Ghazal 256 (غزل ۲۵۶) · Divan of Hafez
نصیحتی کُنَمَت بشنو و بهانه مَگیر
naṣīḥatī konamat beshnow o bahāne magīr
har ānche nāṣeḥ-e moshfeq begūyadat bepazīr
ze vaṣl-e rūy-e javānān tamattoʿī bardār
ke dar kamīn-gah-e ʿomr ast makr-e ʿālam-e pīr
naʿīm-e har do jahān pīsh-e ʿāsheqān bejūy
ke īn matāʿ-e qalīl ast o ān ʿaṭāy-e kasīr
moʿāsherī khosh o rūdī besāz mī-khāham
ke dard-e khīsh begūyam be nāle-ye bam o zīr
bar ān saram ke nanūsham mey o gonah nakonam
agar movāfeq-e tadbīr-e man shavad taqdīr
cho qesmat-e azalī bī-ḥożūr-e mā kardand
gar andakī na be vefq-e reżāst khorde magīr
cho lāle dar qadaḥam rīz sāqīā mey o moshk
ke naqsh-e khāl-e negāram nemī-ravad ze żamīr
biyār sāghar-e dorr-e khosh-āb ey sāqī
ḥasūd gū karam-e āṣafī bebīn o bemīr
be ʿazm-e towbe nahādam qadaḥ ze kaf ṣad bār
valī kereshme-ye sāqī nemī-konad taqṣīr
mey-e do-sāle o maḥbūb-e chārdah-sāle
hamīn bas ast marā ṣoḥbat-e ṣaghīr o kabīr
del-e ramīde-ye mā rā ke pīsh mī-gīrad?
khabar dahīd be majnūn-e khaste az zanjīr
ḥadīs-e towbe dar īn bazm-gah magū Ḥāfeẓ
ke sāqīān kamān-abrūyat zanand be tīr
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.
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