Ghazal 473 (غزل ۴۷۳) · Divan of Hafez
وقت را غنیمت دان آن قدر که بتْوانی
vaqt rā ghanīmat dān ān qadr ke betvānī
ḥāṣel az ḥayāt ey jān īn dam ast tā dānī
kāmbakhshī-ye gardūn ʿomr dar ʿavaż dārad
jahd kon ke az dowlat dād-e ʿeysh bestānī
bāghbān cho man z-īn jā bogzaram ḥarāmat bād
gar be jā-ye man sarvī gheyr-e dūst beneshānī
zāhed-e pashīmān rā zowq-e bāde khvāhad kosht
ʿāqelā makon kārī k-āvarad pashīmānī
moḥtaseb namī-dānad īn qadr ke ṣūfī rā
jens-e khānegī bāshad hamcho laʿl-e rommānī
bā doʿā-ye shabkhīzān ey shekardahān mastīz
dar panāh-e yek esm ast khātam-e Soleymānī
pand-e ʿāsheqān beshnow o az dar-e ṭarab bāzā
k-īn hame namī-arzad shoghl-e ʿālam-e fānī
Yūsof-e ʿazīzam raft ey barādarān raḥmī
k-az ghamash ʿajab bīnam ḥāl-e pīr-e Kanʿānī
pīsh-e zāhed az rendī dam mazan ke natvān goft
bā ṭabīb-e nāmaḥram ḥāl-e dard-e penhānī
mī-ravī o mozhgānat khūn-e khalq mī-rīzad
tīz mī-ravī jānā tarsamat forūmānī
del ze nāvak-e chashmat gūsh dāshtam līkan
abrū-ye kamāndārat mī-barad be pīshānī
jamʿ kon be eḥsānī Ḥāfeẓ-e parīshān rā
ey shekanj-e gīsūyat majmaʿ-e parīshānī
gar to fāreghī az mā ey negār-e sangīn-del
ḥāl-e khod bekhvāham goft pīsh-e āṣaf-e sānī
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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