Every one, who regardeth the people of fidelity, Him, in every state, from calamity God preserveth.
Save in the Friend’s presence, I utter not the tale of the Friend; For the speech of the friend, the friend preserveth.
O heart! so live that, if thy foot slip, With both hands in prayer, thee the angel may preserve.
If desire be thine that the Beloved should not break the covenant, Keep the end of the cord, so that He may preserve.
O breeze! If thou see my heart on that tress-tip, By way of kindness, speak to it; that its own place it may preserve.
When I spake to him, saying: “Preserve my heart” how he said: “What ariseth from the slave’s hand, God preserveth.”
My head, and gold, and heart, and soul a ransom for that true Beloved. Who the right of society of love and of fidelity preserveth.
Where is the dust of Thy path, that Hafez In recollection of the work of the fragrant air of the wind, may preserve.
