غزل شمارهٔ 65

More pleasant than the pleasure and the enjoyment of the garden and the spring is what? Where is the Said? Say: “The cause of our waiting is what?”

Every pleasant moment that appeareth, reckon plunder; Delay is to none. For the end of work is what?

The fetter of life is bound by a single hair: keep sense: Be thy own grief-devourer. Time’s grief is what?

The meaning of the Water-of-Life and the garden of Iram Save the bank of the rivulet and the wine pleasant-tasting is what?

The austere one and the intoxicated one both are of one family: To whose glance, shall we give our heart? choice is what?

The secret within the screen, what knoweth the silent sky? O pretender! thy contention with the screen-holder is what?

If the esteeming rightly the forgetfulness and the negligence of the slave be not His, The meaning of the Omnipotent’s pardon and mercy is what?

The Zahed desired the wine of Kousar; and Hafez, the cup: Let us see between these two, the choice of the Omnipotent is what?