Hafez · Ghazal 274 · In the season of the tulip
به دور لاله، قدح گیر و بی‌ریا می‌باشبه بوی گل، نفسی همدم صبا می‌باش
نگویمت که همه ساله می پرستی کنسه ماه می خور و نه ماه پارسا می‌باش
چو پیر سالک عشقت به می حواله کندبنوش و منتظر رحمت خدا می‌باش
گرت هواست که چون جم به سر غیب رسیبیا و همدم جام جهان‌نما می‌باش
چو غنچه گر چه فروبستگی‌ست کار جهانتو همچو باد بهاری گره‌گشا می‌باش
وفا مجوی ز کس ور سخن نمی‌شنویبه هرزه طالب سیمرغ و کیمیا می‌باش
مرید طاعت بیگانگان مشو حافظولی معاشر رندان پارسا می‌باش
Hafez offers you balance. Enjoy the season of flowers without pretence, but do not lose yourself; there is a time to celebrate and a time to be quiet and good. Though the world's affairs may seem tied in knots like a closed bud, you can be like the spring wind and help to loosen them, gently. Expect perfection from no one, for that is chasing the Simorgh. Choose companions who are honest and free-spirited rather than merely correct, and trust that mercy will come in its season.
In the season of the tulip, take up the cup and be free of hypocrisy;
with the scent of the rose, be for a while the companion of the breeze.
I do not tell you to worship wine all year round:
drink wine for three months, and for nine be pious.
When the elder who walks love's path sends you to wine,
drink, and wait for the mercy of God.
If you long to reach the secret of the unseen, like Jamshid,
come, and be the companion of the world-revealing cup.
Though the work of the world, like the bud, is all tied up,
you, like the wind of spring, be one who loosens knots.
Seek faithfulness from no one; and if you will not listen,
go on seeking the Simorgh and the philosophers' stone in vain.
Do not become a follower of strangers' piety, Hafez,
but keep company with rends who are truly pure.