Hafez · Ghazal 382 · Since you have come, recite a Fatiha
فاتحه‌ای چو آمدی بر سر خسته‌ای بخوانلب بگشا که می‌دهد لعل لبت به مرده جان
آن که به پرسش آمد و فاتحه خواند و می‌رودگو نفسی که روح را می‌کنم از پیش روان
ای که طبیب خسته‌ای، روی زبان من ببینکـاین دم و دود سینه‌ام، بار دل است بر زبان
گرچه تب استخوان من کرد ز مهر گرم و رفتهمچو تبم نمی‌رود آتش مهر از استخوان
حال دلم ز خال تو هست در آتشش وطنچشمم از آن دو چشم تو خسته شده‌ست و ناتوان
بازنشان حرارتم ز آب دو دیده و ببیننبض مرا که می‌دهد هیچ ز زندگی نشان
آن که مدام شیشه‌ام از پی عیش داده استشیشه‌ام از چه می‌برد پیش طبیب هر زمان؟
حافظ از آب زندگی شعر تو داد شربتمترک طبیب کن بیا نسخه شربتم بخوان
This ghazal is a gentle word for anyone who feels worn down or weary at heart. Hafez describes a visitor at the bedside and a fever that has passed, leaving only the warmth of love in the bones. What revives him in the end is affection and poetry, a draught of the water of life. Let those who care for you come close, and do not hide what weighs on your heart from them. Let beauty, kind words and verse restore your spirit. Love, he says, can give life back.
Since you have come, recite a Fatiha over one who is ailing;
open your lips, for your ruby lip gives life to the dead.
The one who came to ask after me, recited the Fatiha, and is leaving,
tell him to wait a breath, for I am sending my soul out after him.
You who are the physician of the sick, look at my tongue,
for this breath and smoke of my breast are the heart's burden on my tongue.
Though the fever left my bones warm with love and went,
the fire of love does not leave my bones as the fever did.
My heart, because of your mole, has made its home in the fire;
my eyes, because of your two eyes, have grown ailing and weak.
Quench my heat with the water of your two eyes, and see
whether my pulse gives any sign of life.
The one who has always handed me my flask for pleasure,
why does he carry my flask to the physician every hour?
Hafez, your verse has given me a draught of the water of life;
leave the physician; come, read the prescription of my draught.