The garden's courtyard is joy-giving and friends' company is pleasant

May rose-time be pleasant, for from it wine-drinkers' time is pleasant

From the morning breeze each moment our soul's sense becomes pleasant

Yes, yes, the sweetness of lovers' breaths is pleasant

Before unveiling its face the rose prepared to depart

Lament, nightingale, for the cry of the heartbroken is pleasant

Good tidings to the sweet-singing bird that in love's path

The friend enjoys the laments of sleepless nights

There's no happiness in the world's market, or if there is

The way of rendi and merry-making of the rogues is pleasant

From the tongue of the free lily came to my ear

That in this ancient monastery the work of the light-hearted is pleasant

Hafez, renouncing the world is the way of happiness

Lest you think the state of worldly rulers is pleasant