Hafez · Ghazal 386 · Sit little with the cloak-wearers
خدا را کم نشین با خرقه پوشانرخ از رندان بی‌سامان مپوشان
در این خرقه بسی آلودگی هستخوشا وقت قبای می فروشان
در این صوفی‌وشان دردی ندیدمکه صافی باد عیش دردنوشان
تو نازک‌طبعی و طاقت نیاریگرانی‌های مشتی دلق‌پوشان
چو مستم کرده‌ای مستور منشینچو نوشم داده‌ای زهرم منوشان
بیا وز غبن این سالوسیان بینصراحی خون‌دل و بربط خروشان
ز دلگرمی حافظ بر حذر باشکه دارد سینه‌ای چون دیگ جوشان
Choose your company with care. Hafez advises the beloved to spend less time with those whose piety is all cloak and more with the honest, even if they own nothing. Look for people who have truly felt something, whose hearts know pain and therefore know joy. If someone has opened your heart, you may ask them not to hide from you now. This ghazal invites you to value warmth and sincerity over appearance, in others and in yourself, and to keep your own heart open and warm.
For God's sake, sit little with the cloak-wearers;
do not hide your face from the penniless rendan.
In this cloak there is much impurity;
happy the hour of the wine-sellers' robe.
Among these Sufi-seeming men I found no pain,
so may the pleasure of the dreg-drinkers stay pure.
You are delicate of nature and will not be able to bear
the heaviness of a handful of cloak-wearers.
Since you have made me drunk, do not sit veiled;
since you have given me honey, do not make me drink poison.
Come, and see what these hypocrites have cost us:
the flagon's heart bleeding and the lute crying out.
Beware the warm heart of Hafez,
for he has a breast like a boiling pot.