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Ghazal 010 fom Divan of Hafez Last night our spiritual guide came from the mosque to the tavern. What strategies can the followers of the path adopt after this? We, his disciples, how can we face the Qibla (direction of prayer) when Our guide’s face is turned towards the wine-seller's house? Let us all meet in the tavern of the path, For such is the destiny decreed for us from eternity. If reason knew how happy the heart is in the bonds of her tresses, The wise would become mad in pursuit of our chains. Your beautiful face revealed to us a sign of divine grace, Since then, nothing but grace and goodness is in our interpretation. With your heart of stone, will you ever be touched one night By our fiery sighs and the burning of our nighttime heart? May Hafez’s silent arrow of sighs pierce the heavens, Have mercy on your own soul and beware of our arrow.