Ghazal 493 (غزل ۴۹۳) · Divan of Hafez
اِی پادِشَهِ خوبان، داد از غَمِ تَنْهایی
ey pādeshah-e khūbān, dād az gham-e tanhāʾī
del, bī-to, be-jān āmad; vaqt ast ke bāzāʾī
dāʾem, gol-e īn bostān, shādāb nemī-mānad
daryāb żaʿīfān rā dar vaqt-e tavānāʾī!
dīshab, gele-ye zolfash bā bād, hamī kardam
goftā: «ghalaṭī! bogzar zīn fekrat-e sowdāʾī!»
ṣad bād-e ṣabā, īnjā bā selsele mī-raqṣand
īn ast ḥarīf ey del tā bād napeymāʾī
moshtāqī o mahjūrī, dūr az to chonānam kard
kaz dast bekhāhad shod pāyāb-e shakībāʾī
yā rab be-ke shāyad goft īn nokte ke dar ʿālam
rokhsāre be-kas nanmūd ān shāhed-e harjāʾī?
sāqī! chaman-e gol rā bī-rū-ye to, rangī nīst
shemshād, khorāmān kon tā bāgh biyārāʾī
ey dard-e toʾam darmān dar bastar-e nākāmī
vey yād-e toʾam mūnes dar gūshe-ye tanhāʾī
dar dāʾere-ye qesmat, mā, noqṭe-ye taslīmīm
loṭf, ānche to andīshī; ḥokm, ānche to farmāʾī
fekr-e khod o rāy-e khod dar ʿālam-e rendī nīst
kofr ast dar īn mazhab, khod-bīnī o khod-rāʾī
zīn dāʾere-ye mīnā, khūnīn-jegaram, mey deh!
tā ḥal konam īn moshkel dar sāghar-e mīnāʾī
Ḥāfeẓ! shab-e hejrān shod, bū-ye khosh-e vaṣl āmad
shādīt, mobārak bād ey ʿāsheq-e sheydāʾī!
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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