غزل شمارهٔ 307

In praise of those good qualities (of the Beloved ; or of the murshid), every subtlety that I uttered, Every one who heard, said : "The sayer of this, what an excellent speaker is he!"

At first (on the day of Alast), easy appeared the acquisition of love and of profligacy : In the end, in (attempting) the acquisition of these excellences, the soul consumed.

On the head of the gibbet, this subtlety, sweetly singeth Hallaj Mansur : "Questions (of love) like these, of the Shafi'i (order), ask ye not."

I spake saying: "The powerless soul, Thou pitiest when ?" He said: "At that time when, between (the lover and the Beloved) life is not the intervener.'

I have given my heart to a Friend, bold, decorated, arrayed, Agreeable of nature, laudable of disposition.

Like Thy intoxicated (obliquely-looking) eye, I was at the time of corner-taking (retiring to solitude) : Now, like Thy (inclined) eye-brow, I became an incliner to the intoxicated.

From my tears, a hundred-fold Nuh's deluge, I beheld ; Yet, from the heart's tablet, Thy picture ever declined not.

O Beloved ! Hafiz's hand is the amulet of (against) the (evil) eye-wound : O Lord ! (grant) that suspended to (circled around) thy neck, it (the hand) I may see !