[1]  If that Bold One the true Beloved of Shiraz gain our heart ,
For His dark mole ,I will give Samarkand and Bukhara both worlds

[2]   Saki give the wine of divine love remaining from the people of religion for ,in Paradise ,thou wilt not have
The bank of the water of the Ruknabad the lover's weeping eye nor the rose of the garden of Musalla the lover's heart

[3]   Alas These saucy dainty ones lovely women sweet of work ,the torment of the city ,
Take patience from the heart even as the men of Turkistan take the tray of plunder .

[4]   The beauty of the Beloved God is in no need of our imperfect love
Of lustre ,and colour ,and mole and tricked line of eyebrow what need hath the lovely face

[5]   By reason of that beauty ,daily increasing that Yusuf the absolute Existence ,the real Beloved ,God had ,I the first day knew that Love for Him would bring
Zulaikha us ,things possible forth from the screen of chastity the pure existence of God

[6]   O murshid thou to amend my work spakest ill of me and I am happy .God Most High forgive thee thou spakest well
The bitter reply suiteth the ruddy lip ,sugar - eating .

[7]   O Soul Hear the counsel of the Murshid
For ,dearer than the soul ,hold happy youths the counsel of the wise old man .

[8]   The tale of minstrel and of wine of Love utter little seek the mystery of time
For this mystery ,none solved by skill thought and knowledge and shall not solve .

[9]   Thou utteredest a ghazal ; and threadedest pearls of verse Hafiz come and sweetly sing
That ,on thy verse ,the sky may scatter in thanks the cluster of the Pleiades .

[1]  Nähme mein Herz in die Hand der schöne Knabe aus Schiras,Gäb ich fürs Maal Samarkand und Buchara.

[2]  Reiche mir Schenke den Wein, im Himmel suchst du vergebensRoknabad's Blumengestad, und Mosella's.

[3]  Wehe! die Schelmen mit schwarzem Aug und süsser GebärdeRauben dem Herz die Geduld, wie die Türken.

[4]  Unvollkommene Liebe bedarf nicht die Schönheit des Freundes,Schöne Gesichter bedürfen nicht Schminke.

[5]  Jusufs berauschende Schönheit erklärt den Zauber der Liebe,Welcher zerrissen den Flor bei Sulicha.

[6]  Böses hast du gesprochen. Verziehn! Wohl ward es gesprochenBitteres ziemet den zuckrichten Lippen.

[7]  Höre den Rath, denn wiß': ein wohlerzogener JünglingSchätzt wie die Seele die Worte der Alten.

[8]  Bleibe beym Sänger, beim Glas, erforsch nicht verborgene DingeKeiner noch hat es gelöset, wird's lösen.

[9]  Lieder hast du gesungen Hafis, und Perlen gebohret.Werth, daß Pleiaden der Himmel verstreue.

[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]  If the dust of the sole of my idol's foot give aid
With it on the tablet of vision ,a dusty line whereby my vision may be increased I will draw

[2]   Overwhelmed in desire of Thy embrace I became and my hope is
That ,through the violence of the wave of my tear ,me to reach to the shore ,it the wave may cause .

[3]   If in desire of my life ,His order reach me ,
That very moment ,like the candle ,in a moment ,my life a sacrifice for Him I surrender .

[4]   To - day ,from fidelity to me ,turn not away Thy head and think
Of that night ,when ,through grief ,my hand in prayer ,I uplift .

[5]   For the consolation of lovers ,Thy two tresses ,
A great covenant ,gave ; and my rest ,took .

[6]   O breeze murshid me ,a fragrant waft from that cup of wine of divine love bring :
For ,from the grief of wine - sickness temptations of the world me convalescence ,that perfume giveth .

[7]   If the Friend establish not the proof of the base - coin of my heart ,
From my eye ,in His path ,current coin tears I reckon .

[8]   From me ,dusty ,shake not in pride thy skirt .For ,after death ,
From this door ,it is not possible that my dust even the whirling wind can take .

[9]   Hafiz since His ruby lip is as the dear soul to me ,
That moment when to the lip of the true Beloved I bring my soul ,a lasting life mine will be .

[1]  Meine Worte haben gelobt die Locken,Deßhalb hauchen sie nun Gerüche süß wieDüfte des Moschus.

[2]  Wenn der Staub der Sohlen der Freundinn zu mir kommt,Will ich auf der Tafel des Aug's mit StaubeLinien zeichnen.

[3]  Ich versank in deiner Umarmung Wünschen,Doch ich hoffe an das Gestade aus derFluth mich zu retten.

[4]  Fodert mir ihr Schmetterling ab die Seele,Will ich wie die Kerze im AugenblickeOpfern die Seele.

[5]  Ziehe nicht zurück vom Gemüth die Treue,Denk der Nacht, wo ich zum Gebet die Hand ausSchmerzen erhoben.

[6]  Deine schwarzen Locken versprachen alleHerzen zu bewahren, und meines habenSie mir geraubet.

[7]  Ostwind bring' mir einen Geruch vom Weine,Denn mich heilen diese Gerüche von demHefen des Schmerzens.

[8]  Wenn sie keinen Werth für das Herz bestimmet,Will ich auf dem Weg statt der baaren MünzeStreuen die Augen.

[9]  Wisch' nicht ab den Staub von dem Saum des KleidesBin ich einstens Staub, so vermag von dir keinWind mich zu wehren.

[1]  Torment of envy to the violet ,giveth the musk - exhaling tress - ^ of thine ;
The fold of the rose - bud ,rendeth the heart - alluring laughter of thine .

[2]   O my rose ,sweet of perfume the beloved thy bulbul thy lover ,in separation consume not ;
For ,night ,all night ,with the essence of sincerity ,it makfth prayer for the welfare of thine .

[3]   I who ,with the breathing murmuring of angels used to be vexed so delicate was my nature
Now the disputation of a whole world high and low I endure for the sake of Thee .

[4]   Love's fortune behold ,how ,for the desire of pomp and glory ,
The corner of the crown of sovereignty aslant placeth ,the beggar of Thine .

[5]   The ragged garment of the beggar of love hath treasure in the sleeve
To sovereignty ,quickly reacheth whoever was the beggar of Thine .

[6]   Goeth from my head ,wine's clamouring and love's consuming at that moment ,
When this head full of passion becometh the dust of the door of the abode of Thine .

[7]   My eye's king - seat is the resting - place of Thy image
A place of prayer it is .O my sovereign ,without thee ,be not the place of Thine

[8]   A pleasant sward is Thy cheek ,especially when in the spring of beauty ,
Hafiz ,sweet of speech ,became the bird ,song - singing ,' of Thine ,

[1]  Veilchen brennet der Neid ob deinen Locken, Rosenschleier zerreißt dein holdes Lächeln.

[2]  Süße Rose verbrenn' die Nachtigall nicht, Welche Nächte hindurch für dich nur betet.

[3]  Ich, dem ehmals der Engel Hauch zur Last ward, Trage nun das Gerede deinetwegen. Deine Huld ist mein Loos, dein Staub mein Eden, Meine Ruh' dein Gebet, mein Seyn die Wangen.

[4]  Einen Schatz in dem Aermel tragen Bettler Deine Bettler gelangen schnell zur Herrschaft.

[5]  Zwar vereinen sich nicht der Wein, die Kutte, Doch vereine ich beide dir zu Liebe.

[6]  Wein und Liebegekos entflieh'n zur Stunde, Wo mein Haupt voll Begier zu deinem Staub wird.

[7]  Freund! gebrauche das Aug' als Erker; Laß es niemals allein, es ist ein Betort.

[8]  Wahrlich! schön ist der Wangen Flur, besonders Wenn Hafis der geliebte Sänger bleibt.

[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 .

[61]   O heart strive thou for patience .For God delivereth not
A seal - ring so precious as patience to the hand of an evil one .

[62]   From the fierce wind of vicissitude ,one cannot see ,
That ,in this sward ,hath been even a red rose ,or a wild white rose .

[63]   From this simum blast of lust that ,by the garden - borders ,passed ,
Wonder that from the heart of love's lust the colour of a rose remaineth ,or the perfume of a jessamine .