Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. Wash this ragged religious garment of heart-straitedness (from the world's affections) : For, in the market of one colour (society of oneness, wherein is no entrance to double-dealing and hypocrisy), ### Red wine (love of the only existent one God ; the essence of things ; the ray of first love), the patched religious garment, varied of hue (worldly) is not worth. ***