Hafez · Ghazal 172 · Love of you, the sapling of wonder
عشق تو نهال حیرت آمدوصل تو کمال حیرت آمد
بس غرقه حال وصل کآخرهم بر سر حال حیرت آمد
یک دل بنما که در ره اوبر چهره نه خال حیرت آمد
نه وصل بماند و نه واصلآنجا که خیال حیرت آمد
از هر طرفی که گوش کردمآواز سؤال حیرت آمد
شد منهزم از کمال عزتآن را که جلال حیرت آمد
سر تا قدم وجود حافظدر عشق، نهال حیرت آمد
Your question may not have a neat answer, and Hafez seems to say that this is not a failure. In love, he finds, every path leads back to wonder: the closer you come, the more amazed you are, and from every side the only reply is astonishment. Instead of forcing a solution, let yourself stand in wonder for a while. Something is growing in you that is larger than an answer. Tend it like a young tree, with patience and openness, and it will bear its own fruit.
Love of you became the sapling of wonder;
union with you became the perfection of wonder.
How many drowned in the state of union, who in the end
came back again to the state of wonder.
Show me one heart that, on His road,
has not had wonder set as a mole upon its face.
Neither union remained, nor the one who reached it,
there where the thought of wonder came.
From every side I listened,
the sound of the question that came was wonder.
He was routed by the perfection of glory,
to whom the majesty of wonder came.
From head to foot, the being of Hafez
in love has become the sapling of wonder.