Rumi's Masnavi - The (infidel’s) hand will give testimony against the infidel will become an army of God, and will submit (to the Divine command).

دست بر کافر گواهی می‌دهد ** لشکر حق می‌شود سر می‌نهد
The (infidel’s) hand will give testimony against the infidel will become an army of God, and will submit (to the Divine command).

ای نموده ضد حق در فعل درس ** در میان لشکر اویی بترس
O you that in your actions have studied to oppose God, you are in the midst of His army: be afraid!

جزو جزوت لشکر از در وفاق ** مر ترا اکنون مطیع‌اند از نفاق
Every part of you is an army of God in accord (with Him) they are obedient to you now, (but) not sincerely’.

گر بگوید چشم را کو را فشار ** درد چشم از تو بر آرد صد دمار
If He say to the eye, “Squeeze (torture) him,” eye-ache will wreak upon you a hundred vengeances;

ور به دندان گوید او بنما وبال ** پس ببینی تو ز دندان گوشمال 795
And if He say to the teeth, ‘Plague (him),” then you will suffer chastisement from your teeth.

باز کن طب را بخوان باب العلل ** تا ببینی لشکر تن را عمل
Open the (book of) Medicine and read the chapter on diseases, that you may see what is done by the army of the body.

چونک جان جان هر چیزی ویست ** دشمنی با جان جان آسان کیست
Since He is the Soul of the soul of everything, how is it a light matter to be hostile to the Soul of the soul?

خود رها کن لشکر دیو و پری ** کز میان جان کنندم صفدری
“Let alone the army of demons and genies who, (devoted to me) from the core of their hearts, cleave the ranks (of my enemies) for me.

ملک را بگذار بلقیس از نخست ** چون مرا یابی همه ملک آن تست
First, O Bilqís relinquish thy kingdom: when thou gainest me, all the kingdom is thine.

خود بدانی چون بر من آمدی ** که تو بی من نقش گرمابه بدی 800
When thou hast come to me, thou thyself wilt know that without me thou wert (as) a picture in the bath-house.”

نقش اگر خود نقش سلطان یا غنیست ** صورتست از جان خود بی چاشنیست
Even if the picture be the picture of a sultan or a rich man, it is a (mere) form: it has no savour (consciousness) of its own spirit.

ای تو در بیگار خود را باخته ** دیگران را تو ز خود نشناخته
O you who have devoted yourself (to contending with others) in strife, you have not known (discriminated) others from your self.

تو به هر صورت که آیی بیستی ** که منم این والله آن تو نیستی
You stop at every form that you come to, saying, “I am this.” By God, you are not that (form).

یک زمان تنها بمانی تو ز خلق ** در غم و اندیشه مانی تا به حلق 805
(If) you are left alone by people for a single moment, you remain (plunged) up to the throat in grief and anxiety.

این تو کی باشی که تو آن اوحدی ** که خوش و زیبا و سرمست خودی
How are you this (form)? You are that Unique One, for (in reality) you are fair and lovely and intoxicated with yourself.

مرغ خویشی صید خویشی دام خویش ** صدر خویشی فرش خویشی بام خویش
You are your own bird your own prey, and your own snare; you are your own seat of honour, your own floor, and your own root.

جوهر آن باشد که قایم با خودست ** آن عرض باشد که فرع او شدست
The substance is that which subsists in itself; the accident is that which has become a derivative of it (of the substance).

چیست اندر خم که اندر نهر نیست ** چیست اندر خانه که اندر شهر نیست 810
What is in the jar that is not (also) in the river? What is in the house that is not (also) in the city?

این جهان خمست و دل چون جوی آب ** این جهان حجره‌ست و دل شهر عجاب
This world is the jar, and the heart (spirit) is like the river; this world is the chamber, and the heart is the wonderful city.

پیدا کردن سلیمان علیه‌السلام کی مرا خالصا لامر الله جهدست در ایمان تو یک ذره غرضی نیست مرا نه در نفس تو و حسن تو و نه در ملک تو خود بینی چون چشم جان باز شود به نورالله
How Solomon, on whom be peace, explained (to Bilqís), saying, "My labour in (bringing about) thy (conversion to the) Faith is purely for God’s sake: I have not one atom of self-interest, either as regards thy person or thy beauty or thy kingdom. Thou thyself wilt see (this) when the eye of thy spirit is opened by the light of God."

هین بیا که من رسولم دعوتی ** چون اجل شهوت‌کشم نه شهوتی
“Hark, come, for I am a Messenger (Prophet) sent to call (the people to God): like Death, I am the slayer of lust, I am not given to lust.

ور بود شهوت امیر شهوتم ** نه اسیر شهوت روی بتم
And if there be lust (in me), I am the ruler of (my) lust: lam not captive to lust for the face of an idol.

بت‌شکن بودست اصل اصل ما ** چون خلیل حق و جمله انبیا
My deepest nature is a breaker of idols, like (Abraham) the Friend of God and all the prophets.

گر در آییم ای رهی در بتکده ** بت سجود آرد نه ما در معبده 815
O slave, if I enter the idol-temple, the idol will prostrate itself, not I, in adoration.”