At this time full of iniquity ...

At this time full of iniquity a friend , who is free from defect of insincerity , and in whose society is joy

Is the goblet of pure wine the glorious Kuran from whose companionship , one can momently snatch delight and the song - book Divine knowledge , whose reading perpetually is full of pleasure *** Go alone free from all attachments for the highway of safety love is narrow full of thorns and of stones

Seize quickly the cup love's attraction for dear life is without exchange returneth not and permitteth not the traveller to make good the omission of the past *** In the world , not I alone am distressed from being without work

From learning without doing , is the grief of the learned . *** In this thoroughfare full of tumult , to reason's eye ,

The world and the world's work is without permanency and without place . *** By the decree of eternity without beginning , the black face of the Bactrian Camel

Becometh not white by washing and scouring . This is a proverb . *** Every foundation however strong that thou seest is capable of injury

Save Love's foundation , which is far from injury . *** Great hope of union with thee , had my heart .

But , on life's path , death is hope's robber . *** Seize the tress of the one of moon face the true Beloved and utter not the . tale ;

For fortune and misfortune are the effects of Venus and of Saturn . *** At no time , will they find him sensible :

For this reason , that Hafiz is intoxicated with the cup of eternity without beginning . ***