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. In this parterre (the world), none plucked the rose without the thorn. ### So the (glorious) lamp of Mustafa (the soul) with the (horrid) flames of Abu Lahab (imperious Lust) is. ***