Ghazal 48 (غزل ۴۸) · Divan of Hafez
صوفی از پرتو مِی رازِ نهانی دانست
ṣūfī az partow-e mey rāz-e nahānī dānest
gowhar-e har kas az īn laʿl tavānī dānest
qadr-e majmūʿe-ye gol morgh-e saḥar dānad o bas
ke na har ku varaqī khānd maʿānī dānest
ʿarże kardam do jahān bar del-e kār-oftāde
be-joz az ʿeshq-e to bāqī hame fānī dānest
ān shod aknūn ke ze abnā-ye ʿavām andīsham
moḥtaseb nīz dar īn ʿeysh-e nahānī dānest
del-bar āsāyesh-e mā maṣleḥat-e vaqt nadīd
var na az jāneb-e mā del-negarānī dānest
sang o gel rā konad az yomn-e naẓar laʿl o ʿaqīq
har ke qadr-e nafas-e bād-e yamānī dānest
ey ke az daftar-e ʿaql āyat-e ʿeshq āmūzī
tarsam īn nokte be-taḥqīq nadānī dānest
mey biyāvar ke nanāzad be-gol-e bāgh-e jahān
har ke ghārat-garī-ye bād-e khazānī dānest
Ḥāfeẓ īn gowhar-e manẓūm ke az ṭabʿ angīkht
ze asar-e tarbiyat-e āṣef-e sānī dānest
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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