Where is right conduct, and where am I?

صلاح کار کجا و من خراب کجا

Where is right conduct in affairs, and where am I, the ruined one?

ببین تفاوت ره کز کجاست تا به کجا

See the distance of the road: from where to where!

دلم ز صومعه بگرفت و خرقه سالوس

My heart has tired of the cloister and the cloak of hypocrisy;

کجاست دیر مغان و شراب ناب کجا

where is the Magians' temple, and where the pure wine?

چه نسبت است به رندی صلاح و تقوا را

What kinship has rendi with piety and abstinence?

سماع وعظ کجا نغمه رباب کجا

Where is listening to sermons, and where the music of the rebab?

ز روی دوست دل دشمنان چه دریابد

What can the hearts of enemies grasp of the Friend's face?

چراغ مرده کجا شمع آفتاب کجا

Where is a dead lamp, and where the candle of the sun?

چو کحل بینش ما خاک آستان شماست

Since the collyrium of our sight is the dust of your threshold,

کجا رویم بفرما از این جناب کجا

where should we go? Tell us: from this court, where?

مبین به سیب زنخدان که چاه در راه است

Do not gaze at the apple of the chin, for there is a well in the road;

کجا همی روی ای دل بدین شتاب کجا

where are you going, O heart, in such a hurry, where?

بشد که یاد خوشش باد روزگار وصال

It is gone, may its memory be sweet, the time of union;

خود آن کرشمه کجا رفت و آن عتاب کجا

where did that glance of coquetry go, and where that reproach?

قرار و خواب ز حافظ طمع مدار ای دوست

Expect no rest or sleep from Hafez, O friend:

قرار چیست صبوری کدام و خواب کجا

what is rest, which is patience, and where is sleep?