Hafiz! utter speech. For, on Earth's surface, Of thy eloquence,
(only) this picture remainth, the recollection ____of life

The joy-book of love for Thee, Hafiz wrote on that day,
When, on the head of the chattels of his joyous heart,
the reed (of cancellation), he ____dashed.

Back to Kinan, lost Yusuf cometh: ____ suffer not grief:,
One day, the sorrowful cell becometh the rose-garden: ____suffer not grief.

ساقیا آمدن عید مبارک بادت / وان مواعید که کردی مرود از یادت

O Saki (Murshid)! be the coming of the Eyd (time of love's manifestations) auspicious to thee:
And these promises (that at the beginning of the mystic state) thou madest, let them not go from thy memory.

گر چه منزل بس خطرناک است و مقصد بس بعید 

 هیچ راهی نیست کان را نیست پایان غم مخور

Although the stage (of this world) is very fearsome; and the purpose hidden, 
There is not a road, whereof is no end;
____suffer not grief.

O messenger of the true ones (sincere lovers)! news of our Beloved____utter:
To the bulbul, song-singing (the lover), the state of the rose (the Beloved)____utter.

O Friend (the true Beloved)! for going away, make no desire: with us, a moment be:
On the rivulet's bank (formed of my tears) joy, seek; and, in thy hand, the cup____take.

Arrived the glad tidings that grief's time
____shall not remain:
Like that (joy's time) remained not; like this (grief's time)
____shall not remain.

Arrived the glad tidings that grief's time
____shall not remain:
Like that (joy's time) remained not; like this (grief's time)
____shall not remain.

The day of union of friends____remember:
Those times, remember_____remember!

Although free of recollection of me, are friends
Them, on my part, a thousand times____remember

  روز وصل دوستداران یاد باد / یاد با آن روزگاران یاد باد
 

The day of union of friends____remember:
Those times, remember_____remember!

(mystery-keeper, none), after this, the mystery of Hafiz un-uttered remaineth:
Alas! the (passed) mystery-keeper____remember

My lord! sweetly, thou goest in so much that in Thee, head to foot (altogether)____I die:
My Bold One! sweetly, thou movest; before Thee,____I die.

Easy it is to sever desire for life. But,
(Only with) difficulty, (friendship) for friends dear as one's soul, can one sever.

When, to an end, have come the nights of union, 
Passeth away the time of seperation____alsso.

The hearing of the Friend's message is felicity and safety;
Be my precious life a ransom for the dust of the Friend's door.

The mystery that to the people I uttered not, and shall not utter:
To the Friend, I shall utter; for confidant of the mystery [It]____is.

In love's path, none with certainty became my speech since thou acceptedest it:
Yes, yes; an impression, love's speech____hath.

Saki! come; for the invisible messenger uttered to me glad tidings,
"In pain, exercise patience; for the remedy of union (with the true Beloved),____I send Thee."

That travelled one (the Beloved), whose fellow-traveller is a hundred Kafilas of the heart,
O God! wherever he be, him, in safety (from the peril of travel), keep.

O Saki (murshid)! arise; and give the cup (of wine of desire):
Strew dust on the head of the grief of time

You said no color beyond black abides;
then why the snows upon the raven tress?

You said no color beyond black abides;
Then why the snows upon the raven tress?

That one am I who, without thee, breathe. What shame!
Perchance, thou mayst pardon. If not, the excuse for sin is what?

Hafiz! in reproach, abondon not the day of safety;
From the passing world, what expectation (is it that)____thou keepest?

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