Where is the path of righteousness and where am I: Ghazal 2 by Hafez

By @hamed | poet: Hafez Shirazi | 4 2

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English translation:

Where is the path of righteousness and where am I, so lost and astray?
See the vast difference between the wrong path and the right way.

My heart grew weary of the monastery and the hypocrite's patched robe,
Where is the tavern of the mystics and the pure wine, where?

What connection is there between piety and the ways of a carefree soul?
Where is the sermon and where is the melody of the lute?

How can the heart of the enemy understand the face of the beloved?
Where is the dead lamp and where is the candle of the sun?

Since the kohl for our eyes is the dust of your threshold,
Where should we go? Command us, from this lowly place, where?

Do not look at the beauty of the beloved's dimples and forget the pitfall ahead,
Where are you rushing, O heart, where?It is over!

May the memory of that beautiful time of union be blessed,
Where is that coquetry now, and where is that reproach?

Do not expect peace and sleep from Hafez, my friend,
What is peace? Where is patience and neglect it.