Rumi's Masnavi - He who (formerly) clung to your skirt fled from you when you became like this.

He who (formerly) clung to your skirt fled from you when you became like this.

آن که اندر دامنت آویخت او ** چون چنین گشتی ز تو بگریخت او

Explanation of (the Tradition) “Whatsoever God wills cometh to pass.”

تفسیر ما شاء الله کان‌‌

We have spoken all these words, but in preparing ourselves (for the journey before us) we are naught, naught without the favours of God.

این همه گفتیم لیک اندر بسیچ ** بی‌‌عنایات خدا هیچیم هیچ‌‌

Without the favours of God and God's elect ones, angel though he be, his page is black.

بی‌‌عنایات حق و خاصان حق ** گر ملک باشد سیاه استش ورق‌‌

O God, O Thou whose bounty fulfils (every) need, it is not allowable to mention any one beside Thee. 1880

ای خدا ای فضل تو حاجت روا ** با تو یاد هیچ کس نبود روا

This amount of guidance Thou hast bestowed (upon us); till this (present time) Thou hast covered up many a fault of ours.

این قدر ارشاد تو بخشیده‌‌ای ** تا بدین بس عیب ما پوشیده‌‌ای‌‌

Cause the drop of knowledge which Thou gavest (us) heretofore to become united with Thy seas.

قطره‌‌ای دانش که بخشیدی ز پیش ** متصل گردان به دریاهای خویش‌‌

In my soul there is a drop of knowledge: deliver it from sensuality and from the body's clay,

قطره‌‌ای علم است اندر جان من ** وارهانش از هوا وز خاک تن‌‌

Before these clays drink it up, before these winds absorb it,

پیش از آن کاین خاکها خسفش کنند ** پیش از آن کاین بادها نشفش کنند

Although, when they absorb it, Thou art able to take it back from them and redeem it. 1885

گر چه چون نشفش کند تو قادری ** کش از ایشان واستانی واخری‌‌

The drop that vanished in the air or was spilled (on the earth)—when did it flee (escape) from the storehouse of Thy omnipotence?

قطره‌‌ای کاو در هوا شد یا که ریخت ** از خزینه‌‌ی قدرت تو کی گریخت‌‌