Audio recordings
Ghazaliyat by Hafez, in audio recordings by سهراب سیفی
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Poems
غزل شمارهٔ 1اَلا یا اَیُّهَا السّاقی اَدِرْ کَأسَاً و ناوِلْها
Ho! O Saki, pass around and offer the bowl: For love at first appeared easy, but difficulties have occurred.
غزل شمارهٔ 2صلاحِ کار کجا و منِ خراب کجا؟
The rectitude of work, where? and, I ruined where? Behold the distance of the Path, from where to where?
غزل شمارهٔ 3اگر آن تُرکِ شیرازی به دست آرَد دلِ ما را
If that Bold One of Shiraz gain our heart, For His dark mole, I will give Samarkand and Bukhara.
غزل شمارهٔ 5دل میرود ز دستم صاحبدلان خدا را
For God’s sake. O pious ones! forth from the hand, goeth my heart. For God’s sake: O the pain that the hidden mystery should be disclosed.
غزل شمارهٔ 6به مُلازِمانِ سلطان، که رساند این دعا را؟
To the Sultan’s attendants, who will convey this prayer “In thanks for sovereignty, away from sight drive not the beggar?”
غزل شمارهٔ 7صوفی بیا که آیِنِه، صافیست جام را
O Sufi! come; for bright is the mirror of the cup: That thou mayst see the brightness of the wine of ruby hue.
غزل شمارهٔ 8ساقیا برخیز و دَردِه جام را
O Saki! arise; and give the cup: Strew dust on the head of the grief of time.
غزل شمارهٔ 9رونق عهد شباب است دگر بُستان را
The splendor of youth’s time again belongeth to the garden; The glad tidings of the rose reacheth the bulbul sweet of song.
غزل شمارهٔ 17سینه از آتش دل، در غمِ جانانه بسوخت
From the fire of my heart, my chest in grief for the Beloved consumed. In this house, was a fire, that the house consumed.
غزل شمارهٔ 18ساقیا آمدنِ عید، مبارک بادت
O Saki! be the coming of the new year auspicious to thee: And these promises thou madest, let them not go from thy memory.
غزل شمارهٔ 19ای نسیمِ سحر آرامگَهِ یار کجاست؟
O fragrant morning breeze! The Beloved’s rest-place is where? The dwelling of that Moon, Lover-slayer, Sorcerer, is where?
غزل شمارهٔ 23خیالِ رویِ تو در هر طریق همرهِ ماست
In every path of Islam, the image of Thy face fellow traveler of ours is. Ever, the perfume of Thy hair, the soul-informer of ours is.
غزل شمارهٔ 24مطلب طاعت و پیمان و صلاح از من مست
From me intoxicated, is the desire of devotion and of covenant, and of rectitude; For, in Eternity without beginning, I became renowned for wine-drinking.
غزل شمارهٔ 26زلفآشفته و خِویکرده و خندانلب و مست
Tress dishevelled; sweat expressed; lip laughing; intoxicated; Garment rent; song-singing; goblet in His hand;
غزل شمارهٔ 27در دیرِ مغان آمد، یارم قدحی در دست
Into the Magian’s cloister, came my Friend a goblet in His hand: With wine intoxicated, He with his eye intoxicated the wine-dirnkers.
غزل شمارهٔ 28به جانِ خواجه و حقِ قدیم و عهدِ درست
By the Khwaja’s soul, and by ancient right, and by true covenant, That, at the breath of dawn, prayer for thy welfare is my companion.
غزل شمارهٔ 32خدا چو صورتِ ابرویِ دلگشای تو بست
When the form of thy heart alluring eye-brow, God established. In thy glances, the solving of my work, He established.
غزل شمارهٔ 33خلوت گُزیده را به تماشا چه حاجت است
To him that hath chosen solitude, of the spectacle is what need? When the street of the Beloved is, of the desert is what need?
غزل شمارهٔ 37بیا که قصرِ اَمَل سخت سستبنیادست
Come! For most unstable is the foundation of the Palace of Hope: Bring the cup; for the foundation of Life is on the wind.