[1]  The reed's tongue hath no desire for the explanation of separation
If not ,to thee ,I give the explanation of the tale of separation .

[2]   Alas life's span ,in hope of union ,
Hath reached to an end and to an end ,hath not come the time of separation .

[3]   That head that ,in glory ,1 rubbed on the head of the sphere ,
I swear by the true ones that I compelled by Fate and Destiny placed it on the threshold of separation .

[4]   In desire of union ,how may I unfold the wing ,
For its feathers ,the bird of my heart hath shed on the nest of separation .

[5]   Now ,what remedy ,when ,into the great whirlpool of grief's ocean ,
The bark of my patience hath fallen on account of the sail of separation .

[6]   Not much it wanted that the bark of my life should be overwhelmed ,
With love's wave from the limitless ocean of separation .

[7]   O Lord into the world ,who brought disjunction and separation
Dark be the day of disjunction ,and the house of separation .

[8]   O true Beloved comrades of the troop of Thy fancy and fellow - riders with patience ,are we lovers of Thee
The associate of labour ,and of'distress and the companion of separation .

[9]   Union with Thee ,how may I claim By my soul I swear that hath become ,
My heart ,the secretary of fate and my body ,the pledge of separation .

[10]   Roast - flesh became my heart from the burning of desire and far in separation from the true Beloved ,
Ever ,the blood of the liver ,I drink from the tray of separation .

[11]   When ,captive to love's circle ,the sky beheld my head ,
The neck of my patience ,it bound with the cord of separation .

[12]   Hafiz if ,with the foot of desire ,this Path of love to the end thou hadst gone ,
To the hand of disjunction ,none would have given the rein of separation .

[1]  Wer brachte denn zuerst die Trennung auf die Erde?Auf immer bleibe schwarz das Haus der Flucht, der Trennung.

[2]  Der Feder Zunge spricht nicht aus den Schmerz der Trennung,Sonst hätt' ich dir erklärt die Sagen von der Trennung.

[3]  Des Lebens Zeit verfloß in Hoffnung des Genusses,O Weh! und noch nicht ist zu End' die Zeit der Trennung.

[4]  Ich heb' den Kopf mit Stolz bis an des Himmels Giebel,Und aus Geradheit lieg' ich auf die Schwell' der Trennung.

[5]  Wie kann ich fliegen mit dem Wunsche des Genusses?Entfiedert ward der Aar der Brust im Nest der Trennung.

[6]  Der Nachen der Geduld fiel auf dem Meer der Leiden,In einen Wirbel mit dem Segeltuch der Trennung.

[7]  Noch wenig fehlt, so wird des Lebens Schiff versinken,In Sehnsuchtsfluthenschwall im weiten Meer der Trennung.

[8]  Wenn ich die Trennung erwische, fürwahr! ich will sie ermorden,Und mit Thränen bezahl' ich dann die Blutschuld der Trennung.

[9]  Ich ziehe voll Geduld mit ihres Bildes Heeren,Ich wandle auf der Gluth der Flucht, im Schmerz der Trennung.

[10]  Wie kann die Seele fodern des Genusses Freuden?Mein Herz erliegt dem Loos, den Leib umfaßt die Trennung,

[11]  Der Sehnsucht Gluth hat längst mein armes Herz verbrennet,Vom Freunde ferne trink' ich Blut am Tisch der Trennung,

[1]  Arise so that to the tavern ,the sufi - khirka ,we may take
So that to the bazar of idle tales ,the ragged religious garment and idle talk ,we may take .

[2]   To the path towards the kalandar - profligates ,journeying brought us
The ragged ,religious ,garment of wool ,and the prayer - mat of idle tales ,we take .

[3]   Since the morning cup ,all the khilvatis take ,
At the door of the Pir of the tavern ,the harp of the morning ,we take .

[4]   O true Beloved that covenant that with Thee ,in the Wadi - i - Aima'n ,eternity without beginning I established ,
Like Musa ,sayer of Let me see ,to the appointed place for inducing the ihram we take .

[5]   From the turret of the ninth heaven God's throne the drum of thy fame ,we beat :
To the roof vault of the heavens ,the guidons of love from Thee ,we take .

[6]   To - morrow resurrection - day in the plain of up - standing the resurrection - place the glorious dust of Thy street ,
For glorifying ,all ,on the pate of our head ,we take .

[7]   If ,in our path ,the thorn of reproach ,the Zahid plant ,
Into the prison of retribution ,him from the rose - garden ,we take .

[8]   Of our stained ,woollen ,garment ,shame be ours ,
If ,with this excellence and skill ,the reputation of miracles ,we take

[9]   If the value of time ,the heart establish not and a work do not ,
Great the shame that ,from this produce of times ,we take .

[10]   From this vaulted roof ,calamity raineth .Arise
That ,from all calamities ,shelter in the wine - house ,we may take .

[11]   In desire's desert this ravishing world to be lost at last how long
From the murshid the path of escape we ask ; perchance ,the foot of approach to great deeds we may take .

[12]   Hafiz at the door of every mean one ,thy face - lustre reputation spill not
To the Kazi of needs God best that that need ,we take .

[1]  Steh' auf, wir wollen das Ordenskleid Zur Schenke tragen. Wir wollen heiliges Gaukelspiel Zu Markte tragen. Die Ohren habe ich mir verstopft Vor aller Predigt, Wie lang' ihr Prediger wollt ihr noch Die Schande tragen?

[2]  Zum Zehrungsgeld für Betrunkene Für Kalendere, Laßt uns zum Käufer das Ordenskleid Den Teppich tragen!

[3]  Daß alle Frommen das Glas zugleich Zum Trunk ergreifen, Laßt uns die Leiern in der früh Zum Wirthe tragen.

[4]  Vermög' des Bundes den ich mit dir In Ruh' geschlossen, Werd' ich wie Moses in's heil'ge Land Einst übertragen.

[5]  Ich will die Pauke von deinem Ruhm Im Himmel schlagen, Ich will der Liebe Panier bis an Die Sterne tragen.

[6]  Im Felde des jüngsten Gerichts wird einst Der Staub der Füße Auf allen Scheiteln als Kronenzier Und Schmuck getragen.

[7]  Und werden Dornen von Frommen uns In Weg geleget, Belohnen wollen mit Rosen wir Solch ein Betragen.

[8]  Vor unserem wollenen Kleide selbst Ist's eine Schande, Wenn wir mit ähnlichem Sinn den Ruhm Der Tugend tragen.

[9]  Wer nicht den Werth der Zeit erkennt Sie nicht benützet, Wird über ihre Verwendung einst Viel Reue tragen.

[10]  Vom hohen Dache des Himmels stürzt Das Unglück nieder, Wir wollen sicherheitshalb sogleich Zur Schenk' uns tragen.

[11]  Wie lange werden wir in dem Feld Der Lust noch irren, Vielleicht gelingt es mit Fragen, uns Davon zu tragen.

[12]  Hafis! verschwende nicht Wangenglanz An allen Thüren, Viel besser ist's zum Herren der Rath Ihn hinzutragen.

[1]  Friends in the rose - season ,that best that for pleasure we strive
This the word of the Plr of the Magians the murshid is .With soul ,let us listen .

[2]   In none ,is liberality that we may have even a groat wherewith to drink wine passeth joy's time
Its remedy is this ,for wine ,the prayer - mat ,we sell .

[3]   Tis a pleasant air ,joy - giving .O God send
One of gracious form ,to whose face ,wine ,rose of hue ,we may drink .

[4]   One of skill Zuhra is the organ - player of the sky ,highway - robber
Of this grief ,bewail we not how and clamour we not ,why

[5]   Into tumult of blossom came the rose and its lustre ,we dashed not with wine ,
Therefore ,with the fire of regret and of desire ,we clamour .

[6]   From the tulip's cup ,illusory wine we draw
Far ,the evil eye For without the minstrel and wine ,distraught are we .

[7]   Hafiz to whom can one utter this wonderful state For ,we
Are bulbuls that ,in the rose - season ,silent are .

[1]  Freunde die Tage der Rosen sind da, Besser ist's sich zu erfreuen. Höret so spricht der erfahrne Wirth, Höret mit Seele die Worte:

[2]  Keiner erbarmet Anderer sich, Zeiten der Freude verstreichen, Wahrlich ich kenne nicht besseren Roth, Kaufet Euch Wein für den Teppich.

[4]  Höret! der Himmel was orgelt er auf? Stiehlt er nicht ehrlichen Leuten? Sollen wir dieses mit Schweigen ansehn, Sollen hierob wir nicht schreyen?

[5]  Sehet! die Rose wie ist sie entflammt, Wein ist uns nöthig zum Löschen. Deßhalb entbrennen wir selber vor Lust, Flammen empor vor Begierde.

[6]  Denn im Gedanken nur trinken wir Wein, Schlürfen denselben aus Tulpen; Ferne die Neider! denn ohne den Wein, Ohne den Sänger behagt Nichts.

[7]  Welchem Vertrauten erzählst du Hafis, Dieses erstaunliche Wunder, Daß du wahrhaftig die Nachtigall bist, Schweigend in Tagen der Rosen.

[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 .