[1]  Ho Saki ,pass around and offer the bowl of love for God
For the burden of love for God at first on the day of covenant appeared easy ,but now difficulties have occurred .

[2]   By reason of the perfume hope of the musk - pod ,that ,at the end of night the breeze displayeth from that knotted fore - lock ,
From the twist of its musky dark ,fragrant curl ,what blood of grief befell the hearts of the lovers of God

[3]   In the stage this world of the true Beloved ,mine what ease and pleasure ,when momently ,
The loud bell of the call of death giveth voice ,saying Bind ye up the chattels of existence

[4]   With wine ,becolour the prayer - mat if the Pir of the magians the perfect murshid bid thee
For of the way and usage of the stages to God not without knowledge is the holy traveller the perfect murshid

[5]   The dark night of the world and the fear of the wave of grief and the whirlpool so fearful the time of death
The light - burdened ones of the shore ancestors who have passed the flood of death how know they our state

[6]   By following my own fancy in hastening to union with God me only to ill fame all my work brought
Secret ,how remaineth that great mystery of love whereof great assemblies speak

[7]   Hafiz if thou desire the presence union with God Most High from Him be not absent
When thou visitest thy Beloved ,abandon the world and let it go .

[1]  Reich mir o Schenke das Glas,Bringe den Gästen es zu,Leicht' ist die Lieb' im AnfangEs folgen aber Schwierigkeiten.

[2]  Wegen des Moschusgeruchs,Welchen der Ostwind geraubtDeinen gekrau'sten Locken,Wie vieles Blut entfloß dem Herzen!

[3]  Folge dem Worte des WirthsFärbe den Teppich mit Wein.Reisende sind der Wege,Sie sind des Laufs der Posten kundig.

[4]  Kann ich genießen der LustIn des Geliebten Gezelt,Wenn mich zum Aufbruch immerDer Karawane Glocke rufet!

[5]  Finstere Schatten der Nacht!Wogen und Wirbelgefahr,Können Euch wohl begreifen,Die leicht geschürzt am Ufer wohnen?

[6]  Durch die befriedigte LustWard ich zum Mährchen der Stadt,Kann ein Geheimniß bleibenDer Stoff der allgemeinen Sage?

[7]  Wünschest du Ruhe Hafis,Folge dem köstlichen Rath:Willst du das Liebchen finden,Verlaß die Welt und laß sie gehen.

[1]  Ho O parrot murshid thou that art the utterer of the mysteries of God
Void of sugar of the mysteries of God thy beak mouth be not .

[2]   Ever be thy head fresh ,and thy heart happy
For of the line of mysteries of the true Beloved ,a happy picture ,thou displayedest .

[3]   With the rivals the Arifs thou utteredest speech head - closed veiled
For God's sake ,uplift the veil of the enigma of the head - closed speech

[4]   O Saki On our faces ,a cup of divine truths of rose - water dash
For ,we are sleep - stained ,and wakeful of fortune .

[5]   In musical note ,what path is this that the minstrel struck ,
That ,together ,the insensible and the sensible dance

[6]   From this opium mystery that the Saki the murshid casteth into wine
To the rivals the Arifs remaineth neither head nor turban so intoxicated on hearing it are they

[7]   To the great Sikandar ,they give not that water - of - life
Attainable neither by force nor by gold without God's grace is this matter .

[8]   Come and hear the state of the people of pain
In word ,little in meaning ,much .

[9]   The enemy of our religion ,became the idol of Chin
O Lord my heart and faith ,keep .

[10]   To those veiled the illusory beloved ones utter not the mysteries of intoxication truths
From the lifeless ,senseless wall - picture ,ask not the tale of life .

[11]   In the fortune of the standard of Mansur Shah ,
In the ranks of verse ,Hafiz the standard became .

[12]   Towards us slaves ,he our praised one did the work of a Lord
O Lord him preserve from calamity .

[1]  Immer sey der Verstand die baare Münze des Lebens,Gilt er doch nichts beim Golde der Liebe.

[2]  Ha! o Papagey, der von der Liebe Geheimnissen schwätzet,Nie fehl's deinem Schnabel an Zucker!

[3]  Immer grüne dein Haupt, und immer sey fröhlichen Herzens,Bist mir ein Bild von den Flaumen des Freundes.

[4]  Ein verborgenes Wort hast du zu den Freunden gesprochen,Gott! heb' auf vom Räthsel den Schleier!

[5]  Günstiges Glück! bespreng' mich mit Rosenwasser vom Becher,Denn mein Auge ist beflecket vom Schlafe.

[6]  Welchen Ton hat der Sänger zu seiner Weise gewählet,Daß die Trunknen und Nüchternen tanzen!

[7]  Siehe die Wirkung des Moschus, den der Schenk' in den Wein hat geworfen,Kopf und Dulbend geh'n beide verlohren.

[8]  Alexandern ward nicht verlieh'n das Wasser des Lebens,Gold und Gewalt erzwingen nicht solches.

[9]  Komm' und höre mir an der Betrübten traurige Lage,Worte sind wenig, und viel ist der Inhalt.

[10]  Sina's Götzenbilder, sie sind die Feinde des Glaubens,Herr! bewahre mein Herz und den Glauben.

[11]  Nüchtern sag' und erzähle du nie das Geheimniß des Rausches,Seelenkunde frag' nicht von den Gemälden.

[12]  In den Reichen der Dichtkunst weht Hafis als die FahneDurch des Schahes schützende Gnade.

[1]  O thou ,from the splendour of whose cheek ,is joyous the tulip - bed of life
Come back for ,without the rose of thy cheek ,spilleth the spring of life .

[2]   If ,like rain ,the tear drop from my eye ,it is lawful
For ,in grief for thee ,like lightning swiftly in tumult passed the time of life .

[3]   These moments ,one or two ,when the fortune of seeing Thee O Beloved is possible ,
Discover our work the fortune of seeing Thee For ,not revealed is the work of life .

[4]   Till when art thou careless and senseless in the wine of the morning ,and the sweet sleep of dawn ,
Ho be wakeful for passed hath the choice of life -

[5]   Yesterday ,He the Beloved passed and towards me glanced not
O helpless heart that saw naught of profit from the passing of life .

[6]   Of the ocean of effacement no thought is his to whom ,
On the point of thy mouth ,the hidden mystery is the centre of life .

[7]   From every quarter of the world is the ambuscade of the troop of vicissitudes
In that way of thought ,rein - drawn ,impetuously ,saying God forbid I should be captive to vicissitude runneth the horseman of life .

[8]   Without life ,alive I am .This ,esteem no great wonder
The day of separation ,who placeth in the reckoning of life .

[9]   Hafiz utter speech .For ,on earth's surface ,
Of thy eloquence ,only this picture remaineth ,the recollection of life .

[1]  Du, deren WangenglanzErfrischt das Tulpenbeet des Lebens,Komm'! ohne dein GesichtVerwelkt der Frühlingsglanz des Lebens.

[2]  Recht ist's, wenn Thränen mirWie Regen von den Augen fließen,Denn wie der Blitz verschwandIm Gram um dich die Zeit des Lebens.

[3]  In diesem AugenblickWo du des Glückes Antlitz schauest,Bereite dir dein Loos,Verborgen ist das Loos des Lebens.

[4]  Wie lang' noch Morgenwein!Wie lang' noch süßer Schlaf am Morgen!Erwach! erwach! vorbeiIst längstens schon die freye Wahl des Lebens.

[5]  Sie gieng bei mir vorbei,Doch ohne auf mich her zu sehen,O! armes Herz, das nichtsGenoß im Uebergang des Lebens.

[6]  Den grauen Schlund des NichtsWird jeder Glückliche verhöhnen,Der deines Mundes PunktErkohr zum Mittelpunkt des Lebens.

[7]  Von allen Seiten drohtIm Hinterhalt' ein Heer Gefahren,Verhängten Zaumes sprengtDavon der Reiter unsers Lebens.

[8]  Selbst lebenslos bin ichLebendig, dies soll dich nicht wundern,Wer zählt den TrennungstagWohl zu den Tagen seines Lebens.

[9]  Hafis, o sprich ein Wort,Denn auf der Erde weiter FlächeBleibt deiner Feder Bild,Ein Denkmal deines Lebens.

[1]  O light of my eye the holy traveller a matter there is ,hear
Since thy cup of love for God is full cause others to drink ; and thyself drink .

[2]   In love's path ,Ahriman's temptations are many
Sense keep and to Surush's message the ear of the heart put .

[3]   Ruined became subsistence remaineth not the means of joy
O harp the wail of grief draw out O drum exult .

[4]   Thee ,intoxication's delight ,the rosary and the khirka men of outward forms hypocrites give not
In this matter ,of the wine - seller the murshid ,perfect and excellent blessing demand .

[5]   With experience ,old men utter words to thee ,I said
Ho O son that old thou mayst become ,counsel hear .

[6]   On the sensible one the philosopher and the man of reason the chain ,love's hand placeth not
Thou wishest to draw through thy hand the tress of the Friend ,sense abandon .

[7]   In respect to life and property ,for friends lovers of God need is none
A hundred lives ,the ransom for the true Beloved make counsel hear .

[8]   O Saki perfect murshid void of pure wine ,be not thy cup
On me ,dreg - drinker ,an eye glance of favour make .

[9]   When ,in the gold scattering kaba ,thou ,intoxicated ,passest ,
To Hafiz ,wool - wearer ,Safi one kiss ,present .

[1]   The hearing of the Friend's message is felicity and safety
Be my precious life a ransom for the dust of the Friend's door .

[3]   To the evening shelter of strangers ,come and the bloody water of our eye ,behold ,
Like pure red w'ne in Damascus glass .

[4]   If ,in praise of the dweller of Arak the beloved the bird of happiness warbleth ,
From its gardens ,the moaning of my pigeons in desire of the possessor of Arak will not be separated .

[5]   Not much remaineth when to an end cometh the day of separation from the beloved
From the hills of Hima the beloved's abode I almost beheld the removing of tents .

[6]   O happy that moment when thou enterest ,and to thee I say : In safety ,
Happy arrival in the best of abodes ,thou hast alighted .

[7]   Being far from thee ,I have become slender lean as the new crescent moon
Although thy face like the moon ,in its fulness ,I have not seen .

[8]   If ,to paradise ,I inclined and became a covenant - breaker ,
Be neither my sleep agreeable ,nor my sleeping place tranquil .

[9]   Hope is that ,by good fortune ,thee I may quickly see ,
Thou being joyous in order - giving ; and I ,in slavery .

[10]   Hafiz like the string of pearls of good water is thy pure lustrous verse
For in the place of grace it surpasseth the verse of Ni'zami .

[1]  Düfte des Weins sind gekommen, und meine Begier ist gewachsen, Für den Staub der Thür' werde geopfert mein Geist.

[2]  Immer ist es ein Glück zu vernehmen Kunde vom Freunde, Ha! wer bringt von mir freundliche Grüße zu Saad!

[3]  Komm' am Abend der Fremden, und schau' mein Auge voll Thränen, So schwimmt reiner Wein in dem kristallnen Gefäß.

[4]  Wenn ich bräche den Mund und hin nach Eden mich sehnte, Fliehe von mir der Schlaf, fliehe der schmeichelnde Traum!

[5]  Lang' ist's wahrlich nicht mehr bis zu dem Tage der Trennung, Denn ich erblickte schon über den Hügeln das Zelt.

[6]  Selig der Augenblick, wo ich dich einstens begrüße, Wo ich dir sage: gegrüßt! Sey mir von Herzen gegrüßt! Weinet der Vogel des Glücks im Garten genannt Sileroki, Wird die Taube doch nicht weinen im Garten von Saad.

[7]  Ferne bin ich von dir, und irre herum in der Fremde, Ob ich gleich den Mond niemals im Vollschein geseh'n.

[8]  Wenn ich gleich Nichts besitze, das werth ist des Umgangs der Fürsten, So erlaube mir doch, daß dein Bedienter ich sey.

[9]  Bald, o bald, so hoff' ich, erblick' ich ein besseres Schicksal, Herrschen erfreuet dich, mich dir gehorsam zu seyn.

[10]  Deine Verse, Hafis, sind Perlen süßer Sorbete, Uebertreffen gar manchmal die Verse Nisami's.

[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 .