The Divan-i-Hafiz

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THE
DIVAN-I-HAFIZ.
Drink wine (oflove for God). For, neither by acquisition nor by choice is
the being a lover (ofGod);
Me, this gift reached from the heritage of creation.
Ode 374, c. 5.
THE
DIVAN,
WRITTEN IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY,
BY
Khwaja
8hamsu-tl-lMn Muhammad-i-Hafiz-i-Shlrazl
otherivise 7mown as
IAsanu-l-Ghaib and Tarjumanu-l-Asr&r.
TRANSLATED FOR THE FIRST TIME OUT OF THE PERSIAN INTO ENGLISH PROSE,
WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY REMARKS, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
PREFACE, WITH A NOTE ON SUFl.ISM, AND WITH A LIFE OF
THE AUTHOR,
BY
LiEUT.-COL. H. WILBERFORCE CLARKE,
ROYAL (late Bengal) ENGINEERS,
LIFE-MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; AND MEMBER OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
AUTHOR OF "THE PERSIAN MANUAL71; FIRST TRANSLATOR (OUT OF THE PERSIAN) OF "THE BUSTXN-I-SA'Df"
AND OF "THE SIKANDAR NAMA.-I-NIZAMI." AUTHOR OF "NOTES ON ELEPHANTS";
OP "THE SEXTANT"; OF "LONGITUDE BY LUNAR DISTANCES"; AND OF
"THE TRANSVERSE STRENGTH OF A RAILWAY-RAIL."
VOL.
II.
1891.
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340, (340-
I. The whole world, length and breadth, Thy beauty took :
Ashamed of the lovely face of earth's moon (the beloved), the (resplendent) sun
became.
Necessary to all creation is the beholding of Thy beauty and beauteousness,
Nay, an enjoined duty to all angels is the viewing of Thy face.
The sun from the fourth heaven is the light-borrower from Thy face,
Like the seventh earth left beneath the load of death.
Ever remained dead, the soul that a sacrifice for Him became not :
Cutting and shearing is worthy of the body that, captive to Him, became not.
5. If a piece of rose-conserve (a kiss), Thy lip, soul-cherishing, give me not,
When, from this sickness (of love for Thee), escapeth my sorrowful body?
On the dust of His foot, thy kiss appeareth where?
O Hafiz ! to representation (to the true Beloved), the wind conveyeth thy tale
of desire.
DIVAN-I-HAFIZ.
341, (340).
i. Come : for, the perfume of my soul, I perceive from that cheek,
For, the trace of my own heart, I gained from that cheek.
The spirituality (and goodness) of the Hur which they explain,
The explanation, tjiou mayst ask of the beauty and grace from that cheek.
. In the clay (of astonishment) left, the stature of the dainty cypress by that
stature (of my true Beloved) :
Ashamed (is) left, the rose of the rose-garden by that cheek.
In shame (is) left, the (delicate) body ofthejessamine at these (pure and tender)
limbs (of the true Beloved) :
In blood (of envy) seated, the heart of the ruddy Arghavanat that cheek.
5. The perfume of musk, the musk-pod of Chin took from that tress:
Perfume of the (true) Beloved, rose-water found from that cheek.
Immersed in the sweat (of envy) became the (resplendent) sun at the sun of Thy
face
:
Slender and wan, remained the (effulgent) moon of the sky at that cheek.
Trickled the water of life from that heart-alluring verse of Hafiz:
Even as the sweat of souls went trickling from that cheek.