[1]  O Sufi outwardly pure ,inwardly impure come ; for bright is the mirror of the cup the heart of the perfect murshid
That thou mayest see the brightness of the wine of ruby hue or experience the intoxication of the wine of the love of God

[2]   Of profligates intoxicated with excess of love for God as the mystery unutterable and hidden within the veil
For ,this state wherein they utter mysteries is not the zahid's ,lofty of degree .

[3]   The Anka God's pure existence is the prey of none .Up - pluck thy snare
For ,here ever ,in the hand of the snare ,is only wind vain thought

[4]   At time's banquet ,enjoy one or two cups moments of union with the true Beloved and go to eternity
Here verily desire not perpetual union for 'tis vain

[5]   O heart youth's vigour hath departed and ,from life ,thou hast not plucked a single rose of true love ,or of divine grace
Elderly of head ,show skill in permanence of name and fame in supplication and lamentation to God

[6]   Whilst thou art in the world strive in the pleasure of zikr va filer of the present .As ,when no water remained ,
Adam let go the garden of the house of safety Paradise

[7]   On our part ,at thy threshold ,many are thy rights of service .
O Sir again ,in pity ,look upon thy slave who ,at least ,hath not quitted thy threshold

[8]   The disciple of the cup of Jamshld is Hafiz .O breeze ,go
And give salutation from the slave to the Shaikh of Jam .

[1]  Komm o Weiser und schau hinein in den Spiegel des Bechers,Schaue die Lust des purpurnen Weines!

[2]  Frag' um verborgenen Sinn die Eingeweihten des Bechers,Weil auch hievon die Frömmsten Nichts ahnen.

[3]  Keiner hat erjagt den Simurg, o zieh die Garne zusammenDenn es schwillt nur vom Winde das Netz auf.Auf! Genieße die Zeit, und gedenke: dem Vater der MenschenBlieb in Elisiums Fluren der Trunk nicht.

[4]  Leere der Becher ein Paar, beym Feste des Lebens und fort dann!Geiz' nicht hienieden nach stätem Genuße.

[5]  Hin ist die Jugend! o Herz, und keine Blume gepflücket,Nach Namen und Tugend streb nun im Alter:

[8]  Ostwind höre! Hafis ist ein treuer Jünger des BechersGeh und grüß mir den Herrn vom Weinhaus.

[1]  If again befall me passing into the tavern of the Magians the perfect murshid
The produce of the khirka and of the prayer - mat ,running recklessly I will play away and lose

[2]   If to - day ,like the zahids ,I beat the ring of penitence ,
To - morrow ,open to me the door ,the wine - house - guardian maketh not .

[3]   If like the moth ,freedom from care aid me ,
Save to that candle - like luminous cheek ,no flight is mine .

[4]   The society of the Hur ,I desire not .For ,the essence of defect it is
If ,despite the fancy for Thee ,with another ,I disport .

[5]   Hidden in my chest would have remained passion's desire for Thee ,
If my eye ,wet of skirt ,the secret had not revealed .

[6]   Like the bird from the cage of dust the dusty body I became of the air flying here and there ,and searching
In the desire that ,perchance ,me the falcon the perfect murshid or the Aril a prey may make .

[7]   If like the cord - slackened harp ,me by reason of the slackness of its cords the heart's desire thou give not ,
At last ,with Thy lips ,with a breath ,me ,like the reed flute cherish .

[8]   To none ,I utter the circumstances of my heart ,blood become
Since that ,save the sword of grief for Thee ,my fellow - consoler is none .

[9]   If ,on Hafiz's body ,be a head for every hair .
Like Thy long trailing tress ,all at Thy feet ,I cast .

[1]  Wenn es mir einmal noch gelingt, Die Schenke vorbeizugehen, So will ich mit dem Ordenskleid Den Teppich sogar verspielen.

[2]  Wenn ich wie Büßer heut im Ring Der Reue herum mich drehe, So wird der Schenke Pförtner mir Denn morgen die Thür nicht öffnen.

[3]  Doch wenn ich meine Herzensruh Dem Schmetterling gleich verspiele, So werde ich nur an dem Licht Der Wangen herum mich tummeln.

[4]  Ich wünsche die Huris mir nicht, Es wäre der Fehler größter, Wenn du vor meinen Sinnen schwebst, Den andern mich hinzugeben.

[5]  Es würde meine Leidenschaft Verborgen im Herzen liegen, Wenn meine Thränen nicht zuerst Verräther gewesen wären.

[6]  Ich schwang mich einem Vogel gleich Empor in die Luft vom Staube, Beseelet von Begier, daß Sie Als Beute mich fangen möchte.

[7]  Willst du mich, wie die Laute, nicht Mit offnem Busen umfangen, So hauche mir von deinen Lippen Wie Flöten nur einen Hauch zu.

[8]  Mein Herz ist Blut, doch will ich dies Wohl Andern nicht vertrauen, Denn deiner Augen Wimpern sind Gewöhnet an meine Leiden.

[9]  Und wenn Hafis an jedem Haar Ein eignes Haupt besäße, So würde er doch jedes Haupt Aufopfern auf deinem Wege.

[1]  Not in pursuit of pomp and of pageant ,to this door of the murshid we have come
For shelter from ill - fortune ,here we have come .

[2]   Way - farers of love's stage are we and from the limits of non - existence ,
Up to the climes of existence ,all this way we have come .

[3]   The freshness of Thy down ,we saw and ,from the garden of paradise ,
In search of this love - grass ,we have come .

[4]   With such treasure ,whose treasurer is the faithful spirit Jibra ,il
In beggary to the door of the King's house we have come .

[5]   O bark of grace the family of Muhammad thy anchor of patience 'Ali Murtaza is where
For ,in this ocean of liberality ,immersed in sin we have come .

[6]   O cloud ,sin - cleansing honour goeth mercy rain
For in the court of action as opposed to theory black of book ,we have come ,

[7]   Hafiz this woollen khirka of outward worship cast .For with love's consuming and melting
From behind the kafila with the fire of sighing and wailing we have come .

[1]  Ob Pracht und Größe bin ich nicht Zu dieser Thür gekommen. Mich zu verwahren vor dem Loos, Bin ich hierher gekommen.

[2]  Ich wandle auf der Liebe Pfad, Und von des Nichtseyns Gränzen Bis in das Land des Seyns bin ich Hieher des Wegs gekommen.

[3]  Ich sah den grünen Flaum des Barts, Und bin vom Paradiese, Zu pflücken dieses seltne Kraut, Ganz eigens hergekommen.

[4]  Der Hüter über solchen Schatz, Ist Gabriel der Engel, Als Bettler bin ich zu der Thür Des Schatzes hergekommen.

[5]  O Schiff der Leitung und der Huld! Wo ist der Güte Anker? Ich bin im Meere dieser Welt In die Gefahr gekommen.

[6]  O Regen, der die Sünden wäscht, Mein Wangenglanz verschwindet, Wasch' mich, ich bin durch meine Schuld In's schwarze Buch gekommen.

[7]  Hafis wirf weg das woll'ne Kleid, O wirf es in das Feuer, Denn hinter Karawanen her Bin ich mit Weh gekommen.

[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]  With this beauteous writing that on the rose of thy cheek thou drawest ,
On the page leaf of the rose ,and of the rose - bed ,the line of effacement thou drawest .

[2]   My tear ,sitting in the fold of the hidden house ,*
From within the seven screens to the market of renown Thou drawest .

[3]   By the perfume of thy tress ,the sluggish mover like the soft morning breeze ,
Momently ,in bond and chain into swift action ,Thou drawest .

[4]   Momently ,in recollection of that lip ,wine of hue and of that intoxicated eye ,
Me ,from khilvat to the vintner's house ,Thou drawest .

[5]   O true Beloved Thou saidest Thy head bound to our saddle - strap is fit
'Tis easy here is my head if the trouble of this load ,Thou endurest .

[6]   With against Thy eye and eye - brow ,what deliberation of heart may I make
Alas this bow that ,against me miserable ,Thou drawest .

[7]   Come back so that ,with Thy cheek ,far I may put the evil - eye ,
O fresh rose ,that ,from this thorn Hafiz ,possessed of imperious lust Thy skirt Thou drawest .

[8]   Hafiz from the favour of time ,what more seekest thou
Wine thou tastest and through the hand the heart - possessor's tress thou drawest .

[1]  Mit Schönheits-Linien, die du Auf deinen Wangen ziehst, Ist's sicher, daß du einen Strich Durch Rosenbeete ziehst.

[2]  Betracht', daß meine Thränen, (die In dem Harem der Brust Geheimnißvoll versenket sind) Du auf den Markt hinziehst.

[3]  Ha, wie mit deiner Locken Duft Du jeden Augenblick, Dem Ostwind gleich ein jedes Herz In deine Bande ziehst!

[4]  Und wie du jeden Augenblick Durch dein berauschtes Aug', Und durch der trunknen Lippen Duft Mich in die Schenke ziehst.

[5]  Du sprichst, es ziemt sich, daß dein Haupt In meinen Banden sey, Sehr wohl! wenn du nur diese Last Mit Freuden nach dir ziehst.

[6]  Soll ich mich wider deine Brau'n Berathen mit dem Aug'? O weh! des Bogens, welchen du Straf auf mich Kranken ziehst.

[7]  Komm', daß von deinem Angesicht Ich wend' das böse Aug', O frische Rose! welche du Den Saum durch Dornen ziehst.

[8]  Hafis! wiewohl du dir verlangst Die Güter dieser Welt, Das Beste ist doch, daß du trinkst Und Freundeslocken ziehst.

[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 .