Rumi's Masnavi - That which shatters every thing it comes upon, tears up every tree from root and bottom;

That which shatters every thing it comes upon, tears up every tree from root and bottom;

There has come upon me that by which man and animal, mineral and plant have been checkmated. 1275

These indeed are (only) parts, (but) wholes (too) are by him (Doom) made yellow in hue and corrupt in odour,

So that the world is now patient, now thankful; the garden now puts on a robe (of verdure) and again is bare.

The sun, which rises fire-coloured, at another hour sinks headlong.

Stars shining in the four quarters (of the sky) are, from time to time, afflicted with (consumed by) burning.

The moon, which excels the stars in beauty, becomes like a phantom from the malady of a phthisis. 1280

This earth, quiet and controlled, is thrown by earthquakes into feverish tremors.

Oh, from this inherited woe many a mountain in the world has become tiny fragments and (grains of) sand.

This air is conjoined with the (vital) spirit, (but) when the Divine destiny comes, it turns pestilential and stinking.