[1]  The abode of peace ,unalloyed wine ,and the kind companion ,
If ever attainable these be to thee ,O excellent the grace of God

[2]   The world and the world's work ,all naught in naught is
The verifying of this matter ,a thousand times ,I have made .

[3]   Regret and sorrow that ,up to this time ,I knew not ,
That the alchemy of happiness is^ the Friend ,the Friend

[4]   To a place of safety ,go opportunity ,reckon the plunder of time
For ,in the ambuscades of life ,are the highwaymen of the Path .

[5]   O Saki come .For penitence for the ruby lip of the true Beloved and for the laughter the sparkling of the cup ,
Is an imagination ,verification whereof reason maketh not .

[6]   Although ,to one contemptible like me ,the slender hair of thy small waist reacheth not ,
From the thought of this subtle matter ,happy is my heart .

[7]   That darkish beauty that is in the chin - pit of thine ,
To its profound depth ,reach not many a thought profound .

[8]   If ,with the colour of red cornelian ,my tear be ,what wonder
For like red cornelian ,is the seal of the seal - ring of my eye .

[9]   With laughter ,he the Saki spake ,saying Hafiz the servant of thy nature ,I am
Behold to what degree ,me a fool ,he the Saki maketh .

[1]  Wo ist ein Herz, daß es mich führ' Pfade des Heils,Auf keinem Wege konnt' ich zu dem Freund gelangen.

[2]  Sicherer Ort, lauterer Wein, treuer Gesell,Sind diese drey dir stets bescher't, o gutes Schicksal!

[3]  Wissen der Welt, Thaten der Welt, Alles ist Nichts,Ich habe tausendmal dies Wort als wahr bewähret.

[4]  Leider und Ach! Daß ich bis jetzt nimmer gewußt,Daß mein Geleitsmann auch des Glückes Geleit' gewesen.

[5]  Suche dir schnell sicheren Ort, nütze die Zeit,Denn Räuber liegen in des Lebens Hinterhalte.

[6]  Ueber das Glas, und den Rubin, Buße zu thun,Ist eine Fantasie, die der Verstand nicht gut heißt.

[7]  Mitte des Leib's! fein wie ein Haar! nimmer umschließ'Ich dich, doch froh ist mein Gemüth des feinen Bildes.

[8]  Grübchen des Kinns! Was du an Reiz heimlich verbirgst,Wird nie ergründen hunderttausendfache Weisheit.

[9]  Ob des Rubins, den ich geweint, wundert Euch nicht,Ein flammender Pyrop ist meines Auges Siegel.

[1]  The eye of expectation of friendship from friends we had
Verily ,'twas mistake that which we thought .

[2]   Let us see ,when fruit ,the tree of friendship will give
Now ,we have departed and a seed zikr va fikr we have sown .

[3]   Not the way usage of the darvish is discussion of complaint of the true Beloved ,or of the murshid
If not ,to narrate passed circumstances to thee we had .

[4]   The way of thy eye ,battle's deceit had ,
This we knew not and peace ,we sowed .

[5]   Not of itself ,heart - fascinating became the rose - bush of thy beauty
On it ,the breath of blessing ,we established .

[6]   Subtleties passed and complaint ,none made
Aside ,dignity we put not .

[7]   The true Beloved said Hafiz to Us ,thou thyself gavest thy heart
To none ,the tax - collector ,we sent .

[1]  Freundschaft hab' ich von Freunden erwartet, Leider! hab' ich hierin mich geirret.

[2]  Ach wann tragen die Bäume der Freundschaft, Jetzt erst hab' ich den Saamen gepflanzet.

[3]  Leere Rede geziemt nicht Derwischen, Was geschehen, ist einmal geschehen.

[4]  Deine Augen betrogen mit List uns, Doch wir meinten, dies wäre nur Friede,

[5]  Deine Schönheit betrog sich allein nicht, Mit betrogen ward muthiger Sinn auch.

[6]  Vieles spricht man, doch keiner beklagt sich, Denn wir haben die Huld nicht vergessen,

[7]  Mein, so sprach sie, Hafis, du bist mein nun, Keinen Sammelnden hab' ich bestellet.

[1]  From us ,wherefore seeketh thou peace ,when ,to the intoxicated ,an invitation we uttered
At the revolution of thy intoxicated eye ,farewell to safety we uttered .

[2]   Open me the door of the wine - house of love and drink wine that divine mysteries may be revealed to thee for ,from the monastery ,naught is revealed
If thine be belief of my word if not ,this was the speech ,we uttered .

[3]   O Saki by thy eye ,ruined intoxicated I have fallen .But ,
A calamity that cometh from the friend ,to it ,a thousand welcomes we uttered .

[4]   If me thou forgive not ,thou wilt at last suffer regret ,
In thy heart ,keep this matter ,where a complaint in thy service we uttered

[5]   We said Thy stature is the lofty box - tree much shame it bringeth to fruit
To the box - tree this similarity why made we and this calumny why is it that we uttered

[6]   Like a bloody musk - pod ,blood became my liver and for me was fit not less than this ,
Its requital because ,in comparison with His glorious ,beperfumed tress the word of the mean musk of Chin by mistake ,we uttered .

[7]   O Hafiz fire through grief of separation thou hast become but ,with the true Beloved ,it took no effect
From infidelity to the covenant of the rose ,thou mayst say the tale to the wind we uttered .

[1]  Was suchest du bei uns das Heil? Bewillkommt haben wir die Trunkenen, Wir haben zur Narzißenzeit Zu deinem Heil Gebete hergesagt.

[2]  Ich steh' am Schenkenthor, mach auf! Das Kloster hat uns wahrlich nichts genützt. Glaub' oder nicht, dies ist das Wort, Das wir so oft dir haben vorgesagt.

[3]  Es hat o Schenke! mich dein Aug' Zerstört, ich bin verwüstet und dahin! Dem Unglück, das vom Freunde kam, Hab' ich mit Lust Willkommen hergesagt.

[4]  Wenn du dich meiner nicht erbarmst, So wirst du einst bereuen deine That, Bewahre stets in dem Gemüth, Was deinem Dienst zu Liebe ich gesagt.

[5]  Ich sprach ein Buchsbaum ist dein Wuchs, Deß schämte sich vor mir der traute Freund, Er sprach: Was soll denn der Vergleich, Welch' eine Kinderey hast du gesagt.

[6]  Mein ganzes Herz ist voll von Blut, Wie Blasen, die der reine Moschus füllt, Und dies ist Strafe, wohl verdient, Weil ich von krummen Locken hab' gesagt.

[7]  Hafis du wurdest zwar zur Gluth, Jedoch ergreift sie deine Freundinn nicht, Ich habe von der Rose Thun, Dem Ostwind die Geschichte hergesagt.

[1]  O Saki 'tis the morn of youth full of wine of divine knowledge a goblet make :
The sky's revolution delayeth not haste make .

[2]   Before that ruined this vanishing world becometh ,
With the cup of ruddy wine true love us ,ruined intoxicated make .

[3]   From the east ,the cup the heart of 'Arifs the sun of wine divine knowledge made appear
If true pleasure thou seek ,abandoning of the sleep of carelessness make .

[4]   One day ,when out of our clay ,pitchers the sky maketh ,
Take care ,the cup skull - pan of our head full of wine true love for God make .

[5]   Not the man of austerity ,nor of penitence ,nor of foolish talk are we ,
To us ,with a cup of pure wine truth address make .

[6]   Hafiz wine - worshipping love - playing ; divine knowledge - gathering is the good work
Arise to the good work ,the face of resolution turn .

[1]  Schenke, Morgen ist's! Fülle den Becher mit Wein, Eile, eil', denn es harret die Zeit nicht auf uns.

[2]  Schenk'! eh' daß noch die nichtige Erde zerfällt Wollen selber wir fallen in röthlichen Wein.

[3]  Sieh! es steigt aus dem Becher die Sonne des Weins. Wenn nach Lust dich verlanget, verkürze den Schlaf.

[4]  Krüge werden aus unserem Thon nicht geformt, Füllt, o füllet dann unsere Schädel mit Wein.

[5]  Was bekümmre ich mich um Zellen und Reu', Rede, rede mich an mit dem Becher voll Wein.

[6]  Weinverehrung, Hafis, ist ein gutes Geschäft, Stehe auf und verwend' dich zum guten Geschäft.

[1]  One lofty of stature ,bold ,picture - player o f mine
Made short the tale of renown of the long austerity of mine .

[2]   O heart thou sawest at the end of old age ,of austerity ,and of knowledge ,
What ,with me ,it did ,the eye of the beloved o f mine

[3]   The destruction of my faith ,I fear .For taketh ,
The prayer - arch of Thy eyebrow the presence essence of prayer of mine .

[4]   To myself I said With the garment of hypocrisy ,love's trace ,I concealed ;
The informer was the tear and made manifest the mystery of mine .

[5]   Intoxicated ,is the Friend and recollection of rivals lovers maketh not
His mention be for good ,the Saki ,the wretched - cherisher of mine .

[6]   O Lord when bloweth that breeze ,from whose fragrant breath
A perfume of His mercy becometh the work - doer of mine

[7]   With weeping ,a picture on water I depict .Now ,
How long associated becometh the truth with the illusory of mine

[8]   On myself ,like the laughing candle consuming and melting I weep ,
Till I see what with thee ,O heart of stone ,maketh worketh the consuming of mine .

[9]   Zahid equal are we when a work favourably proceedeth neither by prayer of thine ;
Nor also ,by the nightly intoxication and consuming and supplicating of mine .

[10]   With grief Hafiz burned .O breeze his state ,say
To the King ,friend - cherisher ,enemy - destroyer ,of mine .

[1]  Mein hohes Liebchen, voll Liebkosungen, Hat die Enthaltsamkeit mir abgekürzt.

[2]  Siehst du, was Alter, Tugend, Wissenschaft Mir angethan hat, sprach ich zu dem Liebchen.

[3]  Ich fürchte meiner Frömmigkeit Ruin. Der Brauen Hochaltar raubt mir die Ruhe.

[4]  Die Thränen haben mich in Gluth gestürzt, Sie haben mein Geheimniß ausgeplaudert.

[5]  Mein Freund ist trunken, denk' des Freundes nicht. Der Schenke gnädig für die Armen lebe.

[6]  O Herr! wann weht der Hauch des Morgenwinds, Durch dessen Duft ich einst gerettet werde?

[7]  Ich mahl' ein Bild auf meiner Thränen Fluth, Wann wird, o Herr! das Bildliche erst wirklich?

[8]  Wie Kerzen lächelnd wein' ich über mich. O steinern Herz, was macht die Fluth und Flamme!

[9]  O Mönch! Nichts kömmt aus dem Gebet heraus, Viel besser ists, bey Tag und Nacht zu trinken.

[10]  Der Gram verzehrt Hafisen, sag's, o Wind! Dem Schah, der Freunde nährt, und Feinde sengt.

[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 .