Not all purity without alloy i...

Not all purity without alloy is the coat of the Sufi

O many a khirika , that is worthy of the fire *** Our Sufi , who , with the morning reading , used to become intoxicated with love for God

At evening time , behold him for merry of head with wine is he . *** Happy it is , if the touch - stone of experience come into use ,

So that black of face becometh every one , in whom is alloy . *** The daintily nurtured in affluence took not the path to the Friend

The being a lover of God is the way of profligates , calamity enduring . *** Grief for this mean world , how long sufferest thou Drink wine

Pity it is that the sage's heart is perturbed . *** If , in this way , the Saki's down maketh the vanishing picture on water ,

O many a face that coloured with tears of blood will be *** In exchange the ragged garment and the prayer - mat of Hafiz , the wine - seller will take ,

If , from the hand of that moon - like Saki , there is wine . ***