Ghazal 188

مرا به رندی و عشق، آن فضول عیب کُنَد

که اعتراض بر اسرارِ علمِ غیب کُنَد

کمالِ سِرِّ محبت ببین، نه نقصِ گناه

که هر که بی‌هنر اُفتَد، نظر به عیب کُنَد

ز عطرِ حورِ بهشت آن نَفَس برآید بوی

که خاکِ میکدهٔ ما عَبیر جِیب کُنَد

چنان زَنَد رَهِ اسلام غمزهٔ ساقی

که اجتناب ز صهبا، مگر صُهیب کُنَد

کلیدِ گنجِ سعادت قبولِ اهلِ دل است

مباد آن که در این نکته شَکُّ و رِیب کُنَد

شبانِ وادیِ اَیمَن گَهی رسد به مراد

که چند سال به جان، خدمتِ شُعیب کند

ز دیده خون بِچکانَد فِسانهٔ حافظ

چو یادِ وقتِ زمانِ شَباب و شِیب کُنَد

•i. If after Him, I go, He up stirreth calamity (saying wherefore comest thou after me)

And if I sit (abstaining) from search, in wrath, He ariseth.

And, if, through desire, a moment on a highway, I fall, like the dust at his foot, like the (swift) wind, He fleeth. And,

if I desire (only) half a kiss, a hundred reproaches, Like sugar, from the small round box of his (small) mouth, He out poureth.

The acclivity and declivity of love's desert is calamity's snare

A lion-hearted one is where, who not calamity shunneth ? 5.

That deceit, that 1 behold in thy eye, Many a reputation (it is) that, even with the dust of the path, it—— spilleth. When I speak to him, saying

— " Wherefore consortest thou with (other) persons ?" So, He doth that, with blood, my tears, He mixeth.

Ask thou for (long) life and a great patience

(because then thou wilt see) that the sphere, sorcery-practising, A thousand tricks more strange than this, evoketh.

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mara be rendi o 'eshgh, an fazul 'eyb konad

ke a'taraz bar asrar 'elm ghib konad

kamale sar mahabat bebin, na naghse gonah

ke har ke bi-honar oftad, nazar be 'eyb konad

ze 'tare hure behesht an nafas barayad buy

ke khak meykade ma 'abir jeib konad

chenan zanad rah aslam ghamze saghi

ke ajatnab ze shaba, magar sohib konad

kalide ganj s'adt ghabule ahl del ast

mabad an ke dar in nokte shakko o reib konad

shabane vaadye aiman gahi resad be morad

ke chand sal be jan, khedmat sho'ib konad

ze dide khun bechkanad fasane hafez

cho yad vaght zaman shabab o sheib konad