Ghazal 467 (غزل ۴۶۷) · Divan of Hafez
زان می عشق، کز او پخته شود هر خامی
z-ān mey-e ʿeshq k-az ū pokhte shavad har khāmī
garche māh-e ramażān ast biyāvar jāmī
rūzhā raft ke dast-e man-e meskīn nagereft
zolf-e shemshādqaddī sāʿed-e sīm-andāmī
rūze har chand ke mehmān-e ʿazīz ast ey del
ṣoḥbatash mowhebatī dān o shodan enʿāmī
morgh-e zīrak be dar-e khānqah aknūn naparad
ke nehāde-st be har majles vaʿẓī dāmī
gele az zāhed-e badkhū nakonam rasm īn ast
ke cho ṣobḥī bedamad dar pey-ash oftad shāmī
yār-e man chon bekhrāmad be tamāshā-ye chaman
beresānash ze man ey peyk-e ṣabā peyghāmī
ān ḥarīfī ke shab o rūz mey-e ṣāf kashad
bovad āyā ke konad yād ze dordāshāmī
Ḥāfeẓā gar nadahad dād-e delat āṣaf-e ʿahd
kām doshvār be dast āvarī az khodkāmī
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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