In the spring season of the tu...

In the spring season of the tulip the murshid the cup take ; and void of hypocrisy be

With the perfume of the red rose of 'Irak a moment concordant with the breeze the murshid be . *** I say not to thee All the year practise wine - worshipping

Nay three spring months , wine drink and nine months , austere and Abid in the world's occupations be . *** If the Pir , the holy traveller , charge thee with the wine of love

Drink ; and expecter of God's mercy , be . *** If thine be desire that , like Jamshid the perfect murshid thou mayst attain to the mystery of the hidden ,

Come and , the confidant of this cup , world - displaying the perfect murshid be . *** Though like the closed up rose - bud , the world's work is a closed up knot ,

Like the spring - breeze , thou , the knot bud opener be . *** From none , seek fidelity and if , my speech , thou hear not ,

In foolishness , seeker of the simurgh and of alchemy be . *** Hafiz of devotion of strangers , the disciple be not

But , of pure profligates , the friend be . ***