[1]  For God's sake come to my cry relief O pious ones murshids of the age forth from the hand of control goeth my heart in perturbation For God's sake come to my cry and aid me
O the pain that the hidden mystery of love should be disclosed .

[2]   We are boat - stranded ones O fair breeze the murshid or divine love arise
It may be that ,again ,we may behold the face of the Beloved God

[3]   For the short space of ten days ,the sphere's favour is magic and sorcery entrancing
O friend regard as booty ,goodness in friends companions ,disciples

[4]   Last night in the assembly of the rose and of wine the banquet of taste ,of desire ,of glories ,of splendour ,of love for God 'the bulbul murshid sweetly sang
O Saki give wine O intoxicated ones come to life

[5]   O generous one in thanks for thy own safety
One day ,make inquiry of the welfare of the foodless darvlsh .

[6]   The ease of two worlds this and the next is the explanation of these two words
With friends ,kindness with enemies ,courtesy .

[7]   In the street of good name outward rectitude they Fate and Destiny gave us no admission If thou approve not ,change our Fate .
That true wine of the love of God ,which is like to thee bitter wine ,which the

[8]   Sufi Muhammad called The mother of iniquities ,
To us ,is more pleasant and more sweet than the kisses of virgins .

[9]   In the time of straitedness ,strive in pleasure and in intoxication
For ,this elixir of existence maketh the beggar rich as Karun .

[10]   Be not arrogant for thee ,like a candle ,with wrath will consume ,
The Heart - Ravisher the true Beloved ,God in whose hand ,the hard stone is as soft wax .

[11]   The cup of wine the heart filled with recollection of God is Sikandar's mirror .Behold ,
So that it may show thee the state of Dara's kingdom the soul

[12]   Life - givers ,are the lovely ones ,Persian - prattling
O Saki this news ,give to the old men of Pars Persia

[13]   Of himself ,Hafiz put not on this patched ,wine - stained garment of poverty
O shaikh ,pure of skirt hold us excused .

[1]  Meiner Hand ist das Herz entflohen ihr Herzenbesitzer!Wehe! bey Gott! Weh mir! denn das Geheimniß ist weg!

[4]  Gestern tönte so schön von Wein und Rosen AodiBringet den Morgenwein, o ihr Betrunkenen her!

[5]  Gnädiger Herr! aus schuldigem Dank für blühenden WohlstandFraget doch eines Tags, wie es Derwischen ergeht.

[6]  Ruhe hienieden und dort verbürgen diese zwey Worte:Liebreich begegne dem Freund, Feinden begegne mit Gunst.

[7]  Mir ward Eintritt ins Land des guten Namens versaget.Tadler, gefällt es dir nicht, änd're das ewige Loos.

[8]  Dieser bittere Saft, dem Weisen die Mutter der LasterSchmeckt viel lieblicher mir als ein jungfräulicher Kuß:

[9]  In unfreundlicher Zeit genieß, und freu dich des Rausches!Dieser Alchymiker macht Bettler wie Karun beglückt.

[10]  Sträube dich nicht, sonst wirst du wie Kerzen in Gluthen verflammen,In der Geliebten Hand werden die Steine zu Wachs.

[11]  Schau in das Glas! es ist der Spiegel des griechischen Königs,Alle Plane Daro's wirst du erspähen darinn

[12]  Persische Schönen verleihn mit ihren Worten das Leben,Greisen und Frömmlingen gieb Schenke die Kunde davon!

[13]  Ach nicht mit Willen besudelt Hafis die Kleider mit Weinfleck.Frommer Lehrer verzeih! O du verzeihest es ihm.

[1]  Back to Kin'an ,lost Yusuf cometh suffer not grief
One day ,the sorrowful cell becometh the rose - garden suffer not grief .

[2]   O grief - stricken heart better ,becometh thy state ; display not the ill - heart :
Back to reason ,cometh this distraught head suffer not grief .

[3]   If on the sward's throne ,again be the spring of life ,
O bird ,night - singing over thy head ,thou mayst draw the canopy of the rose suffer not grief .

[4]   If ,for a space of two days ,to our desire ,the sphere's revolutions turned not ,
Ever ,in one way ,the state of revolution is not suffer not grief .

[5]   Ho since thou art not acquainted with the hidden mystery ,be not hopeless :
Within the screen ,are hidden pastimes suffer not grief .

[6]   O heart if the fdundation of thy existence ,the torrent of passing away mortality pluck up ,
Since Nuh is thy boat - master ,of the deluge ,suffer not grief .

[7]   If ,from desire of pilgrimage to the Ka'ba thou wilt plant thy foot in the desert ,
Then if the mighty Arabian thorn make reproofs ,suffer not grief .

[8]   Although the stage of this world is very fearsome and the purpose hidden ,
There is not a road ,whereof is no end suffer not grief .

[9]   In separation from the Beloved ,and vexing on the part of the watcher ,our state of perturbation and confusion
All ,God ,our state causing ,knoweth suffer not grief .

[10]   In the corner of poverty and in the solitude of dark nights ,Hafiz ,
So long as thine are the practice of praying and the reading of the Kuran wherein is the salvation of the next world suffer not grief .

[1]  Der verlorene JusufKommt nach Kanaan, gräme dich nicht.Aus der Zelle des GramsWird ein Rosenbeet, gräme dich nicht.

[2]  Dieses traurige HerzWird beruhiget, werde nicht bös.Diesem störrigen KopfWird Vernunft zu Theil, gräme dich nicht.

[3]  Kehr't der Frühling des LebensZu des Wiesengrüns Brautbeet zurück,Wird die Nachtigall auchRosenzelte bau'n, gräme dich nicht.

[4]  Wenn der greisende HimmelEin Paar Tage nach Lust dir nicht thut,Denke, greisender LaufFodert Ungleichheit, gräme dich nicht.

[5]  Du verzweifle nicht, wenn duDas Geheimniß des Himmels nicht weißt.Denn es hüllet ein SchleyerViel Geheimniße des Himmels, gräme dich nicht.

[6]  Wenn der Strom des VerderbensDer Erwartung Gebäude zerstört,Bleibt im Wirbel der FluthRuh dein Steuermann, gräme dich nicht.

[7]  Willst du Wüsten durchwandern,Voll Begierde die Kaaba zu seh'n,Wenn die Distel dich sticht,Oder Dornenbusch, gräme dich nicht.

[8]  Zwar der Weg ist gefährlich,Und von ferne das Ziel nicht zu spähn,Doch bestehet kein Weg,Der nicht endiget, gräme dich nicht.

[9]  Meine Lage, die TrennungVom Geliebten, des Neiders Bemüh'n.Alles, alles durchschautGott, der Welten lenkt, sorge dich nicht.

[10]  Und so lange bei finstrerNacht im Wirbel der Armuth HafisDie Gebote vollzieht,Und den Koran lies't, gräme dich nicht.

[1]  If ,from this stage this world of travel towards the house my native land ,the next world I go
When there again I go ,wise and learned ,I go .

[2]   If ,from this journey ,in safety to my native land ,I return ,
I vow that ,by the way to the wine - house of love I go .

[3]   To utter what became revealed to me ,from this travelling and journeying ,
With the harp and the wine - cup ,to the door of the wine - house I go .

[4]   If friends of the Path of love drink my blood ,
Mean one ,am I if ,in complaint ,to the stranger ,I go .

[5]   After this together are my hand ,and the chain - like tress of the idol the true Beloved
In pursuit of the desire of my distraught heart ,how long ,how long do I go

[6]   If ,again ,the curve of His eye - brow like the prayer - arch I see
Bending in thanks ,I make and for the sake of thanks - giving ,I go .

[7]   Happy that moment ,when ,like Hafiz ,in attachment to the vazir ,
From the wine - house to my own house my native land ,the next world happy of head ,with the Friend 1 go -

[1]  Wenn aus der Fremde ich vielleicht Einmal nach Haus soll gehen, So will ich mit verständ'gem Sinn Und wohlbedächtig gehen.

[2]  Und kehr' ich unbeschädigt heim Von dieser weiten Reise, So halte ich auch mein Gelübd, Ins Weinhaus hinzugehen.

[3]  Um kund zu thun der ganzen Welt, Was ich erfahren habe, Will ich mit meinem Saitenspiel Zur Seitenthüre gehen.

[4]  Und wird mein Blut am Liebespfad Von Freunden ausgetrunken, Ich wär' ein Elender, wenn ich Drob könnte klagen gehen.

[5]  Von nun gehöret mein das Haus, Was soll nach Lockenketten Mein Herz, das durchaus närrisch ist, Ob seinen Wünschen gehen?

[6]  Wenn ich des Freundes Augenbraun' Statt des Altares sehe, So will ich gern aus Dankbarkeit Zu dem Gebete gehen.

[7]  O gute Zeit, wenn, wie Hafis, In den Wesir verliebet, Und trunken aus der Schenke ich Zum Liebling werde gehen.

[1]  The decision of the Pir of the Magians ,I have ; and an old saying ,it is ,
That unlawful is wine there ,where is neither the friend nor the companion .

[2]   This ragged religious garment of hypocrisy I will rend what shall I do
The society of the uncongenial nature is excruciating torment to the soul .

[3]   So that ,perchance ,on me ,the true Beloved's lip may scatter a draught
For that reason ,years dweller I have become at the door of the wine - house of love

[4]   Perchance ,passed from His memory hath my ancient service :
O morning breeze Him ,recollection of the ancient covenant ,give .

[5]   If ,after a hundred years ,Thy perfume blow over my dust ,
Forth from the clay of the grave its head the rotten bone dancing bringeth .

[6]   First ,from us ,with a hundred hopes ,the Heart - Ravisher took our heart
Apparently ,the covenant ,His merciful nature forgetteth not .

[7]   To the rose - bud the seeker who ,by not attaining the object of his heart ,is strait of heart speak ,saying : Of thy entangled work ,strait of heart be not
For ,from morn's breath ,and from the spirits of the breeze the perfect murshid aid thou wilt gain .

[8]   O heart thought of thy own welfare make by another door the door of the true Beloved
By the physician's treatment ,better becometh not the lover's pain .

[9]   The jewel of divine knowledge ,amass ,that ,it with thyself ,to the next world ,thou mayst take
For after thy death the portion of others is the wealth of gold and of silver .

[10]   Strong is the world's snare from it ,escape is impossible unless God's grace become thy friend ally
If not ,over Shaitan whelmed with stones ,Adam man prevailed not .

[11]   Hafiz if silver and gold thine be not ,what matter Be grateful .
Than the fortune of thy grace of speech ,and of thy gentle thought ,what better fortune

[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]  To me ,from the heart - ravisher who will convey the kindness of a letter of a pen
The foot - man of the wind is where ,if he still doeth a kindness

[2]   In love's path ,I considered that the deliberation of wisdom
Is like a little night - dew ,that ,on the sea ,draweth a mark wrinkle

[3]   Come for ,though my khirka is the endowment of the wine - house ,
Of the property of endowment ,thou seest not to my name even a diram .

[4]   O heart Saki head - pain giveth the tale of how and why
The cup of pure wine take and ,from the care of thy own life ,rest a moment .

[5]   Love's pain knoweth not the road - sitting physician the dry zahid ; the sufi ,void of wisdom
O one dead of heart go to hand get a Masih - breath .

[6]   From hypocrisy ,my heart took flight and the drum was beneath the blanket
Come ,so that at the wine - house door ,I may up - lift a great standard .

[7]   Come and drink wine For the time - recogniser selleth two worlds this and the next
For one cup of pure wine ; and for the society of a lovely idol .

[8]   Not love's way is ever pleasure and ease
If ,our companion ,thou be ,drink the poison of a great grief .

[9]   No complaint only mention I make .But ,the cloud of mercy of the Friend ,
To the field of liver - thirsty ones ,gave not even a little dew .

[10]   For one reed of his candy ,why purchase they not that one Hafiz
Who ,a hundred sugar - scatterings ,made from the reed of a single pen

[11]   O king in Hafiz's hand is naught worthy of thy value
Save the supplication of a night and the prayer of a morning .

[1]  Wo ist Ostwind, der Both, um jenen nach Würden zu ehren, Der von meinem Freund liebliche Briefchen mir bringt,

[2]  Wisset, mit was der Verstand im Wege der Liebe vergleichbar? Mit dem Tröpfchen Thau, das in die Fluthen sich senkt.

[3]  Komm'! denn ist gleich mein Ordenskleid die Stiftung der Schenke, Keinen Pfennig doch wirst du darum finden bei mir.

[4]  Wie und warum, und alles zu wissen macht häufiges Kopfweh, Nimm den Becher, und ruh' wenig Minuten nur aus!

[5]  Was verstehen die Aerzte am Weg, die Leiden der Liebe? Du gestorbener Mann sieh' um den Heiland dich um.

[6]  Ha! mein Herz ist wider Trommel und Kutten im Aufruhr, Vor der Schenke Thür pflanzen die Fahne wir auf.

[7]  Komm'! die auf Zeit sich verstehen verhandeln Himmel und Erde Für zwey Becher Wein, und ein vertrautes Gespräch.

[8]  Immer genießen und schwelgen ist nicht die Gewohnheit der Liebe, Gehst mit uns du um, trinke die Hefen des Grams.

[9]  Klagen will ich nun nicht, allein die Milde des Freundes Feuchtete noch bisher durstige Herzen nicht an.

[10]  Ey warum kauft ein Zuckerrohr nicht von Freunden der Redner, Dessen süßem Kiel liebliche Rede entfließt.

[11]  Nichts besitzet Hafis, was deinen stattlichen Wuchs zahlt, Nichts als Abendgruß, nichts als Morgengebet.

[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