برود ای حریفان
Berawed Ay Harifan
“Go Away, O Companions”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
Go, O companions — lead our beloved to me Bring to me for one moment that fleet-footed idol
With sweet songs, with colorful pretexts Lead toward the house that beautiful, fair-faced moon of ours
And if she speaks of promises and says: I will come another moment All promises are deceit — let her deceive you
When the beauty of her face shines, what is the beauty of others? For that face like the sun extinguishes the lamps
Transliteration
Berawed ay harifan bekashid yare maa raa Baman awared yakdam saname gorez paa raa
Ba taranahye shirin ba bahanahaye rangeen Bekashed soye khana mah khob khosh leqay maa raa
wagar o ba wahda goyad ke dame degar beyayam Hama wahda maker bashad beferebad o shoma raa
Cho jamal o betabad chi bowad jamal khoban? Ke rokhe cho aaftabash bekhosad chergh-ha raa
متن اصلی
برويد ای حريفان بکشيد يار ما را بمن آوريد یکدم صنم گريز پا را
به ترانه های شيرين به بهانه های رنگین بکشيد سوی خانه مه خوب خوش لقا ما را
وگر او به وعده گويد که دمی دگر بيايم همه وعده مکر باشد بفريبد او شما را
چو جمال او بتابد چه بود جمال خوبان؟ که رخ چو آفتابش بکُشد چراغها را
Hafiz sends companions to bring the beloved, accepting her promises of 'another time' as beautiful deceit. The messenger poem — having others conduct what you cannot — is a classic ghazal structure.
About This Recording
The peyk, or messenger, is a recurring figure in Persian lyric. The lover, unable to approach the beloved directly, sends companions or intermediaries — a convention rooted in the practical realities of courtly separation and the formal distance the ghazal maintains between speaker and beloved.
Hafiz's characteristic gesture appears in the line: 'And if she speaks of promises and says: I will come another moment / All promises are deceit — let her deceive you.' The beloved's promises are known to be false; and yet the speaker instructs his companions to welcome the deception. In Hafiz's world, the beloved's beautiful lies are worth more than the truth of anyone else.
Ahmad Zahir's arrangement gives this an accessible warmth that makes the paradox feel like wisdom rather than cynicism. The song moves between the pathos of dispatching messengers and the delight of imagining the beloved being coaxed toward the house — 'that beautiful, fair-faced moon of ours.'
Poetic Source & Adaptation
A ghazal from Hafiz's Divan in the tradition of the peyk (messenger) poem, where the speaker cannot approach the beloved directly and must send intermediaries. The instruction 'all promises are deceit — let her deceive you' is vintage Hafiz: the beloved's lies are preferable to the world's truths.
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