[1]  The dust of my body is the veil of the true Beloved's face
O happy that moment when from off this face ,the veil I cast

[2]   Not fit for a sweet singer like me ,is the cage of the world like this
To Rizvan's rose - bed ,I go for the bird of that sward am I .

[3]   Manifest ,it is not wherefore ,I have come into this world where ,I had been
Regret and sorrow that ,of my own work ,careless I am .

[4]   In the expanse of the holy world ,my circuit how may I make
When ,in the mixed abode this dusty world plank - bound confined to a dusty body ,I am .

[5]   If ,from my heart's blood ,the perfume of musk issue ,
Have no wonder for fellow - sufferer with the musk - pod of Khutan the musk - deer I am .

[6]   Outwardly regard not the embroidery of my gold - thread tunic resplendent like the candle ,saying He is happy
For ,within the tunic ,hidden consumings ate .

[7]   Come and from before him ,the existence of Hafiz take up
For ,with Thy existence ,none heareth from me that I am living

[1]  Sieh! des Körpers Staub ist der Schleier des Seelengesichtes, Selige, selige Zeit, flieget der Schleier empor!

[2]  Solch ein Käficht geziemt nicht einem lieblichen Sänger, Richte nach Eden den Flug, du bist ein Vogel von dort.

[3]  Weßhalb ich kam, und wo ich gewesen, ist immer noch dunkel, Wehe, wehe daß ich immer so unbesorgt war!

[4]  Wie ist's möglich, daß ich die Welt der Geister umkreise? Ich bin im Körpernest immer ein Sklave des Maals. Ich, der den Blick hinauf zu den Sitzen der Seligen richte, Wähl' ich zum Vaterland dieses verwüstete Gau?

[5]  Weht vom Blute des Herzens der Duft des Moschus zu dir hin, Wund're dich nicht, denn ich theil' auch mit dem Moschus den Schmerz.

[6]  Halte dem äußern nach mich nicht für gerad' wie die Kerze, Inner des Hemdes steckt manches verborgene Maal.

[7]  Komm! o komm! und raube Hafisen sein eigenes Wesen, Keiner höre von mir, wer ich denn eigentlich sey.

[1]  O Lord that musky fragrant deer my beloved back to Khutan safely cause to reach
And back to the sward that straight ,moving ,cypress ,cause to reach .

[2]   With a breeze of kindness our withered fortune ,cherish
That is that soul the beloved gone from the body ,back to the body cause to reach .

[3]   Since ,by Thy order ,the moon and the sun reach to their stage ,
Back to me also ,my beloved ,moon of face ,cause to reach .

[4]   In search of the ruby of Yaman ,blood became our eyes ;
O Lord back to Yaman ,that gleaming constellation cause to reach .

[5]   O auspicious bird ,auspicious of mien the murshid go
Before the inaccessible Anka the true Beloved the word message of the crow and of the kite disciples back cause to reach .

[6]   The word message to the beloved is this Without thee ,life we desire not ;
O foot - messenger ,news - taker back the word the message cause to reach .

[7]   O Lord that one the beloved whose native land had been the eye of Hafiz ,
Her ,with desire fulfilled back from wandering to her native land cause to reach .

[1]  Bring', o Herr, den Moschushirschen Nach Choten zurück! Bringe diese hohe Ceder Auf die Flur zurück.

[2]  Lindre mein verderbtes Schicksal Nur mit einem Hauch, Bringe die entfloh'ne Seele Zu dem Leib zurück!

[3]  Gott! der Mond, die Sonne kommen Auf dein Wort zurück, Bring' daher, mein Mondgesichtchen Wieder mir zurück.

[4]  Aus Begier nach den Rubinen Sind die Augen Blut, Herr, o bring' das Glücksgestirn Glänzend uns zurück!

[5]  Fliege, fliege, guter Vogel, Aus dem Paradies, Bring' der Raben und der Krähen Worte zum Anka!

[6]  Ohne dich mag ich nicht leben, Dieses ist mein Wort, Hör' auf meine Worte, Bothe, Bothschaft bring' zurück!

[7]  Bring' der Freundinn, die zur Heimath Meine Augen hat, Aus der Fremde wieder in ihr Vaterland zurück.

[1]  Last night ,in sleep ,I saw that forth ,a great moon had come ,
From the reflection of the face whereof ,to an end ,the night of separation had come .

[2]   The explanation is what The much journeyed Friend the true Beloved arriveth
O would that by my door ,He ,splendour - giving and adorned ,had come

[3]   My Saki ,auspicious of omen whose mention be for good
Ever ,by my door ,with the goblet and the cup ,he used to come .

[4]   Happy ,had it been if ,in sleep ,his native land he had seen
So that the guide to us ,the recollection of its association would have come .

[5]   If ,with force and gold ,to our hand ,the bounty of eternity without beginning union with the true Beloved had come ,
The water of life of Khizr .Sikandar's portion would have come .

[6]   O true Beloved wherefore fleest Thou Be memory of that time ,when ,from roof and door ,to me ,
The message of the Beloved and the letter of the Heart - ravisher ,used to come .

[7]   Such power of tyranny ,Thy watcher where would have obtained ,
If ,one night ,to the Ruler's door ,an oppressed one had come

[8]   Love's desire ,how know the immature ones of the Path
One of ocean - heart generous seek and a bold one who is a chief .

[9]   That one who ,thee ,road - guide to stone - heartedness ,made ,
O would that against a stone so that he might fall his foot^ had come .

[10]   If ,in Hafiz's way ,another had written ,
Agreeably to the nature of the king ,skill - cherishing ,it would have come .

[1]  Mein Mond war gestern in dem Traum Zu mir herabgekommen, Zu Ende war's mit seinem Schein Der Trennungsnacht gekommen.

[2]  Wie sag' ich's, denn es kehrt mein Freund Zurück von seinen Reisen, O möchte er doch bald und bald Herein zur Thüre kommen.

[3]  Der Namen meines Schenken sey In löblicher Erinn'rung, Weil er mit Flasche und mit Glas Stets ist zu mir gekommen.

[5]  Wenn Gottes Huld ich mit Gewalt Mit Gold erworben habe, Dann wäre mir der Lebensquell Vielleicht auch zugekommen. Die Seele hätt' ich hingestreut Dem süßen Herzensschmeichler, Wär' er, wie ein verklärter Geist, Zu mir herab gekommen.

[6]  O gern gedenke ich der Zeit, Wo mir von Dach und Thüren Von meinem Freunde bald ein Brief, Bald Kunde ist gekommen.

[7]  Dem Nebenbuhler sag', wo fand'st Du solche Grausamkeiten, Was wirst du thun, wenn eines Nachts Zu dir die Kläger kommen?

[8]  Wer nie den Weg der Liebe gieng Was weiß er von der Liebe? Drum suche einen Liebling, der Gewandt ist, zu bekommen.

[9]  Wer dir mit Herzen hart wie Stein Die wahre Straße weiset, O möchte doch auf seinen Kopf Ein Stein von oben kommen!

[10]  Wenn Andere Hafisens Bild Zu zeichnen sich bestreben, So wird es dann dem Schah gar schön, Und wohlgefällig kommen.

[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 .