I'll announce it gladly to anyone:
I'm a prisoner of Love, I care not for the two worlds.I was like a bird in the garden of paradise,
So how did I end up cast out into this cage of pain?In the garden of paradise I lived like an angel.
But Adam brought me out into this Hell and Earth.I gave up the garden of paradise, its gardens and pools,
For Allah's sake, for I am wise.In the book of my Heart is written the name of the Friend.
In the end, this is everything the Master taught.No astrologer could predict the star of my fate,
O Lord! I hate my unhappy birth!I've become the slave of the tavern of Love.
I must welcome new troubles all the time.Don't be surprised if my eye drinks the blood of the heart.
I have left my heart to her ruthless plundering.Wipe Hafiz's blood from his eyes with your hair,
Or he'll be drowned in this great flood.
