[1]  O Murshid come back ; and of my straitened heart ,the soul's sincere friend be :
Of this consumed one with love the reposer of hidden mysteries be .

[2]   Of that wine which in the wine - house the stage of love ,they sell ,
Me ,two or three cups give and say '' Ramazan ,it be

[3]   O Arif ,holy traveller when to the khirka of hypocrisy thou settest fire ,
An effort ,make and of the circle of profligates outwardly bad ,inwardly good of the world ,chief be .

[4]   That true Beloved who said For thee ,looker and expecter is My heart
Say In safety ,behold I arrive expecter be .

[5]   In envy of that ruby lip ,life - giving of the true Beloved my heart became blood ,
With that very seal and mark ,the casket of love the beloved's mouth be

[6]   So that on His the true Beloved's heart through grief ,a particle of dust may not sit ,
O torrent of tears following my letter ,flowing be

[7]   Hafiz ,who maketh his desire the cup ,world - displaying the perfect murshid
To him say In sight of Asaf of Jamshid ,his exalted place be .

[1]  Komme zurück und sey des Herzens Seelenvertrauter,Sey der geheime Rath meines vertrauten Gemüths.

[2]  Von dem Weine, der in der Schenke der Liebe verkauft wirdSchenke Gläser mir ein, wenn's in der Fasten auch ist.

[3]  Weiser Gefährte, der du die Mönchenkutte verbrannt hast,Wende Mühe darauf, immer betrunken zu seyn.

[4]  Zu dem Freunde, der spricht: mein Herz hat deiner geharret,Sage: Lieber ich komm'! harre mit Sicherheit mein.

[5]  Aus Begier des Rubins ist mein Herz zu Blute geworden.Immer o Kästchen der Lieb' trage dies Zeichen an dir.

[6]  Daß dem Herzen des Freund's vom Gram anfliege kein Stäubchen.Fließet ihr Thränen dem Brief, fließet in Strömen ihm nach.

[7]  Du verlangest Hafis den Welten zeigenden Spiegel,Halte dich an den Wesir unseres anderen Dschems.

[1]  'Tis the fresh spring .In this strive that joyous of heart thou mayst be
For ,again ,blossometh many a rose when in the clay of the grave thou shall be .

[2]   I say not now ,with whom ,sit what drink
For thou knowest ,if wise and learned thou be .

[3]   Within the veil ,thee ,the harp keepeth giving counsel .But ,
Thee ,counsel profiteth at that time when worthy thou mayst be .

[4]   In the sward ,every leaf is a book of a different state
Woe is it if ,careless of the state of all ,thou be .

[5]   In excess ,the world's anguish taketh life's cash ,
If ,night and day ,in this difficult tale ,of journeying to the Friend thou be .

[6]   Though ,from us to the Friend ,is a Path the path of ma'rifat full of fear ,
Easy is the going ,if acquainted with the stage the Shaikh thou be .

[7]   O Hafiz if ,from lofty fortune ,aid be thine ,
The prey of that true Beloved ,impressed with excellences ,thou shalt be .

[1]  Frühlings ist's! höre mich, sey' nun fröhlich; Rosen blüh'n noch einst, wenn du Rasen bist.

[2]  Soll ich dir sagen, mit wem zu trinken, Da du selber es weißt und weise bist?

[3]  Höre den Rath, den die Leier tönet, Doch er nützet nur, wenn du fähig bist!

[4]  Jegliches Blatt ist ein Buch der Weisheit, Schade, daß du so träg' und sorglos bist!

[5]  Hin ist die Summe des Lebens, Wenn du Tage und Nächte durch verlegen bist.

[6]  Voll von Gefahr ist der Weg zum Freunde, Leicht ist's, wenn du der Posten kundig bist!

[7]  Wenn dich das Glas, o Hafis! begünstigt, Kanns seyn, daß du der Raub des Falken bist!

[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 .

[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