[1]  Thanks a thousand ,that ,again ,to my desire ,I beheld thee ,
In truth and purity ,concordant with my heart ,become .

[2]   The Path of calamity ,tread the travellers of hakikat
Of the descent and of the ascent ,reflecteth not the companion of the Path tarikat

[3]   Better than search for the watcher ,is grief for the hidden Friend God
For ,not the confidant of mystery is the heart of the Lord of malice .

[7]   For this thanks that ,by the Friend ,the assembly is illuminated
If an act of tyranny reach thee ,like the candle ,consume and be content .

[8]   With a half kiss purchase a prayer from one of heart one of vision a lover of God
That ,from the enemy's malice ,thee ,soul and body may preserve .

[9]   The sadness ,that ,on my face hath come from grief for thee ,
O Asaf 'tis possible that the long explanation ,I may give in a long year .

[10]   Love's murmur ,into Hijaz and 'Irak ,casteth
The melody of the strain of the ghazals of Hafiz of Shiraz .

[1]  Die Schwermuth die auf mein GesichtDein Gram ausgoß,Könnt ich erläutern mein Aßaf!Ein ganzes Jahr.

[2]  Viel tausend Dank, daß ich dich sahNach meinem Wunsche,Daß mit AufrichtigkeitDu mein Vertrauter bist.

[3]  Ins Unglück geh'n die Waller aufDem Weg des Heiles.Ein Reisender er denkt nicht anBerg auf, Berg ab.

[4]  Den Gram des Liebchens forsche nichtder Neider aus,Wer Groll im Busen führt, bewahrtGeheimniß schlecht.

[5]  Bedarf gleich deiner Schönheit ReizDer Liebe nicht,So kehr' doch ich nicht mehr zurückVom Liebesspiel.

[7]  Wie soll ich dir beschreiben wohlDes Innern Brand,Frag' meine Thränen, denn ich binKein Schwätzermund.

[8]  Aus Dank weil dich die GegenwartDes Freund's erhellt,Verbrenn' der Kerze gleich im WehUnd sey vergnügt.

[9]  Das Glück Mahmuds bedarf des HaarsAjasen's nichtLiebkosung ist der einz'ge ZweckVon ihrem ein Bund.

[1]  Who ,for the sight of the true Beloved ,opened my eye ,that one am I
O work - door ,slave cherisher what thanks to Thee ,shall I utter

[2]   To the indigent man of calamity ,say : From dust ,wash not thy face
For the dust of the street of indigency is the alchemy of thy desire .

[3]   O heart from the difficulties of the path ,turn not the rein
For ,of descent and of ascent ,reflecteth not the man of the Path .

[4]   If with the blood of the liver ,purification in love the lover of God make not ,
By the word of the mufti of love ,not true is his prayer .

[5]   In this illusory stage ,save the cup of love for God take naught
In this house the world save love ,a pastime play not .

[6]   Independent of love ,though Thy beauty is ,
Not that one am I who ,from this love - playing ,back will turn .

[7]   To Thee ,how may I utter what ,from the burning of my heart ,I behold
Of my tears ,ask the tale for not the informer am I .

[8]   The desire of beauty's glance is his If not ,is no need
Of the tress of Ayaz to the beauty of Mahmud's fortune .

[9]   The ghazal - singing of Nahid Venus ,the minstrel of the sky taketh not the lead .
In that place ,where forth his voice of song Hafiz bringeth .

[1]  Zwey Thränen, welche du, o Aug'!Geweinet hast,Versichern die LiebkosungenVon deinem Glück.

[2]  Ich bins, der's Auge aufgethanDen Freund zu seh'n,Wie dank' ich dir, o Gott,Vermitteler!

[3]  Wisch' nicht von deinem AngesichtDer Bitte Staub,Denn er ist für den WünschendenDer Weisen Stein.

[4]  O Herz! Lenk' nicht ob schlechtem WegDen Zügel ab,Es denken Reisende nicht aufBerg auf, Berg ab.

[5]  Wenn sich der Liebende mit BlutNicht reiniget,Gilt sein Gebet vor dem MuftiDer Liebe wohl? Was nützet mir der SchwätzermundDes Frühlingswind'sWenn die Cypreße selber nichtGeheimniß birgt.

[6]  In diesem Fabelort ergreiff'Nichts als das Glas,In diesem Spielerhause spiel'Nun Minnespiel.

[7]  Mit einem halben Kuß erkauf'Ein Herzgebet,Daß du an Seel und Leibe freyVon Banden seyst.

[1]  In the spring season of the tulip the murshid the cup take ; and void of hypocrisy be
With the perfume of the red rose of 'Irak a moment concordant with the breeze the murshid be .

[2]   I say not to thee All the year practise wine - worshipping
Nay three spring months ,wine drink and nine months ,austere and Abid in the world's occupations be .

[3]   If the Pir ,the holy traveller ,charge thee with the wine of love
Drink ; and expecter of God's mercy ,be .

[4]   If thine be desire that ,like Jamshid the perfect murshid thou mayst attain to the mystery of the hidden ,
Come and ,the confidant of this cup ,world - displaying the perfect murshid be .

[5]   Though like the closed up rose - bud ,the world's work is a closed up knot ,
Like the spring - breeze ,thou ,the knot bud opener be .

[6]   From none ,seek fidelity and if ,my speech ,thou hear not ,
In foolishness ,seeker of the simurgh and of alchemy be .

[7]   Hafiz of devotion of strangers ,the disciple be not
But ,of pure profligates ,the friend be .

[1]  Ergreif' das Glas, wo Tulpen sindUnd lasse die Verstellung;Geselle dich dem Ostwind zu,Ob dem Geruch der Rose.

[2]  Ich sage dir ja nicht, daß duDas ganze Jahr durch trinkest,Ich sage: trink' drey MonateUnd bete die neun andern.

[3]  Wenn dich der viel erfahrne GreisDer Liebe trinken heißet,So trinke und erwarte dannDafür den Segen Gottes.

[4]  Verlangest du Geheimniße,Wie Dschem, einst zu errathen,So komm' geselle dich zum Glas,Worin du Welten schauest.

[5]  Wiewohl hier alles Knospen gleichZusammgeschnuret ist,So öffne du dennoch dein HerzDem Hauch des Frühlingswind's.

[6]  O suche keine Treue hier,Wenn meinem Wort du glaubest,Such' eher noch des Simorgs Nest,Such' eh' den Stein der Weisen.

[7]  Gesell' Hafis dich nicht zur SchaarDer jungen fremden Meister,Geselle dich vielmehr zur SchaarDer wohlbekannten Trinker.

[1]  At morn ,from the invisible messenger ,to my ear reached the glad tidings
Tis the age of Shah Shuja ' the soul wine love's tumult boldly drink

[2]   Gone hath that time when people of vision went aside fearing all
In the mouth ,a thousand forms of speech and from fear of the enemy silent the lip .

[3]   To the twang of the harp ,those tales that we have kept concealed shall we utter
For ,from the concealing of them ,seetheth the caldron of the heart .

[4]   In fear of the muhtasib ,the house secret wine having drunk
Now ,in Shah Shuja's time to the beloved's face ,let us drink and express the shout Drink ,drink again

[5]   Last night ,from the street of the wine - house ,on their back ,they carried him ,
The revered Imam ,who ,on his back ,the prayer - mat bore .

[6]   O heart on the path of salvation ,thee ,good guidance ,I make
In iniquity ,glory not of austerity boast not .

[7]   The king's luminous opinion is the place of the light of splendour
When propinquity to him ,thou desirest ,in purity of intention strive .

[8]   Save the praise of his grandeur ,aught make not the exercise of the mind
For the confidant of Surush Jibra .il is the ear of his heart .

[9]   Mysteries of the counsel of the empire ,kings know
Hafiz a beggar ,a corner - sitter ,thou clamour not .

[1]  Morgens kam zu mir die KundeAus dem Dunkeln,Schah Schedschaa ists, der nun herrschet,Trinke wacker!

[2]  Ehmals giengen die VerliebtenLängs den Ufern:Tausend Worte auf der ZungeStumm von Lippen.

[3]  Zu dem Ton der Laute wallen,Wie sie erzählen,Was verheimlichet den BusenWallen machet.

[4]  Furcht ergreift den Herrn der SchenkeOb dem Vogte;Trinken laßt uns, laut aufschreiend:Trinket, trinket!

[5]  Auf den Schultern trug man gesternAus der SchenkeDen Imam, der auf den SchulternTrägt den Teppich.

[6]  Auf den Weg des Heiles will ichHerz dich führen,Prahle nicht mit deinen Sünden,Nicht mit Tugend.

[7]  Unsers Schahes Rath ist AusflußHöhern Lichtes,Sey erst, willst du dich ihm nahen,Reiner Absicht.

[8]  Wähl' den Wunsch für seine GrößeZum Gebete,Denn das Ohr von seinem HerzenSpricht mit Engeln.

[9]  Fürsten wissen das GeheimnißDer Geschäfte,Du Hafis bist nur ein Klausner,Laß die Sorgen.

[1]  IF into the curl of Thy two tresses ,my hand again should reach ,
With Thy chaugan ,what heads there are that like a ball ,I shall play .

[2]   Long life to me is Thy long tress but there is not
In my hand ,a hair - tip of this long life .

[3]   O candle Beloved give the order for rest .For ,to - night ,
From the heart's fire ,before Thee ,like the consuming candle I melt .

[4]   That moment when ,with a laugh ,life I give up like the flagon ,
I would that a prayer for me Thy intoxicated ones should offer .

[5]   Since the prayer of me stained is not an acceptable prayer
In the wine - house ,on that account less are not my burning and consuming .

[6]   In the masjid and in the wine - house ,if Thy image come ,
Of Thy two eye - brows ,I make the prayer - arch of praying and the lute of wailing

[7]   If ,one night with Thy face ,my khilvat ,Thou illumine ,
Like the morning in the horizons of the world ,my head ,I exalt .

[8]   In this path of love laudable is the end of love's work ,
If ,in desire of passion for Ayaz the true Beloved my head goeth .

[9]   Hafiz the heart's grief ,to whom shall I utter
Not fit is it that ,save the cup ,the confidant of mystery be mine .

[1]  Wenn ich zur Spitze der Locken gelangte, Schlug' ich viel Köpfe als Schlägel davon.

[2]  Wohl wird durch Locken das Leben verlängert, Aber noch ward mir kein Härchen davon,

[3]  Kerze, o gieb mir des Schmetterlings Ruhe, Denn ich zerschmelze vor dir wie das Wachs.

[4]  Wenn ich wie Flaschen die Seele verlache Wünsch' ich, daß Trunk'ne leben für mich.

[5]  Weil mein Gebet nicht befreyt ist von Mackeln, Hör' ich nicht auf in den Schenken zu fleh'n,

[6]  Wenn ich in Schenken, in Tempeln dich sehe, Mach' ich die Brauen zum hohen Altar.

[7]  Wenn dein Gesicht mein Gemach einst erleuchtet, Heb ich den Kopf wie der Morgen empor.

[8]  Endlich gelingt es mir doch wie Mahmuden Wenn ich verliere den Kopf für Ajas.

[9]  Könnte Hafis sein Geheimniß vertrauen, Da zum Vertrauten das Glas Er nur hat?

[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 .