Haasha Ke Man Ba Mowsum
“God Forbid That I to the Season”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
God forbid that in the season of roses I should abandon wine I boast of wisdom — when would I ever do such a thing?
The clamor of the seminary has troubled my heart For a while I shall also attend to the beloved and to wine
Since they kneaded my clay with wine from eternity Tell the claimant why I would abandon it
Transliteration
Haasha ke man ba mowsum-e gul tark-e mai kunam Man laaf-e aql maizanam een kaar kai kunam
Az qaal-o-qeel-e madrasa haal-e delam gereft Yak chand neez khedmat-e ma'ashooq-o mai kunam
Khake mara cho dar azal az may sereshta-and Ba modaye bego ke chora tarke may konam
متن اصلی
حاشا که من به موسم گل ترک می کنم من لاف عقل می زنم اين کار کی کنم
از قال و قيل مدرسه حالی دلم گرفت يک چند نيز خدمت معشوق و می کنم
خاک مرا چو در ازل از می سرشته اند با مدعی بگو که چرا ترک می کنم
Hafiz's famous defense of the wine-drinker against the pious — Ahmad Zahir delivers it as a declaration of personal freedom, wine as emblem of authentic life over religious performance.
About This Recording
Hafiz at his most defiant. In full command of his reason, the speaker picks wine and the beloved over the mosque and the seminary, and dares the pious to argue with him. The logic underneath is Sufi: formal worship is a performance, and the tavern is where something real happens.
Zahir sings it flat and plain, more a man announcing how he means to live than a scholar making a case. In the Kabul that formed him, that could be sacred poetry and a declaration of personal freedom in the same breath, with no sense of contradiction.
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