غزل شمارهٔ 487

O thou void of news (of love) ! strive that the master of news, thou mayst be : So long as way-farer thou art not, road-guide how (is it that) thou mayst be ?

In the school of truths (and of ma'rifat), before love's master (the murshid, perfect and excellent) ; Ho ! O son ! strive that, one day (worthy to be) father (old) thou mayst be.

From the copper of thy existence, like men of the Path (tarikat), thy hand wash, So that love's alchemy, thou mayst obtain ; and gold thou mayst be.

Far from love's degree, thee, sleeping and eating put ; To love, thou attainest at that time when sleepless and foodless thou shalt be.

When, on thy heart and soul, the light of God's love falleth, By God (I swear) that fairer than the sky's (resplendent) sun thou shalt be.

A moment, immersed in God's sea, be ; think not, That, to the extent of a single hair, with the water of seven (all the) seas (of the world), wet, thou shalt be.

From head to foot, thine all God's light shall be, When footless and headless (the world's chattels and ease abandoned), in the Path of Him possessed of majesty, thou shalt be.

If the face of God be the spectacle-place of thy vision After this, not a doubt remaineth that the possessor of vision, thou shalt be.

It, below and above (ruined), the foundation of thy existence be, Think not in thy heart that, below and above, thou mayst be.

Hafiz ! if in thy head be desire of union (with the true Beloved), It is necessary that the dust of the court of Him possessed of vision, thou shouldest be.