Ghazal 122

هر آن‌که جانِبِ اَهْلِ خُدا نگه دارد

خُداش در همه حال از بَلا نگه دارد

حَدیثِ دوست نگویم مَگَر به حَضْرَتِ دوست

که آشنا، سُخَنِ آشنا نگه دارد

دلا، مَعاش چُنان کُن که گر بِلَغْزَد پای

فرشته‌ات به دو دستِ دُعا نگه دارد

گَرَت هَواست که مَعشوق نَگْسَلد پِیمان

نگاه دار سرِ رشته تا نگه دارد

صَبا بر آن سَرِ زُلْف اَر دِلِ مرا بینی

ز رویِ لُطْف بگویش که جا نگه دارد

چو گفتمش که دلم را نگاه دار، چه گفت؟

ز دَسْتِ بَنده چه خیزد؟ خُدا نگه دارد

سَر و زَر و دل و جانم، فَدایِ آن یاری

که حَقِّ صُحْبَتِ مِهْر و وَفا نگه دارد

غُبارِ راهگذارت کجاست تا «حافِظ»

به یادگارِ نَسیمِ صَبا نگه دارد

In the morning, to the breeze, I uttered the tale of my longing

The address (of reply) came saying: — "A relier be on the favours of Lordship." Not that tongue is the reed's that love's (great) mystery it may unfold, Beyond the limit of narration, is the explanation of longing.

To Laila's tress, bind thy heart; with (distraught) Majnun's reason, do thy

work (of love); For, for lovers, injury hath the words of wisdom.

Ho! O Yusuf of Egypt (the beloved), whom sovereignty (of Egypt) kept engaged

! Ask the father (Yfckub), — where went at last—— filial love ? 5.

In the sorcery of the tempting glance, (is) a remedy-giver, and a pain-exciter,

In the coil of the musk-diffusing tress, (is) a heart-easer and^— a heart-enslaver.

In the nature of the beautiful, old world, compassion is none

From its love, what seekest thou? In it, what desire attachest thou?

In this market (of the world), if a profit there be. 'tis with the happy darvish

O God! me, happy make with darvlshness, and • with happiness.

(O darvish!) the key of the treasure of purpose is the prayer of the morning, and the sigh

of the evening; By this path and way, go; so that, with the Heart-possessor (God),— — thou mayst join.

A Huma like thee, lofty of rank, and greed for the (rotten) bone how

long ? Alas that shadow of fortune, that, on the mean, thou castest. 10.

har an-ke janebe ahl khoda negah darad

khodash dar hame hal az bala negah darad

hadis dust naguim magar be hazrate dust

ke ashna, sokhan ashna negah darad

dala, ma'ash chenan kon ke gar belaghzad pay

farashte-at be do dast do'a negah darad

garat hauast ke ma'shugh nagsald peiman

negah dar sar rashte ta negah darad

saba bar an sar zolf ar del mara bini

ze ruy lotf baguish ke ja negah darad

cho gafatamash ke delam ra negah dar, che goft?

ze dast bande che khizd? khoda negah darad

sar o zar o del o janam, fadaye an yaari

ke hagh sohbat mehr o vafa negah darad

ghobare rahagzart kojast ta hafez

be yaadgare nasim saba negah darad