Hafez · Ghazal 141 · What love has done again
دیدی ای دل که غم عشق دگربار چه کرد؟چون بشد دلبر و با یار وفادار چه کرد
آه از آن نرگس جادو که چه بازی انگیختآه از آن مست که با مردم هشیار چه کرد
اشک من رنگ شفق یافت ز بی‌مهری یارطالع بی‌شفقت بین که در این کار چه کرد
برقی از منزل لیلی بدرخشید سحروه که با خرمن مجنون دل‌افگار چه کرد
ساقیا جام می‌ام ده که نگارنده غیبنیست معلوم که در پرده اسرار چه کرد
آن که پرنقش زد این دایره میناییکس ندانست که در گردش پرگار چه کرد
فکر عشق آتش غم در دل حافظ زد و سوختیار دیرینه ببینید که با یار چه کرد
Love has stirred things up once more, and you may be looking back and asking what happened, and why. Hafez admits he cannot say. No one knows what the painter of the unseen is drawing behind the veil, or what the compass traced as it turned. Rather than torment yourself with explanations, he asks for the cup: rest in the present, and let the larger design remain a mystery for now. Your grief is real, and so is the hidden hand that shapes the circle.
Did you see, O heart, what the grief of love has done once more,
how the heart-stealer left, and what she did to the faithful friend?
Ah, what a game that sorcerer narcissus stirred up!
Ah, what that drunken one did to the sober!
My tears took on the colour of twilight from the beloved's unkindness;
see what my unpitying star has done in this affair.
A flash of lightning shone at dawn from Leyli's dwelling;
alas, what it did to the harvest of heart-wounded Majnun!
Saqi, give me a cup of wine, for it is not known
what the painter of the unseen has done behind the veil of secrets.
The one who painted this crystal circle so full of figures,
no one knew what he did in the turning of the compass.
The thought of love set the fire of grief in Hafez's heart and burned it;
see what the old friend has done to the friend.