Hafez · Ghazal 146 · A scent from the beloved's curl
صبا وقت سحر بویی ز زلف یار می‌آورددل شوریده ما را به نو، در کار می‌آورد
من آن شکل صنوبر را ز باغ دیده برکندمکه هر گل کز غمش بشکفت محنت، بار می‌آورد
فروغ ماه می‌دیدم ز بام قصر او روشنکه رو از شرم آن خورشید در دیوار می‌آورد
ز بیم غارت عشقش، دل پرخون رها کردمولی می‌ریخت خون و ره بدان هنجار می‌آورد
به قول مطرب و ساقی، برون رفتم گه و بی‌گهکز آن راه گران، قاصد، خبر، دشوار می‌آورد
سراسر بخشش جانان، طریق لطف و احسان بوداگر تسبیح می‌فرمود، اگر زنار می‌آورد
عفاالله چین ابرویش اگر چه ناتوانم کردبه عشوه هم پیامی بر سر بیمار می‌آورد
عجب می‌داشتم دیشب ز حافظ جام و پیمانهولی منعش نمی‌کردم که صوفی‌وار می‌آورد
The morning breeze has brought a scent of something you love, and your heart is stirring again. You may have tried to pull this feeling out by the roots, fearing it would bring only hardship, and found that it led you back. Hafez sees kindness in everything the beloved gives, whether it looks like discipline or like freedom. Even a frown, he says, carries a message to the one who is ailing. Trust that what comes from love comes for your good, and let your heart be at work again.
At dawn the east wind was bringing a scent of the beloved's curl,
and setting our frenzied heart to work anew.
I uprooted that pine-like form from the garden of my eye,
for every flower that bloomed from grief for her bore only hardship as its fruit.
I saw the moon's light shining from the roof of her palace,
the moon that turned its face to the wall in shame before that sun.
In fear of love's plunder I abandoned my blood-filled heart,
but it went on bleeding and leading the way back to her.
At the word of the minstrel and the saqi I went out at all hours,
for by that hard road the messenger brought news only with difficulty.
The beloved's every gift was the way of kindness and grace,
whether she bade me take up the rosary or brought me the zunnar.
God forgive the frown of her brow; though it made me weak,
with its coquetry it still brought a message to the bedside of the sick.
Last night I was surprised at Hafez, with his cup and goblet,
but I did not forbid him, for he brought them like a Sufi.