The Dīvān, Volumen2Government of India Central Print. Office, 1891 - 1011 páginas |
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Arifs art thou austerity Bahrām beauty became becometh behold bird blood breeze bring bulbul calamity candle cast cheek Chigil cometh couplet covenant-breakers cup of Jamshid cup of wine cypress darvish desire distraught divine knowledge door drink dust eternity without beginning eye-brow fire foot fortune garden garment ghazal give giveth glance grace Hafiz happy hath head holy traveller idol illusory intoxicated Jamshid Ka'ba Kafir Kay Khusrau khirka king kiss lofty Lord lovers Magians maketh moon morning Muḥammad mystery Najd naught night paradise Perchance perfect murshid perfume Persian prayer profligates pure reacheth rose ruby lip ruddy Sāķi second line Shaikh Shiraz signifies Simurgh slave soul spake speech splendour stringed instrument Sufi sward sweet tale tears thine thou art thou hast thou mayst Thy face thy heart Thy tress thyself true Beloved union with Thee utter Verily verse void wine wine-house Zahid
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Página 936 - This admonition is given unto him who believeth in GOD and the last day: and whoso feareth GOD, unto him will he grant a happy issue out of all his afflictions, and he will bestow on him an ample provision from whence he expecteth it not: and whoso trusteth in GOD, he will be his sufficient support; for GOD will surely attain his purpose.
Página 638 - BY the star, when it setteth; your companion Mohammed erreth not, nor is he led astray: neither doth he speak of his own will. It is no other than a revelation, which hath been revealed unto him. One mighty in power, endued with understanding, taught it him: and lie appeared in the highest part of the horizon. Afterwards he approached the prophet, and drew near unto him; until he was at the distance of two bows...
Página 909 - From me, the beggar, to kings, who taketh a message, Saying: — "In the street of the wine-sellers, (they sell) two thousand (mighty) Jamshids for a single cup of wine." Ruined and ill of fame, I have become ; yet, hope I haveThat, by the blessing of dear ones (those of good name) I may (escape from illfame ; and) reach to good-fame. Thou that sellest...
Página 772 - Bang is known as hashish, Indian hemp, Cannabis Indica ; is very intoxicating ; and is either eaten as a sweetmeat or smoked with tobacco. At 6 PM, one may take a pill of two, or of three, grains of the extract of the British Pharmacopoeia. The best antidotes are— sweating in the Turkish bath ; and copious draughts of tartaric acid or of lemon juice. The Letter Waw. 468, (480).
Página 772 - From the top of the admonisher's turban, "bang" - cometh forth. 5. Within the gardens, morn and eve, with the voice of the minstrel, The lament of the bulbul with the twang of the harp - cometh forth. In such a city (of love's tumult), in separation from the beloved, and in grief for separation, From his dwelling, (O wonder!) Hafiz, so strait of heart,—— cometh forth.
Página 566 - Hussars, a good swimmer, in the spring supposed to be that in which Bahram was lost. Bahram shooting at a lion that had made a wild ass its prey, the arrow passed through the back of the lion and of the ass, and entered the earth. He was afterwards called Bahram Gor. 5. Sulaiman accepted a grass blade (some say the roasted leg of a locust) hospitably offered him by an ant.
Página 975 - ... followers ; and that on more than one occasion he began to recede upward from the material world, and that it was only by the means of music that he could be prevented from entirely disappearing from amongst his devoted companions. His celebrated poem, called Masnavi Sharif, is that kind of poetry which is composed of distichs corresponding in measure, each consisting of a pair of rhymes, and each distich having distinct poetical terminations. It is written in the Persian language, and though...
Página 554 - ... cup, world-displaying, may signify : — the heart of the holy traveller. 6. To seek fidelity from any one is like seeking for the fabulous simurgh ; or for the alchemy (whereby stones become gold). To the second line, add :— And, in seeking the impossible, thyself distressed, keep. 321, (316). I. The gardener (the holy traveller) if, for a space of five days, (a life-time), the society of the rose (the true Beloved) is necessary for him, Against the tyranny of the thorn of separation, the...
Página 498 - Beloved, and vexing (on the part) of the watcher,— our state (of perturbation and confusion) : All, God, our state causing, knoweth ; suffer not grief. In the corner of poverty and in the solitude of dark nights, Hafiz, So long as thine are the practice of praying and the reading of the Kuran (wherein is the salvation of the next world) suffer not grief.
Página 659 - Kubad, See Clements Markham's History of Persia. 385, (388). I. The dust of my body is the veil of the (true) Beloved's face ; O happy that moment when from off this face, the veil I cast! Not fit for a sweet singer like me, is the cage (of the world) like this : To Rizvan's rose-bed, I go ; for the bird of that sward am I. Manifest, it is...