Rumi's Masnavi - All kings are prostrate before one who is prostrate before them, all people are intoxicated with (love for) one who is intoxicated with them.

All kings are prostrate before one who is prostrate before them, all people are intoxicated with (love for) one who is intoxicated with them.

جمله شاهان پست، پست خویش را ** جمله خلقان مست، مست خویش را

The fowler becomes a prey to the birds in order that of a sudden he may make them his prey.

می‌‌شود صیاد، مرغان را شکار ** تا کند ناگاه ایشان را شکار

Heart-ravishers (loved ones) seek with (all their) soul those who have lost their hearts (to them): all loved ones are the prey of (their) lovers.

بی‌‌دلان را دلبران جسته به جان ** جمله معشوقان شکار عاشقان‌‌

Whomsoever thou didst deem to be a lover, regard (him) as the loved one, for relatively he is both this and that. 1740

هر که عاشق دیدی‌‌اش معشوق دان ** کو به نسبت هست هم این و هم آن‌‌

If they that are thirsty seek water from the world, (yet) water too seeks in the world them that are thirsty.

تشنگان گر آب جویند از جهان ** آب جوید هم به عالم تشنگان‌‌

Inasmuch as He is (thy) lover, do thou be silent: as He is pulling thine ear, be thou (all) ear.

چون که عاشق اوست تو خاموش باش ** او چو گوشت می‌‌کشد تو گوش باش‌‌

Dam the torrent (of ecstasy) when it runs in flood; else it will work shame and ruin.

بند کن چون سیل سیلانی کند ** ور نه رسوایی و ویرانی کند

What care I though ruin be (wrought)? Under the ruin there is a royal treasure.

من چه غم دارم که ویرانی بود ** زیر ویران گنج سلطانی بود

He that is drowned in God wishes to be more drowned, (while) his spirit (is tossed) up and down like the waves of the sea, 1745

غرق حق خواهد که باشد غرق‌‌تر ** همچو موج بحر جان زیر و زبر

(Asking), “Is the bottom of the sea more delightful, or the top? Is His (the Beloved's) arrow more fascinating, or the shield?”

زیر دریا خوشتر آید یا زبر ** تیر او دل کش تر آید یا سپر