[1]  In the morning when ,his standard on the mountainous lands ,the Khasrau of the east the rising sun pitched ,
With the hand of mercy ,the door of hopeful ones ,my beloved beat

[2]   Before morning ,when it became manifest what is the inconstant state of the sphere's love ,
It the morning ascended and ,on the pride of potentates ,a sweet laugh expressed .

[3]   Last night ,when with the intention of dancing ,my idol stood up ,
From the tress ,she unloosed the knot and on the hearts of beloved ones beat .

[4]   From goodness and the colour of rectitude and piety that moment ,I washed my hand in the heart's blood
When His the beloved's eye ,wine - measuring ,to the sensible ones ,invitation for drinking wine expressed .

[5]   This usage of deceit ,what iron heart taught Him the true Beloved
That when from his own house He came out ,those keeping awake at night the 'abids ,and the zahids He first attacked .

[6]   The idea of horsemen my wretched heart matured and near to them went
O Lord preserve it ,for ,on the centre of the horsemen ,it dashed .

[7]   In the lustre and colour of his cheek ,what soul we gave and what blood of grief we drank
When His picture first appeared ,on those soul - surrendering ,the writing of effacement he expressed .

[8]   By the woollen khirka ,how into the noose of my power may I bring Him ,
A hair - clad one whose eye - lash ,those dagger - thrusting attacked .

[9]   The great king ,Muzaffar of pomp ,the bravery of the kingdom ,and the faith of Mansur
Whose exceeding liberality without hesitation ,laughter ,against the generous spring - cloud ,expressed .

[10]   From that moment when ,by his hand ,the cup of wine became honoured ,
In memory of its wine - drinkers ,the cup of joyousness ,time drained .

[11]   With his head - cleaving sword ,gleamed victory that day
When ,like the star - consuming sun ,on thousands ,alone he dashed .

[12]   Hafiz from God's grace ,ask for his Shah Mansur's lasting life and kingdom
For ,in the time of the people ,this coin of fortune ,the sphere struck .

[13]   On the die of grace ,and the felicity of the King's fortune ,my glance is
O beloved give the desire of the heart of Hafiz who ,the omen of the fortunate ,struck .

[14]   God most high since it gained the sorcery of existence ,excellent the nature of Shah Mansur
The purity of whose pure essence ,the breath of equality with the austere expressed .

[1]  Morgens als die Fahne der Sonne Aufgesteckt war auf den Bergen, Sieh da kam der Liebling des Herzens Aus Erbarmung an die Thüre.

[2]  Weil der Morgen deutlich erblickte, Was da sey des Glückes Liebe, Fieng er an im Ernste zu lachen Ueber jene, die d'rauf stolz sind.

[3]  Gestern als mein Schöner zum Tanze Aufgestanden war im Kreise, Löst' er auf die Bande der Locken, Warf dieselben auf die Freunde,

[4]  Als sein Wein ergründendes Auge, Die Vernünftigen zu rufen, Wusch ich über Frieden und Ruhe In dem Herzensblut die Hände.

[5]  Saget, welches eiserne Herz hat Diese List ihn wohl gelehret, Daß er so vor allem beginn't Nachtdurchwacher auszurauben?

[6]  Einen Reiter sah ich im Traume, Armes Herz! du war'st verloren, Herr, bewahr's vor allen Gefahren, Mitten unter Reiter fiel es.

[7]  Für den Glanz von seinem Gesichte, Wurden Blut und Geist geopfert, Doch erfüllt er einmal die Wünsche, Danken es ihm die Entseelten.

[8]  Ha! wie soll ich denn mit der Kutte Eine Locke Haar's erobern, Deren einz'le Härchen auf Straßen Tapfre Männer ganz ausrauben.

[10]  Seit der Stunde, da er das Weinglas Nahm zuerst in seine Hände, Gab die Zeit den Becher der Freude Allen Trinkern in die Hände.

[11]  Von dem Goldverspendenden Schwerte, Strahlte Sieg an jenem Tage, Als Er, wie die Sonne der Sterne, Tausende allein geschlagen.

[12]  Seines Lebens, seiner Regierung Dauer fleh', o Herz! vom Herren, Denn die Münze ward von dem Loose Nach dem Laufe der Zeit geschlagen.

[13]  Meines Muthes Loos ist gebunden An des Schahes Glück und Segen, Sey vergnügt Hafis, denn die Losung Ist auf's Beste ausgefallen.

[1]  Of a great favour from the threshold of the Friend God hope mine is
A great sin I have done ; of His pardon hope mine ,is .

[2]   I know that He will pass by forgive my sin for
Although ,Pan - like vengeful and omnipotent He is ,of angel - nature merciful and compassionate He is .

[3]   To such a degree ,I wept that every one who passed by me
When he beheld running the pearl of our tears ,spake saying : This stream what is

[4]   That small mouth ,no trace whereof I see ,is naught
That waist is only a hair in slenderness and I know not what that hair is .

[5]   O true Beloved at the picture of Thy peerless form ,I wonder saying How goeth it not
From my eye ,whose work ,momently ,washing and washing with the stream of tears is .

[6]   Speechless ,Thy tress the attraction of divine grace draweth my heart :
Against Thy heart - alluring tress ,the way of speech whose is

[7]   A long lifetime it is since we perceived the perfume of Thy tress
Yet in the perfume - place of my heart ,the perfume of that great perfume is .

[8]   Hafiz bad is thy distraught state but ,
Good ,to the memory of the Friend's tress thy distraught state is .

[1]  Ich hoffe Gnade von dem Freund, Ich habe zwar vor ihm gefehlt, Er aber wird mir verzeihen.

[2]  Ich weiß er übersieht die Schuld, Denn er ist schön wie die Peris Und doch auch gut wie ein Engel.

[3]  So viel hab' ich geweint um Ihn, Daß Jedermann zu mir gesagt: Woher die Ströme der Thränen? Ich spielte Ballen mit dem Kopf Vor deinem Haus; wer kennt das Haus, Die Ballen, wessen sie seyen?

[4]  Dein Mund ist nichts, ich seh ihn nicht, Und deine Mitte ist ein Haar. Ich weiß nicht welches der Haare.

[5]  Dein Bild im Auge wundert mich, Ich wasche es mit Thränen stets, Und doch wird's nimmer verwischet.

[6]  Dein Haar schlägt todt, und redet nicht. Wer wagt es wohl mit deinem Haar Noch Widerrede zu führen!

[7]  Vor vielen Tagen kam zu mir Von deinem Lockenschmuck ein Duft, Noch riecht das Herz von demselben.

[8]  Hafis! zerstört ist dein Gemüth - Doch sey es; ward es ja zerstört Vom Duft der Locken des Freundes.

[1]  O Saki murshid arise ; and give the cup of wine of desired
Strew dust on the head of the grief of time .

[2]   In my palm ,place the cup of wine so that ,from my breast ,
I may pluck off this patched garment of blue colour .

[3]   Although in the opinion of the apparently wise ,ill - fame is ours ,
Not name nor fame ,do we distraught with love for God desire .

[4]   Give wine with this wind of pride ,how long ,
Dust on the head of useless desire

[5]   The smoke of the sigh of my burning heart
Consumed these immature ones hypocrites ; fathers of lust

[6]   Of the secret of love of my distraught heart ,a friend ,
Among high and low ,none ,I see .

[7]   Glad is my heart with a heart's ease a lovely one
Who ,from my heart ,once took ease .

[8]   At the cypress in the sward ,again looketh not
That one ,who beheld that cypress of silvern limb .

[9]   Hafiz day and night ,be patient ,in adversity :
So that ,in the end ,thou mayst ,one day ,gain thy desire .

[1]  Schenke steh auf, und reiche das GlasBegrabe die Sorgen mit Wein!Reiche das Glas und schenke den WeinDie bläuliche Kutte hinweg!

[3]  Uebel zwar klingt dieß weiserem Ohr;Doch kümmert der Ruf mich nicht viel.Bringe mir Wein! Das Uebrige istVerlust der verderblichen Zeit.

[5]  Rauch von der Gluth der flammenden BrustHat diese Gefrorenen zerschmelzt.Närrisches Herz! Noch find ich im Volk'Nicht einen Vertrauten für dich.

[9]  Wenigstens bleibt noch übrig der TrostDas Alles verloren auf einmal!Früh' und auch spät geduld' dich Hafis,So gehet dir Alles nach Wunsch.

[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 .