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Ghazal · 14th century

I commit you to God

Hafezحافظ

ای غایب از نظر به خدا می‌سپارمت

O you who are absent from sight, I commit you to God:

جانم بسوختی و به دل دوست دارمت

you have burned my soul, and still with my heart I love you.

تا دامن کفن نکشم زیر پای خاک

Until I drag the hem of my shroud beneath the earth,

باور مکن که دست ز دامن بدارمت

do not believe that I will let go of your hem.

محراب ابرویت بنما تا سحرگهی

Show me the prayer-niche of your eyebrow, so that at dawn

دست دعا برآرم و در گردن آرمت

I may raise my hands in prayer and put them around your neck.

گر بایدم شدن سوی هاروت بابلی

If I must go to Harut of Babylon,

صد گونه جادویی بکنم تا بیارمت

I will work a hundred kinds of magic to bring you back.

خواهم که پیش میرمت ای بی‌وفا طبیب

I want to die before you, O faithless physician:

بیمار باز پرس که در انتظارمت

ask after your patient, for I am waiting for you.

صد جوی آب بسته‌ام از دیده بر کنار

I have set a hundred streams flowing from my eyes at my side,

بر بوی تخم مهر که در دل بکارمت

in hope of planting you in my heart as the seed of love.

خونم بریخت وز غم عشقم خلاص داد

She spilled my blood and freed me from the grief of love:

منت پذیر غمزه خنجر گذارمت

I am grateful to your dagger-wielding glance.

می‌گریم و مرادم از این سیل اشک‌بار

I weep, and what I want from this flood of raining tears

تخم محبت است که در دل بکارمت

is the seed of affection, to plant you in my heart.

بارم ده از کرم سوی خود تا به سوز دل

Grant me, in your generosity, a place near you, so that with a burning heart

در پای دم‌به‌دم گهر از دیده بارمت

I may rain pearls from my eyes at your feet, moment by moment.

حافظ شراب و شاهد و رندی نه وضع توست

Hafez, wine and the beloved and the rend's way are not your manner;

فی‌الجمله می‌کنی و فرو می‌گذارمت

still, on the whole, you do them, and I let it pass.

Translation
Persiahaus Editors
Source
Draft translation from the Ganjoor text (Qazvini–Ghani edition)

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