Hafez · Ghazal 464 · Your beauty has reached perfection
بگرفت کار حسنت چون عشق من کمالیخوش باش زان که نبود این هر دو را زوالی
در وهم می‌نگنجد کاندر تصور عقلآید به هیچ معنی زین خوب‌تر مثالی
شد حظ عمر حاصل گر زان که با تو ما راهرگز به عمر روزی روزی شود وصالی
آن دم که با تو باشم یک سال هست روزیوان دم که بی تو باشم یک لحظه هست سالی
چون من خیال رویت جانا به خواب بینمکز خواب می‌نبیند چشمم به جز خیالی
رحم آر بر دل من کز مهر روی خوبتشد شخص ناتوانم باریک چون هلالی
حافظ مکن شکایت گر وصل دوست خواهیزین بیشتر بباید بر هجرت احتمالی
Hafez describes a love that has reached its fullness and will not fade, and a waiting that makes each moment apart feel like a year. If you are in a season of waiting, he understands how long the hours can seem. His counsel in the last line is gentle but clear: what is most worth having asks for patience, and complaint only lengthens the night. Hold steady. A love that is truly whole does not decline, and the day of meeting is worth every hour spent on the way to it.
The work of your beauty, like my love, has reached perfection;
be glad, for neither of these two will ever decline.
It cannot enter fancy that, in the mind's imagining,
any image lovelier than this could appear in any sense.
The fruit of a lifetime is gained if, with you,
ever in my life, one day, union becomes my portion.
The moment I am with you, a year is a day,
and the moment I am without you, an instant is a year.
How could I see the vision of your face in sleep, my love,
when my eyes have seen nothing of sleep but its phantom?
Have pity on my heart, for from love of your lovely face
my weak body has grown thin as a crescent moon.
Hafez, do not complain; if you want union with the Friend,
you must bear more than this in separation.