Rumi's Masnavi - For to me this knowledge hath come from yonder region, not from having been schooled in the sorcery which is held cheap (by the wise).

که مرا این علم آمد زان طرف ** نه ز شاگردی سحر مستخف
For to me this knowledge hath come from yonder region, not from having been schooled in the sorcery which is held cheap (by the wise).

سوی گورستان برو وقت سحور ** پهلوی دیوار هست اسپید گور 3170
Go to the graveyard at the hour of the meal taken before dawn: beside the wall is a whitened tomb.

سوی قبله باز کاو آنجای را ** تا ببینی قدرت و صنع خدا
Dig up that place in the direction of the qibla, that thou mayst behold the power and the working of God.”

بس درازست این حکایت تو ملول ** زبده را گویم رها کردم فضول
This story is very long, and you (O reader) are weary: I will relate the cream (of it), I dismiss what is superfluous.

آن گره‌های گران را بر گشاد ** پس ز محنت پور شه را راه داد
He (the magician) untied those heavy knots: then he gave to the king's son a way (of escape) from the affliction.

آن پسر با خویش آمد شد دوان ** سوی تخت شاه با صد امتحان
The boy came to himself and with a hundred tribulations went running towards the throne of the king.

سجده کرد و بر زمین می‌زد ذقن ** در بغل کرده پسر تیغ و کفن 3175
He made prostration and was beating his chin on the earth: the boy held in his arms a sword and winding-sheet.

شاه آیین بست و اهل شهر شاد ** وآن عروس ناامید بی‌مراد
The king ordered the city to be decorated, and the citizens and the despairing disappointed bride rejoiced.

عالم از سر زنده گشت و پر فروز ** ای عجب آن روز روز امروز روز
The (whole) world revived once more and was filled with radiance: (the people said), “Oh, what a wondrous difference between that day (of sorrow) and to-day!”

یک عروسی کرد شاه او را چنان ** که جلاب قند بد پیش سگان
The king made such a (lavish) wedding-feast for him that sugared julep was (placed) before the dogs.

جادوی کمپیر از غصه بمرد ** روی و خوی زشت فا مالک سپرد
The old witch died of vexation and gave up her hideous face and (foul) nature to Málik.

شاه‌زاده در تعجب مانده بود ** کز من او عقل و نظر چون در ربود 3180
The prince was left in amazement: (he said to himself), “How did she rob me of understanding and insight?”

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.

چون در افکندت دریغ آلوده روذ ** دم به دم می‌خوان و می‌دم قل اعوذ
Since she hath cast thee into this polluted stream, continually recite and utter (the words), Say, I take refuge.

تا رهی زین جادوی و زین قلق ** استعاذت خواه از رب الفلق
In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”