Rumi's Masnavi - If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.

If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.

گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود

This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.

این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بی‌‌داد یا رب داد تست‌‌

Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.

بی‌‌طلب تو این طلب‌‌مان داده‌‌ای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشاده‌‌ای‌‌

How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.

مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد

When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.

چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت‌‌

Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow, 1340

شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار

Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.

دست می‌‌زد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ‌‌

Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;

شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد

The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;

برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند

With the tongue of (seed that put forth) its sprouts each fruit and tree severally is singing thanks to God,

با زبان شطاه شکر خدا ** می‌‌سراید هر بر و برگی جدا

Saying, “The Bounteous Giver nourished our root until the tree grew big and stood upright.” 1345

که بپرورد اصل ما را ذو العطا ** تا درخت استغلظ آمد و استوی‌‌