[1]  Of His black tress the world complaint I have to such a degree that ask not
For ,on account of it ,without means and resource ,I am become in such a way that ask not .

[2]   In the hope of its fidelity ,let none abandon heart and soul the being a lover
For ,of this done ,I am penitent to such a degree that ask not .

[3]   For the sake of one draught of wine wherein is the injury of none .
From the ignorant man ,such torment 1 suffer that ask not .

[4]   Zahid from us in peace depart for this ruby wine
Taketh from ths hand ,heart and faith in that way that ask not .

[5]   In this Path ,the talk is that life melteth :
Every one the contention of this one is that look not of that one ,that ask not .

[6]   Corner of retirement taking and safety were my desire .But ,
That maddening narcissus practiseth a way that ask not .

[7]   I said From the ball of the sky ,I ask the present state
It said In the curve of the chaugan ,that I endure that ask not .

[8]   To Him the true Beloved I said : By whose malice ,dishevelledest Thou Thy tress He said
Hafiz long is this tale by the Kuran I conjure thee that ask not .

[1]  Ueber schöne schwarze LockenKlag' ich so viel, frage mich nicht.Denn sie haben mich von meinenSinnen gebracht, frage nicht.

[2]  Hoffend auf die Treu' verlasseKeiner die Seel', oder das Herz.Denn ich habe oft genug schonDieses bereut, frage nicht.

[3]  Wegen eines HefenrestesWelcher kein Leid Menschen gethan,Muß ich Armer von den ThorenTragen zu viel, frage nicht.

[4]  Frommer Mann o geh' vorüberRuhig und still, denn der RubinIn dem Glase hat mir Seele,Glauben geraubt, frage nicht.

[5]  Manche Sage geht, es würdenSeelen zerschmelzt wandernd allhier,Jedermann ist in Verwirrung;Schaue du nicht, frage nicht.

[6]  In dem Winkel wollt' ich sitzenNur auf das Heil einzig bedachtDoch da schmeichelte so viel mirJene Narziß, frage nicht.

[7]  Fragen wollt' ich erst den HimmelUeber das Weh meines Gefühls;Himmel dienen mir statt BallenSagte der Freund, frage nicht.

[8]  Weßhalb sprach ich zu dem Freunde,Hast du das Haar zornig gekrümmt,Lang' sprach er ist die GeschichteWahrlich Hafis! frage nicht.

[1]  The breeze of love's perfume ,I perceived and ,expectant of the flashing of the lightning of union ,became
O cool breeze of the north come for ,for the perfume of thy body ,I die

[2]   O song - uttering driver of the camels of the Beloved stand ,and alight
For ,in desire of the Beloved's beauty ,no patience is mine .

[3]   O heart the complaint of the night of separation ,let go
In thanks that the day of union hath up - cast the screen of the night of separation

[4]   O Friend come .For the seven - fold - rose tear shedding screen of the eye ,
On the writing of the workshop of Thy tender fancy ,I have drawn .

[5]   When the Beloved is in desire of peace ; and excuse asketh ,
In every state ,one can pass by and pardon the violence of the watcher .

[6]   In my straitened heart ,is naught save the fancy of Thy small mouth
Like me ,in pursuit of vain fancy ,be none

[7]   Slain by love for Thee ,became the stranger ,Hafiz ,but ,
By our dust ,pass for lawful to Thee is our blood .

[8]   Trodden by the foot of grief ,perturbed ,is my heart
Even as acquainted with its state is none .

[1]  Ich hab' den Schleier des Auges

[2]  Ich roch der Liebe Gerüche,Ich roch den Blitz des Genußes.Komm Morgenwind, denn ich möchteVor deinem Dufte vergehen.

[3]  Kameltreiber, der singendKamele locket, o warte!Denn voll von Sehnsucht nach SchönheitKann ich unmöglich dir folgen.

[4]  Mein Herz mach' einmal ein EndeDer Klagen über die Trennung,Es hat der Tag des GenußesZurückgeworfen den Schleier

[5]  Den siebenfachen verwendet,Der Fantasien Gemächer,Mit selben schön zu bekleiden.

[6]  Sobald das Liebchen sich freundlichErzeigt und Frieden begehret,Ist's leicht sich über die UnbildDes Nebenbuhlers zu trösten.

[7]  Es liegt im Winkel des HerzensNach deinem Munde die Sehnsucht;O laß' sich's Keiner gelüstenSolch einen Wunsch zu verfolgen!

[1]  Even as in the rose - season the time of manifestations of glories of mysteries of repentance of wine love I became ashamed ,
So of un - upright conduct abandoning wine - drinking let none be ashamed .

[2]   My counsel the circulation of the cup is all the snare of the Path and ,of the argument ,
On account of the lovely one ,or of the Saki ,in no way am I ashamed .

[3]   It may be that ,through His compassionate nature ,the true Beloved asketh not my sin
For ,of question I am vexed and of answer ,ashamed .

[4]   Of the blood ,that ,last night ,went flowing from the pavilion of the eye ,
In the sight of the night - prowlers of sleep that come upon the path of the eye we were ashamed .

[5]   Lawful it is ,if the intoxicated narcissus cast down its head
For ,of that Beloved's eye full of wrath ,it became ashamed .

[6]   Than the resplendent sun ,more beauteous of face ,thou art .Thanks to God
That ,in the sun's face ,of thee O murshid I am not ashamed .

[7]   The veil of the Zulmat darkness the gleaming water of life of Khizr established for the reason that it became ,
Of the pure nature of Hafiz and of this his poetry lustrous like water ,ashamed .

[8]   Beneath the lip ,poison - laughter ,why expresseth the cup ,
If ,of Thy ruby lip ,the ruddy wine became not ashamed

[9]   Its face in the veil of the shell ,it the pure pearl concealed on that account ,
That ,of the pearls of my lustrous verse ,the pearl of pure water became ashamed .

[1]  Ich habe nie vor deiner ThürNoch meine Wangen abgewendet,Durch Gottes Gnade hab' ich michDerselben nicht zu schämen.

[2]  Ich fieng an in der RosenzeitDer Reu' des Trinkens mich zu schämen,Und doch soll Niemand deß, was erNicht recht gethan sich schämen.

[3]  Es ist die EingezogenheitAuf meinem Wege nur ein Fallstrick,Denn ich will mich der Schönen nichtUnd nicht der Schenken schämen.

[4]  Die Freundinn wird ob ihrer HuldMit Fragen mich vielleicht verschonen,Mich kränkt die Frage und ich mußDer Antwort mich nur schämen.

[5]  Des Blutes halb, das gestern nachtsGeflossen ist von meinen Augen,War vor den Nachtgesichtern ichIm Falle mich zu schämen.

[6]  it allem Recht hängt die NarzißDen Kopf auf eine Seite nieder,Sie muß sich vor des Liebchens Aug'Sobald es zürnet, schämen.

[7]  Es überscheint der Sonnenglanz,Der Glanz von deinem Angesicht,Gott sey gelobt! ich habe michVor dir doch nicht zu schämen. Warum, lacht wohl das Glas voll WeinSo giftig zwischen deinen Lippen?Es muß vor dem Rubin des MundsDer Wein gewiß sich schämen. Die Perle hat ihr AngesichtVersteckt im Schleier einer Muschel;Denn vor den Perlen des GesangsMuß sie sich billig schämen. D

[1]  Friends in the rose - season ,that best that for pleasure we strive
This the word of the Plr of the Magians the murshid is .With soul ,let us listen .

[2]   In none ,is liberality that we may have even a groat wherewith to drink wine passeth joy's time
Its remedy is this ,for wine ,the prayer - mat ,we sell .

[3]   Tis a pleasant air ,joy - giving .O God send
One of gracious form ,to whose face ,wine ,rose of hue ,we may drink .

[4]   One of skill Zuhra is the organ - player of the sky ,highway - robber
Of this grief ,bewail we not how and clamour we not ,why

[5]   Into tumult of blossom came the rose and its lustre ,we dashed not with wine ,
Therefore ,with the fire of regret and of desire ,we clamour .

[6]   From the tulip's cup ,illusory wine we draw
Far ,the evil eye For without the minstrel and wine ,distraught are we .

[7]   Hafiz to whom can one utter this wonderful state For ,we
Are bulbuls that ,in the rose - season ,silent are .

[1]  Freunde die Tage der Rosen sind da, Besser ist's sich zu erfreuen. Höret so spricht der erfahrne Wirth, Höret mit Seele die Worte:

[2]  Keiner erbarmet Anderer sich, Zeiten der Freude verstreichen, Wahrlich ich kenne nicht besseren Roth, Kaufet Euch Wein für den Teppich.

[4]  Höret! der Himmel was orgelt er auf? Stiehlt er nicht ehrlichen Leuten? Sollen wir dieses mit Schweigen ansehn, Sollen hierob wir nicht schreyen?

[5]  Sehet! die Rose wie ist sie entflammt, Wein ist uns nöthig zum Löschen. Deßhalb entbrennen wir selber vor Lust, Flammen empor vor Begierde.

[6]  Denn im Gedanken nur trinken wir Wein, Schlürfen denselben aus Tulpen; Ferne die Neider! denn ohne den Wein, Ohne den Sänger behagt Nichts.

[7]  Welchem Vertrauten erzählst du Hafis, Dieses erstaunliche Wunder, Daß du wahrhaftig die Nachtigall bist, Schweigend in Tagen der Rosen.

[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 .