Value time as much as you can,

The result of life, O soul, is this very moment, so you should know.

The fulfillment of desires by fate has a price,

Strive to receive the joy of justice from the bounty (of fate).

When a gardener like me passes from this place, may it be forbidden to you,

If you plant a cypress other than the beloved in my place.

The repentant ascetic will be killed by the desire for wine,

O wise one, do not do a deed that brings regret.

The censor does not know this much that the Sufi's

Innate nature is like a pomegranate ruby.

Do not contend with the prayers of those who rise at night, O sweet-mouthed one,

The ring of Solomon is under the protection of one Name.

Hear the advice of lovers and return through the door of joy,

For all this occupation of the transient world is not worth it.

My dear Joseph is gone, O brothers, have mercy,

For from his grief, I see the strange state of the old Canaanite (Jacob).

Do not speak of libertinism before the ascetic, for one cannot tell,

The state of a hidden pain to an unacquainted physician.

You are going, and your eyelashes are shedding the blood of people,

You are going swiftly, O dear one, I fear you will remain behind.

I was wary of the arrow of your eye, but

Your archer's eyebrow takes (the heart) to the forehead.

Gather the distraught Hafez with kindness,

O curl of your tresses, the gathering place of distraction.

If you are free from us, O hard-hearted beloved,

I will tell my state before the second Asaf (a wise vizier).