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(O true beloved!) in eternity without beginning (the day of misak), of glory, the splendour-ray of Thy beauty boasted.
Revealed became love; and, upon all the world, fire dashed,

(O absolute existence!) Thy face displayed splendour; (and) beheld (that) the angel had no (capacity  for) love:
From this (exceeding) jealousy, it became the essence of fire; and upon Adam dashed.

From that torch (of love), reason wished to kindle its lamp.
Jealousy's lightning flashed; and in confusion, the world dashed.

The adversary sought to come to the spectacle-place of the mystery (of love):
The invisible hand (of God) came; and, at the heart of the excluded one, dashed.

The desire of thy chin's dimple (thy mysteries) possessed the lofty soul:
At the ring of that tress, curl within curl, (his) hand, he dashed.

Others, all on ease, dashed the dice of partition (fate):
Our grief-experienced heart it was that also, on grief (the dice of fate) cast.

The joy-book of love for Thee, Hafiz wrote on that day,
When, on the head of the chattels of his joyous heart, the reed (of cancellation), he dashed.

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در ازل پرتو حُسنت ز تجلی دم زد
عشق پیدا شد و آتش به همه عالم زد

جلوه ای کرد رخت دید ملک عشق نداشت
عین آتش شد ازین غیرت و بر آدم زد

عقل میخواست کزآن شعله چراغ افروزد
برق غیرت بدرخشید و جهان بر هم زد

مدعی خواست که آید به تماشاگه راز
دست غیب آمد و بر سینه ی نامحرم زد

جان علوی هوس چاه زنخدان تو داشت
دست در حلقه ی آن زلف خم اندر خم زد

دیگران قرعه ی قسمت همه بر عیش زدند
دل غمدیده ی ما بود که هم بر غم زد

حافظ آن روز طرب نامه ی عشق تو نوشت
که قلم بر سر اسباب و دل خُرم زد