Ghazal 178 (غزل ۱۷۸) · Divan of Hafez
هر که شد مَحرمِ دل در حرمِ یار بِمانْد
har ke shod maḥram-e del dar ḥaram-e yār bemānd
vān ke īn kār nadānest dar enkār bemānd
agar az parde borūn shod del-e man ʿeyb makon
shokr-e īzad ke na dar parde-ye pendār bemānd
ṣūfiyān vāsetadand az gerow-e mey hame rakht
dalq-e mā būd ke dar khāne-ye khammār bemānd
moḥtaseb sheykh shod o fesq-e khod az yād bebord
qeṣṣe-ye māst ke dar har sar-e bāzār bemānd
har mey-e laʿl k-az ān dast-e bolūrīn setadīm
āb-e ḥasrat shod o dar chashm-e gohar-bār bemānd
joz del-e man k-az azal tā be abad ʿāsheq raft
jāvedān kas nashanīdīm ke dar kār bemānd
gasht bīmār ke chon chashm-e to gardad narges
shīve-ye to nashodash ḥāṣel o bīmār bemānd
az ṣadā-ye sokhan-e ʿeshq nadīdam khoshtar
yādegārī ke dar īn gonbad-e davvār bemānd
dāshtam dalqī o ṣad ʿeyb-e marā mī-pūshīd
kherqe rahn-e mey o moṭreb shod o zonnār bemānd
bar jamāl-e to chonān ṣūrat-e Chīn ḥeyrān shod
ke ḥadīs-ash hame-jā dar dar o dīvār bemānd
be tamāshāgah-e zolf-ash del-e Ḥāfeẓ rūzī
shod ke bāzāyad o jāvīd gereftār bemānd
The Persian verses are from the Divan of Hafez of Shiraz, drawn from the public-domain ganjoor archive, and presented unchanged. The transliteration is model-assisted and awaiting review by a Persian-literate reader — if you spot a slip, we’d love to hear.
Hold a question in your heart, and let a verse of Hafez answer it.