[1]  Evil of any we utter not inclination to the injustice of any we make not
Black ,the face of any one and blue ,our own religious garment ,we make not ,

[2]   Evil ,it is to show in deficiency or in excess the defect of the poor man ,or of the rich man
The counsel is that evil work at all ,we do not .

[3]   On the book of knowledge ,fallacious writing like worldly sages we write not
Confounded with the page of magic ,God's mystery ,we make not .

[4]   If with dignity ,the draught of profligates ,the king drink not .
By way of truth with splendour ,work of his we do not .

[5]   In the sight of way - farers ,we happily urge the world of our time
Thought of the precious black steed ,or of the golden saddle ,we make not ,

[6]   The sky shattereth the bark of the Lords of skill
Best ,that ,on this suspended ocean the sky reliance we make not .

[7]   If an envious one spake evilness and thereon a friend grieved ,
To the friend say Happy ,be for to the fool ,the ear of attention we make not .

[8]   Hafiz if the enemy utter falsehood as regards him ,exception we take not
If ,with truth ,he spake contention with the speech of truth ,we make not .

[1]  Zu schmählen sind wir nicht gesinnt, Noch Böses sonst zu machen, Wir wollen nicht die Nahmen schwarz, Nicht blau die Kutten machen.

[2]  Die Großen und die Mönche viel Und wenig schmählen taugt nicht. Es ist das Beste doch zuletzt Nichts Böses thun und machen.

[3]  Wir werden nicht der Weisheit Buch Mit unserm Kiel durchstreichen. Und zu Geheimnissen nicht gar Der Gaukler Künste machen. Wenn mir der Mönch den Wein versagt, So ist es wahrlich besser, Daß wir mit unsrem reinen Sinn Ihm keine Hoffnung machen.

[4]  Und trinkt der Schah mit Langmuth nicht Den Hefen der Betrunknen, So werden wir auch kein Geschäft, So wie sichs ziemet, machen.

[5]  Ey, laß uns tummeln unser Roß Vor aller Augen aufrecht, Wir wollen uns um Roß und Zaum Nicht graue Haare machen.

[6]  Vom Himmel ziehet man das Schiff Der Tugend selbst herunter, Weit besser ists auf dieser Welt Nicht Hoffnung sich zu machen.

[7]  Sagt dir der Neider Böses nach, Und zürnen dir die Freunde, So sag': sey froh, wir wollen nicht Die Dummen hören machen.

[8]  Hafis! und fehlte selbst dein Feind, Wir wollen ihn nicht tadeln, Und hat er Recht, so können wir Ja nichts dagegen machen.

[1]  As much as my grief of love to the physicians ,I uttered ,
Me the wretched stranger they remedied not .

[2]   That haughty rose that ,momently ,is in the power of a thorn ,
Say Thine be shame of the poor nightingale

[3]   O Lord safety ,give so that again may see
The eye of lovers ,the face of the beloved ones .

[4]   Not with its own seal is love's casket
O Lord the desire of the watchers ,be not

[5]   O Benefactor beloved at the tray of union with Thee ,at last ,
Of those portionless ,how long shall we be

[6]   The disgrace of the world ,Hafiz would not have been ,
If ,the counsels of admonishers ,he had heard .

[1]  So viel ich mein Leiden den Aerzten geklagt, Sie heilten mich Elenden nicht.

[2]  O sage der Rose von Dornen umhegt: Schämst du vor Bülbülen dich nicht?

[3]  Verleih' mir so lange das Leben, o Herr! Bis daß den Geliebten ich seh'. Ich habe den Freunden mein Leiden geklagt, Wer hehlet die Krankheit dem Arzt?

[4]  Die Perle der Liebe ist ferne vom Ring. Es geh' nicht den Neidern nach Wunsch.

[5]  O Schwelger am Tisch des Genusses, wie lang, Wie lange entbehre ich noch!

[6]  Es diente Hafis nicht der Welt zum Gespött, Vernähm' er den heilsamen Rath.

[1]  messenger of the true ones sincere lovers news of our Beloved utter :
To the bulbul ,song - singing the lover the state of the rose the Beloved utter .

[2]   Confidants lovers of the chamber of affection ,are we grief ,suffer not
To the kind friend ,mention of the Friend the Beloved make .

[3]   When those two tress - tips dashed together ,
O breeze come ,what mystery those two tress - tips had ,utter .

[4]   Every one who said The dust of the Friend's door is kuhl ,
To him say Exhibited in our eye ,this matter was this ,to another say .

[5]   The Sufi ,who prohibiteth us the tavern ,
Say In the presence of my Plr ,this matter ,utter .

[6]   If ,again ,by that door of fortune ,passing be thine ,
After the service of attendance ,and the presentation of prayer ,say ,

[7]   Though we be bad ,us ,bad regard not
Sovereign - like ,the tale of the beggar's sin utter .

[8]   To this fakir ,the letter of that great one ,read
To this beggar ,the tale of that King ,utter .

[9]   When ,from the snare of His tress ,He scattered hearts on the dust ,
To that our miserable heart what chanced ,out by way of love ,utter .

[10]   Soul - cherishing ,is the tale of the Lords of ma'rifat
In respect of it ,a mystery ask and a tale ,come and utter .

[11]   Hafiz if to His assembly thee ,the path of access they give ,
Wine ,drink and ,for God's sake ,the abandoning of hypocrisy utter .

[12]   Last night ,at my bewailngi ,the bird of the sward wept
O breeze at last knowest thou what passed say .

[1]  Bote der Gnaden, gieb Kunde vom Freunde, Singe von Rosen der Nachtigall vor.

[2]  Säume dich nicht, denn wir sind die Vertrauten, Sage dem Freunde die Rede des Freunds.

[4]  Jeder, der saget: ihr Staub ist ein Balsam, Sage dies Wörtlein vor unserem Aug'.

[5]  Sage dem Frommen, der trinken verbiethet, Dieses erkläre du uns vor dem Wirth. Wenn von der Kanne der Fromme verführt wird, Sage: schenk' ein, mit dem Glas in der Hand.

[6]  Geh'st du vorbei an der Thüre des Glückes, Sprich nach entrichtetem Gruß und Gebet: Arme und Reiche vermischet die Liebe, König der Schönheit! den Bettler sprich an!

[7]  Bin ich auch böse, so schilt mich nicht deßhalb, Fürstlich verhehle des Bettlers Vergeh'n.

[8]  Lies dem Verarmten des Mächtigen Schreiben, Sprich zu dem Bettler von Königsgewalt. Da die Geliebte die Herzen verstreut hat, Sage dem Sinn, was in Lüften geschah.

[9]  Als die zwei Spitzen der Locken sich schlugen, Ha! wie ich brannte, verkünd' es, o Wind!

[10]  Worte der Weisen sind Nahrung der Seele, Gehe und frag' und erzähle uns dann.

[11]  Kommst du, Hafis, in des Fürsten Gesellschaft, Laß die Verstellung, und trinke den Wein.

[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 .

[64]   I have heard that ,for dogs ,thou appointest a collar
On Hafiz's neck ,why placest thou not a rope

[65]   Hafiz in this calamity ,ruined became time's temper
Where is the thought of a physician or the judgment of a Barhaman

[66]   Drink the cup of the wine of unity of a man
So that ,by it grief's root ,up from the heart ,thou mayst pluck .

[67]   Expanded ,keep the heart ,like the cup of wine
Head closed how long like a large jar

[68]   When ,from the jar of selflessness ,a ritl thou drinkest ,
Less of thyself voluntarily thou boastest of self .

[69]   Like the humble and worthless stone at thy foot be ,not like the water of the cloud glorying in sublimity
All colour of deceit ,thou mixest and wet of skirt lust - stained thou art .

[70]   To wine ,bind the heart ,so that ,like a man ,
The neck of hypocrisy and of piety thou mayst shatter .

[71]   Arise ,and ,like Hafiz ,an effort in the service of the Pir of tarikat make so that ,perchance ,
Thyself ,at the true Beloved's foot ,thou mayest cast .

[72]   Tis morning ; and ,droppeth hail from the cloud of the winter - month Bahman
The requisites of the morning cup ,prepare and give a cup of one ' man .'

[73]   The blood red wine of the cup ,drink for lawful is its blood
In the work of the cup ,engaged be ; for 'tis a work fit to be done .

[74]   If ,at dawn ,thee ,wine - sickness give headache ,
Verily ,best ,that the forehead of the vintner ,thou shatter .

[75]   Saki at hand to give the cup be for ,in ambush for us ,is grief
Minstrel so that grief may not reach us keep this very path of song that thou singest .

[76]   Give wine for ,the secret to my ear ,the harp hath brought and said
Happily pass life and ,hear this bowed Pir the harp

[77]   Hafiz by the independence of profligates ,I conjure thee drink wine ,
So that ,thou mayst hear the song of the Singer ,God the Independent One .

[78]   Into the sea of self and self - praise ,I am fallen .Bring
Wine ,so that freedom from self and self - praise me ,it may give .

[79]   Hafiz in the rivulet of the eye ,the plant of thy stature
Drank blood ,and established fruit .It thou wishest to up - pluck .

[80]   O thou who ,in our slaughter ,mercy exercisest not
Profit and capital ,thou consumest manliness ,thou showest not .

[81]   Deadly poison ,the sorrowful ones of calamity lovers ,sorrowful through sepa - ration from thee drink
The design of slaying this tribe of lovers is dangerous .Take care that it ,thou doest not .

[82]   Since ,with a corner of thy eye ,our grief it is possible to take ,
The part of justice it is not ,that our remedy for freedom from grief thou makest not .

[83]   Since ,in hope of thee ,our eye is the ocean through weeping why is it that
On the ocean - shore ,in recreation ,passing thou makest not