Rumi's Masnavi - He beheld a newly wedded bride like the beauteous moon, who was (as a brigand) infesting the road of beauty (and occupying it) against (all) the (other) fair ones.

نو عروسی دید هم‌چون ماه حسن ** که همی زد بر ملیحان راه حسن
He beheld a newly wedded bride like the beauteous moon, who was (as a brigand) infesting the road of beauty (and occupying it) against (all) the (other) fair ones.

گشت بیهوش و برو اندر فتاد ** تا سه روز از جسم وی گم شد فاد
He became senseless and fell on his face: for three days the heart (consciousness) vanished from his body.

سه شبان روز او ز خود بیهوش گشت ** تا که خلق از غشی او پر جوش گشت
Three days and nights he became unconscious of himself, so that the people were (sorely) perturbed by his swoon.

از گلاب و از علاج آمد به خود ** اندک اندک فهم گشتش نیک و بد
By means of rose-water and (other) remedies he came to himself (again): little by little, good and evil were apprehended by him (once more).

بعد سالی گفت شاهش در سخن ** کای پسر یاد آر از آن یار کهن 3185
After a year the king said to him jokingly in conversation, “O son, bethink thee of that old friend (of thine),

گفت رو من یافتم دار السرور ** وا رهیدم از چه دار الغرور
“Go to!” said he; “I have found the abode of joy, I am delivered from the pit of the abode of delusion.”

هم‌چنان باشد چو مومن راه یافت ** سوی نور حق ز ظلمت روی تافت
’Tis even so: when the true believer has found the way towards the Light of God, he averts his face from the darkness (of this world).

در بیان آنک شه‌زاده آدمی بچه است خلیفه‌ی خداست پدرش آدم صفی خلیفه‌ی حق مسجود ملایک و آن کمپیر کابلی دنیاست کی آدمی‌بچه را از پدر ببرید به سحر و انبیا و اولیا آن طبیب تدارک کننده
Explaining that the prince is Man, the vicegerent of God, and that his father is Adam, the chosen one, the vicegerent of God, he to whom the angels bowed in worship; and that the old hag of Kábul is the World which separated Man from his Father by sorcery, while the prophets and saints are (like) the physician who applied the remedy.