Ghazal No. 156: None can match my beloved in beauty, character, and loyalty
غزل شماره ۱۵۶: به حسن و خلق و وفا کس به یار ما نرسد
In beauty and nature and loyalty no one reaches our beloved
For you denial doesn't reach our work in this speech
به حسن و خلق و وفا کس به یار ما نرسد
تو را در این سخن انکار کار ما نرسد
Although beauty-sellers have come to display
No one reaches our beloved in beauty and grace
اگر چه حسن فروشان به جلوه آمدهاند
کسی به حسن و ملاحت به یار ما نرسد
By right of old companionship that no confidant of secrets
Reaches our single-minded right-fulfilling friend
به حق صحبت دیرین که هیچ محرم راز
به یار یک جهت حق گزار ما نرسد
Thousand patterns rise from creation's pen and one
Doesn't reach heart-pleasing pattern of our beloved
هزار نقش برآید ز کلک صنع و یکی
به دلپذیری نقش نگار ما نرسد
Thousand coins they bring to existence's market
One doesn't reach coin of our standard-bearer
هزار نقد به بازار کائنات آرند
یکی به سکه صاحب عیار ما نرسد
Alas life's caravan that they went so
That their dust doesn't reach air of our land
دریغ قافله عمر کان چنان رفتند
که گردشان به هوای دیار ما نرسد
O heart don't suffer from envious ones' pain and be confident
That bad doesn't reach our hopeful mind
دلا ز رنج حسودان مرنج و واثق باش
که بد به خاطر امیدوار ما نرسد
Live so that if you become path's dust to anyone
Heart's dust doesn't reach from our pathway
چنان بزی که اگر خاک ره شوی کس را
غبار خاطری از رهگذار ما نرسد
Hafez burned and I fear that explanation of his story
Doesn't reach ear of our successful king
بسوخت حافظ و ترسم که شرح قصه او
به سمع پادشه کامگار ما نرسد
Ghazal No. 156: None can match my beloved in beauty, character, and loyalty
Book: Divan of Hafez