[1]  To the adversary ,utter not the mysteries of love and of intoxication ,
So that ,without knowledge of love in pain of self - worshipping ,he may die .

[2]   O Zahid the lover of the true Beloved be if not ,one day ,the world's work endeth
And from the workshop of existence the world the picture of thy purpose unread unattained ,thou shall die

[5]   Veiled in the corner of safety ,how can one be ,
As long as ,to me ,the mysteries of intoxication thy narcissus eye uttereth

[6]   At the threshold where humbleness is greatness of the true Beloved ,of the lofty sky loftiness of rank think not
God foroid that ,from the summit of loftiness to the dust of lowliness ,thou shouldest fall

[7]   Although the thorn diminisheth life ,pardon for it the rose seeketh ,
By the side of intoxication's delight ,easy is the bitterness of wine .

[8]   Sufi the cup ,drink Hafiz the great flagon prepare
O ye short of sleeve ,how long practise ye long - handedness

[1]  Saget nicht dem Nebenbuhler Rausch und Liebegeheimniß, Sonsten geht voll Eigendünkel Ohne Kund' er zu Grunde.

[2]  Sey verliebt, es werden Welten Einstens gehen zu Grunde, Kommt der Tod, gehst du hinnen Aus dem Hause des Daseyns.

[3]  Mein Götze sprach noch gestern schön Bet Götzen mit den Heiden an.

[4]  O Herr! mich brach entzwei dein Haar, Wie lange raubt der Schwarze noch?

[5]  Wie ist Sicherheit möglich Im verborgnen Winkel, Wenn die trunkene Narzisse, Rauschgeheimnisse plaudert.

[6]  Ich sah das Unheil, was mich traf, Du flohst mich in der harten Zeit.

[1]  In fruitlessness and lustfulness ,passed my life
O son me ,the cup of wine ,give ,so that to old age thou mayst reach .

[2]   In this city ,what sugars that became contented ,
The mighty falcons of tarlkat with the stage of a pitiful fly

[3]   Last night ,in the crowd of slaves of His door ,I went ,
He spake saying O friendless ,remediless ,one the load of what person art thou

[4]   Despite the heart become blood in grief to be like the pleasant fragrant musk - pod ,is necessary for him ,
Who became world - renowned for a fragrant breath of excellence

[5]   From the direction of Tar ,lightning flashed ; to it ,I inclined in love
Perchance ,thee ,a brand of bright flame ,I may bring .

[6]   Departed in death hath the Karvan of friends and ,in the ambush - place ,thou in sleep
Arise prepare the requisites of the end .Alas of so many crashes of the great bell of death wholly void of knowledge ,thou art .

[7]   O bird of my soul thy pinion ,spread and ,from the lofty Tuba tree ,the shout of praise in recollection of Thy Creator raise
Woe is it that a glorious bird like thee captive of the cage of worldly delights that befit thee not thou art

[8]   So that ,like the censer ,a moment ,we may take the skirt of the beloved ,
We placed our heart on the fire ,for the sake of a pleasant breath .

[9]   In desire of Thee ,in every direction ,Hafiz runneth how much
O object of desire to thee ,easy the path ,may God make .

[1]  Ohne Zweck in eitler Begier ist das Leben verstrichen, Jüngling gieb mir das Glas, morgen schon wirst du zum Greis. Sieh', es erglänzet die Flamm' von ferne auf Sinai's Höhen, Und wie Zunderschwamm fanget den Funken mein Herz.

[2]  Dankbar, fürwahr! geziemt uns zu seyn in unserer Hauptstadt, Wo der Falke der Jagd sich mit der Ameis begnügt.

[3]  Gestern drängte ich mich vor die Thür' des Geliebten zum Pferdetroß. Armer, sprach er zu mir: Wer hat dich also beschwert?

[4]  Blutigen Herzens muß seyn, doch froh zugleich wie die Blase, Welcher durch Moschusduft Ruhm sich erwarb in der Welt.

[5]  Hast den Blitz, der von Sina ausgieng, du zum Vertrauten gewählet? Oder nahte zu dir irgend ein flammend Gestirn?

[6]  Fort ist die Karawane, nun schläfst du sorglos im Winkel. Mancher verschlief wie du jenes Signales Geläut.

[7]  Schlage die Flügel, und singe das Lied des Lammes aus Eden, Armer Vogel, o weh'! daß du im Kefichte bist.

[8]  Um ein Düftchen vom Saum des Geliebten zu haschen wie's Rauchfaß Hab' ich entschlossen mein Herz hin auf die Gluten gelegt.

[9]  Dir zu Lieb' hat Hafis auf allen Seiten gesichert. Herr mein Gott! o mach' Suchenden leichter den Weg.

[1]  Since my Sulaima went to 'Irak .
Through love for her ,I meet with what I meet with ,the pain of separation

[2]   Ho camel - driver of the friend's litter
Towards your riders of the camels of the karvan great hath become my longing .

[3]   Into the Zinda stream of Isfahan cast thy wisdom wine ,drink ,
To the shout of youths of 'Irak .

[4]   The spring of life is passed in the sward of thy care
O time of union God protect thee .

[5]   Saki come me ,the heavy ritl give
God give thee to drink from a full cup .

[6]   Back to my recollection ,youthfulness bring
The sound of the harp and the hand - waiving of the Saki .

[7]   The remaining wine ,give ,so that ,intoxicated and happy of heart ,
My remaining life ,I may scatter as a sacrifice on friends .

[8]   From not seeing the beloved ,blood became my heart
Now evil befall the days of separation

[9]   My scanty tears after separation from you ,regard not mean ;
For ,from small streams ,many a great sea is collected .

[10]   A moment ,with well - wishers ,be concordant
Affairs of concord ,plunder reckon .

[11]   O minstrel ,sweet singer ,sweet speaker prepare
An 'Irak note in Persian verse .

[12]   O daughter of the vine the pleasant bride ,thou art
But ,sometimes ,worthy of divorce ,thou art .

[13]   The lonely un - married Masiha ,it suiteth
That ,fellowship with the sun ,he should make .

[14]   Not our lot ,is the union of friends
Hafiz ghazals of 'Irak ,utter .

[1]  Seit meine Suleima nach Irack gewandert, Find' ich in ihrer Liebe Schmerz.

[2]  O Führer des Weges zur Wohnung der Freundinn, Wie gern bestieg ich deinen Gaul!

[3]  Beleb' den Verstand, und betrink dich mit Weine Beim Saitenton, nach Iraks Art.

[4]  Es grünet der Frühling auf Eueren Weiden, Beschütze, Herr, Genusseszeit! Vorbei ist schon lange die Zeit des Genusses, Ich schwimme jetzt im Trennungsquell.

[5]  Gieb mir, o Schenke, den schweresten Becher, Gott tränke dich aus vollem Glas!

[6]  Die Töne der Laute, das Händegewühle Erinnern an die Jugend mich.

[7]  O gieb mir den übrigen Wein, daß betrunken Den Freunden ich mein Leben weih'!

[8]  Mein Innres ist blutig von Freunden entfernt, Die Trennungsstunde geh' zu Grund!

[9]  Es folget die Thräne des Aug's mir oft rückwärts, Verschmäht sie nicht, sie ist ein Meer,

[10]  O sey mit den Freunden verträglich und einig, Benütze die Gelegenheit,

[11]  O Lieblicher! Spiele zum persischen Lied' Die Weisen von Iraks Gesang.

[12]  So schön bist du, Tochter der Rebe, so bist du Die Ehescheidung doch oft werth.

[13]  Mit Sonnen ein Bündniß zu schließen, geziemet Dem Herren Jesus nur allein. Das Alter verbietet mir Schöne zu lieben, Verbeut Umarmungen und Kuß.

[14]  Es ist noch mein Schicksal zu freu'n mich der Freunde, Hafis! nach Iraks Weise sing'.

[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 .