[1]  The world - possessor ,defender of the faith perfect sovereign
Yahya bin Muzaffar ,king ,just - doer :

[2]   O thou thy court ,the shelter of Islam ,hath opened
On the face of the world ,the window of the soul ,and the door and the heart .

[3]   Necessary and proper to the soul and to wisdom ,is reverence to thee
To existence and dwelling the universe thy reward is abounding and comprehending .

[4]   On the day of eternity without beginning ,from thy reed ,a drop of blackness ink
That became the solver of questions ,fell on the face of the moon .

[5]   When on thy face ; or on the moon's the sun beheld that dark mole ,to his heart ,he said
Would to heaven that I had been the fortunate slave the dark mole

[6]   O king on account of thy banquet ,the sky is in dancing and in sama'
From the skirt of this zamzama ,thy hand let not go .

[7]   Drink wine and give the world be joyous For ,of the tress of thy noose ,
Captive to chains became the neck of thy ill - wisher .

[8]   Now ,altogether ,in the way of justice ,is the sky's revolution
Be happy that the tyrant taketh not the path to the stage of his object

[9]   Hafiz when in the power of the king of the world is the partition of subsistence ,
For thy livelihood ,make no useless thought .

[1]  Er, der vollkomm'ne Fürst,Der Herr der Welt, des Glaubens SiegIst ein gerechter Schah.

[3]  Der Seele, dem Verstande ziemt,Dein Lobspruch und dein Preis,Denn über Raum und Zeiten dehnt,Sich deine Gnade aus.

[4]  Am Tage der Bestimmung fielEin Tröpflein deines KielsHin auf den Mond, wovon er schwarzUnd ganz verfinstert ward.

[5]  Die Sonne als sie dieses MaalErblickte, sprach bei sich:O wäre ich so glücklich nur,Als jener Mohr es ist!

[6]  O Schah! der Himmel selber tanzt,Aus Lust bei deinem Fest,O ziehe deine Hand vom SaumDes Freudenlärms nicht ab!

[7]  Du trinke Wein, verschenk' dabeiDie Güter einer Welt,In deiner Locken Banden liegtDes Feindes Hals verstrickt.

[8]  Des Himmels Lauf geht kurze Zeit,Den Weg der Billigkeit,Erfreue Dich, der Böse fandDen Weg zum Posten nicht.

[9]  Hafis! es ist des Schatzes Thor,Der Gnaden Schenkeplatz,Deßhalben sey du unbesorgt,Um deiner Nahrung Loos.

[1]  In the morning ,Jauza Gemini placed before me the preservation the small Kuran
That is The King's slave ,I am and the oath ,I ate .

[2]   Saki come for ,from effective fortune's aid ,
The desire that I desired became to me ,through God attainable .

[3]   A cup ,give for again in joy of the King's face ,
Elderly of head ,in my head ,is desire for a youthful one .

[4]   Waylay me not with the description of the limpid water of Khizr
From the King's cup ,a draught - drinker of Kausar's fountain ,am I .

[5]   O King if to the ninth heaven God's throne I cause the throne of excellence to reach ,
Of this majesty ,the purchased slave ,am I and of this door ,the wretched one .

[6]   A thousand years ,draught - drinker of Thy banquet ,I was
My disposition ,ardent of temperament ,water - drinking ,how may it abandon

[7]   If ,of the slave of this tale ,belief be not thine
Of perfect speech ,a proof I will bring .

[8]   If ,from thee ,I up - pluck my heart and ,from thee ,up - lift my love ,
On whom ,may I cast this love ; where ,may I take that heart

[9]   Mansur bin Muhamad Ghazi is my guard
From this auspicious name ,victorious over my enemies am I .

[10]   All in love for the King ,was my covenant of Alast
From life's highway to this covenant ,I pass .

[11]   Since ,in the King's name ,the sphere framed the Pleiades ,
Verse of pearl ,wherefore make I not Less than who ,am I

[12]   When ,from the King's hand ,I tasted the victuals like the mighty falcon ,
For the capture of the mean pigeon ,care how is mine

[13]   O King ,lion - seizer less ,how becometh ,if becometh
Attainable by me ,in thy shadow ,the country of ease

[14]   In the felicity of praise of thee ,my verse subdued a hundred countries of the heart
Thou mayst say that my speaking tongue is thy cleaving sword .

[15]   If ,like the morning breeze ,by a rose - bed ,I passed ,
Mine ,was neither love for the cypress nor desire for the cone - tree .

[16]   Thy perfume ,I perceived and to the memory of thy face ,
The Sakis of joy gave me one or two cups .

[17]   Not the slave's custom is intoxication with the juice of one or two grapes
Years endured ,the Pir ,tavern - cherisher ,am I .

[18]   With the revolution of the star and of the sky ,many a strife is mine
In this tale ,be the King's justice ,my ruler

[19]   Thanks to God ,that ,again ,in this height of court ,
The sound of my long wing - feather of flight the peacock of the ninth heaven heareth

[20]   Effaced be my name from the work - shop of the lovers of God
If mine be other employment save love for Thee .

[21]   For the capture of my heart ,the lion's whelp attacked
Lean ,if I be ,or if not ,the lion's prey I am .

[22]   O Thou ,the lovers of whose face are in number more than the atoms in the sun - beam
To union with Thee ,how may reach I who in capacity less than an atom ,am

[23]   Show to me ,the denier of the beauty of Thy face ,who is he
So that ,with the dagger of jealousy ,his eye I may bring forth .

[24]   On me ,fell the shadow of the symbolic sun of empire
Now ,as to the material sun of the east ,rest independence is mine .

[25]   Not brisk is the market of purpose of these deeds :
Neither splendour ,do I boast nor ease ,do I purchase .

[26]   With soul ,the friend of the prophet and of his offspring ,is Hafiz
By God ,witness to this is the Lord ,my ruler .

[1]  Morgens legten vor mir die Zwillinge nieder das Währhäng, Ha! ich schwöre, ich bin wahrlich der Diener des Schahs.

[2]  Komm' o Schenke komm! mit der Hilfe des wirkenden Glückes Sey der heiße Wunsch mir von dem Herrn gewährt!

[3]  Reich' mir das Glas, aus Freude des Schahes Antlitz zu sehen, Wird mein greises Haupt wieder von neuem verjüngt.

[4]  Höre mir auf zu beschreiben die Lebensquelle von Chiser, Aus den Hefen des Schahs trink' ich die Quelle Kewßer.

[5]  Schah! und wenn ich den Thron der Tugend zum Himmel erhöbe Blieb' an deiner Thür' immer ein Bettler ich noch.

[6]  Tausend Jahre hindurch war ich dein Bechergenoße, Kann vom Gnadenort ich mich entfernen vielleicht.

[7]  Wenn Du aber dem Wort des Dieners Dich weigerst zu glauben, Bringe ich von Kemal Probe und Sicherheit Dir.

[8]  Gieß' ich mein Herz von Dir, und sollt' ich die Liebe dir rauben, Wen beschenkt ich wohl? Welchem vergäb' ich mein Herz?

[9]  Ben Mohammed Manßur der Sieger ist mein Beschützer Seines Namens Kraft richtet die Feinde zu Grund.

[10]  Ich bin von Ewigkeit her bestimmt zur Liebe des Schahes, Wenn ich gleich hiedurch manchmal die Straße verlier'.

[11]  Sieh' sein Namen ist mit Plejaden an Himmel geschrieben, Wer besiegt mich im Lied? soll ich die Perlen nicht reihn?

[12]  Hab' ich Falken gleich aus der Hand des Schahes gegessen, Hat denn Rauben, und Jagd einigen Reiz noch für mich?

[13]  Schah! der Löwen ergreift! Sag' an, was hast du verloren, Deines Schattens Glück gönne uns Frieden und Ruh. Ohne Federn und Flügel bin ich, daher ist's zu wundern, Daß ich zum Simorg mich zu erschwingen befleiß'.

[14]  Hundert Herzen erobert durch dich die Kraft des Gesanges, Gleichsam als gliche mein Wort deinem erobernden Schwerdt.

[15]  Wenn ich vorübergeh' am Rosenbeet wie der Ostwind, Reizet mich die Cypreß, reiz't mich die Pinie nicht.

[16]  Deinen Geruch vernahm ich im Feld, und auf deine Gesundheit Reichten die Schenken der Lust einen zwey Becher mir her.

[17]  Meine Sache ist's nicht, nur ein zwey Tropfen zu trinken, Denn in Schenken ward ich ein erfahrener Greis.

[18]  Immer zank' ich mit dem Lauf des Himmels, der Sterne, Der gerechte Schah möge entscheiden den Streit.

[19]  Gott sey Dank, daß sogar am äußersten Giebel des Himmels, Gabriel an dem Thron meine Gesänge vernimmt.

[20]  Aus dem Buche der Liebenden sey mein Name vertilget, Wenn für Andere einst, Liebe die Brust mir entflammt.

[21]  Wüthend stürzte auf mich, um mich zu zerreißen der Löwe, Mager oder fett bin ich die Beute des Schahs.

[22]  Mehr sind verliebet in dich als Stäubchen im Sonnenschein fliegen, Ich ein Sonnenstaub, o! wann gelang' ich zu dir.

[23]  Zeige mir an, wer hat je deine Schönheit geläugnet, Daß aus Eifersucht ich ihm das Auge zerhau'.

[24]  Siehe auf mich ist der Schatten der Sonne des Glückes gefallen, Nun bedarf ich des Scheins anderer Sonnen nicht mehr.

[25]  Keineswegs ist mein Sinn mit diesen Worten zu handeln, Ich verkaufe und kauf' solche Liebkosungen nicht. Immer liebet Hafis mit vollem Herzen den Propheten, Seine Familie giebt wahrlich das Zeugniß hievon.

[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 .