Ghazal 492 (غزل ۴۹۲) · Divan of Hafez
سلامی چو بوی خوش آشنایی
salāmī cho bū-ye khosh āshenāʾī
bedān mardom, dīde-ye rowshanāʾī
dorūdī cho nūr-e del-e pārsāyān
bedān shamʿ-e khalvatgah-e pārsāʾī
nemī-bīnam az hamdamān hīch bar jāy
delam khūn shod az ghoṣṣe, sāqī kojāʾī?
ze-kū-ye moghān rokh magardān ke ān jā
forūshand meftāḥ-e moshkel-goshāʾī
ʿarūs-e jahān gar che dar ḥadd-e ḥosn ast
ze-ḥadd mī-barad shīve-ye bī-vafāʾī
del-e khaste-ye man garash hemmatī hast
nakhāhad ze-sangīn-delān, mūmiyāʾī
mey-e ṣūfī-afkan, kojā mī-forūshand?
ke dar tābam az dast-e zohd-e riyāʾī
rafīqān chenān ʿahd-e ṣoḥbat shekastand
ke gūʾī nabūde-st khod, āshenāʾī
marā gar to bogzārī, ey nafs-e ṭāmeʿ!
basī pādeshāʾī konam dar gedāʾī
biyāmūzamat kīmiyā-ye saʿādat
ze-ham-ṣoḥbat-e bad, jodāʾī, jodāʾī
makon Ḥāfeẓ az jowr-e dowrān, shekāyat
che dānī to ey bande! kār-e khodāʾī?
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.