Acknowledgement
Introduction

On Love and Wine

1-Wine and the Beloved
2-The Smile of the Cup of Wine
3-Me and the Rejection of Wine, What Nonsense is this?
4- I Am the One Well Known in Town for Loving
5-You Must Be Majun Before Taking The First Necessary Step
6- I Am the One Whose Khanqah Is the Corner of the Winehouse
7- Give Me a Few Kisses Mixed with a Few Curses
8- When I Begin to Cry at the Aliens' Evening Prayers
9- God, to Whose Abode Does This Lovely Candle Belong?
10- Who am I to Pass by Your Scented Mind
11- Me, Refreshing Wine and a Houri-like Favourite
12- God, Let Him Be Well Wherever He May Be
13-The Time for Libertines and Their Joyful Ways has Come
14-Either a Goblet of Wine or a Short Sermon
15-Youthful Love
16-Why Worry about the Vile World, Try to Drink
17-Make the Most of the Rose Garden and Drink Wine
18-Even If I Lose My Head I Will Not Take it off Your Step
19-Where is a Mohtaseb to Catch a Drunk
20-People Said You Are the Contemporary Joseph
21-The Shrine of the World's Libertines
22-Ask for a Cup of Wine as You Need One
23-The Word of Lovers
24-Mention of Love is Not so Easy to Bring up to the Tongue
25-Before We Drank Sharbat From Her Ruby Lips, She Left
26-Shiraz, the Rokni Stream. and This Pleasant Breeze
27-It's Morning Saqi Fill a Bowl with Wine
28-I am a Lover, a Libertine and a Seeker of Pretty Youths
29-The Love of That Joyful, Tipsy Dancer, is My Buyer
30- What Is Nicer Than the Idea of Wine and Goblet?
31-The Thought of Your Beautiful Face is Always with Us
32-Hide the Goblet in Your Ragtag Sleeve
33-There Is No Thornless Flower
34-In the Magi's Tavern I See the Divine Light
35-They Did Not Treat Penniless and Desperate Strangers
36-I Went to the Tavern, Sleepy, Last Night
37-Demons Run Away from Those Who Recite The Koran
38-The Light of Your Beauty
39-Without the Charm of Your Face My Day is Lightless
40-Take the Goblet Since There is no Substitute for Dear Life
41-I Fear That Our Sadness Will Be Exposed by Tears
42-You Are Like Morning and I Am the Lovers' Candle at Dawn
43-I Must be Mad to Repent of Drinking Wine In the Spring
44-The Beloved's Injustice
45-The Fountain of the Eye
46-Companions Untie the Knot from the Beloved's Hair
47-Tell the Story of Love in the Tongue Which You Know
48-Would That They Open the Taverns' Door?
49-I am a Slave to Love and Thus Free from Both Worlds
50-The Sea of Love
51-Hoping That You Will Rise Like the Shining Sun
52-Beware of Drinking With the City Mohtaseb
53-Don't Tell the Critic the Secrets of Love and Drunkenness
54-Do Not Ask Anything of God But Wine and Love
55-In the Tears of My Eyes Many a Noha's Flood I've Seen
56-Why Should I Blame the Wine-Drinking Libertine
57-I Repented a Hundred Times and Will Not Any More
58-Now That You Are Old, Hafiz, Leave the Tavern

On General Subjects

1-The Breath of the Morning Zephyr will Spread Musk
2-We Get No Help from Anyone
3-The Lost Joseph Will Come Back to Canaan, Don't Despair
4-Not All Good-looking Persons Know How to Entice
5-We all harvest what we plant
6-When the Demon Leaves the Angel Arrives
7-Whose Martyrs Are So Many Wearing Bloody Shrouds
8-Our Jesus-like Beloved Killed Us With Her Vitalising Breaths!
9-The Sweet Word of Hafiz
10-The Clever Bird Will Not Fly to the Khanqah at Present
11-Greetings as Good as the Scent of Friendship
12-Let the Sufi Enjoy Moderate Drinking
13-The Sufi Learnt the Hidden Secret in Light of Wine
14-The World is Not Worth Spending One Moment with Sadness
15-I Went to the Garden One Morning to Pick a Flower
16-My Rival Likewise Will Not Remain in Favour
17-Hafiz, The Union With the Beloved Will Not Last Long
18-Hafiz Rolled the Barrel and the Mufti Took to the Cup
19-An Animal Who Does Not Drink and Become Human
20-Give Me a Few Kisses Mixed up with Curse
21-We Have Come Begging to the Royal Court
22-With a Bloody Heart Show Smiling Lips Like the Cup
23-It Begged of the Outsider What Itself Possessed
24-Thank God The Tavern Is Open
25-We Were Expecting Help from Our Friends

Of the Love of Shah Shoja'

1-It's Shah Shja''s Time, Bravely Drink Wine
2-The Boy of Shiraz
3-The Town Beggar Became Head of the Court
4-The Good Luck at Dawn
5-The Graceful Knight
6-Long Time and No Message
7-We'll Not Sell a Single Hair of His for the Whole World
8- I Long for the Moon-like Face of the Shah

On Sheikhs and Sufis

1-Drink Secretly or You Will be Punished
2-Wine is Haram but is Better than Abusing the Endowment Fund
3-The Sufi Set the Trap
4- Why Do Those Who Advise Repentance Themselves Not Repent
5-A Mystic Washed Himself With the Clean Water of Wine
6-The Home of Hafiz is the Shah's Palace

Purely Mystical

1-My Heart is the Royal Court of His Compassion
2-Love Appeared and Set Fire to the Whole Universe
3- Bride to a Thousand Grooms

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