If to us a letter , that perfu...

If to us a letter , that perfumed hair the beloved had written ,

The leaf of our existence , the sphere would not have folded up . *** Although separation bringeth forth the fruit of union ,

Would to God that this seed , the villager of the world God had not sown . *** Forgiveness is the cash of that one to whom , here ,

Is a Friend like a hurl and an abode like a paradise . *** Thy reed let not its sweet tongue be shed I

Experienced not love far from Thee if not , an answer to me it would have written . *** If , on love , thy picture the architect of existence had not painted ,

The atoms of love with the clay of Adam , He would not have mixed . *** Zahid not with delay , the story relate , that , in my cash hand

Is a Friend like a hur , and an abode like a paradise . *** For the garden of Iram , and the power of Shudad , sell not

A bottle of wine of love and a sweet lip of the murshid and the border of a field . *** To the sky , my ignorance and thy knowledge , what difference

There where vision is none , whether beauteousness or hideousness what matter *** Not alone the Ka'ba of the heart have I made the idol - house ,

At every step^is a cloister or a church . *** In love's inn , one cannot make happiness

When the pillow is golden , with a brick , I am content . *** O wise heart grief for a mean world , how long

Alas it is that with beauteousness , it the heart became the lover of hideousness *** The stain of the khirka is the ruin of the world

A way - farer , one of heart , one pure of nature where *** From his hand , Thy tress - tip why did Hafiz let go

Thus , was fate . What would he have done , if he had not let go ***