O Saki, Go around and offer the winecup: First poem from Diwan-e-Hafiz

O Saki, Go around and offer the winecup: First poem from Diwan-e-Hafiz

 

In the name of Allah, the most Merciful, the most Compassionate.

 

Ho! O Saki, go around and offer the winecup

For the burden of love for God at first appeared easy, but now seems hard

Desiring for fragrance that morning breeze brings from unlocking of her hairlocks

Blood of sadness fills hearts for curls of her musky trees

Colour your prayer mat with wine, if your spiritual mentor [perfect murshid] asks you to.

For he is traveller that knows ways of spiritual highway

There is little joy I have at this temporary station of my beloved [God]

When caravan’s bell [call of death] keeps calling me every moments, “pack up bags and go”

 

Also download Divan-e-Hafiz (in Farsi/Persian) by Iran’s most famous poet, Hafiz of Shiraz (Hafez Shirazi)  محمد حافظ شیرازی