To the Sultan's attendants , w...

To the Sultan's attendants , who will convey this prayer

In thanks for sovereignty , away from sight drive not the beggar *** From the watcher imperious lust demon of nature ,- I take shelter in my God

Perchance that gleaming light God's bounty and grace may , for God's sake , give a little aid . *** When by Thy splendour Thou enkindlest thy face , Thou consumest a world

From this , what profit hast Thou that Thou doest no kindness *** O true Beloved what is the tumult that to lovers thou displayedest

Thy face like the gleaming moon , Thy stature like the heart - ravishing cypress *** All night all my life in this hope I am that the breeze of dawn the angel of death

With the message of lovers giving release by death from the world's tumult will cherish me the lover . *** If Thy dark eye - lash arrow - like made for our blood ,

O Idol think of its deceit in blood - shedding and , make no mistake lest Thou suffer regret for my blood *** From the deceit of Thy eye of sorcery , blood became my sorrowful heart ,

O my Beloved see how me , it Thy eye slew see . *** O murshid to the lover Hafiz morning - rising , give thou , for God's sake , a draught of wine of love

May his prayer of the morning - time avail thee *** Hafiz's sorrowful heart that through separation from Thee , is full of blood ,

What would be its state if , awhile , it should attain union with the true Beloved ***