Attributed to Hafez
«I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.»
Misattributed
Verdict
It is not in Hafez's work
By Daniel Ladinsky. Safi acknowledges its quality but stresses that Hafez said nothing of the kind.
Source: Safi, Omid. «Fake Hafez: How a supreme Persian poet of love was erased». Al Jazeera, 14-06-2020.
What they did say
Verified words of Hafez
«Arise, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring / To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise, / For it seemed that love was an easy thing, / But my feet have fallen on difficult ways.»
Diván, gazal 1, v. 1 (Qazvini-Ghani; texto persa según Ganjoor); trad. inglesa de Gertrude Bell (1897), poema I; trad. española propia. El primer hemistiquio es árabe.
«Oh Turkish maid of Shiraz! in thy hand / If thou'lt take my heart, for the mole on thy cheek / I would barter Bokhara and Samarkand.»
Diván, gazal 3, v. 1 (Qazvini-Ghani); trad. inglesa de Bell (1897), poema V; trad. española propia.
«The song is sung and the pearl is strung; / Come hither, oh Hafiz, and sing again! / And the listening Heavens above thee hung / Shall loose o'er thy verse the Pleiades' chain.»
Diván, gazal 3, último dístico (Qazvini-Ghani); trad. inglesa de Bell (1897), poema V; trad. española propia.