Ghazal 208: When the wounded have the desire and have not the strength

خستگان را چو طلب باشد و قوت نبود
گر تو بیداد کنی شرط مروت نبود

ما جفا از تو ندیدیم و تو خود نپسندی
آنچه در مذهب ارباب طریقت نبود

خیره آن دیده که آبش نبرد گریهٔ عشق
تیره آن دل که در او شمع محبت نبود

دولت از مرغ همایون طلب و سایهٔ او
زان که با زاغ و زغن شهپر دولت نبود

گر مدد خواستم از پیر مغان عیب مکن
شیخ ما گفت که در صومعه همت نبود

چون طهارت نبود کعبه و بتخانه یکیست
نبود خیر در آن خانه که عصمت نبود

حافظا علم و ادب ورز که در مجلس شاه
هر که را نیست ادب لایق صحبت نبود

When the wounded have the desire and have not the strength,
if you deal unjustly, that is not what chivalry requires.

We have seen no cruelty from you, and you yourself would not approve
what is not in the creed of the masters of the Path.

Blind is the eye whose brightness is not washed away by the weeping of love;
dark is the heart in which there is no candle of affection.

Seek fortune from the auspicious bird and from its shadow,
for the crow and the kite have no royal feather of fortune.

If I asked help of the Magian elder, do not find fault;
our shaykh said that in the cloister there was no high resolve.

Where there is no purity, the Kaaba and the idol-house are one;
there is no good in a house where there is no chastity.

Hafez, cultivate learning and courtesy, for in the king's assembly
whoever has no courtesy is not fit for company.