O Beloved, why do you treat us this way?
For too long we have been ignored and deprived of Your light.
Pilgrim, listen to my pen's advice,for this pearl of wisdom is worth more than all your suffering or your gold.
O Winebringer, bring wine to those drinkers who are mad for more wine,that is, if You have any of last night's good wine left.
But I want to know how are You going to show us Your face.
With the light of the sun and moon reflecting in our eyes?
O philosopher, be sensible and don't speak out against love,
Have you some sort of bone to pick with God?
Aren't you at all afraid of my burning sigh,
Standing there in that cotton coat so close to the flames?
Hafiz, yours is the most beautiful verse I have ever heard.
You must have the Koran and the Bible in your heart, combined!
from Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz
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