[1]  When His the true Beloved's tress ,ambergris - diffusing ,the breeze fate and destiny dishevelled ,
Every shattered one ,with whom it the breeze joined ,his life fresh became .

[2]   A fellow - breather is where so that to him explanation of my grief ,I may give
From the time of separation from Him ,what torments my heart endureth .

[3]   Of the leaves of the rose the limbs of man time made a token of Thy face O true Beloved
But on looking - well through shame of Thee ,concealed it man in the rose - bud the closed tomb

[4]   Thou asleep and no limit appeared
Thanks be to God for this Path of love that hath no end

[5]   Perchance ,the beauty of the Ka'ba the true Beloved desireth excuse for want of union of the way - farer to the Ka'ba
For ,in its desert ,consumed the soul of those alive of heart lovers of God

[6]   To this shattered house of sorrow the lover's body who bringeth .
From the pit of the true Beloved's chin trace of the Yusuf of the heart

[7]   That tress - tip the world of evidence ,or this world I take and it to the khwaja's hand ,I give ,
That ,perchance ,my justice from its hands he may take and ,holding me excused ,may not drive me away

[8]   In the morning ,by the border of the sward ,from the bulbul I heard
His melody of Hafiz ,sweet of voice ,sweet of song .

[1]  Ach wer bringt in mein Haus die TrauerkundeVon dem Jusuf des Herzens aus dem Kinnbrunn!

[2]  Als der Ostwind aus ihren Locken hauchte,Lebten Kranke, die er umfloß, von Neuem.

[3]  Wo sind Freunde, daß ich den Gram erzähle,Den mein Herz von der Trennung erlitten.

[4]  Nachgeahmt hat Natur dein RosenantlitzUnd ihr Werk dann beschämt versteckt in Knospen.

[5]  Sorglos bist du, die Liebe hat kein Ende;Preis den Herrn, denn er ist auch unendlich!

[6]  Nachsicht Kaaba der Schönheit hast du nöthig,Denn die Wüste verbrennt beseelte Herzen.

[7]  Ihre Locken ergreif' ich, leg' sie in dieHand des Herren, damit er mich doch räche.

[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]  In the age of the king ,fault - forgiving ,crime - covering ,
Flagon - drinker ,became Hafiz and cup - drinker ,the mufti .

[2]   Forth from the cloister - corner ,the Sufi sate drinking at the wine - jar's foot ,
Since he beheld the muhtasib a wine - pitcher on his shoulder bear .

[3]   The state of the shaikh ,and of the kazi and of their jew secret drinking ,
I asked ,in the morning ,of the Pir ,the wine - seller .

[4]   He said Unfit to be uttered is the matter though thou art a confidant
From slander thy tongue indraw the screen of high and of low preserve and wine of love drink .

[5]   Saki spring arriveth and means of wine drinking is none
On getting means a thought make .For ,from grief of want of means of wine - drinking into tumult hath come my heart's blood .

[6]   Love and poverty ,and youth ,and the new spring ,all this is
My excuse .It ,accept and ,in mercy's trail ,the crime conceal .

[7]   Like the burning candle ,tongue extending in clamour how long makest thou
O friend the moth of thy desire hath arrived .Silence

[8]   O King ,in form and in truth like thee ,
No eye hath seen no ear hath heard .

[9]   Remain ,until the khirk a of hypocrisy ,accepteth
Thy youthful fortune from the old ,tattered garment - wearing sky .

[10]   Hafiz from this inconstant sphere ,I sought my purpose
It said To the wine - house ,go and the cup of wine ,drink .

[11]   Last night ,from the hidden ,to the ear of my heart ,reached a voice
Hafiz less grief suffer thou tranquil sit wine ,drink .

[1]  In der Zeit des milden SchahesTrinkt Hafis aus seinem Kruge,Dem Mufti aus seinem Becher.

[2]  Von der Zelle in das WeinhausGeh'n Sofis, seit sie den VogtSah'n, die Kanne auf den Schultern.

[3]  Um den Scheich, um den Richter,Um den Trunk der Juden fragt' ichIn der Früh' den Weinverkäufer.

[4]  Bist du gleich ein Eingeweihter,Sprach er, kann ich's doch nicht sagen,Trinke schweigend und verstecket.

[5]  Schenk', der Frühling ist gekommen,Aber hin ist's Geld, bedenkeWie mein Herzensblut nun wallet.

[6]  Geldlos und verliebt im Frühling!Halte mich damit entschuldigt,Und verzeihe meine Fehler.

[7]  Ey wie lange wirst du schwätzenWie die Kerze, sieh! des WunschesSchmetterling ist da, nun schweige.

[8]  Herrscher nach dem Wort und Sinne,Den kein Auge noch gesehen,Den kein Ohr noch hat gehöret,

[9]  Bleibe bis dein junges SchicksalVon dem alten Greis des HimmelsSeine blaue Kutte annimmt.

[1]  In the secret house of my ease the heart a sweet idol the true Beloved I have
From Whose tress - tip and cheek ,the horse - shoe of agitation in the .fire I have .

[2]   With loud shout ,me they call lover ,profligate ,wine - drinker
From that Hur ,like the Pari ,all I have .

[3]   If ,in this way ,me ,resourceless Thou keep ,
With a morning - sigh ,dishevelled ,Thy tress ,I keep .

[4]   If the ruddish beard of the Friend display like this its face of splendour
With bloody water ,my yellow grief - stricken face painted ruddy I have .

[5]   If to the abode of profligates ,a pace Thou wilt take ,
The sweetmeat of sweet verse ,and unalloyed wine ,I have .

[6]   From the path of the tress ,bring the arrow of the glance .For ,
With my wounded heart ,calamity - enduring ,contests I have .

[7]   O Hafiz when avanishing are the world's grief and joy ,
That is best that ,my own heart ,happy I have .

[1]  Ich habe einen Liebesgötzen, Im stillen Gemache, Die Locken und die Wangen haben Mich zwischen zwey Feuern.

[2]  Ich bin verliebt, ich bin betrunken, Und singe zum Wein, Und diese Tugenden verdank' ich Den Hurisgestalten.

[3]  Wenn du der Meinung bist, ich werde Verlieren die Sinnen, So will ich mit den Morgenseufzern Verwirren die Locken.

[4]  Und wenn des Freundes Grünspanflaumen So lieblich sich zeigen, So will ich gerne meine Wangen Mit Blute besprengen.

[5]  Und willst du dich bis zu dem Fenster Der Trunkenen wagen, So hab' ich Wein geklärt von Hefen, Und liebliche Lieder.

[6]  O bringet mir den Pfeil der Brauen, Den Panzer der Locken, Denn mit dem wunden Herzen hab' ich Viel Kriege zu führen.

[7]  Hafis! da auf der Welt die Leiden Und Freuden vergehen, So ist es besser, daß du immer Von frohem Gemüth seyst.

[1]  With the true Beloved ,a covenant is mine that As long as in body ,life I have
The well - wishers of His street ,dear like my own precious life 1 hold .

[2]   By that candle of Chigil the true Beloved the purity of the khilvat of my heart ,I behold
From that moon of Khutan ,the splendour of my eye and the luminosity of heart ,I have .

[3]   When to the desire and wish of my heart ,a khilvat ,I have gained ,
Of the malice of evil - speakers in the assembly ,what care is it that I have

[4]   In the house ,mine is a cypress the murshid ,perfect and excellent in the shade of whose lofty stature ,
Independence of the cypress of the garden ,and of the boxtree of the sward I have .

[5]   If in design upon my heart ,a hundred armies of lovely ones ambush make ,
Ba hamd - i - llahu va - 1 - minnat ,an idol ,army - shatterer the true Beloved I have .

[6]   Of the seal - ring of His ruby lip ,it is fit that a Sulaiman - like boast I should express
When mine is the ism - i - a'zam the great name of Ahriman ,what fear is it that I have .

[7]   O learned Pir Ho the wine - house ,forbid me not
For ,in abandoning the wine - cup ,a heart ,promise - shattering I have .

[8]   O watcher for God's sake ,to - night ,a while ,thy eyes close
For ,with His silent ruby lip ,a hundred secret words ,I have .

[9]   When in the rose - bed of his favour ,I proudly move Praise be to God
Inclination neither for the tulip and the wild white rose nor for the narcissus ,I have .

[10]   After abstinence like this ,notorious for profligacy Hafiz became ,
What grief have I ,when as patron in the world Aminu - d - Dm Hasan ,I have .

[1]  Ich schloß ein Bündniß mit dem Liebchen, Daß ich, so lang ich Leben habe, Die Liebenden, die sie besuchen, So werth, wie meine Seele habe.

[2]  Hiemit sey kund: daß meine Freuden Durch diese Tschügilskerze leuchten, Daß ich das Licht des Aug's, des Herzens Von diesem Monde Chotens habe.

[3]  Wenn ich nach meines Herzens Wünschen Mich in der Einsamkeit befinde, Was ist's, was ich von bösen Zungen Der Neider dann zu fürchten habe?

[4]  In meinem Haus steht eine Ceder, In deren hohen kühlen Schatten, Ich weder Cedern noch Cypreßen, Noch Buchs und Ahorn nöthig habe.

[5]  Wenn wider mich im Hinterhalte Sich hundert Heere Schöner lagern, So dank' ich Gott, daß ich ein Liebchen, Das hundert Heere tödtet, habe.

[6]  Es ziemt sich, daß an ihrem Ringe Die Kräfte Salomons ich preise, Ich weiß nicht, was mit diesem Namen Vom Satan ich zu fürchten habe.

[7]  O du verständ'ger guter Alter, O halte mich nicht ab von Schenken, Weil ich im Punkt der Becher-Untreu, Ein kitzliches Gewissen habe. Mir perlet süßer Wein in Bechern, Ein Liebchen habe ich zum malen, Ich weiß wohl, es besitzet Keiner Ein Liebchen, wie ich eines habe.

[8]  Bey Gott dem Herrn! o Nebenbuhler, Schließ diese Nacht durch deine Augen, Weil ich mit ihrem Mundrubin Viel Heimliches zu sprechen habe.

[9]  Wenn ich in ihrem Rosenbeete Herumgeh', so ist Gott mein Zeuge Daß ich nach Tulpen, nach Narzißen, Nach Lilien kein Verlangen habe.

[10]  Es lebte lang Hafis im Stillen, Nun kennet ihn die Welt als Trinker, Was fürchte ich, so lang' ich Schönheit Auf dieser Welt zum Hüter habe.

[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 .