Rumi's Masnavi - Make the place of prostration wet with flowing tears and say, “O God, do Thou deliver me from this doubt!”

سجده گه را تر کن از اشک روان ** کای خدا تو وا رهانم زین گمان
Make the place of prostration wet with flowing tears and say, “O God, do Thou deliver me from this doubt!”

آن زمان کت امتحان مطلوب شد ** مسجد دین تو پر خروب شد
At the time when it is your object to make trial (of God), the mosque, namely, your religion, becomes filled with kharrúb (carob).

قصه‌ی مسجد اقصی و خروب و عزم کردن داود علیه‌السلام پیش از سلیمان علیه‌السلام بر بنای آن مسجد
Story of the Farther Mosque and the carob and how, before (the reign of) Solomon, on whom be peace, David, on whom be peace, resolved on building that Mosque.

چون درآمد عزم داودی به تنگ ** که بسازد مسجد اقصی به سنگ
When David's resolve that he would build the Farther Mosque with stone came to sore straits,

وحی کردش حق که ترک این بخوان ** که ز دستت برنیاید این مکان
God made a Revelation to him, saying, “Proclaim the abandonment of this (enterprise), for (the building of) this place will not be achieved by thy hand.

نیست در تقدیر ما آنک تو این ** مسجد اقصی بر آری ای گزین 390
’Tis not in Our fore-ordainment that thou shouldst raise this Farther Mosque, O chosen one.”

گفت جرمم چیست ای دانای راز ** که مرا گویی که مسجد را مساز
He said, “O Knower of the secret, what is my crime, that Thou forbiddest me to construct the Mosque?”

گفت بی‌جرمی تو خونها کرده‌ای ** خون مظلومان بگردن برده‌ای
He (God) said, “Without (committing) a crime, thou hast wrought much bloodshed: thou hast taken upon thy neck (art responsible for) the blood of (many) persons who have suffered injustice;

که ز آواز تو خلقی بی‌شمار ** جان بدادند و شدند آن را شکار
For from (hearing) thy voice a countless multitude gave up the ghost and fell a prey to it (thy voice).

خون بسی رفتست بر آواز تو ** بر صدای خوب جان‌پرداز تو
Much blood has gone to the score of (is chargeable to) thy voice, to thy beautiful soul-ravishing song.”

گفت مغلوب تو بودم مست تو ** دست من بر بسته بود از دست تو 395
He (David) said, “I was overpowered by Thee, drunken with Thee: my hand (power) was tied up by Thy hand.

نه که هر مغلوب شه مرحوم بود ** نه که المغلوب کالمعدوم بود
Was not every one that was overpowered by the King the object of (His) mercy? Was not he (excused on the ground that) ‘The overpowered is like the non-existent’?”

گفت این مغلوب معدومیست کو ** جز به نسبت نیست معدوم ایقنوا
He (God) said, “This overpowered man is that non-existent one who is only relatively non-existent. Have sure faith!

این چنین معدوم کو از خویش رفت ** بهترین هستها افتاد و زفت
Such a non-existent one who hath gone from himself (become selfless) is the best of beings, and the great (one among them).

او به نسبت با صفات حق فناست ** در حقیقت در فنا او را بقاست
He hath passed away (faná) in relation to (the passing away of his attributes in) the Divine attributes, (but) in passing away (from selfhood) he really hath the life everlasting (baqá).

آنک او مغلوب اندر لطف ماست ** نیست مضطر بلک مختار ولاست
He that is overpowered (overwhelmed) in Our grace is not compelled; nay, he is one who freely chooses devotion (to Us).”

اختیاری را نبودی چاشنی ** گر نگشتی آخر او محو از منی
The free agent would feel no savour (spiritual delight) if at last he did not become entirely purged of egoism.

در جهان گر لقمه و گر شربتست ** لذت او فرع محو لذتست
If there is delicious food and drink in the world, (yet) his pleasure (in them) is (only) a branch of (derived from) the extinction of (worldly) pleasure.

گرچه از لذات بی‌تاثیر شد ** لذتی بود او و لذت‌گیر شد 405
Although he was unaffected by (worldly) pleasures, (yet) he was a man of (spiritual) pleasure and became the recipient of (that) pleasure.

شرح انما المؤمنون اخوة والعلماء کنفس واحدة خاصه اتحاد داود و سلیمان و سایر انبیا علیهم‌السلام کی اگر یکی ازیشان را منکر شوی ایمان به هیچ نبی درست نباشد و این علامت اتحادست کی یک خانه از هزاران خانه ویران کنی آن همه ویران شود و یک دیوار قایم نماند کی لانفرق بین احد منهم و العاقل یکفیه الاشارة این خود از اشارت گذشت
Explanation of "Verily, the Faithful are brothers, and the ‘ulamá (divines) are as one soul"; in particular, the oneness of David, Solomon, and all the other prophets, on whom be peace: if you disbelieve in one of them, (your) faith in any prophet will not be perfect; and this is the sign of (their) oneness, that if you destroy a single one of those thousands of houses, all the rest will be destroyed, and not a single wall will be left standing; for "We make no distinction between any of them (the prophets)." Indication is sufficient for him that hath intelligence: this goes even beyond indication.

گرچه بر ناید به جهد و زور تو ** لیک مسجد را برآرد پور تو
(God said to David), “Although it will not be accomplished by thy labour and strength, yet the Mosque will be erected by thy son.

کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی تست ای حکیم ** مومنان را اتصالی دان قدیم
His deed is thy deed, O man of wisdom: know that between the Faithful is an ancient union.”

مومنان معدود لیک ایمان یکی ** جسمشان معدود لیکن جان یکی
The Faithful are numerous, but the Faith is one: their bodies are numerous, but their soul is one.

غیرفهم و جان که در گاو و خرست ** آدمی را عقل و جانی دیگرست
Besides the understanding and soul which is in the ox and the ass, Man has another intelligence and soul;

باز غیرجان و عقل آدمی ** هست جانی در ولی آن دمی 410
Again, in the owner of that (Divine) breath there is a soul other than the human soul and intelligence.