From the Divan of Hafez · 7 couplets
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O you who in killing us show no mercy at all —
you burn both profit and capital, and show no restraint.
The grief-stricken ones of calamity have deadly poison —
to target this people is a mistake — beware, do not do it.
Our pain, which can be cured by a corner of the eye —
it is not the condition of fairness that you give no remedy.
Our eye, like a sea from hope of you — why then
do you not take a stroll by the edge of this sea?
Every cruelty they reported to you from your noble people —
is the word of the self-interested; you — do not do those things.
If our beauty should display itself to you, O ascetic,
from God you would desire nothing but wine and the beloved.
Hafez, prostrate before those prayer-niche brows —
for you will not make a sincere prayer anywhere else.
ای که در کشتن ما هیچ مدارا نکنی
سود و سرمایه بسوزی و محابا نکنی
دردمندان بلا زهر هلاهل دارند
قصد این قوم خطا باشد هان تا نکنی
رنج ما را که توان برد به یک گوشهٔ چشم
شرط انصاف نباشد که مداوا نکنی
دیدهٔ ما چو به امید تو دریاست، چرا
به تفرج گذری بر لب دریا نکنی؟
نقل هر جور که از خلق کریمت کردند
قول صاحب غرضان است تو آنها نکنی
بر تو گر جلوه کند شاهد ما ای زاهد
از خدا جز می و معشوق تمنا نکنی
حافظا سجده به ابروی چو محرابش بر
که دعایی ز سر صدق جز آن جا نکنی
Source: Ganjoor.net
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