Ghazal 368

خیز تا از درِ میخانه گُشادی طلبیم

به رَهِ دوست نشینیم و مُرادی طلبیم

زادِ راهِ حَرمِ وصل نداریم مگر

به گدایی ز درِ میکده زادی طلبیم

اشکِ آلودهٔ ما گرچه روان است ولی

به رسالت سویِ او پاک‌نهادی طلبیم

لذتِ داغِ غمت بر دلِ ما باد حرام

اگر از جورِ غمِ عشقِ تو دادی طلبیم

نقطهٔ خالِ تو بر لوحِ بصر نَتوان زد

مگر از مَردُمَکِ دیده مِدادی طلبیم

عشوه‌ای از لبِ شیرینِ تو دل خواست به جان

به شکرخنده لَبَت گفت مَزادی طلبیم

تا بُوَد نسخهٔ عطری دل سودازده را

از خطِ غالیه‌سایِ تو سوادی طلبیم

چون غمت را نَتَوان یافت مگر در دلِ شاد

ما به امّیدِ غمت خاطرِ شادی طلبیم

بر درِ مدرسه تا چند نشینی حافظ؟

خیز تا از درِ میخانه گُشادی طلبیم

O Zahid! Go: and invite me not towards Paradise: For,

in eternity without beginning, God created me not of the people of Paradise.

A grain of the harvest of existence, cannot take up, Whoever in the street

of effacement (that outside God) sowed not a grain in the path of God.

(Together are) — Thou and the rosary and the prayer-mat, and the path of aus- terity, and of chastity. (Together are) — I and the tavern (the stage of love and of divine excellence) and the bell, and the path of the cell, and of the place of worship (the world of Omnipotence

or highest heaven).

For the All Wise, In eternity without beginning, kneaded our plaster with pure wine. 5. The Sufi, pure (of love, save for, God), is not

like me (worthy) of Paradise, who Left not the religious garment (of his own existence) in the tavern, in pledge for wine (of love for God).

From the pleasure of Paradise, and the lip of the Hur. ease is

not his Who', from his hand, let go the skirt of my Heart-possessor (God).

O Hafiz! If God's grace show favour to thee, Be free from Hell's grief, and secure

of Paradise. 5. Every Sufi, who is a drinker of wine, is not of Paradise like me.

If bihisht (he let go) be read from nahisht (he let not go)

— The Sufi, pure (of love, save for God), is not like me (only) worthy of Paradise.

Nay, he is worthy of viewing God

because he effaced in divine love the religious garment of his own existence. 6. Supposing the pleasure of Paradise and the lip of the Hur to be his, yet, ease is not estab- lished for him. 7.

The last line may be: — Be free from (careless of) the torment of Hell

and (be free from) the happiness of Heaven.

khiz ta az dar meykhane goshadi talbim

be rah dust nashinim o moradi talbim

zade rah harme vasl nadarim magar

be gadaii ze dar meykade zadi talbim

ashk alude ma garche ravan ast vali

be rasalt suye u pak-nahadi talbim

lazzat daghe ghamat bar del ma bad haram

agar az jowr gham 'eshgh to dadi talbim

naghat-ye khal to bar luhe basar natavan zad

magar az mardomake dide medadi talbim

'eshve-ey az lab shirin to del khuast be jan

be shakarakhande labat goft mazadi talbim

ta bud nasakh-ye 'tari del sudazde ra

az khat ghalie-saye to suadi talbim

chon ghamat ra natavan yaaft magar dar del shad

ma be omid ghamat khater shadi talbim

bar dar madarse ta chand nashini hafez?

khiz ta az dar meykhane goshadi talbim