"O Dear! Live in this world brokenhearted and miserable. When Moses asked God: "O Lord where should I search You?" The answer came: "In the heart which is broken by the hand of detiny.""

"O Farid ! Friend is not hidden; everywhere He is openly manifest. Darkness is all pervaise Light. Only it has been named differently."

"Beauty and ugliness are manifestations of the self-The lovely colorless is in each color."

"From the hand of the cup-bearer I drank the goblet of love. Oneness became overpowering, forget infidelity and Islam."

"Bliss and misery are two treasures of the Lord. The key to the former is submission, while the key to the latter is sin. The one who is fortunate has been blessed from his mother's womb. Such a person is given the key to bliss. The one who is unfortunate has been born accursed. Sin is the key to misery."

"O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity. May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimatley leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don't forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balāam Bāōur."

"Prayer according to Shariah is service, according to Tariqa proximity, and according to Haqiqa union with God."

"The heart possesses subtle organs of perception, which are progressively purifies by the performance of dhikr, together with other spiritual discipline and exercises."

"The lower soul, the Devil, and the Angels are not realities external to you. You are them. So too Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Throne are not outside you, nor are Paradise, Hell, Life, or Death. All exist withn you, as you will realize once you have accomplished the initiatic journey and become pure."

"Man as a microcosm contains everything that exists in the macrocosm."

"Sainthood and prophet-hood are twins in gnosis i.e, the oceans of sainthood and prophet-hood interpenetrate each other."

"Unveiling is the mystical perception of the saint but not through abstract of philosophical knowledge, but it is a vision clothed in form especially human form. It is cognitive but apparitional revealing knowledge through divine light."

"What is common to all the divine Attributes is that they are modes through which the Essence can interact with the temporal world. The Attributes of God can be divided into two types: Attribues of Majesty that mediate the power and wrath of God, and Attributes of Beauty that convey the grace and mercy of God."

"I swam in the primordial and ultimate oceans, in eternity and subsistence, and I discovered the unveiling of the Essence and Attributes which deaf stones and lofty mountains cannot endure."

"I was in my youth and in the days of my intoxication extravagance and excitement that unveiling of the angelic world and the manifestation of the wonders of power took place in my heart, spirit, conscience and intellect."

"From the Throne to the earth is the creation of God Most High; everything but his existence is his action. He brought them into existence from pure non-being."

"All this is strolling of the sea, neither any shore nor dinghy Into the waters of oneness, flying away this very entity Cease the moment forget all else, all that bygone history The future and past abandon, Sachal ask for frenzy."

"My thoughts are not to eminence inclined, nor I ask to be the master Neither then prelates, elders we became, nor then my name's Astrologer Neither Indian, Sindhi, Arab, nor to being a Negro or Turk aver Sachal nowhere is anyone present, within nothingness we occur."

"Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither a talker, nor a seeker, nor am I argumentite Light makes me restuve sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither earthy, nor the wind, neither water nor as fire ignite Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither from jinns, nor from humans, neither mother nor father recondite Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither Sunni, nor Shia, neither sinner nor recompensite Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither law-abider nor abstemious, nor given to physical delight Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Neither a scholar nor a judge, nor rowdy drink's acolyte Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light Which substance of School do you look for? he's with you and in flight Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light."

"Who are you, who am I, I'm manifest in the same On our heads we secured, a chaplet in a frame."

"چون تیشه مباش و جمله زی خود متراش چون رنده ز کار خویش بی بهره مباش تعلــیم ز اره گیر در امــر معاش چیزی سوی خود میکش و چیزی می پاش"

"Don't be like axe and don't offend anyone Don't be useless like a plane Just be like a saw in your life Do something for yourself and something for others"

"O God, you are the only confident of my days You are inside, outside, you are settled in my pores You the warp, the weft, my each and everything is you Say Hussain, the worthless fakir, I am nothing, You are all."

"O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain Fires of Faqeer smoulder, wherever I rummage ruby-red gain, Thorns pierces, make me mad, separation my mind's refrain O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain."

"Anonymous, A Century of Ghazels, or, A Hundred Odes, Selected and Translated from the Diwan of Hafiz (1875)"

"Herrlich ist der Orient Ubers Mittelmeer gedrungen; Nur wer Hafiz liebt und kennt Weiss was Calderon gesungen."

"Spend well thy time; drink wine within the bower For when a week is gone, the flower is not; Snatch, snatch the hour that glads the heart so well For the pearl always in the shell is not."

"Sir William Jones, A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) · Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (1772)"

"Reckon as plunder the path of profligacy. For this track Like the path to the hidden treasure is not evident to every one."

"Profit by companionship; this two-doored house (i.e., life) forsaken, No pathway that can thither lead in future time is taken."

"A Shah no other than thyself aspiring Hafiz craves; Oh! were he in thy doorway’s dust one of thy common slaves."

"Enjoy! ’twixt lip and mouth the bounds as nothing are If humbled, care not; as the rose be gay, Life’s honours which pass soon away, as nothing are."

"Be misery thy portion here, O Sage, or be it bliss Refer it not to other men: ’tis God who orders this."

"High birth may be a pearl of lustre, but let thine effort be To rise by deeds. Distinct is greatness from birth and pedigree."

"Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky."

"And what though all the world should sink! Hafis! with thee, alone with thee Will I contend! joy, misery, The portion of us twain shall be; Like thee to love, like thee to drink,— This be my pride,—this, life to me!"

"Aloud I say it and with heart of glee, ‘Love’s slave am I and from both worlds am free.’ Can I, the bird of sacred gardens tell, Into this net of chance how first I fell?"

"Regard opportunity. For when uproar fell upon the world, Hafiz struck at the cup and through grief took the corner of retirement."

"If it is thy desire that the Beloved should not break the covenant, Keep thy end of the thread that He may keep his end."

"Herman Bicknell, Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, Translated from the Persian (1875)"

"Breeze which at the morning blowest, Fly, if faith and truth thou knowest, Say, to my Beloved one turning; He who with thy love is burning Dying sighs where he is hidden ‘Life without thee is forbidden.’"

"Daughters of turbulent mind awaking their mothers’ ire, And sons who of froward mood wish ill to their sire, I see; Sherbets of sugar and rose the world to the fool supplies, But naught save his own heart’s blood the food of the wise I see; Galled by the pack-saddle’s weight the Arab’s proud steed grows old, Yet always the ass’s neck encircled with gold I see."

"Heart, should the flood of death life’s fabric sweep away, Noah shall steer the ark o’er billows dark, despair not. Though perilous the stage, though out of sight the goal, Whithersoe’er we wend, there is an end, despair not. If love evades our grasp, and rivals press their suit, God, Lord of every change, surveys the range, despair not."

"Wash from the dross of life thy hands as the Path’s men of old And, winning love’s alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold."

"The meshes of the net are strong but God withholds His grace from none, Not otherwise could man prevail o’er Satan the stone-pelted one."

"How well said the aged farmer to his son, O light of my eyes, thou wilt not reap save that which thou hast sown."

"O partridge, bird of graceful gait, say whether wouldst thou shape thy way? Be not so bold, for well we know how the religious cat can pray."

"Come! hear of those who have felt sorrow’s touch Their words are few, but what they mean is much."

"Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed For naught is slight that has by God been framed."

"What serves thy armour ’gainst Fate’s arrows fierce? What serves thy shield if Destiny transpierce? Though steel and iron may thy ramparts plate When comes the mandate, Death shall burst thy gate."