsty one of the desert ,aid
By reason of that hope that ,in this Path to God ,thou holdest .

[3]   O soul my heart ,thou ravishedest and thee ,I forgave .But
Guard of it ,keep better than this guard that of me thou keepest .

[4]   Our cup that the other adversaries drink ,
It we endure ,if ,lawful ,thou holdest .

[5]   O contemptible fly the presence of the mighty Simurgh is not thy place of display
Thy own honour ,thou takest and ,our trouble ,thou causest .

[6]   Excluded from this door of the true Beloved by thy own fault ,thou fellest ,
Of whom ,bewailest thou complaint ,wherefore is it that thou hast

[7]   Hafiz from kings ,shelter in service they seek
Work not done ,hope of gift what is it that thou holdest

[1]  Liebende zu entfernen von dir, dies hältst du für billig, Deinen treusten Knecht hast du getrennet von dir.

[2]  Durstig komm' ich aus Wüsten, o reich' mir lauteres Wasser, Gieb mir die Hoffnung, die du deinen Getreuen verleihst.

[3]  Du hast geraubet das Herz, ich verzeihe den Raub dir Geliebte, Besser, es bleibe geheim, als daß es werde bekannt.

[4]  Fremde Gäste betrinken sich frey aus meinem Pokale, Leiden will ich's gern, wenn du für billig es hältst.

[5]  Ameis, wie vermagst du das Nest Simorgs zu erreichen, Wenig geachtet wie ich, bist du belastet wie ich.

[6]  Du bist aus eigener Schuld leer ausgegangen vom Freunde, Wessen beklagst du dich denn, sage, warum du so weinst?

[7]  Fürsten, Hafis! belohnen geleistete Dienste mir Ehren, Welchen Anspruch machst Müßiger du auf den Lohn?

[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