From the Divan of Hafez · 7 couplets
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Your love is a sapling of bewilderment —
your union is the perfection of bewilderment.
Many a one drowned in the state of union, and in the end
arrived again at the state of bewilderment.
Show me one heart on whose face, in her path,
there appeared not the mole of bewilderment.
Neither union remains, nor the one united —
there where the phantom of bewilderment came.
From every direction I listened,
I heard the voice of the question of bewilderment.
Defeated by the perfection of majesty
was the one upon whom the glory of bewilderment came.
From head to foot, the being of Hafez,
in love, is a sapling of bewilderment.
عشقِ تو نهالِ حیرت آمد
وصلِ تو کمالِ حیرت آمد
بس غرقهٔ حالِ وصل کآخر
هم بر سرِ حالِ حیرت آمد
یک دل بنما که در رَهِ او
بر چهره نه خالِ حیرت آمد
نه وصل بِمانَد و نه واصل
آن جا که خیالِ حیرت آمد
از هر طرفی که گوش کردم
آوازِ سؤالِ حیرت آمد
شد مُنهَزِم از کمالِ عزّت
آن را که جلالِ حیرت آمد
سر تا قدمِ وجودِ حافظ
در عشق، نهالِ حیرت آمد
Source: Ganjoor.net
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