غزل شمارهٔ 227

Although to the city-admonisher, easy this matter becometh not : So long as hypocrisy and deceit, he practiseth, Musulman, he becometh not

Learn profligacy and practise liberality. For not such a great matter is it, That wine, a mere animal drinketh not ; and man becometh -not.

That it may be worthy of bounty, the pure essence is necessary : If not, every (worthless) stone and clod, the (precious; pearl and the coral becometh not.

The (the great name of God) doeth its work. O heart! be happy (be not denier of the effects of "The great name ") ; For, by fraud and deceit, the (infidel) Div, Musulman becometh not.

I teach love ; and (hence) my hope, that this noble art (of love), Like other arts, the cause of disappointment (in the attainment of my object) becometh not.

Last night, He spake saying : " To-morrow, I give thee thy heart's desire." O God ! devise a means, whereby regretful (by breaking his promise) he becometh not.

From God, I seek a good disposition for thy nature, So that again, distressed by thee, our heart becometh not.

Hafiz ! So long, as lofty resolution is not the atom's Seeker of the fountain of the gleaming sun, it becometh not.