Ghazal 257: Show your face and tell me: "Take your heart away from life."

روی بنما و مرا گو که ز جان دل برگیر
پیش شمع آتش پروانه به جان گو درگیر

در لب تشنهٔ ما بین و مدار آب دریغ
بر سر کشتهٔ خویش آی و ز خاکش برگیر

ترک درویش مگیر ار نبود سیم و زرش
در غمت سیم شمار اشک و رخش را زر گیر

چنگ بنواز و بساز ار نبود عود چه باک؟
آتشم عشق و دلم عود و تنم مجمر گیر

در سماع آی و ز سر خرقه برانداز و برقص
ور نه با گوشه رو و خرقهٔ ما در سر گیر

صوف برکش ز سر و بادهٔ صافی درکش
سیم در باز و به زر سیمبری در بر گیر

دوست گو یار شو و هر دو جهان دشمن باش
بخت گو پشت مکن، روی زمین لشکر گیر

میل رفتن مکن ای دوست دمی با ما باش
بر لب جوی، طرب جوی و به کف ساغر گیر

رفته گیر از برم و زآتش و آب دل و چشم
گونه‌ام زرد و لبم خشک و کنارم تر گیر

حافظ آراسته کن بزم و بگو واعظ را
که ببین مجلسم و ترک سر منبر گیر

Show your face and tell me: "Take your heart away from life."
Before the candle, tell the moth's fire: "Catch hold of the soul."

Look at our thirsty lip, and do not grudge it water;
come to the one you have slain and lift him from the dust.

Do not forsake the dervish because he has no silver or gold;
in grief for you, count his tears as silver and take his face for gold.

Play the harp and be content; if there is no aloe wood, what matter?
Take love for my fire, my heart for the aloe wood and my body for the censer.

Come into the dance, throw off the cloak and whirl;
or else go to a corner and pull our cloak over your head.

Pull the wool from your head and drink down the clear wine;
stake your silver, and with gold take a silver-breasted one in your arms.

Say: let the friend be my ally and let both worlds be my enemy;
say: let fortune not turn its back and let the face of the earth fill with armies.

Do not think of leaving, O friend; stay with us a moment.
At the edge of the stream look for joy, and take a cup in your hand.

Suppose you have gone from my side: from the fire and water of heart and eye
suppose my cheek yellow, my lip dry and my lap wet.

Hafez, set the feast in order and tell the preacher:
"Look at my gathering, and give up the pulpit."

Interpretation of the fal

You are ready to give up everything for the sake of what you are attached to. Ask the other side, too, not to turn away from you because of your poverty or your shortcomings. If the friend is with you, the opposition of the whole world does not matter. Make the most of this moment, do not be in a hurry to leave, and either go in wholeheartedly or stand aside: do not stay halfway.