[1]  To the true Beloved I said O Sultan of lovely ones show pity to this poor stranger
He said In the desire of his own heart ,loseth his way the wretched stranger .

[2]   To Him ,I said Pass awhile with me .He replied Hold me excused .
A home delicately nurtured one ,what care beareth he for such griefs of the poor stranger

[3]   To the gently nurtured one ,asleep on the royal ermine ,what grief ,
If ,should make the couch of thorn and ,the pillow of the hard stone ,the poor stranger .

[4]   O thou in the chain of whose tress ,are the souls of so many lovers ,
Happily ,fell that musky mole ,on thy coloured cheek ,so strange .

[5]   In the colour of the moon - like face ,appeareth the reflection of wine of love or of unity
Like the leaf of the ruddy Arghavan on the surface of the wild red rose ,strange .

[6]   Strangely hath fallen that ant - line the down around thy face
Yet ,in the picture gallery of Arzhang the musky line of shading is not strange .

[7]   I said O thou tress of night - hue the attraction of grace the evening shelter of the stranger
In the morning time ,beware ,if his need bewail this stranger .

[8]   He said Hafiz at my beauty friends are in the stage of astonishment
Far from wonder it is not ,if shattered and wretched sitteth the stranger .

[1]  Ich sprach zu dem Schah der Schönen:Erbarme dich dieses Fremden,Er sagte: wohl mögen im SinnVerirren sich die Fremden.

[2]  Ich sagte: Verweil' ein wenig,Er sprach: halt' mich entschuldigt;Was kümmert uns Kinder vom HausDer Gram von solchen Fremden!

[3]  Wer königlich hingebettetAuf Hermelinen lieget,Der kennet nicht Kissen aus Stein,Das Dornenbett des Fremden.

[4]  O du, in den Ketten dessenSo viele Freunde schmachten,Es schickt sich das Maal zum Gesicht'Gar schön gleich einem Fremden.

[5]  Auf deinem Gesicht erscheinetDer Widerglanz des Weines,Wie Purpurblüh lieblich erscheinetAuf der Narziß’ der Fremden.

[6]  Es scheinen die feinen HaareAuf deinen Wangen fremde,Doch sollte auf Sina's GemäldenDer Haarstrich nicht befremden.

[7]  Ich sprach zu dem Abend: schwarz istDein Haar, dem Fremde huldigen,Mit Rechte beklagen sich dannZur Morgenzeit die Fremden.

[8]  Es sprach zu sich selbst der DichterBekannte werden irre;So minder dann darf dich befremdenDer Gram und Schmerz der Fremden.

[1]  Back to Kin'an ,lost Yusuf cometh suffer not grief
One day ,the sorrowful cell becometh the rose - garden suffer not grief .

[2]   O grief - stricken heart better ,becometh thy state ; display not the ill - heart :
Back to reason ,cometh this distraught head suffer not grief .

[3]   If on the sward's throne ,again be the spring of life ,
O bird ,night - singing over thy head ,thou mayst draw the canopy of the rose suffer not grief .

[4]   If ,for a space of two days ,to our desire ,the sphere's revolutions turned not ,
Ever ,in one way ,the state of revolution is not suffer not grief .

[5]   Ho since thou art not acquainted with the hidden mystery ,be not hopeless :
Within the screen ,are hidden pastimes suffer not grief .

[6]   O heart if the fdundation of thy existence ,the torrent of passing away mortality pluck up ,
Since Nuh is thy boat - master ,of the deluge ,suffer not grief .

[7]   If ,from desire of pilgrimage to the Ka'ba thou wilt plant thy foot in the desert ,
Then if the mighty Arabian thorn make reproofs ,suffer not grief .

[8]   Although the stage of this world is very fearsome and the purpose hidden ,
There is not a road ,whereof is no end suffer not grief .

[9]   In separation from the Beloved ,and vexing on the part of the watcher ,our state of perturbation and confusion
All ,God ,our state causing ,knoweth suffer not grief .

[10]   In the corner of poverty and in the solitude of dark nights ,Hafiz ,
So long as thine are the practice of praying and the reading of the Kuran wherein is the salvation of the next world suffer not grief .

[1]  Der verlorene JusufKommt nach Kanaan, gräme dich nicht.Aus der Zelle des GramsWird ein Rosenbeet, gräme dich nicht.

[2]  Dieses traurige HerzWird beruhiget, werde nicht bös.Diesem störrigen KopfWird Vernunft zu Theil, gräme dich nicht.

[3]  Kehr't der Frühling des LebensZu des Wiesengrüns Brautbeet zurück,Wird die Nachtigall auchRosenzelte bau'n, gräme dich nicht.

[4]  Wenn der greisende HimmelEin Paar Tage nach Lust dir nicht thut,Denke, greisender LaufFodert Ungleichheit, gräme dich nicht.

[5]  Du verzweifle nicht, wenn duDas Geheimniß des Himmels nicht weißt.Denn es hüllet ein SchleyerViel Geheimniße des Himmels, gräme dich nicht.

[6]  Wenn der Strom des VerderbensDer Erwartung Gebäude zerstört,Bleibt im Wirbel der FluthRuh dein Steuermann, gräme dich nicht.

[7]  Willst du Wüsten durchwandern,Voll Begierde die Kaaba zu seh'n,Wenn die Distel dich sticht,Oder Dornenbusch, gräme dich nicht.

[8]  Zwar der Weg ist gefährlich,Und von ferne das Ziel nicht zu spähn,Doch bestehet kein Weg,Der nicht endiget, gräme dich nicht.

[9]  Meine Lage, die TrennungVom Geliebten, des Neiders Bemüh'n.Alles, alles durchschautGott, der Welten lenkt, sorge dich nicht.

[10]  Und so lange bei finstrerNacht im Wirbel der Armuth HafisDie Gebote vollzieht,Und den Koran lies't, gräme dich nicht.

[1]  The decision of the Pir of the Magians ,I have ; and an old saying ,it is ,
That unlawful is wine there ,where is neither the friend nor the companion .

[2]   This ragged religious garment of hypocrisy I will rend what shall I do
The society of the uncongenial nature is excruciating torment to the soul .

[3]   So that ,perchance ,on me ,the true Beloved's lip may scatter a draught
For that reason ,years dweller I have become at the door of the wine - house of love

[4]   Perchance ,passed from His memory hath my ancient service :
O morning breeze Him ,recollection of the ancient covenant ,give .

[5]   If ,after a hundred years ,Thy perfume blow over my dust ,
Forth from the clay of the grave its head the rotten bone dancing bringeth .

[6]   First ,from us ,with a hundred hopes ,the Heart - Ravisher took our heart
Apparently ,the covenant ,His merciful nature forgetteth not .

[7]   To the rose - bud the seeker who ,by not attaining the object of his heart ,is strait of heart speak ,saying : Of thy entangled work ,strait of heart be not
For ,from morn's breath ,and from the spirits of the breeze the perfect murshid aid thou wilt gain .

[8]   O heart thought of thy own welfare make by another door the door of the true Beloved
By the physician's treatment ,better becometh not the lover's pain .

[9]   The jewel of divine knowledge ,amass ,that ,it with thyself ,to the next world ,thou mayst take
For after thy death the portion of others is the wealth of gold and of silver .

[10]   Strong is the world's snare from it ,escape is impossible unless God's grace become thy friend ally
If not ,over Shaitan whelmed with stones ,Adam man prevailed not .

[11]   Hafiz if silver and gold thine be not ,what matter Be grateful .
Than the fortune of thy grace of speech ,and of thy gentle thought ,what better fortune

[1]  For the sake of love's existence are man and Pari ,
A little pure desire ,show ,so that a great happiness in attaining to true love thou mayst achieve .

[2]   Khwaja strive portionless of .love be not
For none buyeth the slave with the defect of being void of skill .

[3]   The wine of the morning draught ,and the sweet sleep of dawn ,how long
For pardon strive by the supplication of mid - night ; and ,with the weeping of the morning .

[4]   O dainty one ,sorcery - player what doll art thou thyself
Neither in front of the eye art thou nor hidden from vision art thou .

[5]   A thousand holy souls consumed on account of this jealousy ,
For ,every morning and evening ,the candle of another assembly thou art .

[6]   The message from me to His Highness Asaf ,who taketh ,
Saying Recollect two hemistiches of mine in Dan verse

[7]   Come ,so that ,even so ,the world's way I may behold
If ,examination ,thou wilt make ,wine ,thou drinkest and grief ,sufferest not .

[8]   On thy head of beauty ,aslant in pride be not the crown of sovereignty
For ,the beauty of fortune ,and worthy of throne and of the crown of gold ,thou art .

[9]   By the perfume of Thy tress and Thy cheek ,go and come ,
The morning breeze for acquiring from Thy tress the power of perfume - diffusing ,and the rose for acquiring from Thy cheek splendour .

[10]   Since ,prepared of vision ,thou art not ,union ,seek not ,
For ,no good doeth the world - viewing cup of Jamshid at the time of being without vision .

[11]   Turneth calamity the prayer of the corner - sitters
With a corner of thy eye ,at us corner - sitters wherefore lookest thou not

[12]   O beloved come and ,from us ,with the capital of thy beauty ,sovereignty purchase
Careless of this matter ,be not ,lest sorrow thou suffer .

[13]   Love's Path is a path wonderfully dangerous ,
We seek refuge in God If to a place of safety ,the path thou take not .

[14]   By the blessing of the prayer of Hafiz ,is hope that again
I may see the traces of glories of my Laila the true Beloved in the path of the night ,luminous with the moon .

[1]  Menschen und Feen sind ungebetene Gäste der Liebe, Zeige mir Willenskraft, sicher entführst du das Glück.

[2]  Suche keinen Genuß, wenn du nicht im Stand bist zu schauen, Denn der Spiegel Dschemschids nützet den Sehenden nur.

[3]  Morgentrunk und Morgenschlaf, wie lange noch währt dieß? Sinn' auf Entschuldigung, höre das Morgengeschrey.

[5]  Tausend heilige Seelen, sie sind entbrennet voll Eifer, Weil du Abends und früh Anderen haltest das Licht.

[7]  Komm', ich habe so viel aus langer Erfahrung gelernet, Welcher das Weinglas leert, leeret die Sorgen auch aus.

[8]  Niemals sey der Wipfel von deiner Cypresse gekrümmet, Denn wahrhaftig du bist würdig der Krone des Throns.

[9]  Rosen und Ostwind kommen und gehen mit Glanz und Gerüchen, Diese vom Dufte des Haars, jener vom Licht des Gesichts.

[11]  Winkelsitzergebet verhütet Schaden und Unglück. Warum blickest du nicht mir nach dem Winkel des Aug's? Was soll ich thun, verwirrt von der Trennung, und von dem Genuße? Immer bist du im Aug', aber von Angesicht fern.

[12]  Komm' und kaufe die Herrschaft von uns mit dem Schatze der Schönheit, Sorge dafür, daß du's nicht mögest verzehren umsonst. Höre den Meister, und sey nicht ganz entblößet von Liebe, Niemand kaufet den Knecht, wenn er nicht Tugenden hat. Jegliche Nachricht öffnet das Thor zu neuen Geschäften, Deßhalb bin ich berauscht, bin so verloren und irr'. Zeige mir doch den Weg in diesen finsteren Gängen. Schon tönt Morgengebet, tönet das Morgengeschrey.

[13]  Wunderlich ist der Weg der Lieb' und voll von Gefahren, Laßt uns flüchten zu Gott, daß er uns Sicherheit geb'. Siehe! sie kommen und gehen in Hoffnung des Duftes der Locken, Winde verstreuen das Roth, Rosen bedienen sich deß. Durch die Schmerzen der Freundinn bin ich auf ewig gebunden, Hin ist mein Leben durch sie, aber mich kümmert es nicht. Kennet der Unerfahrene wohl die heimlichen Freuden? Wollte Gott, ich hätt' Kräfte zu Freuden des Gau's! Mein Geheimniß, o Freund! ist durch die Thränen verrathen, Du erbarme dich mein, der zur Genüge mich kennt! Trockenen Mund's gieng ich vorbei am Wasser des Lebens, Hilf mir, Schenke, o hilf, reich' mir vom lautersten Trunk! Wenn Hafis für dich einst stirbt, an der Schwelle der Thüre Wird ihm durch den Tod ewiges Leben zu Theil.

[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 .