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. The court of the garden (the world) is joy-giving (producing manifestations of Love's glories); and the society of friends (the soul and the body that intervene between the seeker and the Sought), pleasant; ### Pleasant, be the time of the rose (the Murshid), whereby the time of wine-drinkers (lovers of God) is pleasant. ***